Doesn't hurt as bad as a d4
Doesn't hurt as bad as a d4
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I need to get one of these sometime
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a two sided die is called a coin
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Yup, my "d2" in my dice bag is a silver half dollar. Still call it my d2 though.
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Came here to say this
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in my day...
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Looks 4-sided to me
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Agreed, but also weird as aren't d4 made from 4 triangles?
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Usually, yes. This one is effectively a d6 (a cube), but two of the flat faces have been replaced by curves that connect opposite flat faces. As such you've got four flat faces that the die can actually stop on. If you ignore the curved parts but consider all of the flats to be separate faces, it's a d4. If you consider two flats connected by a curve to be a single face altogether, it's a d2.
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Fuck caltrop d4s, all my homies hate caltrop d4s (it's me, I'm all the homies)
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This gave me an idea for a gimmick die. Transparent die filled with dark liquid. The exterior of the die has the usual numbers in white lettering. Inside the die, there is a smaller cork die that rises like a magic 8ball. It’s 2d(x) in 1. Interesting for tension building, if nothing else.
Edit: looked it up and I’m not original, and they’re largely as bad as I thought they’d be
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I'm really surprised that this does not seem to be an existing thing for d10s specifically. I can find nested d10s and there are heaps of liquid core dice, but apparently none that combine those two ideas
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Magic N ball
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One of my overdue projects is to disassemble a magic 8 ball, remove the dice from it and make a digital magic 8 ball. I plan to bequeath the removed “dice” to a DM I know.
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I'm a bit disappointed that many of these n-sided dice are not isohedral, despite isohedral polyhedra existing for many of these values of n.
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That's a weird looking coin
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I've seen this shape uses as a D4. Nothing cursed about it. About as threatening to me as a Labrador puppy.
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this is four sides??
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At first glance I thought this was an AI generated picture of a roll of toilet paper..
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It's four-sided, not two-sided. If that one counts, you can also just use a regular six-sided one and just put three 'ones' and three 'twos' on it.
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It has two sides. They're curved, and it doesn't stay on the curve part, so you can effectively use it as a d4, but it's still only two-sided.
Sort of like how you can flip a Mobius strip like a coin and it will land one of two ways, but it still only has one side.
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define 'side'.
How many sides on a ball?
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Inside, outside, and, depending on the ball, offsides.
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Fair point. A ball has either one or infinite sides from my perspective.
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The picture is of a d4. Dice are measured counting the flats (and therefore possible number of different results) not mathematically defined "sides".
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Or you know, a coin.
Coins are just really unbalanced three-sided dice.
The odds of a US nickel landing on its edge is about 1 in 6000. If there are any other country's coins thicker the odds would probably get better.
That extremely rare, almost-never chance of landing on the edge is exactly what I would program into a game if I made one, instead of exactly 50% odds.
aka really short cylinders
Don't be ridiculous, obviously you roll a d20, subtract one, and then count how many digits the result has
Roll a d100, if it is odd 1, 2 if even
Too expensive.
This was my thought.
Mfers be out here debating whether the thing depicted is actually a "two sided" dice, meanwhile coins just be chillin over there getting ignored.
Y'all be trippin.