"Anyone used a D-Total?" Topic

Just thought I'd ask if anyone's come across this thing before:

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I'm not even sure it's still available (however, it does say 'in stock') but I liked the idea of secret furtive die-rolls by the Umpire that the players will never figure out!

First time to see this. As a dice addict I am interested but how does it keep the results distribution the same as the dice it is being used instead of?

Wow! You mean it only costs $26 USD to replace my $5 USD set of polyhedral dice? And it's harder to read? And the distributions are not quite the same? And if I play any of the more popular games that require rolling more than one it'll take forever to roll them all and record them and keep track? Sign me up!

Sounds like a solution in search of a problem to me….

It seems to be a D24, which is fine.

From the Zocchi website, here's how to use it for a D10:

"D10 – - In the middle of the face there is a number (1-24). Roll until it lands on 1-20, and use the final digit for the d10 result. (A roll of 5 or 15 is considered a 5; a roll of 10 or 20 is considered a 10)"

Color me unimpressed.

"Color me unimpressed."

Ditto. Price is crazzy, functionality is poor (hard to read and rerolling is only good when you're short a die), quality is poor ($26 hollow die). Hopefully they didn't invest too much into this Edsel.

Looks like something for people that still have eye sight. Don't bring it to one of my games.

mjc

26$ for one die. Seriously? Nifty idea, but as Scale Creep said, the distributions can't be right.And who doesn't like throwing thirty d6 at once? The terror on your opponents' face is priceless.

I saw that when it first came out, and concluded that I did not want one. Not even a little. And I really love weird dice.

I have collected a lot of dice over the years, but the price on this one is a tad steep! So not surprisingly, no one here so far has actually used it – which is actually my main interest, as some above have pointed out, it doesn't look too practical.

Farrow studios – loved the terror comment :o)

I thought it was a cool idea until I found out that some distributions require a re-roll. For example, to simulate a d20, just re-roll if you get a 21-24. If you're going to do that, you might as well sell a d100 as something that simulates 100 different dice.

We, gentlemen, are not the target market for this item, which Lou assures me is selling briskly. Evidently there are a significant number of RPG players that simply "must have" any new shape, color, or conformation of die. I mean, who else is buying those transparent, hollow d20's with the D6 inside? Certainly not the miniatures gamers.

Must be the P. T. Barnum effect.

"Opaque means it can't be seen through"

By Grabthar's Hammer, what a feature!
I don't get the point of this thing either.