My first character was a bear. Just a bear Class: Bear, Race: Bear, Subclass: Ambusher, Subrace: Grizzly This was in a real D&D 5e game. It was hilarious
Despurrado was the name and they were a Tabaxi Monk. One of the most enjoyable characters I've ever played. It was my first character and I learned very quickly that D&D wasn't just all about combat even in combat. Stealing from then outrunning a dragon to lure it into a trap was the most fantastic play I've ever made.
11:02 Blank dice are great for DMs who want to mess with their players. If you say you're rolling for damage, and roll a whole handful of dice, but only 2 of them are real, and the rest are blanks, it makes your players panic a bit until you announce the pittince of damage they've been dealt. And with blanks you aren't picking and choosing your rolls, you're just making it look like you're rolling more than you are.
The cards are probably the most interesting. Lots of opportunities to do things like give people a small hand of rolls or wait to reshuffle so luck cant be too consistently good or bad
If you're interested in "d20 with cards", you can also buy a French Tarot deck, as it contains 21 Trump cards numbered 1 to 21. And if you're not a Tarot player, the remaining of the deck can still be used as 52 card + 1 Joker deck by removing the 4 Knights (or keeping them to spice up your game, they are supposed to be between the Jack and Queen in value). The big advantage is that you can look through Divination Tarot decks and buy a very beautiful one. Although make sure you pick one where the trumps are numbered, some divination decks have unnumbered trumps as they're only designed for divination tricks and not for actually playing French Tarot...
"oh booo hoo, let me roll your persuasion check on the worlds smallest d20!" "mr krabs this is serious!" "i know, this really is the worlds smallest d20"
@@existant187 That definitely was not a pokemon reference. Schools teach the primary colours as "red blue yellow" (which is actually incorrect), but CMY is "cyan magenta yellow" (which are the actual subtractive primary colours, with "red green blue" being the additive primary colours)
@@cubee4108 Lol, no. We just haven’t used them because we know it’s unfair. Occasionally we’ll joke that it’s “purple die time” (they’re all the same color) when facing a big threat, but he hasn’t caught on.
The CMY Cube seems like a cool way to randomly determine the type of elemental dmg. Blue=Cold, Red=Fire, Yellow=Lightning, Green=Acid, etc. If it's a colour that's in-between or doesn't align with a dmg type that you want to use, you could divide the dmg value in half between the two primary colours that make up the colour you rolled. For example, if you rolled Purple you could just make it be both Fire & Cold dmg and in-game you could have the effect be like steam or dry ice. Or if there's different shades of colours, they could represent different things. So maybe Light Green is Acid, but Dark Green is Necrotic. Essentailly the perfect use for it would be a magic item that casts Chromatic Orb, but of a random element. That way the die itself could serve as a physical manifestation of that player's magic item (since it literally is a chromatic orb or sorts).
I love the chromatic orb idea! I'm really excited for pictomancer being added to FFXIV so it had me thinking there's gotta be some cool ways to use a colour die, plus it's just so cool looking I want one anyways
@@concerninghobbits5536 Huh, I hadn't even made an art/paint connection. That could be a cool feature for a homebrew D&D class adaptation of Pictomancer.
I figure it would be useful when doing random encounters; a cyan goblin, a red goblin and a blue goblin. "What did they use to make themselves different colours?" "You don't want to know, but you might want to use prestidigitation before you loot the bodies"
I actually just bought myself the roulette spinner for my birthday in January (Or the pocket watch die as I think of it) and I kinda love it. The only concern is you need a DM who’s willing to trust your rolls when they’re not right there out of the table in dice form
Thank you so much for featuring the Founders Deck! This is a great collection, and has me right on the edge of buying the bullet dice and that crazy bouncy one. The original video you did for that is bananas.
That Roulette die looks great not just as an impromptu die set, but as a conversation piece too. You also mentioned using it for fidgeting and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted...
Assuming your players aren't colour blind, you could use the CMYK dice to generate some sort of magic buff or debuff depending on the colour. You could also roll it on a multicoloured mat and include what it lands on in the generation, which may or may not factor into a skill of the throw rather than true randomness (e.g. players have to aim to land on the small white dot to nullify the effects of the mat). Break it out during a powerful combat scene and get players to choose their fate with a magical-looking object. Break it out at the very start and have players roll for some strength or weakness that lasts through the session. Sure, you could use just a numbered D20, but making it a big event with consequences that may or may not last a long time means you have artistic licence to make it something different. This, of course, may result in the Dwarf Fortress definition of fun, so maybe play test it in a way that won't get players killed, first.
