The most useless dice I own
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Күн бұрынI don't have a problem, I can stop buying dice anytime I want 😤
► Pencil D6 from Reaper Media
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► Jade Crystal Dice from BearCake Dice
www.etsy.com/shop/BearcakeRpg...
► Wizard set, potion d4s, and fireball d6s from PolyHero Dice
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► Scented dice from Studio Woe
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► Death by Ooze chonk from Dispel Dice
dispeldice.com
► Death saving throw dice from Gyld
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► D3 dice from Baron of Dice
www.etsy.com/shop/BaronOfDice
► Generator dice from Viridian Gaming
viridiangaming.com
► Pieces of Fate from Yarro Studios
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► d100 from Viridian Gaming
viridiangaming.com
► Ascendice from the Shop of Many Things
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► Möbius one-sided die from Reaper Media
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@noahr333 4 ай бұрын
I keep a large marble in my dice tray so I can pull out a D1 whenever people at the table talk about their useless dice. The OG mobius strip!
@paulmdevenney 4 ай бұрын
ah, the "infinite sided die"
@BixLovesMiley 4 ай бұрын
I have a marble, too! But more because one of my characters used to be a glass blower and it was the same colour as their astheatic. Gonna use that for your purpose now!
@K-Anator 4 ай бұрын
@@paulmdevenney I'mma need a VSauce video about the number of atoms on the surface of an extremely precise 1mm bearing. Then we just triangulate and count the faces, make some sort of Farnsworth-esque quantum die.
@paulmdevenney 4 ай бұрын
@@K-Anator 🤣
@simonnading 4 ай бұрын
I have a gomboc with a 1 on the top, so it can actually roll and will always come up 1
@dazaran714 4 ай бұрын
I think the mobius die is useful for a really passive aggresive DM who is sick of their player's nonsense. "a natural 1? sorry, looks like you fail to seduce the dragon. Oh you had advantage? my mistake, here you go. *hands them another d1* "
@robhogg68 4 ай бұрын
I had similar thoughts, but for, say, an ability check when one of my players tries to hack through the stone wall of a fortress with a non-magical sword.
@znix13 4 ай бұрын
Or just to emulate a curse of some sort@@robhogg68
@joejordan401 4 ай бұрын
I was going to say, players who insist on rolling for something need to be introduced to it for sure.
@Nvenom8. 4 ай бұрын
The correct answer is: "Roll a D1 to see if your fate is predetermined."
@Sceptile29 4 ай бұрын
I'd use it for unarmed damage on a wizard/artificer personally Very unlikely to be used, but when you pull it out it'll be great
@slowestpoke8962 4 ай бұрын
storage is easy once you realize how a real dragon does it: Dump every dice in one big room as a pile to lay on it!
@ChrisJones-cs2zd 4 ай бұрын
Oh, good. So, not just me then?
@callmequaz9052 4 ай бұрын
But... what about the d4's?
@djordjezivic2481 4 ай бұрын
@@callmequaz9052 grow tougher sking,you whink dragon skale is hard becoes they are dragons? NO, the timpenetrable armour comes from laying on uncomfortable gold coins
@tjfrye11 4 ай бұрын
@@djordjezivic2481 not just coins, they also have crowns, swords, etc. in their pile
@stankulp1008 4 ай бұрын
A photo shoot idea for the next Calander!!
@markschippel7974 4 ай бұрын
I had a machined set of steel dice. They were beautiful. They were fair. They were heavy. They would cut and gouge any surface they were rolled on...or in. I think I still have some scars from the many cuts I got from those dice. You gave a blood sacrifice to Fortune every time you rolled them. I loved those dice.
@LadyArtemis2012 4 ай бұрын
I also have an absolutely beautiful set of metal dice that...I cannot use. If you don't have a dice tray, they WILL dent the table. If you have a dice try, they WILL gouge the felt, scratch the leather, or dent the wood. Beyond that, they are loud, even when rolled on padded surfaces. But they are just, by far, the most beautiful set of dice I own. It's such a shame they are practically impossible to use.
@Revolutionarythought 4 ай бұрын
This is why I use Game Science dice so much. They are actually random! I absolutely hate it when my players pull out their "I've got to roll high" or "I've got to roll low" dice. :D
@Atomsk2 4 ай бұрын
I have a set that are stainless steel - the only place they can be safely rolled is the grass/dirt. But being what they are I can just wash them - usually with a garden hose and not by rubbing. Learn one does not hand wash power-polyhedra without sacrificing something of themselves
@annafantasia 2 ай бұрын
But what happened to them?? :(((
@markschippel7974 2 ай бұрын
@@annafantasia I believe I still have them buried in a chest with my Yaquinto, Games Workshop, Judges Guild and Metagaming games. I will have to look for them. They are probably a bit rusty now. If I can find them I will post a video showing them in all their tetanus inducing glory.
@lukeholdsworth6506 4 ай бұрын
If the levitating dice could be rolled while levitating (ie. something in the electronics cause it to spin wildly and erratically until you click a button to make it stop). Then it would be amazing. You just have it threateningly sitting in front of the players doing nothing most of the time, then you click a button on your phone/laptop, it spins, and the players panic. THAT I would consider buying, as it could add to the emotional experience for my players!
@voidseeker4394 4 ай бұрын
Funny enough, that't how electric motors work, but they spin around one axis, it's hard to make it spin around at least 2 axis and make the result trully random.
