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.

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