You gotta love when the hobby that can literally be played with ONLY a pencil, paper, and a paperclip is used to excuse rampant consumerism. You can literally replace your dice with a handmade spinner using a paperclip instead of a spinner.
Don't even need to go that far. When there was a dice shortage in the late 70s, they shipped the game with cardboard chits that you would pull out of a bag
I dont know about "rampant consumerism." I'm mostly seeing different engineering or aesthetic approaches to a fun part of the game experience. Some of us new bloods like the dopamine spike we get from the clacky math rocks, and seeing all the different ways people have made that part of the game more customized or more engaging or more unique is neat. Sure, I could roleplay a western cowboy just fine with just a paperclip and a piece of paper, but maybe i find it more immersive and fun to spin a revolver and throw around bullet-shaped dice. I think it speaks more to the passion a lot of ttrpg fans have for their games that so many new types of dice and ttrpg accessories are constantly being developed. The dice in this video were all unique and interesting in their own way, so what's the harm?
I had a thought once. It is inspired by the Futurama miniseries where the characters go on a quest to destroy the "anti-backwards" crystal. The "quest" is because Professor Farnsworth's son is using the crystal as a D20. During the quest, the crystal is used as a weapon. It is thrown when the character is entering an encounter with a creature. Whatever is rolled determines what action the character does to the creature. There is a list that comes up with all the possible actions. I was inspired by that to give a character in DND a D20 that is used as a weapon. The player will carry the D20 instead of a projectile weapon. Whenever they throw the D20, it grows to roughly the size of a boulder and bounces toward the enemy. Whatever it rolls happens to the enemy.
I highly recommend that you leave these all out under a full moon overnight or something, because I think you might be cursed with the rolls you keep getting here
You can use blank dice if you're the DM and want to disguise the sound of how many dice you're rolling! Anyways I love the idea of a karma deck, I was thinking about how in French tarot (the game not the spiritual thing) you don't shuffle the deck very efficiently because it keeps the likelihood of someone having a good enough hand to make a bid so you can start a game. If everyone has a bad hand you usually just end up reshuffling. So having tarot cards or something in DND with a loose shuffle to keep a level of NON randomness seems interesting to me, like people are so concerned about dice being fair but sometimes things aren't fair and it's cool to leave something to destiny. Maybe unfair dice for a lucky or unlucky character instead of just relying on things like advantage.
The emergency D20 can be a realy cool magic item. I would give it to players to use it once similar to Divination Wizard portant. You can also replicate this by writing 20 nr on 20 pieces of paper shuffle them, make the player to chose one face down then put it in a envelope and seal it with tape. Usualy players like this kind of games and you can give them as a reword after they visit a oracle or something like that
I bought some blank D4s to turn into dragon's teeth (concrete pyramids used to create impassable terrain for vehicles) for 20mm and 15mm scale historicals.
Thanks for showing the variety, there's something that interests almost everyone I'd imagine! I quite enjoy collecting the ones with unusual facets, D9, D14, D18, etc. even though in practice they're nigh-on useless.
My favorite set of nontradition dice that I own is the "Draconic Anomaly" set sold by Viridian. Each dice is a unique shape as well as all ofthem being oversized dice. Some need to be spun while others can just be rolled like the d20.
5:21 Make an entire homebrew set of magic all based off of Prismatic Spray, and use the colours to determine the effect. Or just use it for the rolls of Prismatic Spray or Prismatic Wall.
You could apply a CNC cut polarizer film on the CMY cube 5:20 in a way that depending on what way the opposing side is polarized and colored it could reveal different numbers. If you’ve ever taken those 3d glasses and stacked the same kind of color scheme emerges and at certain angles light is blocked entirely. Utilizing these properties, and perhaps mixing/layering the films, you can achieve a die where the number and art appears to change. While you could use a line matrix approach like a digital clock, which would be more straight forward, you could also hire an artist/implement ai to make more aesthetic designs that serve the same function.
the CMY cube can have different effects based on what color is seen at the opposite side. so, like a character that can cause different effects randomly rolls that die for what effect they inflict. Like if it makes green, the target is poisoned or something.
@@draw20cards I already know they are a perfect fit for ICRPG as you can tuck the cards under the index cards to match for challenges and the like. That way, everyone gets that game show feel as we all get to see it at the same time.
I really have no clue when it comes to these types of games... but randomness is awesome. From cards to dice to roulette wheels. Seeing the different methods to basically come to the same conclusion. One result out of X.