@GondolaParadiso 4 ай бұрын
@@voidseeker4394 Have it spin on 2 axis then you cut the power. It drops and rolls the result.
@AlanTenore 4 ай бұрын
That would be terrifying and amazing!
@TheSeaItIsStillViolent 4 ай бұрын
Fuck yeah!
@seanthomas6563 4 ай бұрын
That is a cool idea and plausible. There is no way that dice should cost $200 as a computer tech and engineer I would say $50 maybe. Once the design is done the parts would only cost $25.
@BobLHedd 4 ай бұрын
Challenge Laura Bailey to a "Dice Off" during which you compete in a number of categories: total number of dice, best of each material, traditional vs esoteric, commercial vs boutique vs hand-made, best of each theme (fairy, vampire or gothic, dwarven rune, etc.), etc.
@BixLovesMiley 4 ай бұрын
YES
@preacherjohn 4 ай бұрын
THIS!
@SWatson410 4 ай бұрын
I immediately began to think of Laura as well. Would love to see them do a tour together even if they had to do it remotely.
@bayushiteishiru6291 4 ай бұрын
Do not challenge Laura to a 'who can roll more 1s on their dice dice-off' tho. You would lose. Even using the Möbius strip die.
@InkyPetrel 4 ай бұрын
This would be amazing. Also, an opportunity for them both to cosplay as Jester again, it was so cool last time :D
@Sodaliteknight Ай бұрын
D3's are occasionally brought up in D&D, but usually they are replaced with a D6 with 1-2 being a 1, 3-4 being a 2, and 5-6 being a 3.
@PendragonDaGreat 4 ай бұрын
Mobius strips are so cool. I think my favorite mobius strip fact is that if you take your paper model, stab some scissors into the middle and cut along that line you drew you'll end up with a loop with two sides again. I think another fun fact is that places that use long belts to move things like mines or mills will sometimes intentionally introduce a half twist into the belt so that the whole thing wears evenly.
@kristianwichmann9996 4 ай бұрын
Even better: Glue together two Möbius strips at an orthogonal angle and cut both in half and you'll get ... ❤❤ Great xmas party trick!
@skemono 4 ай бұрын
You say there's no point to having a one-sided die, but my old DM used to do that. He didn't have a mobius strip die, instead he would roll a marble behind his DM screen whenever he wanted to make it seem like he was rolling for something but already knew what the answer would be. He called this marble "The Die of Fate".
@WhisperingEchoes56 4 ай бұрын
Man that's smart I might do that as a DM
@steffenpanning2776 4 ай бұрын
You could easily troll a Player that insists on a dice roll :)
@joeyj6808 4 ай бұрын
In the 70s there were no high-impact plastic poly dice. Not yet. So dice corners would wear down. Eventually, your d20 would become a marble. Endless rolling. I held on to my first d20 for decades, still inked with orange ink. Looked horrible LOL.
@Hifuutorian 4 ай бұрын
@@joeyj6808It sounds really cool though!
@GromMolotok 4 ай бұрын
In grade school I had a marble, a clear amber color, that had somehow taken on a cube shape with rounded corners. It was like that when I got it, so probably a manufacturing defect.
@xanathar8659 4 ай бұрын
I'll never forget when my friend Paul whipped out his new dice bag filled to the brim with sets of dice, and also marbles. I asked what the marbles were and then he looks at me with a perfectly blank expression and said "d1" and then threw the marble onto the table which rolled off and landed directly into the dm's waterbottle on the floor.
@finnulf 4 ай бұрын
Wellp... rolled a 1!
@SerialSnowmanKiller 4 ай бұрын
For the d1, they should use a Gömböc, which is a fairly recently-discovered shape which, when rolled on a flat surface, will ALWAYS settle into its 'upright' position.
@Hifuutorian 4 ай бұрын
That's so cool actually!
@IcebaneFilms 4 ай бұрын
It's the shape of turtles and other heavy shelled animals. It was discovered when trying to figure out how animals could correct falling on their back when they would otherwise be stuck. The shape would always roll over with gravity due to it's pointed top, rounded edges, and low center of gravity, even when set upside down, so long as it's on a relatively flat surface. @@Hifuutorian
@Hifuutorian 4 ай бұрын
@@IcebaneFilms You made an already cool fact even cooler, thank you!
@annatarsoly941 4 ай бұрын
Wait... Gömböc is actually an old hungarian word! (I'm hungarian.) It means sphere-ish. I wasn't aware of this meaning, and I was so surprised to see it in english text! We have a lot of words and phrases basically adopted from german and english, it's so cool to see it the other way around!
@Bageer1 4 ай бұрын
@annatarsoly941 it was discovered/constructed by Hungarian mathematicians!
@dimitriusvoldun8031 4 ай бұрын
Other people: "You have too many dice." Me: "Shiny math-rocks go click-clack!"
@GromMolotok 4 ай бұрын
What does "too many dice" mean, anyway?
@dimitriusvoldun8031 4 ай бұрын
@@GromMolotok No clue, mate. I can't swim in them like Scrooge McDuck, so I still have a long ways to go in my collecting.
@tahunuva4254 4 ай бұрын
Protip: Wooden chests make excellent storage for dice, especially if you layer them with trays. Nothing better than a chestfull of glittering maths rocks.
