"Would you provide your dices to your opponent..." Topic

… in a wargame?

I had seen that many people had "special" or "powerfull" dices which they only used in wargames when they are in a broken situation at the table.

They are really common dices, but the ownes really feel that they are "special" and would save their little soldiers or similar at the game.

Time ago I saw in a wargame a guy who had not enought dices and ask some from his opponent.

He agree, but never his "special" ones.

The guy protest because a providing is a providing and a dice is as any other dice.

Few support the guy (his friends) but majority were at the side to the owner of the "special" dices.

At the end another wargamer bring his dices to the annoying guy without enought dices.

In your case, do you provide your dices in a wargame to your opponent if they ask?
And if you had "special" dices what do you do?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Amicalement
Armand

Dice are dice. They are just random munber generators. There is nothing "special" about any dice – unless it has been rigged of course. I'd happily lend my dice to other players, indeed have done so on numerous occasions.

Just as a point of order the plural form is "dice" not "dices" and the singular form is "die", although that seems to falling out of usage a bit but is still technically correct.

Yes. In fact, in competitions it is quite common.

Cheers,
JohnG

I have plenty of dice I can and do share.

However, I do keep these for just myself:

purrdy.

I'll share my dice. But only the ones I'm not useing at the moment. Or in the current game. That'd mess with my mojo, don't ya know?
'Course now, sometimes my mojo could use some messin' up.;)

As bad as mine roll? You're welcome to them.

Anyone at he table is welcome to roll any of my dice. At least as long as I am not using them at he same moment.

I play a lot of games using a range of dice – d4; d6; d8; d10; d12; d20. I have the dice in seven coloured sets. When playing at my house I always allow opponents to choose the colour they want to play with and I choose from what is left. Manners, don't you know, maketh man.

Nobody wants to use the dice I have used. I am notorious for rolling bad.

I would never think not to let my opponent use them.

I supply all the dice in a game I run and they are all casino quality so roll equally for everyone.

Makes for more exciting games as most of the cheap dice are biased and that ruins the fun.

Why spend a fortune on quality figures and spend hours painting them for the fun to be ruined by cheap dice???

Loads of places, here are some:

link

Try searching for cancelled casino dice if you want used ones.

Yup.
I just make sure i get them back.
Dwarven Metal dice aren't cheap ….

I figure they'll suck just as much for them as they do for me, so why not?

Other players are welcome to share my dice as long as I get them back.

Quite a few games that use the handful of dice approach in fact intend for the players to trade dice back and forth: roll to hit, then pluck out successes and hand to opponent to roll to save.

Admittedly when I play those games I most frequently find players prefering to use their own dice, and I follow suit.

For our D&D group I have become "the dice guy". I use ViewTainers as dice cups with caps ( viewtainer.com ) for sets of dice (usually 2 sets of one color, one of another) and loan them out to players that don't bring their own.

I'd share. Unless the dice were expensive, if an opponent refused to share then my immediate suspicion would be that they were rigged

My dice, your dice, makes no difference to me. I am generally suspiciuos of folks that do care, though.

Rob

I have some dice that except in special circumstances no one uses. Heavily and obviously biased.

Other than those I will lend out my dice happily, in fact at he home I play I usually have to supply them as no one else seams to.

x42

I share my dice but they always seem to roll better for other people than for me, it can be quite depressing.

Robert

If you don't use someone else's dice what can you blame youe run of bad luck on? :-)

I insist that my players use my Gamescience precision dice.

I will generally hand out the uglier ones to other people and keep the pretty ones to myself.

I would let them borrow them but they would run away screaming. Because my dice rolling is legendary on the terrible side they would not want to touch them at all.

I'd have to open a new box of dice in front of them and let them touch the dice first.

I have seen a number of competitions where the organisers provide all the dice, and often the dice cups/shakers. No problems then with people having specially 'lucky' dice, and if you both use the same set, and throw from some sort of cup, then no odd gyrations or peculiar throwing techniques {which often get the dice flying across the room ;-)}

Loads of places, here are some:

Wow – those are expensive. I can do them for £2.50 GBP each.

Doug

I am not possessive of dice, even those I like better than others.

Many thanks for your commments guys!.
Very interesting how you consider your dices (special or not).

Amicalement
Armand

In a game of Pirates of the Spanish Main, one of my opponents got suspicious of all the 5's and 6'es I was rolling with my "special" black dice. (Nothing special about them, but my propaganda was effective that day.) So I let him use my "special" die the next time he had to make a roll. Sure enough, it came up a 6. But he used it for a ramming situation where rolling low is good, and a 6 was the last thing he wanted. This caused much hilarity.

Sure. If they are dumb enough to trust the treasonous, backstabbing cubes o'evil who are usually shafting me, God Bless them and good luck.

My dice are special and are the same set I purchased when I began wargaming 1985.

A little irrational superstition is fun, but when it comes down to "No! You can't use my specials, they are my own, My Precioussss…" something is wrong….

Besides, the whole 'rigged dice' thing is then an issue.

I would not play with either type of person (the ones who refuse to part with their dice because they are rigged, or the ones who refuse to part with their dice because they are magical.)

As an aside, those casino dice should only be rolled off-table… unless you fancy smashing your miniatures into bits…

Tim, I buy mine from eBay.

Also good to use for people with vision problems. We roll on the table and no issues with damaging figures.