I don't remember my first, but my favorite is probably got to be the minotaur Tac of the Nuclera tribe. His father is the War Chief of the tribe, and he has two brothers, Cal and Ti. He is a low-Intelligence fighter who was tired of his tribe getting attacked by metal men every few years, so he left to find a metal man to aid his tribe. He found one when he ran across a Paladin in chainmail armor. We used to do a 2-for-1 stat buy: Reduce a stat by 2 to increase another by 1. I had rolled an 18 and two 16s, so I reduced his Intelligence by 4 to raise his Constitution to 18. Minotaurs in 2e got a +2 to Strength and Constitution, so he had a total of 20 in those stats, and then I put the 16 in Dexterity. Add in the specialization rules for weapons proficiencies, and I put 1 of his starting Weapon Proficiencies Long Bow and 3 in Great Axe, thus giving him a +2 to hit and +4 to damage with a great axe at level 1. Which means his total bonuses came to +5 to hit and +12 to damage. Not that it mattered when I rolled a Nat 1...
I was going through my collection of dice a while back and found that I have 2 d20 that have 0-9 twice on them. I have no idea where I got them, but I have used them. My current obsession is sharp edge dice
Back in the day that's the way d20's came. Some of them have a little + sign on half the faces and some don't. We had to color in the numbers with crayon because this was also before they came inked.
My favorite non-standard dice in my (humbler) collection are Go First Dice. It's a set of four 12-siders that among them have the numbers 1-48 once each in such a distribution that any possible ordering (say, highest to lowest) of any subset of the dice is equally likely to be rolled with no ties possible - no rerolling over and over to determine seating/who goes first, among other applications.
I have a sochihedron , a dice with 100 faces… but this guy have plenty of rare dices too! I like a lot the space dice set, I want one of these sets, also I like the steampunk clock style dice is so kool!
0:13 "Including one I can only ever use one time." May I direct you to the webcomic Darths & Droids, in which one of the players, Pete, has a die he made that, similarly, can only ever be rolled once, apparently because it explosively self-destructs as part of the rolling process
I love unique dice. I have a few, including the roulette dice from UniqueDice. It looks like your version doesn't have the same issue mine does. The spinner isn't balanced correctly. If it's flat, it will spin fairly, but if I tip it up, it will always land on the same number (18 I think). I also have dice similar to the cube with the roulette balls. Only they're coins that you flip. Inside is a channel that a little ball will roll in, an it appears in a little window on the side of the coin underneath the number. And I have a set of dice that are flat disks, with a little bump on the bottom so you can spin it like a top. You either put some kind of marker down, or you stop it spinning with your finger. The number the marker points to, or that your finger is covering, is the number you rolled.
A quick Google search reveals that a D20 shape is called an icosahedron. Edit: I originally posted this: "Thanks to The Big Bang Theory, I know that the D20 shape is a dodecahedron or duodecahedron (do or duo = 2 and deca = 10, so 2 tens = 20)." I was wrong. dodeca is not 2 times 10, it is 2 +10 or 12, so a D12 is dodecahedron.
Back in the day, like the 70s, you couldnt just get DnD dice, so people would buy blank plastic polyhedrons out of math and science school supply magazines and write the numbers on. Those blank dice are a nice nod to that history.
I used to have a pair of really small d6's that came in a little wire frame holder on a key chain. I had them since I was a kid, no idea where they came from, probably from the '60s or '70s. I also had a d6 that was black and numbered 1-3 twice. It was from a military board game I had, and it was rolled to see how many units you could move on your turn. I kept them in my d6 dice bag, which vanished long ago, along with my other dice bag (all the non-d6's), one of those great unsolved mysteries of life.
Darn, if the FoamBrain emergency D20s still got sold, that would be a fantastic gift for Divination Wizards. Just hand them two after finishing a Long Rest.
about the 20D prism, were dealiing with light, thus the additive color wheel, with the primary colors red, green and blue. But the dice only colors the light to the secondary colors cyan, magenta and yellow. We see those colors on the facets facing us. We see only the primaries when two facets with different secondary colors overlap. Cyan and yellow gives green for example.
I've certainly seen smaller dice than those - I have a 5mm D20 and D6 in brass. Some of my other favorite weird dice are my d10s with english one through ten written out, along with my roman numeral, spanish, and japanese variants. I also have a 10cm brass d100 that feels like it's gonna damage the table.
The part about the cyan yellow magenta cube being red, yellow, and blue made me make some sort of unwritable pained sound but other than that great video
The roulette dice could be really fun for a 1D20 roll and asking the player to bet on blue or red. You can see their pain if they get a bad roll but would've been fine if they bet on the other colour
Foam Brain. Lol. They used to be local here, but the owner decided that selling at conventions was more profitable than maintaining a physical storefront.