@distortedmeatbal7191 4 ай бұрын
my friends mom has like a large 80 pound chest of die
@tahunuva4254 4 ай бұрын
@@distortedmeatbal7191 Damn, that's a lot of numbers
@Akrelide 4 ай бұрын
glittering math rocks.. XD haha. perfect :D
@Tasarran 4 ай бұрын
@@distortedmeatbal7191 Your friend's mom has an 80-pound chest... huh. huh huh...
@captianbacon 4 ай бұрын
Crown royal bags. When it fills up your get a new one. I have several bags that are all ready to go bags if someone needs to barrow dice.
@ShandorDavies 4 ай бұрын
A note on the giant d20 - our GM got one as we had a player who would immediately scoop up their d20 and announce a high roll before anyone could see. When we all played in person, everyone used the giant d20 and it hated everyone equally.
@shannon3315 4 ай бұрын
Why is this a thing??? Not giant d20s, but players that you have to outsmart in order to get them to play fair! So annoying.
@tulsaviolet 4 ай бұрын
I've done this before. For the same reason.
@MrGranten 4 ай бұрын
Usually it's basically a rule that you can't do that. The benefits of DMs throwing their weight around and establishing basic etiquette from the start.
@pattheplanter 4 ай бұрын
DM calls foul and tells them to roll again. They will soon learn.
@ShandorDavies 4 ай бұрын
@@pattheplanter He did but the player would slip back into doing it. It became easier for everyone to avoid the issue entirely.
@prestonasher32 4 ай бұрын
I had already seen those floating dice and was definitely enticed to get one, but then you showed me coin dice and I don’t think my wallet has ever felt such fear.
@thanesgames9685 4 ай бұрын
They are really awful. One of my players got them and while they are absolutely cool looking, they are a nearly impossible to roll in a random way that won't destroy your playing surface, nearby terrain, favorite pets, or whatever.
@bloodelfreku 4 ай бұрын
I've had a mobius strip die for years now. It sits in a bronze dragon box with bronze thorn dice, and is of course made of bronze itself. It is very fun to use when telling a player "no."
@barswa 5 ай бұрын
The great news for pathfinder 1e or d&d 3.5 players: small races often roll 1d3s, so there are 1d3s available to them!
@GinnyDi 5 ай бұрын
OH THIS IS EXCITING!
@kylebaryonyx9478 4 ай бұрын
In a similar vein but straying slightly, there are a few war games that normally use d6s but have specific conditions where d3s are used (number of attacks, damage, etc for specific units)
@euansmith3699 4 ай бұрын
I like the Average Dice, that used to be used in Society of Ancients' wargames. These were 6 sided dice, marked 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5. @@kylebaryonyx9478
@DOOMsword7 4 ай бұрын
I think Tasha’s had a couple class features that used a d3 (the Barbarian for sure) but I always used a d6 for those feature (with 1-2 being the 1 on a d3 etc). I have NO IDEA why they thought this was good design
@graywolfdracon 4 ай бұрын
I still DM a 3.5e campaign and am excited to see that d3s are finally readily available.
@warmongerous 4 ай бұрын
We have a chonk dice at our table, where the 1 is a goblin. The rule is it's only used for death saves, and if your character dies as a result of rolling a nat 1, your next character has to be a goblin. It is affectionately called the goblin dice
@aaronwhite1882 4 ай бұрын
There is one subclass that uses d3s. The Wild Magic Barbarian gets a pseudo-Bless ability where people can add 1d3 to their rolls.
@rc3043 4 ай бұрын
The levitating one is something I would add into a custom made boardgame table. Imagine sitting there with people playing DnD and your dice are levitating over the table! How awesome is that.
@VictorLHouette 4 ай бұрын
"Too many dice" is an asymptote. You can be constantly approaching that point, but you'll never actually reach it
@PaulGuy 4 ай бұрын
Like with motorcycles, power tools, and other fun stuff, the appropriate amount is n+1.
@butsukete1806 4 ай бұрын
I'll take knives and guns first.
@emr1d341 4 ай бұрын
People who collect "too many dice" really take it to the limit.
@mattsadventureswithart5764 4 ай бұрын
@@butsukete1806Bread knives and glue guns are great for crafting with. Bravo, crafty person.
@robertabarnhart6240 4 ай бұрын
@@PaulGuy Also potato chips and cats.
@TalesWithHaggis 5 ай бұрын
At the end of the day, I think we can all appreciate the designs of most novelty (or vanity) dice. Impractical as they might be, it's fun to see someone being creative with shapes and purposes of them. I especially like the table generator dice, and could see myself using that for something like treasure- enemy- or improvised weapon generation.
@eesedesesesrdtsuperjoshuab7907 4 ай бұрын
This is my new favourite dnd video, I love those death saving throw dice, I’m absolutely buying some of the dice from that website
@vladimir.smirnov 4 ай бұрын
I also have an Ascendice (and actually half of the dice you showed in the video, but that is another story :) ) and yeah, magnet inside is also like that, and I think it is by design, because it needs to be stabilized by electromagnets and if it can't move it would've been harder. There is another "problem" with it - as it have a magnet, if you have a dice tray that requires assembly - it probably have some metallic pieces and die will happily role towards them and attach to them :) So you need to be careful with the materials that you have. Because of that I can't use it with 2 trays that I mostly use.
@RijackiTorment 4 ай бұрын
Dice can be mini works of art and I am all for it. Though I haven't succumbed to a dice collection again and when I was collecting the variety was exponentially smaller, it takes a lot of will power not to buy the ooo-ahh dice. Having a partner opposed to collecting things just because might help.
