As someone who isn’t much into dnd but loves these shorts anyways, first thing that comes to mind with this is bowser in Mario party 10, where he rolls his own more overpowered dice with spikes on them for intimidation.
@@DrFranklynAnderson you're not wrong, in Mexico we are taught this system in early education and, even though correlation is not necessarily definitive proof, i think it's part of the reason we do so well in math olimpiads at the college level, since the thinking we have becomes mathematically (specially arithmetically) fluid and flexible
@@DanielBotes Where is that? I don't know, I've only been in Obregón Sonora, Mexico and Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico I don't know about somewhere else, I lived here since ever, not knowing other places is a big problem for me, that school might be in E.E.U.U., right? I feel like I wrote something wrong, sorry if I did Also, I have a question, what does "Lmao" mean? I see it in a lot of RUclips videos, and I don't understand By the way, I'm from Mexico, no one taught me English, I never had a teacher who knew how to teach English, I learned it myself, so I'm sorry if I misspelled something
I could imagine using this for bosses to control multiple stats or timers. Like every turn theres a chance x will happen, spin each round and see if it happens. Fun stuff, cool design.
Even if he made it up, it wouldn't be "bogus". It's a legitimate system that works, at least up to a certain point. You would eventually need other symbols to represent numbers like 50 and 100. Even having one for 10 would be handy.
I could definitely see this being incorporated as some mythical wand the pcs get in game. You can do all sorts of stuff here, give all the dice different actions based on what it rolls, you could base this off of wild magic surge, have the die spin at the start of combat and whenever it stops, the wand immediately takes an action. Definitely a lot to be creative with here.
That is so cool, that system of counting was actually created by the Mayans. Entire civilization used that system to track dates, trades, and to calculate celestial phenomena. I don’t even play DND (however want to) and I seriously wanna buy this
Mayan numbers are very interesting it was such a simple yet brilliant system dots are one bars are 5 and seashells are zero it's so easy to learn how to count using mayan numbers
Because of the spin time I was leaning towards using it for cursed items. One campaign I was in my husband was the DM and gave my fighter a cursed talking sword. This would have been perfect for randomizing the shenanigans that sword got us into. 😂
That's nice way of using it, as relic once it activated the player needs to roll the base to roll for whether they got good or bad luck after activating it.
i saw the dots and line and was like “oooh that mayan numerals” only remembered them things because i was in an advanced program during my elementary and we learned these, very fun times
So there’s a thing called dot-bar vigesimal that’s very similar to that number dotting. It’s found in ancient mayan temples. Although in that system 20 is 1.0 and you only stack bars vertically.
I’d use it for boss battles, for when the boss’s hit time is randomized. Or an event, like a natural disaster- you never really know when one is gonna hit, what it is, or how bad it is
Yeah like every time they do a check for something you can say "the mysterious totem begins to spin and abruptly stops" "you suddenly feel less dizzy and more courageous" and then like at the end you find the stand, and once it's placed all the parts start spinning wildly, and the boss appears for the final showdown ❤😂😂😂
Weirdly enough I think this dice would be good for something like a magic tower. The players wake up in some tower, they are told the only way to escape is to reach the end of the tower except the players aren't told whether they are going up or down and the passages between rooms aren't help (They always seem to "change" directions despite ultimately going the same way). Every time the players go to the next room all of the dice are rolled, the first means which floor, the second which room on the floor (Or how many rooms are on the floor), the third could be the difficulty of the floor, and the last could be anything someone could think of. The best part is depending on the roll the players could be getting closer or further to the end. It all falls down to luck. Edit: "the last ones" was what I meant. My mind wasn't sure how many there are.
So cool to see Mayan numbers being used for these nerdy things. As a kid I just learned them as general culture bc I'm Mexican but I've never used them ever since
Use it to give the party time to attack the boss with high hp, but when the dice stops, they are screwed due to the charge up and high damage output for a ultimate attack
definately random enconters! Start turning it once your group starts exploring a dungeon, fighting some goblins or walk through a desert.. whenever and wherever it stops, that willbe an encounter or some backup monsters...
I would use it by buying it, playing around with it for a week or two, setting it on my shelf and forgetting it exists for 5 years, then starting the 2 week enjoying/forgetting cycle again.
