I collect dice. No really. I mean I collect pound a dice on Ebay sort through and resell most but keep a lot. I do that every few months. I give em away free at conventions, I give em out at Demos. Dice go through my hands like cash went through the hands of Milburn Drysdale on Beverly Hillbillies. So I collect weird dice. I have dice from Poland with little radiation symbols on them for post-apocalyptic games. I have 6 matched sets of funky dice for one ring because it's not the same playing one ring rpg if you don't have the Gandalf rune or the Sauron runes. and it blows the mojo if not EVERYONE has Gandalf as a 12. Because you want to hear 6, 8, 7, GANDALF! CLAP CLAP WOO... Not, 6, 8 7, 11!! uh. 11 hell what was that a sauron or gandalf?!?! DO NOT GO THERE BUY GANDALF! EACH PLAYER GETS A SET. So, I collect dice. Players are superstitious. They don't typically cheat, but they believe the amount or spin of rolling Affects when and how they save or get a crit. Many players are maddening in the rolling and rolling in the palm, waighting for the RIGHT SECOND to toss that puppy like they are in the POCONO FUNNY CAR RACES Waiting on the GREEN STARTER TREE. DM (Usually me) JUST ROLL The Thing, man, we need to press on, Yo! So Back in the Days of Yore, (yeah I spelled it right, you just didn't study middle english) meaning before most reading this were born, I'm talking before the 80s. Yeah, I'm that old, so old gaming with me is creepy, cause I met Gygax (one day you'll figure out who he was and people will lie about him and say he was a bastard DM but well it's sort of true but sort of not.. anyway..) ...I see in DRAGON (That was a magazine that died before you gamed) had these funky 30 sided dice, and 100 sided DICE!! 30 sider is a curiosity, so curious they had charts just for it, period. Nobody used it for anything else. nobody jumped on the d30 trend. 100 sider was to avoid the RAMPANT cheating of dudes that like to cover all bets, toss the dice one at a time, if the first one is lower it's the tens dice, if the second one is, it is the tens dice. Then GLARE at ALL, and DARE Them to say you cheated. Cheating is a whole other thread I won't get to tonight. Probably Not. No I got work to do for Fridays 2e game so not. Back to thread... So I went out and bought me a d100 first goofball gamer with a golfball roller on my block to have one. Only one to have one that I've ever seen EV-AR. The stupid thing about the d100 is: It's nearly round. It's almost as big as your hand. It's light, like a sort of Christmas Ornament, only it has this weird sloshy beady noise because it rolls so much it has beads inside that act like interior brakes. for real a Dice with BRAKES built in! Engineering Genius!! TOTALLY USELESS!! It's is
totally useless, because it never stops rolling unless you use a shoebox
for it. Even with the interior high tech braking via beads system. Don't put this on your car, people. So with this dice, then that's the only dice you roll in a shoebox, to stop it from rolling. so
then people wanted a cool dice tower, No no! Shoebox is not good enough!! We are Pro Gamers here. We Win tournaments at game cons as a group. We even have a name. The Adventuring Guild of Pittsburgh. OOH we are so famous, we'd like to give autographs, but well, we are too cool for that. Like Schwarzennegar. People ask him, Can I have your Autograph, he says "YES!" And keeps on walking. Ha, love that guy. he's Conan. Back to thread... So this pro guild all cool super group of " I got a half pixie dragon paladin-ling half demigod character" players... (yeah and i rolled it that way when you weren't looking GM) These people whine and get their tower. So we use that, and it becomes known as THE TOWER of POWER. The power to kill PCs, the power to blow Saves. The Power to kill off the the PLayer MOJO / Whammy... some people rolling the dice actually yell, NO WHAMMIES NO WHAMMIES! So right, back to the tale...then you got a dice tower then
people feel like oh hell it blows my mojo. Some use the tower, some do not. The GM rules, I shelled out 30 bucks, we ARE USING THE TOWER. Here comes the big day... the DRAGON FIGHT. Dragons got Magic resistance. Roll for the Dragon to save vs the Magic User's Attackl! HERE WE GO. The GM breaks out the super spiffy golf ball dice d100. Big Cerwemony. GM strains his voice, he has not drank enough water. he gows low register on the voice octave..."WHO DARES DEESTURB MY LAYYYERRR??!!" GM: The Dragon saves, here we go! Pick up d100! PFFT! THE DAMN D100 DOES NOT FIT IN THE TOWER. Everyone is stunned. A pin drops. The thief made his percent Hear Noise from PAGE 28, 1e (that's a game system most of you never saw) on normal dice in the tower, and Heard it. WHAT WILL THE GYGAXIAN DM DO??! He must BREAK HIS OWN RULE!! Yet He cannot! A QUANDARY! The DM sits. The game is stalled. The players sit, looking at each other. The party leader (A former Marine, nobody is an Ex-Marine, just ask one and you'll discover this) This Texan Marine risks the wrath of the CHIP EATING MOUNTAIN DEW GUZZLING GODS, by asking, in his best Texas Accent (almost all these guys are from Texas): "Well, pard, does it save or not?!? I aim to cook me up a dragon steak! har har!" The players laugh. The know in game and in real life this guy is 12 flavors of dangerous. Only Moses can Petition the Lord and not end up a puff of Smoke. GM: "I'm thinking!...OKAY!" Then the DM takes the
hundred sider and goes to the Vice, puts in a block as a lower stop, and cranks that thing down until it cracks, breaks and all the little ball bearing deals come out. GM (yeah, me): "The Dragons save fails! I issue another decree! No more 100 siders! NO MORE DICE TOWER. YOU ALL GET YOUR MOJO BACK! GAME ON!" That Dragon did not have a chance after that. The end.