The Ice moulds (Not on the basis of their functionality, I like to get my table drunk since my players get up to silly shenanigans that might turn out epic² when they're intoxicated)
I wonder if you have ever seen this crazy dice called the D-everything? I saw a video about it once upon a time and have never seen anything about it again.
Halfling rogue I don't remember the name in DDO way back in the day. After that I went on to forever after and to this day be obsessed with rogue / thief / trap master classes in every ttrp or anything similar. However lately past few years I've been trying out caster and fighter rolls. Recently in love with Eldritch casters because spellsword cool AF and Eldritch / demon pact cool AF
i made a set of dice from that crayola stuff and made all but one side have "1"s on each side and a "3" and other die with a "4" and ofcourse all other sides "1"s representing in a roll that most peaple dont get paradise (pair A dice) since only a "7" gives paradise. but all others give SNAKE EYES.
You actually missed a set of dice called "flipdie" a set of dice that are also coins, id suggest you get a set as they look and feel AMAZING and have the same randomness of real dice
I dream of a world, where people can actually wear their lapel mic without being judged for it. It is a small dream, but seems impossible none the less, because people be crazy.
the name of the shape for a d20 is I believe in english Icosahedron. more specifially a convex regular icosahedron (derived from ancient greek Icosaëder) similarly the shape for a d12 is dodecahedron (ancient greek dodecaëder) d8 is a octahedron d4 is a tetrahedon I'm sure there are other names as well ( eg if you follow the same logic a d6 would be a hexahedron, but most will call it a cube)
SIDE QUEST: Comment your first (or planned first) TTRPG character’s name, heritage, and class.
It’s for science 🤫
My first character was a bear. Just a bear
Class: Bear, Race: Bear, Subclass: Ambusher, Subrace: Grizzly
This was in a real D&D 5e game. It was hilarious
Despurrado was the name and they were a Tabaxi Monk. One of the most enjoyable characters I've ever played. It was my first character and I learned very quickly that D&D wasn't just all about combat even in combat. Stealing from then outrunning a dragon to lure it into a trap was the most fantastic play I've ever made.
Mine was Tobias Greenthorne, a half elf druid (mushroom)
Lydia Wagner, Gangrel - I started with WoD
James Bork, Half elf Shadow sorcerer
11:02 Blank dice are great for DMs who want to mess with their players. If you say you're rolling for damage, and roll a whole handful of dice, but only 2 of them are real, and the rest are blanks, it makes your players panic a bit until you announce the pittince of damage they've been dealt. And with blanks you aren't picking and choosing your rolls, you're just making it look like you're rolling more than you are.
The cards are probably the most interesting. Lots of opportunities to do things like give people a small hand of rolls or wait to reshuffle so luck cant be too consistently good or bad
I think it could be cool to give to a Divination Wizard when they get their Portent Dice for the day.
Mix in two or three decks with different/random cards removed and have two players draw 5 cards each and decide high or low
I've seen dice cards before (hell, _Catan_ has an official set as an expansion), but not d20s, and certainly not looking that nice!
I think its a good idea for initiative as well, have all the involved players and monsters draw from the same deck to minimize stacked turns.
If you're interested in "d20 with cards", you can also buy a French Tarot deck, as it contains 21 Trump cards numbered 1 to 21. And if you're not a Tarot player, the remaining of the deck can still be used as 52 card + 1 Joker deck by removing the 4 Knights (or keeping them to spice up your game, they are supposed to be between the Jack and Queen in value).
The big advantage is that you can look through Divination Tarot decks and buy a very beautiful one. Although make sure you pick one where the trumps are numbered, some divination decks have unnumbered trumps as they're only designed for divination tricks and not for actually playing French Tarot...
"oh booo hoo, let me roll your persuasion check on the worlds smallest d20!"
"mr krabs this is serious!"
"i know, this really is the worlds smallest d20"
"This is a CMYK die" "It has all the primary colors like red, blue and yellow"
The homicidal urge I felt in that moment will haunt me for ages
LMAO, so much wrong in that statement xD
Lmaaooo Ya'll didn't play Gen 1 Pokemon and it shows. I thought nerds understood references? Castiel moment LOL
@@existant187 That definitely was not a pokemon reference. Schools teach the primary colours as "red blue yellow" (which is actually incorrect), but CMY is "cyan magenta yellow" (which are the actual subtractive primary colours, with "red green blue" being the additive primary colours)
I mean, you can argue that they are all primary colours, it just depends if you are using the additive or subtractive method.
t. am colour blind
@@existant187 It isn't a Pokemon reference.
Icosahedron anyone?
I'm an icosahedron. We're an oppressed minority 😥
In this economy?