@GinnyDi 4 ай бұрын
Having a supportive husband is both a blessing and a curse 😅😅
@elfdragon1227 4 ай бұрын
One of my younger sisters actually gave me a d20 and d12 that she sewed for Christmas, so yeah! 100%
@CadanL 4 ай бұрын
My dice outgrew their jar and seeing as they only just fit inside the new jar I'm not buying anymore dice
@AM-hf9kk 4 ай бұрын
My wife bought me a set of metal "bullet" dice in a "revolver cylinder." They're fun and pretty, but the d12 and d20 are nearly impossible to read. Cramming that many sides onto a cylinder 3/8" in diameter means that ANY imperfection in the table makes them lie strangely. She calls them my "honesty dice" because I constantly have to be aware of my own bias in thinking that something should/shouldn't succeed, and call someone else at the table to confirm. We got our toddler an enormous set of closed-cell foam dice. That's a d4 that wrecks your whole ankle rather than poking a hole in your sole.
@Hifuutorian 4 ай бұрын
A friend of mine owns one of those and it's absolutely sick!
@JeffreyCuscutis 4 ай бұрын
For the D3, there is an RPG that uses it and other nonstandard die shapes: Dungeon Crawl Classics. It adds D3, D5, D7, D14, D16, D24 and D30 which are part of a dice chain that includes the standard die shapes. Bonuses or penalties can move you up or down the dice chain. I have a set and have used them one time, at GenCon, so somewhat useless.
@randydoffing3204 4 ай бұрын
I'm GM-ing a Traveller RPG game which uses almost exclusively D6's. But, occasionally, there's a need to roll D3. The core rules suggest rolling a D6 and interpret a roll of 1-2 as 1, 3-4 as 2, and 5-6 as 3. But, I recently ordered a set of D3's for those occasional situations that call for it.
@chaddersh3736 4 ай бұрын
Apparently there's not a lot of Games Workshop fans here. D3 is a staple over there
@MegaJoka100 4 ай бұрын
Pathfinder also uses D3's from time to time.
@MrKoemgun 4 ай бұрын
Oooooh that's why when i bought 6 pounds of random dice i got some of those D3, D5, D14 D16 and D24. Yeah i'm a real dice dragon, i order then by weight.
@replikantx1050 3 ай бұрын
the d3 i got in a set, had instructions that said to use it for rock, paper, scissors.
@BorisJosz 3 ай бұрын
I don't think I've used a dice in over a 5 years, yet somehow still watched the whole video. I either have a problem with collections (which KZfaq has understood and funneled me here) or you're very entertaining! I suspect a bit of both :p I loved the "I'm glad you asked" part, exactly how I would convey it as well xD
@relaxedfantasyreview 4 ай бұрын
On the subject of Viridian's randomizer dice, I once did an entire year long campaign where the DM decided literally everything using randomizers. All the plot points, world layout, monsters, and just challenged the group to weave a story out of it all. One of the most memorable campaigns I've ever been in. ❤
@_stonhinge 4 ай бұрын
The randomizer dice would also make for an interesting "rogue-like" adventure. You could make a whole campaign about a shifting dungeon that the characters try and make it through. For even more shenanigans, have them start with nothing each entry and a small amount of starting gear in the entrance. At it's simplest, each room has 4 doors. They enter through 1, that leaves 3 doors with varying amounts of dice you roll for that room, which may or may not be telegraphed. Then use the dice to determine what's in the room. Is it treasure, a hostile encounter, or a friendly encounter? How many of each? Go nuts with it. If they die, have them "respawn" in the town outside the dungeon. Or maybe it's all a mystical trap and the exit is at the end, so when there's a TPK they respawn back at the entrance with nothing. Character levels are the meta-progression, so depending on how difficult you make it determines how quickly they level.
@trident042 4 ай бұрын
I really appreciate that you demonstrated a mobius strip for anyone who might have missed that day at school.
@tegelstenen4178 4 ай бұрын
I found the guy who skipped class
@trident042 4 ай бұрын
@@tegelstenen4178 Good, tell him to watch this.
@austenclayton7006 4 ай бұрын
your dice collection is amazing!!! i’m also a big fan of the “unnecessary” dice :)
@negimaaddict742 4 ай бұрын
The thematic ones like the potion bottles, fireballs or the death save dice feel like they would bring a lot of fun for the table irl.
@Wyeith_ 4 ай бұрын
The Ascendice magnet within is meant to be loose. The reason is because if it were perfectly centered within it would have to be placed onto the base in a specific way everytime in order to allow the magnet within to keep it levitating making it more of a hassle if not impossible to place centered. Not to mention making the die itself predictable to roll and therefore not a legal to use die for any game using a d20.
@danielfarrugia5492 4 ай бұрын
I came here looking for this clarification. Thankyou very much!
@lukamurphy2021 5 ай бұрын
Looking forward to more Topology With Ginny, honestly. (Fun-ish fact: When a two-dimensional object moves around a Möbius loop it will arrive back at the point of origin after one tour mirrored.)
@u.v.s.5583 4 ай бұрын
I had a die shaped like the Cantor set, but I stored it in my Klein bottle pouch and can't find it now for some reason.
@lukamurphy2021 4 ай бұрын
@@u.v.s.5583 Pushing comedy to the limit, I see. If you find your dice set inside (or indeed outside) the Klein bottle see if my Gabriel's Cake is in there too.
