Fudge dice

our d3 are different, we are so special

Probabilities
Result	Chance of >=	Bellcurve
+4	1.2%	.
+3	6.2%	#
+2	18.5%	##-
+1	38.3%	####
0	61.7%	####-
-1	81.5%	####
-2	93.8%	##-
-3	98.8%	#
-4	100%	.

Fudge Dice or dFs are six-sided dice marked with two + signs, two - signs and two blank sides (basically a d3). They are used for FUDGE and thus FATE rpg games. The bell-curve is pretty steep -- 2/3 of the time you're gonna roll -1, 0 or +1. Maybe this is supposed to get random chance out of the rpg without actually taking our candy away. The odds of rolling a "critical" of +4 is 1/81, or four times less likely than rolling a nat 20.

How to Make Your Own

When you want to be a dice snob, but can't afford to buy your own.

If you have to buy weird dice just to play a supposedly simple system, you have failed at life and should immediately swallow the Fudge dice in hopes of choking to death.

Take a d6 and a sharpie, draw a line on the 1 & 2 faces, an X on the 3 & 5 faces, and a square on the 4 & 6 faces (b). There you go: a die with -,0,+ on it. Now roll four of them to get a result from -4 to +4.

Or do it old school, with 1,2 = 1 ; 3,4 = 2 ; 5,6 = 3 and subtract 8 (that's 4d3 - 8). Be a man.

d6-d6

Some people are damn impatient and just roll a positive d6 and a negative d6, subtract one from the other, and treat -5 or +5 as 0. Now rolling a critical +4 becomes a 5% chance, same as rolling a natural 20, just like God intended. Similar to the Delta-6 method.

Feng Shui, a game which predates both Fudge dice and the systems which use them, made use of this method, though counted -5 and +5 as possible results and had a "something unusual happens" rule for boxcars.