No, its a gyro-elongated pentagonal bi-pyramid(thnx vsauce)
Ye
Rhombic dodecahedron
I got all the players in my group all-20 d20s for Christmas. I don’t think the DM has realized yet.
he must be blind
@@cubee4108 Lol, no. We just haven’t used them because we know it’s unfair. Occasionally we’ll joke that it’s “purple die time” (they’re all the same color) when facing a big threat, but he hasn’t caught on.
@@DrFranklynAnderson oh thank god
@@DrFranklynAndersonpull them out someday and see how many rolls you get before he catches on. I'm guessing 3 or 4 lmao
The CMY Cube seems like a cool way to randomly determine the type of elemental dmg. Blue=Cold, Red=Fire, Yellow=Lightning, Green=Acid, etc. If it's a colour that's in-between or doesn't align with a dmg type that you want to use, you could divide the dmg value in half between the two primary colours that make up the colour you rolled. For example, if you rolled Purple you could just make it be both Fire & Cold dmg and in-game you could have the effect be like steam or dry ice. Or if there's different shades of colours, they could represent different things. So maybe Light Green is Acid, but Dark Green is Necrotic.
Essentailly the perfect use for it would be a magic item that casts Chromatic Orb, but of a random element. That way the die itself could serve as a physical manifestation of that player's magic item (since it literally is a chromatic orb or sorts).
I love the chromatic orb idea! I'm really excited for pictomancer being added to FFXIV so it had me thinking there's gotta be some cool ways to use a colour die, plus it's just so cool looking I want one anyways
@@concerninghobbits5536 Huh, I hadn't even made an art/paint connection. That could be a cool feature for a homebrew D&D class adaptation of Pictomancer.
I figure it would be useful when doing random encounters; a cyan goblin, a red goblin and a blue goblin. "What did they use to make themselves different colours?" "You don't want to know, but you might want to use prestidigitation before you loot the bodies"
I actually just bought myself the roulette spinner for my birthday in January (Or the pocket watch die as I think of it) and I kinda love it. The only concern is you need a DM who’s willing to trust your rolls when they’re not right there out of the table in dice form
Hand it to the DM and have them roll for the first few times so they gain the trust of it?
Thank you so much for featuring the Founders Deck! This is a great collection, and has me right on the edge of buying the bullet dice and that crazy bouncy one. The original video you did for that is bananas.
As someone who collects decks of cards, this was an easy insta-buy. Such a great idea!
That Roulette die looks great not just as an impromptu die set, but as a conversation piece too. You also mentioned using it for fidgeting and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted...
Assuming your players aren't colour blind, you could use the CMYK dice to generate some sort of magic buff or debuff depending on the colour. You could also roll it on a multicoloured mat and include what it lands on in the generation, which may or may not factor into a skill of the throw rather than true randomness (e.g. players have to aim to land on the small white dot to nullify the effects of the mat). Break it out during a powerful combat scene and get players to choose their fate with a magical-looking object. Break it out at the very start and have players roll for some strength or weakness that lasts through the session. Sure, you could use just a numbered D20, but making it a big event with consequences that may or may not last a long time means you have artistic licence to make it something different. This, of course, may result in the Dwarf Fortress definition of fun, so maybe play test it in a way that won't get players killed, first.
You gotta love when the hobby that can literally be played with ONLY a pencil, paper, and a paperclip is used to excuse rampant consumerism. You can literally replace your dice with a handmade spinner using a paperclip instead of a spinner.
Don't even need to go that far. When there was a dice shortage in the late 70s, they shipped the game with cardboard chits that you would pull out of a bag
@@OtakuNoShitpost now I only need to figure out how to get rid of the pencil and we'll get a paper only ttrpg
@@thenerdlog1602 origami and cutouts
I dont know about "rampant consumerism." I'm mostly seeing different engineering or aesthetic approaches to a fun part of the game experience.
Some of us new bloods like the dopamine spike we get from the clacky math rocks, and seeing all the different ways people have made that part of the game more customized or more engaging or more unique is neat.
Sure, I could roleplay a western cowboy just fine with just a paperclip and a piece of paper, but maybe i find it more immersive and fun to spin a revolver and throw around bullet-shaped dice.
I think it speaks more to the passion a lot of ttrpg fans have for their games that so many new types of dice and ttrpg accessories are constantly being developed. The dice in this video were all unique and interesting in their own way, so what's the harm?