@srellison561 4 ай бұрын
@@u.v.s.5583 lol
@astralura 4 ай бұрын
I have a bunch of the polyhero dice sets. I love the wizard one. The cleric one released with holy hand grenades as an optional addition and I use them for bless :)
@WilliamAndySmith-Romaq 4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this video! I really look forward to when our group can put together a run of gaming. I miss the talk, and it was a joy to hear about "useless dice."
@Stormchaser2032 4 ай бұрын
Dragons never worry about storage, they just conquer another castle or cave. Lol
@GinnyDi 4 ай бұрын
Another castle, you say? 👀
@Stormchaser2032 4 ай бұрын
@@GinnyDi - Yes!!!
@jordanw2741 5 ай бұрын
I have a d1 as well. Got it in my denary dice set from Curiosity box. It has dice from d1 to d10. Only thing I have used the d1 for is to add heft to my rolls behind the screen (sometimes it's nice to add a few extra dice to make that enemy fireball sound extra threatening with extra click clacks)
@GinnyDi 5 ай бұрын
HA, I love that idea!!
@Tersidian 4 ай бұрын
damage needs to be rolled, unarmed strike for most adventurers is 1 base damage - or a d1! :D
@orsolyafekete7485 4 ай бұрын
@@Tersidian Aren't unarmed strikes actually technically a d1, because the 1 damage does get doubled on a crit, and only the diceroll result is supposed to do that?
@procrastinatinggamer 4 ай бұрын
@@orsolyafekete7485Maybe but that’s only of use in 5e. Most other games I’ve looked into just make a punch a d4 or a d3 or the like. Can’t think of any other systems where a straight punch is just a single point of damage (before stat modifiers) like in 5e.
@KestrelM117 3 ай бұрын
This video is so fun, I love to see someone so passionate about dices. And i LOVE the möbius one!!
@ricebrown1 4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the heads up on Viridian. I just picked up a nice set of bone dice and condition rings.
@riuphane 4 ай бұрын
As a dice goblin (or i guess dragon now), I'm envious of your variety. And if anything, I think having "useless" or form-over-function dice is a stronger indicator of the tabletop gamer than almost anything else... Other than maybe dice accessories (bags/trays/chests/prisons/towers/etc.)!
@nigeldepledge3790 4 ай бұрын
I have a set of dice that are transparent and fluid-filled; inside each one is an eldritch eyeball that always lands looking upwards. When you lean over to read the number, the die is staring into your soul . . . And, for reasons that some people will figure out immediately, I chose the set where the eyeballs are yellow, with a cat-like pupil.
@Hifuutorian 4 ай бұрын
That's so cool!
@Brettski89 4 ай бұрын
sounds dope? got a link or store / item name?
@travischeney9874 4 ай бұрын
I got one of those from Dice Envy. I went green with an eldritch feel.
@AllenKnutson 4 ай бұрын
@@travischeney9874 I found the Dice Envy site, but it is vast -- do you remember the name of the die?
@EmissaryofWind 4 ай бұрын
Witcher reference?
@Paraatrush 4 ай бұрын
I have the Coin-"Dice" myself. They are brilliant for a coinflipping bard during perception checks. I love them.
@mattiemathis9549 4 ай бұрын
I had a D3 and a D100. Guess I’m higher up on that scale than I thought. 😂😂 Great video! It brought back memories. 😁
@Valandar2 4 ай бұрын
D3 has a lot of uses in games outside D&D 5e. The usual method is to roll 1d6, and treat it as 1/2 = 1, 3/4 = 2, and 5/6 = 3.
@jasonreed7522 4 ай бұрын
I feel like this is the real reason d3s are so rare, they aren't regular polyhedron (all ofther dice are), and you can easily simulate a d3 with a d6. (Really any scheme that maps 2 faces of the cube onto 1 output, and you tell everyone what you are doing before rolling. Or just keep rerolling any die until you get a result in the desired range, but that could take awhile.)
@Hawkskull 4 ай бұрын
For example, Call of Cthulhu uses d3 for first aid & medicine hit point restoration.
@TheXasti 4 ай бұрын
Also recall Rock Paper Scissors is a d3. So instead of doing it with your hands, you can do it with dice!
@filipemesquita7372 4 ай бұрын
Lancer has a ton of weapons that deal 1d3 damage like that
@t0k3p0k3 4 ай бұрын
A dozen D3 can be handy in Warhammer 40k, if you have a lot of attacks with D3 damage. Although most D3 damage weapons were changed to 2 damage in 9th and 10th edition. In 8th edition D3 damage was really common.
@khw1425 4 ай бұрын
The pencil D6 is funny to me since I grew up as an early teen playing warhammer with not enough d6 and alot of stuff like coins and soda bottles being subbed in for minis...we would write 1-6 on the sides of number two pencils for dice sometimes...but we were always thankful to have extra cubes shaped normal 6 sided dice, since rolling 10-30+ d6 at once for a whole unit of troops at once was the norm for that game.
@_stonhinge 4 ай бұрын
I have soooo many tiny d6s from when I played WH40K. I do have a small set of "fiery" colored ones that are perfect for casting Fireball with. Sadly, not enough if you upcast it.
