Author Topic: And you thought your games needed a lot of dice... (Read 5517 times)

Weirdo · « **on:** 19 September 2019, 11:42:11 »

https://kotaku.com/truck-carrying-gaming-dice-spills-onto-highway-rolls-a-1838218869

Tymers Realm · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 September 2019, 12:25:16 »

As I commented to my GF when she shared it to me:

Oh the humanity...
All those dice cut down before they could be properly used/sold...

And the actual Trivium Games vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP1iaE42DU4

garhkal · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 September 2019, 13:46:23 »

Woa.. That's one massive fireball!!

Ruger · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 September 2019, 15:28:17 »

Quote from: garhkal on 19 September 2019, 13:46:23

Woa.. That's one massive fireball!!

Greater than a maximized intensified empowered fireball from a 20th level wizard (or even a 29th level one like Elminster if I recall my Forgotten Realms third edition stats correctly).

Ruger

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #4 on:** 19 September 2019, 15:41:21 »

Or it was just someone trying to make all their dice rolls for a Shadowrun game in one go.

Simon Landmine · « **Reply #5 on:** 19 September 2019, 18:10:44 »

Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 19 September 2019, 15:41:21

Or it was just someone trying to make all their dice rolls for a Shadowrun game in one go.

One go? That's just a 1st edition Shadowrun decker making their first roll of a hack ...

(Black trenchcoat, all the way!)

Daryk · « **Reply #6 on:** 19 September 2019, 18:13:56 »

$10,000 worth of dice? Tragedy!

I am Belch II · « **Reply #7 on:** 19 September 2019, 22:57:17 »

I wonder what the average die roll of the dice in that crash?

Firesprocket · « **Reply #8 on:** 19 September 2019, 23:09:57 »

Quote from: I am Belch II on 19 September 2019, 22:57:17

I wonder what the average die roll of the dice in that crash?

quick estimate based on the figures in the article would be 3.5 or as they pair of, 7.

rebs · « **Reply #9 on:** 19 September 2019, 23:20:45 »

Reminds me of the old pre-d20 Star Wars game. Tons of d6's.

PsihoKekec · « **Reply #10 on:** 20 September 2019, 00:30:16 »

Did they dug up Hellbie from under the pile yet?

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 September 2019, 00:53:54 »

Quote from: Firesprocket on 19 September 2019, 23:09:57

quick estimate based on the figures in the article would be 3.5 or as they pair of, 7.

With a sample size that large, it would be astronomically unlikely to end up with a mean average of anything else.

gunner · « **Reply #12 on:** 05 November 2019, 00:54:08 »

West End made the pre-D20 Shadowrun and Star Wars games. I still have majority of the books for both.

Ursus Maior · « **Reply #13 on:** 05 November 2019, 04:58:18 »

West End Games never made a D6-adaption for Shadowrun. Those available are fanmade. :)

Daryk · « **Reply #14 on:** 05 November 2019, 18:12:30 »

Every edition of Shadowrun I've seen used d6s, so I'm not sure why it would even need a "d6" conversion...

Sartris · « **Reply #15 on:** 05 November 2019, 20:06:51 »

Six dimensional dice?

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #16 on:** 05 November 2019, 20:25:45 »

I don't want to even think about the kind of numbers a six-dimensional die rolls.

Kentares · « **Reply #17 on:** 05 November 2019, 21:03:37 »

Quote from: Daryk on 05 November 2019, 18:12:30

Every edition of Shadowrun I've seen used d6s, so I'm not sure why it would even need a "d6" conversion...

Was wondering about that also...

Sartris · « **Reply #18 on:** 05 November 2019, 23:37:59 »

Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 05 November 2019, 20:25:45

I don't want to even think about the kind of numbers a six-dimensional die rolls.

it was scrapped after early testing as rolling critical hits would open the mind of the player to the truth of the universe and plunge them into irrecoverable madness

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #19 on:** 06 November 2019, 02:31:47 »

That, and the surges of dark energy it gave off when it hit the table.

Colt Ward · « **Reply #20 on:** 06 November 2019, 11:43:40 »

Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 05 November 2019, 20:25:45

I don't want to even think about the kind of numbers a six-dimensional die rolls.

They were invented by a researcher who wanted to up their gaming experience with some friends in town.

DOC_Agren · « **Reply #21 on:** 08 November 2019, 17:16:53 »

Eureka!!!!

Everytime I see the maytag commericals I think and some researcher used the sheriff as his AI model

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #22 on:** 08 November 2019, 18:55:40 »

I don't have the slightest idea what that picture is referencing.

Colt Ward · « **Reply #23 on:** 08 November 2019, 21:35:47 »

The TV show Eureka, it had a pretty neat premise and was some fun watching. Basically a DARPA town hidden in N California and the geniuses were always building something on the side to make their lives better but with wacky results- Robotic Dog Show, kid builds a artificial sun for the school science fair, house AIs go bonkers, and more. One of the things I like is they played with the tropes and the episode names were always playing around. For instance, they had a time travel mini-story arc towards the end but unlike most of that trope the protagonist did not cause things to revert to the previous timeline but he and the other character that knew would make little remarks that were in jokes.

The picture is of most the cast playing D&D looks like. Quantum dice would be something a Eureka resident would create . . .

dgorsman · « **Reply #24 on:** 08 November 2019, 23:18:55 »

Pilot was Washington State, rest was Oregon.

One of the earliest examples of geek culture becoming main stream entertainment.

Tymers Realm · « **Reply #25 on:** 08 November 2019, 23:26:08 »

Plus the first couple of seasons were decent, but the last one or two maybe...
They weren't garbage, but they definitely went down in quality.

Interesting ideas, unique cast through out and was pretty much fun.

Colt Ward · « **Reply #26 on:** 09 November 2019, 00:34:09 »

I actually liked the time-tripping episode and how they treated it. But yeah, they had a bit of problem with the story arcs since they could not keep doing 'McGuffin of the Week' for too long.

Sabelkatten · « **Reply #27 on:** 09 November 2019, 05:25:13 »

Quantum dice... They're every possible result until you compare the result?

rebs · « **Reply #28 on:** 09 November 2019, 05:57:01 »

I think that would be Schrodinger's Dice.

ThePW · « **Reply #29 on:** 12 November 2019, 10:20:36 »

My wife complained that her small dice bag was getting to be too small for her 'go-to' dice. I suggested that maybe she decommission some dice. That Look that she gave me... :D