I had a thought once. It is inspired by the Futurama miniseries where the characters go on a quest to destroy the "anti-backwards" crystal. The "quest" is because Professor Farnsworth's son is using the crystal as a D20. During the quest, the crystal is used as a weapon. It is thrown when the character is entering an encounter with a creature. Whatever is rolled determines what action the character does to the creature. There is a list that comes up with all the possible actions. I was inspired by that to give a character in DND a D20 that is used as a weapon. The player will carry the D20 instead of a projectile weapon. Whenever they throw the D20, it grows to roughly the size of a boulder and bounces toward the enemy. Whatever it rolls happens to the enemy.
I highly recommend that you leave these all out under a full moon overnight or something, because I think you might be cursed with the rolls you keep getting here
That roulette dice at 8:45 kinda reminds me of the old combat orbment from Trails in the Sky.
You can use blank dice if you're the DM and want to disguise the sound of how many dice you're rolling! Anyways I love the idea of a karma deck, I was thinking about how in French tarot (the game not the spiritual thing) you don't shuffle the deck very efficiently because it keeps the likelihood of someone having a good enough hand to make a bid so you can start a game. If everyone has a bad hand you usually just end up reshuffling. So having tarot cards or something in DND with a loose shuffle to keep a level of NON randomness seems interesting to me, like people are so concerned about dice being fair but sometimes things aren't fair and it's cool to leave something to destiny. Maybe unfair dice for a lucky or unlucky character instead of just relying on things like advantage.
The emergency D20 can be a realy cool magic item. I would give it to players to use it once similar to Divination Wizard portant. You can also replicate this by writing 20 nr on 20 pieces of paper shuffle them, make the player to chose one face down then put it in a envelope and seal it with tape. Usualy players like this kind of games and you can give them as a reword after they visit a oracle or something like that
I bought some blank D4s to turn into dragon's teeth (concrete pyramids used to create impassable terrain for vehicles) for 20mm and 15mm scale historicals.
Thanks for showing the variety, there's something that interests almost everyone I'd imagine! I quite enjoy collecting the ones with unusual facets, D9, D14, D18, etc. even though in practice they're nigh-on useless.
Thanks for including the thumbnail indicator on the chapters
The CMY cube could be really fun to determine the color of a portal if you have plane hopping as part of a campaign.
My favorite set of nontradition dice that I own is the "Draconic Anomaly" set sold by Viridian. Each dice is a unique shape as well as all ofthem being oversized dice. Some need to be spun while others can just be rolled like the d20.
Bringing a new level to a “ Dice Goblin “ love it!
5:21 Make an entire homebrew set of magic all based off of Prismatic Spray, and use the colours to determine the effect. Or just use it for the rolls of Prismatic Spray or Prismatic Wall.
You could apply a CNC cut polarizer film on the CMY cube 5:20 in a way that depending on what way the opposing side is polarized and colored it could reveal different numbers. If you’ve ever taken those 3d glasses and stacked the same kind of color scheme emerges and at certain angles light is blocked entirely. Utilizing these properties, and perhaps mixing/layering the films, you can achieve a die where the number and art appears to change.
While you could use a line matrix approach like a digital clock, which would be more straight forward, you could also hire an artist/implement ai to make more aesthetic designs that serve the same function.
the CMY cube can have different effects based on what color is seen at the opposite side. so, like a character that can cause different effects randomly rolls that die for what effect they inflict. Like if it makes green, the target is poisoned or something.
Instantly picked up the dice card sets. I am a sucker for those!
They will ship out soon! Please let me know if you have any thoughts or questions on the homebrew uses and content once you've got them to play with!
@@draw20cards I already know they are a perfect fit for ICRPG as you can tuck the cards under the index cards to match for challenges and the like. That way, everyone gets that game show feel as we all get to see it at the same time.
I would put money on the deck creator being in prison at one point. Using cards as a die is a prison thing.
5:04 its called an *icosahedron*
The blank dice are actually hella nice, I have a set myself, you can use them to make what your rolls sound more intimidating, great for big enemies
You carried my attention through a whole video about tabletop dice. Cheers!
I really have no clue when it comes to these types of games... but randomness is awesome.
From cards to dice to roulette wheels. Seeing the different methods to basically come to the same conclusion. One result out of X.
I don't remember my first, but my favorite is probably got to be the minotaur Tac of the Nuclera tribe. His father is the War Chief of the tribe, and he has two brothers, Cal and Ti.
He is a low-Intelligence fighter who was tired of his tribe getting attacked by metal men every few years, so he left to find a metal man to aid his tribe. He found one when he ran across a Paladin in chainmail armor.