@khw1425 4 ай бұрын
tiny d6's really come in handy alot@@_stonhinge
@robertabarnhart6240 4 ай бұрын
Geez, and I thought Shadowrun took a lot of d6s! They sell cubes of 36 dice, 4 layers of 9 dice each, especially for those types of games. I have 2 of them.
@SteveRB511 4 ай бұрын
This is a fun video; thank you. I'm going to have to check out your previous dice video. In the past, I used a Zocchi d100 in Napoleonic miniature wargaming and the Rolemaster/Spacemaster RPGs for percentiles. It was plastic, but from what was shown for the Viridian metal d100 in this video, the rolled number was much more easy to determine (still a bit small to read).
@NochSoEinKaddiFan 4 ай бұрын
You have awoken something in me that should have never seen the light of day... btw you are so cute and everything is so perfectly color matched, I am absolutely in love and want to marvel at your stash with you all day xD
@speculativemusings3593 4 ай бұрын
The Möbius 1-sided die is actually cheap enough to be worth getting as a novelty die.
@pattheplanter 4 ай бұрын
"I walk into the next room through the open door." "Roll a die to achieve that" "What!!!" "Here's your die". For a one-off prank, it would be worth it.
@RoyCyle 4 ай бұрын
@@pattheplanter Or when as the DM you need a creature to fail a save you roll the D1 and viola! it fails! lol
@katanyafleet 4 ай бұрын
I think it would be a cool thing to have in a hopeless plot point against an enemy that needs to be weakened before it can be defeated. "Attack, rolled a 1, plus seventeen." "Miss." "We should run. Pass turn."
@corgiw7281 4 ай бұрын
I want one.
@AwkwardPasta004 4 ай бұрын
I am a dice dragon thats has historically been too poor to fully realize my dragon-ness but now…I make money *evil dice dragon cackling*
@asgads 4 ай бұрын
i like the 6-20 ones with classic design but clever surfacing or ideas. that giant death by ooze is great for example and th floating one rules
@GazpachoTabletop 4 ай бұрын
Love the fireball dice & the mobius strip. That's amazing. Starting off with Warhammer which has a d3 but at the time 3D printing wasn't a thing we had to roll a d6. Still have a soft spot for the fictional but now real d3
@servietsky67 4 ай бұрын
I have a d3. I use it to randomly select a player on the table, like when a monster is in range of 3 characters, I assign a number to each player and roll it to choose which one to attack. It's the same thing as using a d6 and giving each 2 numbers, but it makes me happy.
@Tasarran 4 ай бұрын
But what if you have four players?
@RedNZBlue 4 ай бұрын
I loved the pacing and setup of this video, I too was thinking "how do we outdo the levitating die?!" Nailed it. I'd love to see a follow-up of this video about dice bags!
@princexx_mishka98 4 ай бұрын
I use d3s in my homebrew games quite a bit and they are also sometimes used in warhammer 40k! Though typically you just roll a d6 and halve it, rounding up haha. Cool video 🖤
@CihanSan 4 ай бұрын
I have to own that floating D20, my B day is coming up, thanks for sharing
@NeedsMore360s 4 ай бұрын
"There is no reason to roll this die" *Divination wizards rolling Portent* "Hmmm....."
@ArchOfWinter 4 ай бұрын
D1, for when the DM really hates the player's decision. Perfect for railroading!
@jasonreed7522 4 ай бұрын
Or its just straight up impossible for it to succeed or fail. (Not everything is possible) The D1 exists solely for the sass of it, which makes it the most useful die of all. Also the comedy of a Halfling rolling it and asking if they can reroll the nat 1.
@patrickdelaney3061 4 ай бұрын
I am an Ancient Red Dice Dragon, I literally had to stop the video to order that ooze set! Fantastic video as always, very cool seeing new dice!
@angela-ti1np 4 ай бұрын
I am a complete stranger to your world yet I still watched this entire video and found it quite interesting.
@jfridy 4 ай бұрын
Gamescience designed the original d100 back in the 1990s. It’s looks the same as everyone else’s, but to cut down on the rolling golf ball problem, they put some small weights in the hollow center. So as it rolls, the weights are always going to the bottom, slowing the die from the inside.
@tagg1080 4 ай бұрын
The local game store I grew up near had them inside little bottles like a magic 8 ball. They worked great.
@CodeOmega0 4 ай бұрын
Woah, I wasn't expecting you to have entirely green hair again - it looks great! I like the darker tones to it too!
@tahroo4262 4 ай бұрын
"... it just rolls forever because it's basically just a ball." On the other hand, it's a fantastic way to let your cat control your fate.
@tchaugh 4 ай бұрын
This is a fun video, even as someone who rarely plays table top and doesn't collect dice, I enjoyed you sharing, thank you!
@mentalrebllion1270 4 ай бұрын
Yay! More dice!!! Oh and a cool way to use the levitation die is maybe to have the dm have a player roll it during the most intense of rolls, like dimension 20’s box of doom almost. Those situations
@AlanTenore 4 ай бұрын
Maybe to roll it, you just knock it out of the magnetic field? And if it can be spun while levitating, even better!
@NathanCamp 5 ай бұрын
Love math rocks in all their forms
@simonsayz3925 4 ай бұрын
first time on your channel, first moments i thought "oh hi maisy williams" ;) but then i liked your way of speaking and charisma :)
@chasebalcziunas4289 4 ай бұрын
“I don’t know why you’d do that, but you could.” is the mantra of my table.