I love ideas in which you play with the fourth wall. Maybe you can build a scenario with this one, where In a boss fight everyone suddenly can‘t roll the dice anymore and you just start to spin the thing, tell the players what happened and they need to find out, what‘s going on to foresee the outcomes.
I would write different spells for each number on each dice, that would be the ultimate tool to force your local wizard to get creative with whatever spell they roll. "I rolled a 3 on the first dice, what happens?" "You cast mage hand" "And this is my 'action?' "Yes"
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Nah you use that thing to shank the dm when you get a bad roll
I saw this and i was like: ohhhh... fancy knife! 😅
" i attack the god of creation"
" roll for damage"
use the thing to attack
Said it before I could
Sacrifice the DM's blood for better rolls
Only against the player who flubs a roll to get a tpk.
Fun fact the dots and lines are actualy the mayan numerical system. That's how you would read maya numbers.
Cool
I came here to say this! Finally, obscure knowledge came in handy.
beat me to it
That's cheating
666 like
That is called a Purba, it's a Tibetan ritual tool, This one also functions as dice.
It's a ritual tool with Satan on it, enough said.
Isn't that the brotha from the Lion King?
i was thinking that it looked like one of the artifacts from uncharted 2 i think. where he actually goes to tibet
Looks like the dagger from the film The Shadow
This is the comment i was looking for. It is the dagger from The Shadow. Classic movie bro!!@baguaboy4042
Bro looks like if Asmongold ate fruit and drank water
Well adjusted asmongold😂
😂😂😂😂
He even SOUNDS like him, oh god 😂😂😂
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Everyone gangster till your dm pulls out the tibetan sacrificial dagger for your save rolls
I'm down *accidently summons Orcus*
Its not sacrificial, brow
@oumbronauta it's litteraly described as a "SACRIFICIAL dagger" in jele's comment...
@@jele38 its a phurba.
Mayan*. Those numbers are Mayan glyph.
I love how you incorporated the Mayan number system it’s truly such a beautiful and easy way to count
Dude, that's also a fantastic option for blind players! The markings are heavily indented, meaning once you know the code, you can read them by touch!
Blind people would suck at DND, they can't see the map
@@MrPsyren99 damn blind debuff sounds alot worse then I imagined
Easy fix. Tactile topographic map. Like a diorama. Can easily feel your way through the world.
@@MrPsyren99theater of the mind baby
Also you don’t have to worry about it rolling off the table you just gotta spin it in your hand
This is the dagger from Uncharted 2 Amoung Thieves
Thank you, atleast one noticed
I thought I was going insane for a moment trying to remember where the actual fuck I knew that thing from lol
THANK GOD SOMEBODY SAID IT
both of them are inspired by vajras(dagger version is called phurba) from buddhist and hindu culture so they look simular
I would have thought the one from the Shadow, mid 90’s
As a dm I would fidget with it as a prop, not letting the players know I’m constantly rolling random checks and encounters
My thought exactly.
Thatd go hard af as a dice set for some kind of summoned monster
As someone who isn’t much into dnd but loves these shorts anyways, first thing that comes to mind with this is bowser in Mario party 10, where he rolls his own more overpowered dice with spikes on them for intimidation.
@@halcyon_exb yeessss he just slams it down, can just imagine the dice spinning to the point they spark
@@CBaqua0928 oh that’s an image for sure haha, but yeah, totally cool idea
As an archaeologist who has primarily done maya digs, this is a very cool use of the maya number system.
Not gonna lie, that system would probably speed up my awful mental math skills. 😅
Noicse
@@DrFranklynAnderson It certainly would, there are videos on RUclips on how it is much faster to use the maya's number system for general math
@@DrFranklynAnderson you're not wrong, in Mexico we are taught this system in early education and, even though correlation is not necessarily definitive proof, i think it's part of the reason we do so well in math olimpiads at the college level, since the thinking we have becomes mathematically (specially arithmetically) fluid and flexible
The rest of the D&D crew: “could we just, you know, use normal dice?”
No true nerd would ever say that!
And yes I just committed the No True Nerd Fallacy. 😂
@@IntelligentProbePeople with jobs that don't want to spend 5 days rolling a meme dice would.
