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Tetsubo

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Weird Die
« on: October 20, 2009, 09:07:42 PM »
I bought a strange D10 last weekend. Each face has the same triangle on it. I show it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs05KLfAoYk

Anyone know what it is?
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Re: Weird Die
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2009, 02:24:44 PM »
Writing in your own numbers? No clue.
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Re: Weird Die
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2009, 02:30:06 PM »
Actually, I can see someone wanting one so that they could at least pretend they were rolling, when instead they knew that the number would be a 16 always anyway. (As a DM.)

Why you wouldn't just use a normal die and lie, I have no idea.
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Re: Weird Die
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2009, 02:31:31 PM »
to confuse the hell out of World of Darkness players?

I think the best explanation i've seen so far was a random direction generation but that doesn't apply in most games i know of. Plus there was no reason for it to be a 10 sided to do that.
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Re: Weird Die
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2009, 03:02:41 PM »
Maybe it's got numbers on it in UV ink.
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Re: Weird Die
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2009, 06:00:35 PM »
Pretty sure it's a scatter die.  Obviously you don't need the little triangles (any D8 or D10 will function just the same) but when rolling scatter on something the direction the triangle is pointing (towards the upwards point on the die) is the direction you've just rolled. 

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Re: Weird Die
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2009, 06:26:20 PM »
Quote from: JaronK on October 23, 2009, 06:00:35 PM
Pretty sure it's a scatter die.  Obviously you don't need the little triangles (any D8 or D10 will function just the same) but when rolling scatter on something the direction the triangle is pointing (towards the upwards point on the die) is the direction you've just rolled. 

JaronK

That makes sense I guess. But it just seems so... elaborate... I'll just add it to my collection. Along with my D100, D30, D24 and all the other oddities. :)
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Re: Weird Die
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2009, 06:28:06 PM »
Quote from: Tetsubo on October 23, 2009, 06:26:20 PM
Quote from: JaronK on October 23, 2009, 06:00:35 PM
Pretty sure it's a scatter die.  Obviously you don't need the little triangles (any D8 or D10 will function just the same) but when rolling scatter on something the direction the triangle is pointing (towards the upwards point on the die) is the direction you've just rolled. 

JaronK

That makes sense I guess. But it just seems so... elaborate... I'll just add it to my collection. Along with my D100, D30, D24 and all the other oddities. :)

Yeah, only scatter die I know is a D6 used for Warhammer (40K)...
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Re: Weird Die
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2009, 12:56:35 AM »
Scatter dice are actually pretty handy in lots of games.  Grenade scatter, dropped object scatter, and so on.  Heck, my Shadowrun team is having to deal with a grenade happy enemy runner right now, and it comes up a lot (Grenade Link + IPE Offensive Grenades in a grenade launcher... you've never seen a shadowrun team looking quite so scared).

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Re: Weird Die
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2009, 01:28:28 AM »
Quote from: JaronK on November 01, 2009, 12:56:35 AM
Scatter dice are actually pretty handy in lots of games.  Grenade scatter, dropped object scatter, and so on.  Heck, my Shadowrun team is having to deal with a grenade happy enemy runner right now, and it comes up a lot (Grenade Link + IPE Offensive Grenades in a grenade launcher... you've never seen a shadowrun team looking quite so scared).

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Lol, sounds like my first Shadowrun character. I had been playing a lot of Splinter Cell when I made him so I wanted him to be a stealth operative. In my first mission I found my position had great cover but that the enemies were in the open and a good distance away so sneaking up wouldn't work.

I just plunked grenades in their from my underbarrel launcher (Ares Alpha) until they were all dead or disabled (Disabled ones ran to cover and got cleaned up by my party IIRC)
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