@KeandeLacy 4 ай бұрын
I have a d5 - a ten-sided die which has two faces each for 1 through 5. The only thing I've ever used it for is randomly choosing a character in a party of 5. I also have a 20-sided d10, which is the die that I leave closest to the person who "forgets" to bring their own dice and doesn't ask permission to borrow mine. And I have a d30, which I occasionally use with a d12 to generate a random day of the year.
@cassandracastro2759 4 ай бұрын
I believe those are used in Dungeon Crawl Classics.
@Nicsopana 4 ай бұрын
@@cassandracastro2759 Few dices DCC isn't using 😀.
@euansmith3699 4 ай бұрын
I like how the upper end weight metric for hobby items, like metal dice and metal Chaos Dreadnoughts, is how suited they are to killing people.
@voidseeker4394 4 ай бұрын
In computer roguelike game Cataclysm DDA you can find DnD dice as in-game item, and use them as ammo for slingshot or similar weapons.
@maureenlangley2386 4 ай бұрын
Cute dragon hoard merch coming in the future? Love a new dice video because I get to add to my growing list of where to buy dice - I need the ooze dice! In addition to the dice hoard, I would love to see a video about other accessories you find useful or fun as a player or DM.
@blesr9022 2 ай бұрын
Definitely buying those themed health potion dice for my friends birthday! (She’s my DM). Thanks for sharing these cool dice!
@bjrnegillarsen1380 5 ай бұрын
Storage is easily solved, dice vaults for every set and then stack the vaults in one or more antique steamer-trunks...
@GinnyDi 5 ай бұрын
Perfect!! I'll just get an extra house!! 😂
@lornacy 4 ай бұрын
Although it seems a pity not to display them.
@corgiw7281 4 ай бұрын
[slooowly slides the pocket door shut on the trunk in the computer room]
@iBLookinATu 4 ай бұрын
I never expected a die that I OWN would rank up to #8 on the Useless scale. I love the metal golf ball so much, and I keep it as a home defense weapon in case of emergencies.
@tomcrowell6697 4 ай бұрын
I love the dragon scale. Good word choice. Also the pencil die is so anime.
@Cortaxify 4 ай бұрын
Actually has a D100 from back in the early 90s that was like your but transparent plastic with the numbers on. The fun part of it was that the inside was full of small pits all over and it was half full of small metal pellets that settle in those pits as you rolled it making it heavier and stop faster. Gave of a rattling sound from all the metal pellets inside when rolled.
@zackmyers805 4 ай бұрын
The Death Saving Throw dice can actually be detrimental rather than useful when you account for things like Bless, Cloak/Ring of protection, Flash of Genius, etc.
@bjornseine2342 4 ай бұрын
I recently saw a product called "Roulette dice" from uniquedice. Metal discs with spinners in them that give you a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 and d20 "roll" all in a single spin. Clockwork design; look like something straight out of Dune or a pirate movie. I want one.
@civilbeard 4 ай бұрын
Very silly dice indeed. Fun video! The unusual shapes from the 1 dragon scale are tempting...
@williamtrice960 4 ай бұрын
I didn't think I was a dice dragon, then I watched this video. I am now a dice dragon.
@InkyPetrel 4 ай бұрын
Okay but I need those death save dice. Like, immediately. They're just neat :p Also, the mobius die just delights me. Perfectly pointless, it's wonderful. I want one to hand to my players if they ask to do something completely impossible "sure, roll this" :p
@rolebo1 4 ай бұрын
I won't classify myself as a dice dragon, more a dice goblin. My priced dice possession is a D120, mathematically the most useful useless die. It can simulate (with a chart) any standard polyhedral dice roll. It is the only dice you can never lose and always be able to use. It is big and clunky but surprisingly rolls better than my D100. My other weird dice are: D60, D30, D24, D16, D7, and a D5.
@michaelc4614 4 ай бұрын
Love it! Never played DD but always wanted to. I use to collect dice as counters for magic and pokemon...
@LawTaranis 4 ай бұрын
My favorite die is a completely unique d20. It is a hand-soldered, gem studded sterling silver filigree dice styled after a cage of some sort. It has a ruby in the place if the 1 and an emerald in the place if the 20. It was a gift from my party that I played with for 18 years. I have only rolled it a half dozen times on a soft felt surface.
@Random_Gamer-sh6pf 4 ай бұрын
I thought I wouldn't care about these, I really did. You just _had_ to show those beautiful coins and that awsome levitating d20. And they're the most expensive ones too 😭
@Greyscal3d 4 ай бұрын
Damm, you know you are to obsessed with D&D when your dice collection is on part with someone who made D&D their literal job
@AvatarPuls 4 ай бұрын
What is "on part"?
@Greyscal3d 4 ай бұрын
on par*@@AvatarPuls
@corruleumblue3317 4 ай бұрын
@@AvatarPuls "On par" but autocorrupt got to it, presumably.
@JanHavel 4 ай бұрын
I do also have some potion shaped dice, one huge d20 i call "Table killer" :D, some randomization dice for weather, encounters and so, coin shaped spinners with multiple dice on them, one cube with spinners (KS - not yet received), those dice coins from yarro studios also, spherical dice (KS - not yet received), one heavy set of metal StarGate themed dice, electronic dice with BT, some dice with embeded stuff (ocean themed with sparky sand, small shells and so are quite nice), magnetic dice set, glowing in the dark set, ... its nice to collect unusual dice :) That moebius one is interesting :)
@toglmonster7261 4 ай бұрын
I have a set of d6's that bounce like a rubber ball. They are made of rubber and there very fun to roll, but they got everywhere. They hit models of the map, they end up on the floor, and no dice tray I have has been able to contain them. But I love them!
