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[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh god, that's horrible!

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Please NSFW or spoiler.. that's gnarly.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ah, sorry. Is there coding to mark comments as NSFW, or do you mean applying the Spoiler coding to comments?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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that's how you do spoilers. looks like:

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Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3...Much appreciated, I'll keep it in mind.

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Just a way to prevent auto loading the image.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately we're still stuck with caltrops as the standard d4 shape when so many better options exist

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are not too many choices if you are a fan of platonic solids

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Platonic solids exclude the Rhombic Dodecahedron, so who needs them?

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

better options exist

Standardising on D6 only?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

One fun fact about dice is you can have any higher faced die substitute for a lower faced one by rerolling any number not on the lower die.

This is why I only carry a d100

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How would this work?

I mean you could use a d8 with duplicate 1-4 numbers.

[–] coalie@piefed.zip 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The original d20s doubled as d10s. They came uninked and you were instructed to use two different colored markers to mark one set of 1-0 one color and then second set a different color.

https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2025/02/holmes-d-dice-replica-review.html?m=1

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Or a d12 with 1-4 three times, which is what I use for my d4s

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rejig everything so it's so multiples of 6.

Warhammer moved from D3, D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 and D20 to just D6 (and D3 from D6) You need a lot of D6, but they're ubiquitous.

[–] Yosmonkol@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Wouldn't that change the probabilty curve? I guess it could be nice if you wanted to limit critical success and failure but it might reduce the sense of randomness.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's actually a tough choice, I like having a variety of shapes for my click clacks but I despise the caltrop d4

Edit: I've thought about it, and if I had to choose between a "standard" dice set with tetrahedron d4, or only a pool of d6s, I would choose the dice set and try to avoid ever using a d4.

[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I like that story, Looks like as fake as the story of the internet troll being a lazy GM throwing a troll at every stupid question from their player, but that's cool

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

It's not "fake" so much as it is an obvious joke.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait, you don't mean to tell me this is a fabrication, do you?

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 9 points 3 days ago

There is zero chance that someone would just go on the internet and lie.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So is there a war between the number on top and the number on bottom d4?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Picture I made for this thread a few months ago:

[–] BRicker@fosstodon.org 1 points 2 days ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago

I actually have a bag of metal D4s specifically becsuse then they can be used as caltrops or those things Betty wore to give him super strength in Kung Pow.