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29 Jul 2024 16:28:57 EDT (-0400)
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From: Alain
Date: 6 Jul 2011 12:19:56
Message: <4e148b2c@news.povray.org>

> clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
>> Am 06.07.2011 10:19, schrieb Invisible:
>>> Random fact of the day: According to Wiktionary, "dice" is supposedly
>>> the plural of "die".
>>>
>>> Let me tell you, I have been alive for over 3 decades, and I have
>>> *never* heard anybody call it that.
>>
>> As far as I've seen, in the world of roleplay gaming "die" is the common
>> singular of the manual integer random number generator (be it a cuboid
>> or otherwise)
>
> True enough.  Personally, I favor banning ten and thirty sided dice as they
> spoil the aesthetics of what is otherwise an elegant collection of Platonic
> solids ;-)
>
> (Actually when I GM, I hardly ever use anything accept an ordered set of three
> twenty sided dice, the values of which I read against a graph that applies the

> my way of trying to get them to focus on what the character is doing and

>
> Best Regards from a fellow RPGer,
> Mike C.
>
>
>

Have you tryed the Amber game? It's dieless...


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