@theservelify 4 ай бұрын
Posting here because this is your newest video. I dont really expect you to read this but I still wanted to say thank you for your work. I just found your channel today through the youtube algorithm and well there couldn't have been a better time. I will run our next campaign game on sunday and couldn't motivate myself to prep anything. Now with some new found fire in your whimsical videos I will give my group the best I can get out of 1 days time work. Thx
@tsifirakiehl4250 4 ай бұрын
I have the Pieces of Fate! My set came with little cards that give each coin-die magic item stats: the d6 can be used as a spellcasting focus for necromancy spells and you can cast Web from it once per day, the d20 grants immunity to mind control and resistance to psychic damage, the d12 grants resistance to necrotic damage and lets you cast Revivify once per long rest, and so on.
@corgiw7281 4 ай бұрын
[high four!] I really like the aesthetic feature where they form a distinct image when arranged together.
@lynncorless4510 Ай бұрын
The only dice I have that aren’t your typical dice shape is are Polyhero’s Holy hand grenade d4s. I love them! Literally saw them at a con and went “at minimum I’m getting these dice”
@maiagenisio1979 3 ай бұрын
I know the people who designed gyld and their dice! It makes me so happy to see how much they’ve grown and to see them on your channel!
@willbrashear 4 ай бұрын
Ginny gets like a whole shed for her dice.
@ColdSteelKid 4 ай бұрын
Weird dice are why I got into this hobby. The weirder the better. For odd dice I love Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. In addition to the standard set of dice it also needs a d3, d5, d7, d14, d16, d24, and a d30. I have two different style d1s. The mobius strip like what you showed and the d1 from the Denary Dice set from Curiosity Box. Also have a bunch of d2s. The Prince Valiant RPG kickstarter came with a bunch of coins. Some dice sets like The Witcher or Power Rangers also come with a coin. For storage I got the Forged Dice Display Case. The three level case makes a nice carrying case for your dice. The three trays are supposed to hold 60 dice sets but some of my sets need a second slot. Unfortunately I need to get a second one since not all of my dice fit anymore.
@yorlik82 4 ай бұрын
DCC - when the Dice Dragon designs an RPG just to have a use for their extra-funky dice! I have three of the 3-tray Forged Dice Display Case and one of the 2-tray (48 set capacity) cases. Even with those the collection overruns the box so some sets stay in original cases. (DCC dice pretty much stay in original tubes/jars due to die sizes.) Large collections of dice for me were inspired by a "Wandering Damage Table" from an April Fool's edition of Dragon Magazine back in the 80's. One of the results was "Roll every die in a 50' radius and take that amount of damage." Always a big hit if you happen to be at a convention....
@SergeVolkovMusic 3 ай бұрын
As an audio enthusiast and a musician I completely understand you. Sometimes I buying headphones or instruments that I know I'm not gonna use but I still just want them x)
@TheFangeye 4 ай бұрын
I have owned and used a d100 dice, though a different one made from plastic. Even with the reduced mass it still would roll extremely well like you demonstrated. Even when it settled on a face I found it tricky to read and would confirm by pressing down on the side I thought was face up. This usually worked but maybe 5% of the time I would guess wrong and accidentally roll the dice again XD. Also, because Valentines Day, here is a craft idea you may have heard of! 1) Make two paper mobius loops that twist in opposite directions. 2) Tape them together at one point so that the loops form a 90 degree angle where you tape them together. 3) Pierce into each mobius loop and cut them in half along the loop. Ta da! Now you have two linked hearts =D What we really need though is for someone to make a klein bottle die.
@jasonreed7522 4 ай бұрын
D100s rolling like normal balls reminds me of early calculus classes where we used rectangles and trapezoids to approximate smooth curves so we could find the area under them. (The more you used the better the approximations, this is the build up to integration) Dice are the same way, the more faces you add the closer your dice become to approximating a sphere. D20s are pretty close to sphere shaped, and that d100 looked pretty close to a golf ball. Tldr: d100s are too good of approximations of spheres to roll well as actual dice.
@DannyboyO1 5 ай бұрын
Dice that are hard to read are, like, common though. Every group I've played in, everybody has some. I've got grey/black speckled dice with red numbers! I almost don't use them, but... some tables, some lighting conditions, they're okay. Lotta light, lotta contrast... so if they're usable, I've probably got a migraine. XD
@corgiw7281 4 ай бұрын
Bet I know where those speckled dice are from, too.
@DannyboyO1 4 ай бұрын
@@corgiw7281 Really? 'cause I've had 'em long enough to have no idea myself. (Not the highest bar, since there was no epic story involved beyond "looked cool & I needed dice".
@Calvin.of.Martin.Street 4 ай бұрын
I have a lot of basically unnecessary dice, like the metal d100 along with some d3s, d5s, d7s, and so on. I love them all.
@Mr_Phoskitos 26 күн бұрын
Based on your description of "Dice's Dragons", I don't consider myself one... HOWEVER, those saving throws dice? OMG, I love them I'm getting them for my next campaign
@marcusdire8057 4 ай бұрын
That little Ginny-color baby dragon is ADORABLE! ❤
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