We used to do a 2-for-1 stat buy: Reduce a stat by 2 to increase another by 1. I had rolled an 18 and two 16s, so I reduced his Intelligence by 4 to raise his Constitution to 18. Minotaurs in 2e got a +2 to Strength and Constitution, so he had a total of 20 in those stats, and then I put the 16 in Dexterity. Add in the specialization rules for weapons proficiencies, and I put 1 of his starting Weapon Proficiencies Long Bow and 3 in Great Axe, thus giving him a +2 to hit and +4 to damage with a great axe at level 1. Which means his total bonuses came to +5 to hit and +12 to damage. Not that it mattered when I rolled a Nat 1...
I was going through my collection of dice a while back and found that I have 2 d20 that have 0-9 twice on them. I have no idea where I got them, but I have used them. My current obsession is sharp edge dice
Back in the day that's the way d20's came. Some of them have a little + sign on half the faces and some don't. We had to color in the numbers with crayon because this was also before they came inked.
My favorite non-standard dice in my (humbler) collection are Go First Dice. It's a set of four 12-siders that among them have the numbers 1-48 once each in such a distribution that any possible ordering (say, highest to lowest) of any subset of the dice is equally likely to be rolled with no ties possible - no rerolling over and over to determine seating/who goes first, among other applications.
5:04 the d20 shape is called an icosahedron
And just after I finished my own set of D20 cards XD. These look amazing. Wierd dice are just the best
I have a sochihedron , a dice with 100 faces… but this guy have plenty of rare dices too! I like a lot the space dice set, I want one of these sets, also I like the steampunk clock style dice is so kool!
dodecahedron, associated with the ether element and is the presiding obvious shape in Metatron's Cube.
Honestly, that roulette dice from the thumbnail makes me feel like im a Time Lord, but the revolver dice also look cool!
0:13 "Including one I can only ever use one time."
May I direct you to the webcomic Darths & Droids, in which one of the players, Pete, has a die he made that, similarly, can only ever be rolled once, apparently because it explosively self-destructs as part of the rolling process
I love unique dice. I have a few, including the roulette dice from UniqueDice. It looks like your version doesn't have the same issue mine does. The spinner isn't balanced correctly. If it's flat, it will spin fairly, but if I tip it up, it will always land on the same number (18 I think).
I also have dice similar to the cube with the roulette balls. Only they're coins that you flip. Inside is a channel that a little ball will roll in, an it appears in a little window on the side of the coin underneath the number.
And I have a set of dice that are flat disks, with a little bump on the bottom so you can spin it like a top. You either put some kind of marker down, or you stop it spinning with your finger. The number the marker points to, or that your finger is covering, is the number you rolled.
If I am not mistaken, tha shape of a D20 is called Regular Icosahedron, a geometric solid bearing no more and no less than 20 identical faces.
One of my most prized possessions purely for sentimental reasons is an old green D30 my father used as a DM for enemy and loot table rolls.
3:41 "...and keep on hand..."
Yes, that is where most people keep their rings lmao. Intentional or accidental, that was a great pun.
Some very special dice! Thx!
"the CMY cube"
"we have all the primary colours, blue, yellow and red"
it's *literally* called the *C*yan *M*agenta *Y*ellow cube
Finally I found more than one comment pointing this out
A quick Google search reveals that a D20 shape is called an icosahedron.
Edit: I originally posted this: "Thanks to The Big Bang Theory, I know that the D20 shape is a dodecahedron or duodecahedron (do or duo = 2 and deca = 10, so 2 tens = 20)." I was wrong. dodeca is not 2 times 10, it is 2 +10 or 12, so a D12 is dodecahedron.
Back in the day, like the 70s, you couldnt just get DnD dice, so people would buy blank plastic polyhedrons out of math and science school supply magazines and write the numbers on. Those blank dice are a nice nod to that history.
Everything is a die if you're brave enough.
😂 if you know you know
Spoiler: he doesn't actually use the single use die.
5:10 icosohedron. If you’re nerdy enough, you’ll memorize that fact after a few years
Those are some cool dice. I've seen a couple of sets of bullet d6's I would want for Traveller games.
I used to have a pair of really small d6's that came in a little wire frame holder on a key chain. I had them since I was a kid, no idea where they came from, probably from the '60s or '70s. I also had a d6 that was black and numbered 1-3 twice. It was from a military board game I had, and it was rolled to see how many units you could move on your turn. I kept them in my d6 dice bag, which vanished long ago, along with my other dice bag (all the non-d6's), one of those great unsolved mysteries of life.
Darn, if the FoamBrain emergency D20s still got sold, that would be a fantastic gift for Divination Wizards. Just hand them two after finishing a Long Rest.
These dice are great.
The smallest dice actually come from a Pirates of the Caribbean ship game.
