Comments on: Chatty's Questions: What's your Dice Fetish?

By: A likely link spammer

A likely link spammer — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:53:35 +0000

I tend to switch dice if I am rolling badly with them. A friend of mine claims that washing your dice makes a difference as the oils from you fingers can cause issues with your dice.

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:38:55 +0000

Yup, we sure could use more Smiting Angels around our table!

Good one Cat!

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:36:26 +0000

I also perform the common ritual of aligning all of my dice in a neat pattern with the highest number on top during a game, but with an added twist: I do it on top of a small laminated prayer card depicting St. Michael the Archangel slaying a demon. “Mike” lives in the dice bag between games, where he can help train the dice to perform well in the noble cause of killing bad guys. Occasionally, he gets passed around the table so that other players who have been getting a series of bad rolls can roll their dice on top of the card and pick up some of Mike’s evil-smiting mojo.

By: Roleplaying, DMs and Blogs - The League of Magnificent Scoundrels

Roleplaying, DMs and Blogs - The League of Magnificent Scoundrels — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:10:59 +0000

[...] ideas that I want to play around with. You know things are interesting when a random post about dice fetishes comes up. Reading through the comments, I never thought there were so many rituals attached to [...]

By: Recent URLs tagged D20 - Urlrecorder

Recent URLs tagged D20 - Urlrecorder — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:30:43 +0000

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By: e’s Interviews: Phil of Musings of the Chatty DM

e’s Interviews: Phil of Musings of the Chatty DM — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:02:34 +0000

[...] Dice – share or don’t share? Share… I have so many as I buy a new set whenever I start a new [...]

By: Geek's Dream Girl

Geek's Dream Girl — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:14:15 +0000

At my last game, I discovered I roll better when I roll at the minis (preferably knocking into them).

Geek’s Dream Girls last blog post..Are your Instant Messaging Buddies in the Monster Manual?

By: Ktherose

Ktherose — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:05:17 +0000

I don’t really have a dice fetish, but I do have a ritual that started when I started DMing.

I don’t roll dice without a roll of masking tape. I set the roll of masking tape in front of me and line up one of each of my dice around the edge. I always place them highest side up, and I always place my d20 closest to me. Then, when I need to roll a die, I just knock it into the hole in the middle. That way, it never bounces off the table, never bounces into a crack or rolls where I don’t want it to. I’ll pull the die back up and set it on the edge with whatever I rolled last in case I need to repeat something to a player. My players have actually asked for their own rolls of masking tape now.

By: Things you ought to know about your Dungeon Master - Dungeon Mastering - Dungeons and Dragons blog - DM tips, D&D books, RPG fun

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:06:37 +0000

[...] Don’t touch the dice! Never touch the dice! [...]

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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:19:02 +0000

[...] when the topic of dice come up, I have a different outlook on it. I see it all the time. Players have their dice [...]

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:13:25 +0000

and women to reward ‘good’ dice with a visit to an occupied bra

That has got to be the weirdest thing I read all day! Are we now assuming that dice are male (or lesbians?)

No wonder chattydm.net ranks #1 for Dice Fetish on Google…

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:09:23 +0000

I’ve not got a dice fetish, well, maybe a mild one. In one campaign, I play a druid with an animal companion and a cohort, so I have to bring 3 sets with me, color-coded for each character. I also have a convention set (all bigger than 1″, so I will have to work at losing them), a traveling set, and a DM set (all the loose ones I’ve collected). I also keep a mug full of only d6, for my board-wargaming.
I’ve known people to punish ‘bad’ dice by putting them in the freezer, and women to reward ‘good’ dice with a visit to an occupied bra.

By: Gnomalicious Gname Mastering Gnoodlings - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog

Gnomalicious Gname Mastering Gnoodlings - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:19:56 +0000

[...] Musings of the Chatty DM: Chatty opens the floodgates by asking gamers to tell him about their dice fetishes. Man, we’re a weird bunch — and I love that about us. He also hit a vein with his take [...]

By: Kaeltik

Kaeltik — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:45:28 +0000

mmmmm… bacon. Does anyone have bacon colored dice? I could see that.

By: Giggles

Giggles — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:11:54 +0000

I think my best dice story is that my old roommate and I taught our cat how to roll dice. My first campaign that I DMed we all let the cat roll the dice for us. It’s a little weird to look back and realize that the fate of all the PCs and NPCs rested solely on a little gray fuzzball of a kitten. lol

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:44:50 +0000

His dice fetish? Chewing on them.

Your son wins the Super Secret Bacon prize!

Not many win it. It’s Chatty’s secret order of Super Minions… Shhh.

By: Kaeltik

Kaeltik — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:27:15 +0000

My mom just started a small business: handmade cloth toys for infants. She made my 3 month-old son a set of soft building blocks. She has no higher education to speak of, but on a whim she wondered if it was possible to make a “block” with pentagonal sides. She played with the idea for a couple of days and generated a perfect little dodecahedron. When she presented it to my son, I got to tell her that she’d reinvented a basic Platonic solid and busted out my old dice to illustrate. She was so tickled (who wouldn’t be to find out they’re basically a closet geometric genius ) that she now makes all five solids, with little numbers on them if requested. From now on, I can say my son got his first dice set at three months old.

His dice fetish? Chewing on them.

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:11:45 +0000

First, a warm and hearty welcome to all newcomers that stopped and commented here. I had no idea I’d get so many cool responses on such a post… (Thanks for keeping things entertaining while I’m doing other stuff… I’ll be back soon!)

What do you do with your old dice if you replace them yearly at a convention, or at the start of a new campaign? If I did that’ I would have 30+ sets! Might I suggest giving them to newbies that don’t own dice yet, either in a gaming group, convention, or hobby store? It could perk their interest, adding another gamer to the world from the generosity they received from one.

I accumulate older dice sets in a large clear plastic box and I dip in them whenever I need to roll multiple dice. Your suggestion is definitively a good one and I would consider doing it in the next Montreal Con I attend.

By: SeiferTim

SeiferTim — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:07:30 +0000

Well, when I first started playing D&D, I didn’t have my own dice, so I used some of the DM’s ‘house dice’ – he had his own that he didn’t let anyone touch, and everyone else sort of had the same concept – you don’t touch someone else’s dice. Years later, when I started running a campaign for my fiancé and a couple of friends, there was only one other person besides me that had any dice at all – and he is vehemently opposed to anyone touching any of his dice, even to move them out of the way, or use them as ‘counters’, so I had to get over that taboo real quick so that people could roll. Now that everyone has their own dice, it no longer really matters to me, but I’ve had the same dice for years now, and don’t throw away, or destroy any that ‘fail to perform’. That seems like a big waste of money to me.

By: Zorn

Zorn — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:57:45 +0000

I use a different d20 for each character that matches their personality.

After my turn, I will reroll each die until I get a 1 and then leave it face up. My theory is that I’ll roll 1s less in game since my last roll (out of game) is always a one.