Just gonna throw that out there, thats isn't a wand. That's a Tibetan Phurba dagger.
The creators named it wand dice
@@DrBurrito Either they're wrong, or they knew their audience well.
The Shadow nose! Hahahahahaha😂
My wife and I thought the exact same thing!!!
My mind went right to Uncharted 2 😂
Maya numeral system
Original of Mexico
I had to learn it during school
Lmao, same here - Kentish Primary School?
you and me both
Learned it from watching "Voyage of the Mimi II" in fifth grade. Forgot what they used for twenty, though.
@@DanielBotes
Where is that?
I don't know, I've only been in Obregón Sonora, Mexico and Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico
I don't know about somewhere else, I lived here since ever, not knowing other places is a big problem for me, that school might be in E.E.U.U., right?
I feel like I wrote something wrong, sorry if I did
Also, I have a question, what does "Lmao" mean? I see it in a lot of RUclips videos, and I don't understand
By the way, I'm from Mexico, no one taught me English, I never had a teacher who knew how to teach English, I learned it myself, so I'm sorry if I misspelled something
Too much text, I know, I just wrote my thoughts
I could imagine using this for bosses to control multiple stats or timers. Like every turn theres a chance x will happen, spin each round and see if it happens. Fun stuff, cool design.
Bro looks like Asmongold if he cleaned his room and drank from the fountain of vitality
💀
How did you recall my thoughts the first second I scrolled in 😂
Fellow war crafters 🎉🎉
Fuckin nerds.
For anyone wondering, this is the knife from the movie "The Golden Child"
I, I, I, I want the dice..... please
It reminds me of the vial they drank in death becomes her
Or The Shadow (the movie)
Its a phurba. Its from Tibet. 😊
It also looks like the dagger from Uncharted 2 as well.
That looks like something i would find in my grandma's house. Then ask her what it is and she would say some weird cryptic shit lol
Fun fact. The number system used here isnt made up bogus. Its the same number system the Mayans used
I was going to say the same thing. I studied Maya Archaeology in university.
I remember reading about them from an encyclopedia years ago and then all the knowledge suddenly resurfaced
Even if he made it up, it wouldn't be "bogus". It's a legitimate system that works, at least up to a certain point. You would eventually need other symbols to represent numbers like 50 and 100. Even having one for 10 would be handy.
😂 the mayan number system being described as eldritch was probably too funny to me
Which he didn't the do. The wand is eldritch -like style, not the numerical system. Maybe if you had used your eyes and ears...
@@thegr8malachite370🤓🤓🤓
Description is accurate though
Well, they were sacrificing people for the gods...
Blood sacrifice from owns tongue or private parts, or from the heart taken out from the captured enemy or designated citizen of their empire
I could definitely see this being incorporated as some mythical wand the pcs get in game. You can do all sorts of stuff here, give all the dice different actions based on what it rolls, you could base this off of wild magic surge, have the die spin at the start of combat and whenever it stops, the wand immediately takes an action. Definitely a lot to be creative with here.
That is so cool, that system of counting was actually created by the Mayans. Entire civilization used that system to track dates, trades, and to calculate celestial phenomena. I don’t even play DND (however want to) and I seriously wanna buy this
Mayan numbers are very interesting it was such a simple yet brilliant system dots are one bars are 5 and seashells are zero it's so easy to learn how to count using mayan numbers
This is cheap copy of Tibetan ritual knife called "Phurba". What a shame , American still silently stealing Easter art and rebranding them as yours
I love when I need to wait 5 minutes for the dice result 😂😂
"Roll a 3d6!" One hour later: "7!"
Because of the spin time I was leaning towards using it for cursed items. One campaign I was in my husband was the DM and gave my fighter a cursed talking sword. This would have been perfect for randomizing the shenanigans that sword got us into. 😂
Would just stopping it work?
I'm pretty sure spinners are supposed to be stopped with your hands and wherever it lands is what you got.
The craftsmanship is amazing
I would use them to mess with new players. Basically going. "Here you can barrow my set of dice." And them hand them this chaotic mess.
