After one Wargame the other player rolled really poor dice rolls consistently. I felt so sorry for them that I brought him some more dice. He promptly got amazing dice rolls and annihilated my forces the next game 😊

Highly entertaining, and I certainly recognised myself in there! I really enjoy your short chat videos.

Wargamers often get a reputation for being either good or bad dice rollers 😁

Shh you will anger the dice gods XD

Hi Lee very good video. I make sure i warm up my dice before throwing 😊

This is a great one, Lee! When I began my commute from role playing games to wargaming, I was really surprised to discover that wargamer's had dice superstitions!

The human brain is an odd thing. It tends to see puzzles everywhere and thinks everything else is a fellow brain. "The dice aren't working for me! They must have a mind of their own. I must appease them."

I like to provide multiple dice options to each player in different colors. I tend to pick from my pile of dice based on a feeling about which dice will give me a better chance in that moment. Silly!

Dice are my best friends and my worst enemy.

I am firmly in the 'I can mentally control the dice' group. My chum is a 'getting the bad rolls out of the way early' group member. Two of my other gaming chums are in the 'anything but a one.. oh!' group and have absolutely no control over the dice, other than rolling 1 when not required, so never believing that dice have no memory, when reminded. I have a D20 from my D&D days which rolled 20 reasonably regularly. it was only years later, after doing the water test, that we found out it was unbalanced and misshapen (from early days of polyhedral dice). Needless to say, it has been retired.

This video has angered the dice gods. All in all this is still a good analyzation, but will I change my rituals, probably not hahaha

I think there's also a sense of attachment can grow due to dice are a part of a hobby process, and we become invested in the dice as a part of that. For myself, I prefer to try and use dice tailored to the game so for instancwe for ACW I may use a blue and gold spots for Union and Grey and Red spots for confederate, Naps could be Red and Blue dice each with whste spots, As for me its a complimenting the immersion of the experience but I don't have to use the same dice for each game I play with. Its almost an aesthetic consideration.

There are absolutely physical variances in the "average roll" of a given die, some dice are better than others based on their weight and composition. Some dice can be loaded unintentially by favoring one side more than the others. As someone who is hated by all dice equally, I can say with certainty that there is no ritual that can save me from disaster. 😊

We have all heard anything but a one!

Great video Lee, I am primarily a solo wargamer so see my dice as the finger of fate and entertain no such superstitions. You talked about 'fair dice' and I have often wondered about how fair our dice really are vs the dice used in casinos which have to be thoroughly validated, especially when you see differently printed or sculpted dice, do our logo dice run true?

Why do my dice roll against me? I have no hot babe beside me to kiss them before rolling. sigh!

Add to you must roll a fair die, you must also roll in a fair way. It's possible to increase the chance of rolling one of four numbers versus one of six. I now insist that dice are rolled from cups. The alternative the dice must hit two surfaces and roll on the table (Backgammon or casino rolls).

When I managed a store for that Nottingham game company, a rules lawyer was rolling badly in a tournament. He bought a new set of dice, took the old ones to the break room, microwaved the old ones while holding the new ones up to see what happens when they fail. The room smelled like molten dice which is not good. He did role really well after it though.

I acquired a green die that had been beveled on the edges of on face. It rolled a lot of 5's. I think I tossed it. But maybe I still have it somewhere.

I don't know whether I've been superstitious over my dice when I first started 6 years ago play war games what was some friends dies at the first game have they were Peter pig dice a done quite well with them and strangely enough the first wargame show I ever went to I come across some white dice brought them and use them ever since I do have other dice but I seem to just use the white ones whether that is Superstition I don't know but they work for me not all the time but I still use them have a great time take care🤠🤠🤠👍👍

Dice the unseen enemy, or hero, whenever I get to crucial point of a game, my dice rolls get worse, aaagh

Hi Lee; I pity your playing in your next game; the Dice Gods will take their revenge on your blasphemy. Wargamers are a superstitious bunch; I have seen numerous dice rituals at games, most of which just add to the humour around the table. I frequently see gamers 'training' their dice by setting them down with either a 1 or 6 uppermost 😄. In our latest game one of the 'enemy' players was jinxing the dice by calling 1 on our throws - happened almost every time he called it ☹. Occasionally one of the group who is notorious for bad rolls, would throw great rolls in succession to crys of "who are you, & what have you done with XXXX" 😂. Wargamers are also dice snobs & hoarders, with separate dice for different games/periods .... there is no such thing as too many dice 😉

Brilliant! However I must fundamentally disagree. Dice do have a memory, as at times they hate me and deliberately roll low. I then apply logic and say to myself it can only get better. But they keep rolling low, deliberately, just to frustrate me!🙄😉

'Dice have no Memory' But it is equally true and often more hurtful that... Dice have no Mercy. As a role player I'm surprised that you didn't bring up that almost every player of D&D has a 'Go To d20' for when a beloved character simply HAS to make that saving throw. With the d6s my only dice related superstition is that as most coaches of Elven Blood Bowl team, never, ever to say before a die roll "anything but a one". The only way to negate the effects of random due rolling in historical wargaming is to successfully repeat Napoleon's feat at Ulm. He didn't have to roll any dice to win that 'battle'. Finally, it's not a superstition, it's common sense, but never, ever buy d4s the same colour as your carpet. It will end in swearing, and possibly tears.