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This is a joke right?
« on: June 20, 2010, 02:21:31 PM »
http://www.rpgshop.com/d-and-d-dice-and-bags/cheat-dice/

Cheating dice? You've got to be kidding me, check your player's dice now folks, can't trust anyone. I'm in pure disbelief at this.
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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2010, 02:49:23 PM »
It's not that hard to use a little sleight of hand to muck with a dice you're familiar with anyway, but theres really no respect left for anyone who buys one.
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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2010, 05:40:24 PM »
It's not that hard to use a little sleight of hand to muck with a dice you're familiar with anyway, but theres really no respect left for anyone who buys one.
I have a set of those purple ones. Got it as a joke set one time. They stay in their case carefully separated from the rest of my dice so no one grabs them by accident and ends up never rolling 20's or 6's. A lot of people in my neck of the woods have them as joke gifts.
[Spoiler]
A gygaxian dungeon is like the world's most messed up game show.

Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH!
Behind door number 2: A magic crown!
Behind door number 3: 4d6 giant bees, and THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF HONEY!
They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2010, 06:09:58 PM »
It's not that hard to use a little sleight of hand to muck with a dice you're familiar with anyway, but theres really no respect left for anyone who buys one.
I have a set of those purple ones. Got it as a joke set one time. They stay in their case carefully separated from the rest of my dice so no one grabs them by accident and ends up never rolling 20's or 6's. A lot of people in my neck of the woods have them as joke gifts.
I just have some of those d6s numbered from 1-3 twice.  Great for watching people try to roll characters.
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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2010, 06:12:04 PM »
It's not that hard to use a little sleight of hand to muck with a dice you're familiar with anyway, but theres really no respect left for anyone who buys one.
I have a set of those purple ones. Got it as a joke set one time. They stay in their case carefully separated from the rest of my dice so no one grabs them by accident and ends up never rolling 20's or 6's. A lot of people in my neck of the woods have them as joke gifts.
I just have some of those d6s numbered from 1-3 twice.  Great for watching people try to roll characters.
That's why I make sure those are marked really well, now. Had a player roll up stats using the 1,1,2,3,4,5 die, and then use the has-another-1-instead-of-a-20 d20 to roll her attack rolls, because I wasn't watching which container she selected when she borrowed dice.
[Spoiler]
A gygaxian dungeon is like the world's most messed up game show.

Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH!
Behind door number 2: A magic crown!
Behind door number 3: 4d6 giant bees, and THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF HONEY!
They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
Best metaphor I have seen in a long time.  I give you much fu.
Three Errata for the Mage-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Barbarian-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Monks doomed to die,
One for the Wizard on his dark throne
In the Land of Charop where the Shadows lie.
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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2010, 12:32:39 AM »
I know that it's somewhat difficult to detect weighted cheat dice, but I'd think that such low-level cheating as having the numbers on the sides of the dice altered would be readily apparent with little more than a single roll.

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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2010, 08:44:41 AM »
Or a single look.
The easier way to cheat is to get oversized dice and then work on your wrist technique.
The mind transcends the body.
It's also a little cold because of that.
Please get it a blanket.

I wish I could read your mind,
I can barely read mine.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

[spoiler]
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill

To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2010, 11:49:57 AM »
Or a single look.
The easier way to cheat is to get oversized dice and then work on your wrist technique.
That's what she said.
[Spoiler]
A gygaxian dungeon is like the world's most messed up game show.

Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH!
Behind door number 2: A magic crown!
Behind door number 3: 4d6 giant bees, and THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF HONEY!
They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
Best metaphor I have seen in a long time.  I give you much fu.
Three Errata for the Mage-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Barbarian-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Monks doomed to die,
One for the Wizard on his dark throne
In the Land of Charop where the Shadows lie.
[/spoiler]

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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2010, 12:29:17 PM »
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I know that it's somewhat difficult to detect weighted cheat dice, but I'd think that such low-level cheating as having the numbers on the sides of the dice altered would be readily apparent with little more than a single roll.

*Points out* Not if everyone is stoned and drunk.

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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2010, 06:27:10 PM »
If that's the case then nobody cares, anyway. =P

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Re: This is a joke right?
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2010, 04:13:53 AM »
lol good point
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