The numbering is like how the Mayans did it back then
That's the number scheme I used to cheat for speed limits in the traffic code test. Didn't need it, but it was still smart
It is called The Dagger Dorje (Phurba). Part of a set used in Tibetan rituals.
"The Shadow knows."
=O I know that reference!
My very first thought lol
Who knows what lurks in the hearts of men?
@@lowryedmonson1638Destruction
I scrolled for a minute but I found what I was looking for
Fun fact! That’s actually how you read Mayan numbers! A dot is one, a line is five.
Reminds me of the key to Shambala dagger in Uncharted 2
It looks like the dagger that was floating around in the 1994 hit film The Shadow staring Alec Baldwin! :D
The Phurba!
This is cheap copy of Tibetan ritual knife called "Phurba". What a shame , American still silently stealing Easter art and rebranding them as yours
My brother plays dnd and it would be interesting to hear the lore and nuances he would come up with for these
You make being a Dice Dragon for rare,unusual, and unique dice epic, but you're gonna bankrupt me 😂😂
"Detective Finley...... you said the murder weapon was a gaming die?"
"That's right, a whole lot of em, straight to the back!" 😅
I can’t explain it but you using the pencil like that scratches an itch in my brain
This reminds me of that knife in "the shadow". I'd be scared of it biting me
Thank you! I forgot about the bitey bit
Thank you for commenting this you saint.
Was thinking the same thing but couldn’t remember the name of the movie.
Yes that’s where I saw it
I was just about to say,alec baldwin is reeling somewhere watching this rn lmao 😂😂
Having just read Hank green’s book, I coincidentally know that those are Mayan numerals!
This is the knife from the movie "The Shadow"
I see alot of comments saying Golden Child etc. however look up the "magical knife in movie The Shadow".
bro looks like hes about to steal the shintamani stone 💀
It's like a phurpa combined with a fidget spinner
It's an fing fidget dagger
😅😅😅😅😅
😂
"You might've noticed that it looks weird, luckily it has a second usage as something weird looking"
That's nice way of using it, as relic once it activated the player needs to roll the base to roll for whether they got good or bad luck after activating it.
I was leaning towards cursed item with random effects based on dice roll (similar to a wildmagic table)
The PiP of the spin was extremely satisfying, thank you and here is your well deserved like.
This is a nice countdown dice. Spin it for a long time and something bad happens when it stops or a strong enemy attack.
A kind of living obelisk monster that spins and depending on what spin you get desides how it attacks kinda aounds like a badass idea for this
That looks straight out of Skyrim looks like a daedric artifact something that would be used to curse a poor NPC
Its based on a real item. it's a ceremonial dagger from Tibet and Nepal called a Phurba
@@LilyStarstrider okay
"GAMBLING WAND"
This one of those "try to fix what is not broken" inventions.
It doesn't try to fix anything, it's just flavor. That's kind of the most important part of d&d, though so maybe it's the best die ever made
The only broken thing here is your brain, and there's no fix for that lmao
Imagine you hide this from the party and then surprise them by handing it to the player that picks up the artifact in game.
Imagine a late 80's parent finding this in their child's D&D club. Lol makes sense why there was a panic.
Asmongold in an alternate universe where he cleaned his room
If people found this in 3000k years, it would be a artifact and they whould be trying to find out what the sighns say 💀
I would spin that thing up full speed and tell the party that when it all stops something will happen based on the roll lol
i saw the dots and line and was like “oooh that mayan numerals” only remembered them things because i was in an advanced program during my elementary and we learned these, very fun times
"They spin for a very long time" 1 hour later and only four moves
Man, the Daedra have an artefact for everything.
Don't compare TES to this trash
"Don't understand why I feel like I would make a chess set"...
looks like some daedric artifact from Skyrim, love it
Ah, this is what Voldemort used when trying to kill Harry. He just rolled a 1.
Yo that’s a Tibetan Phurba made into RPG DICE!!! I’ve never felt such a need before.
Dopest fidget spinner I’ve ever seen. I’d use it on my desk to keep me focused
So there’s a thing called dot-bar vigesimal that’s very similar to that number dotting. It’s found in ancient mayan temples. Although in that system 20 is 1.0 and you only stack bars vertically.