Thank you for sharing.
yooo let's go i can get rid of my old playlist of weird dice from you
Half the reason I made this one!
about the 20D prism, were dealiing with light, thus the additive color wheel, with the primary colors red, green and blue. But the dice only colors the light to the secondary colors cyan, magenta and yellow. We see those colors on the facets facing us. We see only the primaries when two facets with different secondary colors overlap. Cyan and yellow gives green for example.
Now I want to make a character that, using the d20 cards, is able to modify their deck. Combining pen and paper RPG with deck building mechanics.
Bro that’s literally the thing doctor strange keeps around his neck. You should prolly give it back.
Honestly, I seriously love the revolver dice. But I have no clue how to use it!
Dice You've Never seen? Man, I own a few of those. The Dice goblin is strong in me
That roulette from the intro reminds me Homura Akemi’s shield from Madoka.
The dice from the curiosity box look so yummy 🤤
ummmm, why was I recommended this video. I mean, it's wild that there is such a fascination with dice....
Thank you for the video!
I was expecting the "die that can only be used once" to be, like, a die that crumbles or shatters if you roll it hard enough.
I've certainly seen smaller dice than those - I have a 5mm D20 and D6 in brass. Some of my other favorite weird dice are my d10s with english one through ten written out, along with my roman numeral, spanish, and japanese variants. I also have a 10cm brass d100 that feels like it's gonna damage the table.
It's a regular icosahedron of course, one of the Platonic solids (the D 20).
The part about the cyan yellow magenta cube being red, yellow, and blue made me make some sort of unwritable pained sound but other than that great video
I don’t play dnd but I just like cool dice
The roulette dice could be really fun for a 1D20 roll and asking the player to bet on blue or red. You can see their pain if they get a bad roll but would've been fine if they bet on the other colour
The shape of the D20 is obviously a gyro-elongated pentagonal bipyramid.
Foam Brain. Lol. They used to be local here, but the owner decided that selling at conventions was more profitable than maintaining a physical storefront.
ah yes, the times we want to pretend that things are "random"
I did not read the comments to see if someone answered, but the answer to the question at 5:10 is an icosahedron
The Ice moulds (Not on the basis of their functionality, I like to get my table drunk since my players get up to silly shenanigans that might turn out epic² when they're intoxicated)
The irony of the D4 missile die!! IYKYK
Well there goes my disposable income for the month.
The D20 is called the icosahedron btw, and the D12 is a dodecahedron. And i'll now crawl back to my basement.
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Cool dice
Mema Anaconstanie, Half-Elf,Fighter/Thief
Don't let this distract you from the fact that d10s aren't even Platonic solids!
big market for dice ideas bet more ideas come out soon do another video this was good ty
A 20 sided dice is an icosahedron. I had to look it up.
4:01 - Curiosity Box Dice from Vsause
I wonder if you have ever seen this crazy dice called the D-everything? I saw a video about it once upon a time and have never seen anything about it again.
If ever you use the emergency d 20 you should scratch it with a d20
4:41 Pov:you are the gunman of the group
You can probably peek inside that Emergency D20 with some amazing light trick? 🤔 dunno.
Where can you find that spinning revolver dice thing? I need that in my life.
i have that omni die but mine is weirdly like statically charged and a lot of the little balls cling to the top of the chamber they are in
Halfling rogue I don't remember the name in DDO way back in the day. After that I went on to forever after and to this day be obsessed with rogue / thief / trap master classes in every ttrp or anything similar. However lately past few years I've been trying out caster and fighter rolls. Recently in love with Eldritch casters because spellsword cool AF and Eldritch / demon pact cool AF
i made a set of dice from that crayola stuff and made all but one side have "1"s on each side and a "3" and other die with a "4" and ofcourse all other sides "1"s representing in a roll that most peaple dont get paradise (pair A dice) since only a "7" gives paradise. but all others give SNAKE EYES.
You actually missed a set of dice called "flipdie" a set of dice that are also coins, id suggest you get a set as they look and feel AMAZING and have the same randomness of real dice
This video isn’t helping my chronic dice addiction.
I dream of a world, where people can actually wear their lapel mic without being judged for it. It is a small dream, but seems impossible none the less, because people be crazy.
you should check out the lord of the dice. think it hasn't made it off kickstarter yet but it is pretty awesome
the name of the shape for a d20 is I believe in english Icosahedron. more specifially a convex regular icosahedron (derived from ancient greek Icosaëder)
similarly the shape for a d12 is dodecahedron (ancient greek dodecaëder)
d8 is a octahedron
d4 is a tetrahedon
I'm sure there are other names as well ( eg if you follow the same logic a d6 would be a hexahedron, but most will call it a cube)
bone dice was just regular dice for most of history