"Dice etiquette" Topic

Argued with my youngest (13) last night when he was palying the other one at BP. When rolling 2d6 he rolled one, looked at the result, then rolled another. I feel it is good manners to roll all dice together as far as possible.

Thoughts.

Why is either way good or bad manners? Doesn't change the result. Don't quite see where manners come into it.

I feel it is good manners to roll all dice together as far as possible.

Of course it is, life is too short to roll them one at a time!

Get him into a bucket of dice game. He'll probably figure out soon enough on his own that rolling one at a time just bogs the action done.

I am sure I was much more worried about teaching my now adult sons the etiquette of rolling dice away from any troops, not violently, or to use a dice box on a crowded table top. They have seen me admonish adults who should know better to roll that way.

Rick

Why is either way good or bad manners?

Because it slows the game down enormously if there are a lot of die rolls in any given turn, and that's rude to the other player(s). Games like Battletech or Star Fleet Battles can produce huge numbers of 2d6 rolls, and the one-then-another technique described would have most people screaming with frustration in short order. Many SFB players use any dice rolling tricks they can specifically to speed things up – rolling a dozen or more pairs of uniquely-colored dice at once, for ex.

Yes, always found it's just best to roll the two together. Stopping to look at the first one isn't going to change the outcome of the second, unless it's a situation where no matter what you get on the second die, it won't be enough based on the roll of the first die. Still…

The second die roll can change the first if you bang the second die into the first one hard enough.

It's cheating, but I've seen people do it.

I used to do that when I was his age. He will grow out of it. And I don't think that his intentions are to cheat at all, it adds suspense (in his mind) to the game.

I just found it really annoying

then you should be glad you don't have my daughters. They were very annoying at that age. I would have probably tolerated the dice rolling compared to some of the things they did.

The second die roll can change the first if you bang the second die into the first one hard enough.

It's cheating, but I've seen people do it.

Wow. How horribly lame. You would think they would realize that it is just a game.

I have no problem either way. If rolling singly, I would make the stipulation that if the first die gets hit by the second die in the process, you still count what was rolled originally.

Kids like to roll dice and they seem to like to do it one at a time. They will grow out of it, they sometimes aren't getting much else out of the game and that is one fun thing. I don't bug them much about it typically even when I've seen them doing it with 10 or 20 dice.

The second die roll can change the first if you bang the second die into the first one hard enough.

It called side game. XD

Stopping to look at the first one isn't going to change the outcome of the second

How do we know this? Maybe the act of observing one die has cosmological effects at the sub-quantum level that alters the vibrations of the cosmic strings that determine the pattern of the Universe, thereby altering what result appears on subsequent "random" events. Perhaps that second die, as yet unrolled, exists in a state of quantum uncertainty, a future in flux, where altering but a single strand could undo the whole. Maybe even the choice as to whether to roll one die or two, or the white die over the red die, or the high-quality über-expensive precision-machined die balanced by techniques unknown to ordinary mortals might—

"OH SHUT UP AND ROLL!"

Last Friday I stopped by a church jumble sale, the little olf ladies sold me five little bags each with four or five dice and some other boardgame tokens, total cost $4. USD

Now some of these dice are wooden, unusual sizes, well-used and ancient looking.

Clearly the local exorcist has seized these from gypsies, necromancers and the devil-possessed.

I fully expect them to dice my next enemy to death with their residual uncanny power.

Should I use them or not?

Yes, but throw them one at a time.

The dice etiquette thing which annoys me is people who spend ages trying to compute what number they want. Presumably so they can wish really hard for it.

Roll the dice FIRST. If it's really low or really high you don't need to do the sums exactly and you save all that time.

Not bad etiquette just extremely annoying and time-consuming.

"I just found it really annoying"

So would I.

My two daughters have never done it, even if they have done a few other rather annoying things:)

I quite agree on critical dice throws, if you don't know what number to aim for, how can you ensure you miss it by 1 pip? Anything but a one…

Doesn't bother me. Never has.

Dice ettiquette…

Dice to be rolled placed in a cup and rolled out onto the table or an area set aside for them.

I still roll 1d100 like that, when rolling against some target number. 90 % of the time only the first die is needed anyway to know the outcome. Never heard anyone complain. I wouldn't do it in any other cases though, like when knowing that both digits of the d100 will actually be used, or rolling 2d6.

A concrete wall should be provided to allow those with anger management issues to hurl their dice against….

(I can't believe that "dice" have their own board….)

Yes, sadly we have many incidences of 'creative' die rolling by younger members of the club who ask outright what number they need to get first…(if I'm running the game I don't tell 'em). The annoying thing is they are usually with their fathers who don't feel the need to teach their kids that cheating is wrong.