I’d use it for boss battles, for when the boss’s hit time is randomized. Or an event, like a natural disaster- you never really know when one is gonna hit, what it is, or how bad it is
Everything is a butt plug if you are brave enough ... roll for resilience
I think that could be a really cool pen design also.
2000 years later
"a kid acciddentally digged a potential key to a time machine
The artifact being activated idea is super sick
Customs: we do not allow weapons.
Guy: It's dice. For a game.
When you need an instruction manual for your dice, you know its the right one.
Yeah like every time they do a check for something you can say "the mysterious totem begins to spin and abruptly stops" "you suddenly feel less dizzy and more courageous" and then like at the end you find the stand, and once it's placed all the parts start spinning wildly, and the boss appears for the final showdown ❤😂😂😂
Weirdly enough I think this dice would be good for something like a magic tower. The players wake up in some tower, they are told the only way to escape is to reach the end of the tower except the players aren't told whether they are going up or down and the passages between rooms aren't help (They always seem to "change" directions despite ultimately going the same way). Every time the players go to the next room all of the dice are rolled, the first means which floor, the second which room on the floor (Or how many rooms are on the floor), the third could be the difficulty of the floor, and the last could be anything someone could think of. The best part is depending on the roll the players could be getting closer or further to the end. It all falls down to luck.
Edit: "the last ones" was what I meant. My mind wasn't sure how many there are.
When you didn't think you could be a bigger dork u get this
Bro I thought for a second you were Luka Modric 😂
So cool to see Mayan numbers being used for these nerdy things. As a kid I just learned them as general culture bc I'm Mexican but I've never used them ever since
Use it to give the party time to attack the boss with high hp, but when the dice stops, they are screwed due to the charge up and high damage output for a ultimate attack
Lamont Cranston wants his dagger back. lol
If a mimic developer sees this they will be blessed because this literally fits the theme💀💀
Every player ever: I use the wand dice to stab the d.m.
Im not sure with indigenous culture in Mexico but I know one of the writing and counting systems used the bar to signify 5 i love this
"By now you may have noticed something strange." Yeah. You!!!
That's like 90% of the way of being the uncharted dagger
definately random enconters! Start turning it once your group starts exploring a dungeon, fighting some goblins or walk through a desert.. whenever and wherever it stops, that willbe an encounter or some backup monsters...
I'd play five finger fillet during a shopping episode and have to go to the hospital when my wizard is buying paper.
So you used the Mayan numerals 👀👀. Love it!
I would use it by buying it, playing around with it for a week or two, setting it on my shelf and forgetting it exists for 5 years, then starting the 2 week enjoying/forgetting cycle again.
Thought Asmongold caught himseld a d&d product advertisement 😂😂😂😂
that thing looks straight out of dr strange’s sanctum
I'm lowkey using that for monopoly in our next family game night😂😂
THAT'S MAYAN NUMERALS!!! Damn never thought I'd see this in this kind of item and my Mexican nature DEMANDS I have one!
I have to wear dark, flowing yet tattered robes with eldritch armor underneath if I'm gonna use that as the dungeon master.
And he forgot to tell you that when you line the dice up perfectly you summon a demon that curses you with virginity forever...ijs🤷🏾♂️
I'm waiting for them to turn this into a ballpen
it would be cool if you had a screw mechanism going through the center that would spin all the dice at once when spun at the top
This is good one. Very intimidating, and also it gives players a limited amount of time to react before the roll will end. Very good, and fun concept.
boss modifier that changes various aspects of the bosses moves and combos throughout the fight 😂😂😂
and environment.
I don't play a single board game regularly at all, been years, but I full heartedly want this lol
I love ideas in which you play with the fourth wall. Maybe you can build a scenario with this one, where In a boss fight everyone suddenly can‘t roll the dice anymore and you just start to spin the thing, tell the players what happened and they need to find out, what‘s going on to foresee the outcomes.
I would write different spells for each number on each dice, that would be the ultimate tool to force your local wizard to get creative with whatever spell they roll.
"I rolled a 3 on the first dice, what happens?"
"You cast mage hand"
"And this is my 'action?'
"Yes"
That’s the Nahua numerical system if I remember correctly. Dots and lines to be used like an abacus to read.