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Real Dice and Roll20

Am i the only one who PREFERS to roll Real dice over using the Roll20 dice roller. I find it clunky, and a RPG just doesnt feel right if im not rolling my own dice. Anyone else feel this way.?
Only one of my players uses the dice roller.  Everyone else prefers their real dice. :)
A lot of gamers are superstitious about their dice. "Did you just lick my D20?" I prefer the feel of actual dice, but have no issues with using the virtual ones. Can't build macros with the real dice. There is something about rolling physical dice though, when you're going up against the NPC you -know- can kick your @$$, the anticipation as you roll your attack and it stops on the 20 ... all the other players watching and waiting for you to roll again to see if the crit confirms ... another 20. The excited curses of Holy $h!7 and whatnots. You, biding your time, nervous, anxious, knowing that all you have to do is roll one more crit, 20 or not, and the NPC is instantly dead. And you roll ... Yeah, virtual dice aren't quite the same. ;)
Phaite gets it..
Superstitious indeed. None of my players ever want to use my dice. They've been nicknamed "dice of doom" because, so far, every time you try to do something very important it will fail miserably. Repeatedly, if possible. And yes, real dice are nicer, but I don't mind virtual dice.
I don't mind them and being able to use them in macros is nice; something not possible with physical dice. However, I'd like them better if they could be skinned to mimic the dice I've had for years and years. Low priority feature since it's only cosmetic and adds no feature value.
They are on my computer screen, not in my hand, thats why i prefer real dice, its my hand that makes that roll not a computer program..
And i must say i do have some favorite dice i like to use when gaming
We use the dice roller and macros to save time, and the sound of dice from waking our wives in the next room... but I know a player so unlucky, he dipped his dice in holy water at a famous church in NYC.
I prefer real dice but don't mind the virtual dice. I wish the 3-D dice roller was more stable, because I do prefer it over the chat window roller. And yes, the ability to customize the appearance of your set of 3-D dice would be great.
<a href="http://dicepl.us/" rel="nofollow">http://dicepl.us/</a> Here ya go... hopefully they will do all the polyhedrons.
That's really cool.