Dice
Dice (singular: die) are high-impact polyhedra, usually having four, six, eight, ten, twelve, twenty or one hundred faces. In role-playing games and tabletop war games, they are used as randomizers to inject an element of chance into the game. Non-gamers often only know about the six-sided die (hereafter referred to as the d6) thanks to the ubiquity of games like Monopoly and Yahtzee. Which dice are used tends to vary by system, Dungeons and Dragons makes use of all types. On the other hand White Wolf games and Classic Traveller use only ten- and six-sided dice, respectively. On the gripping hand, some games don't use dice at all! These tend to be relatively new games like Nobilis or Amber.
Dice are considered by most people to be impartial arbiters of random chance. This is not the case. Dice are controlled or at least influenced the unseen force of Dice Mojo. It is believed that Dice Mojo can be influenced by players, through manifold rituals, including:
Placing a die with the desired number upward, that it 'gets used to' that position and tends to return to it.
Placing a die with the desired number downward, that the die is tricked into thinking it has already made a bad roll and will produce a good outcome on the subsequent roll.
Rolling a die until a string of good rolls are achieved, tapping into a streak of 'good mojo' or 'rolling out' bad outcomes.
Various chants, prayers, threats, and curses made toward the die in order to entice or coerce it into producing favorable rolls.
Building dice towers as tribute to Dice Gods that they may bless one's dice with good Mojo.
/tg/ has a dice-rolling function. Simply type dice+XdY+Z or dice XdY Z (the Z is optional) into the email field to roll X dice with Y sides and add a modifier Z.
Lou Zocchi always rolls 20's.
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