"how many dice do you have?" Topic

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"Thousands …. maybe hundreds"
Groo the Wonderer

Many many hundreds!

Around 400

never counted, "lots"

Let's just leave it at hundreds.

Not yet my bodyweight but sufficient to roll a result…. from disaster to success.

you guys are kidding right?

Low hundreds.

200-300, and no I'm not kidding. But then I've been accumulating them since the 70's. And dice cubes of d6s really add up fast.

After giving a huge canister of dice to my nephews, I'm down to 10-20 million…unless I crack open the games I have in storage.

Easily many hundreds. My collection is in pounds.

Only 5 or 6 pounds.

unexpected data
how so many people could accumulate so many dice!
fascinating!
more data is needed
you know, you really dont need any more than six ten-sider dice to simulate even a one-in-a-million type of event in a wargame
why you need so many more than six is really quite beyond me
kindly explain

Probably about 100.

One reason – I bought 19 copies of issue 1 of the Games Workshop Lord of the Rings part work (Battle games in Middle earth).

It came with a sprue of goblins, a paint brush, some tiny pots of paint and 2 6 siders. There's 38 D6 straight off.

Got to be 150 to 200 easy.

Xin

Too many to find, or count.

Well, over the years I've played games that required every type of dice: d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20's no to mention scatter dice, averaging dice, etc. so I have multiples of all those types accumulated over the years. Then there's dice that just come along free, either included in boxed rulesets, collectible miniatures booster packs, or as giveaways from dealers.
I have also run large 12 player plus convention games so I've needed multiples to cover these occasions. Then there are many rules in the "buckets of d6's" category that require players to roll dozens of d6's at a time to determine combat outcomes.
I've also bought dice to more closely match different terrain settings: black for space, red for Mars, etc.
I'm sure there are other sources, these are just the ones off the top of my head.

I am guessing about 20 pounds.

wow
simply amazing
thanks for that answer chris, and 20thMaine
may I suggest that you simply set all of your excess dice free in your local forests?
let them all roll freely to new destinies of their own!
set them free and maybe give them out at local schools or camps or something

Yup. Way too many to count.

I've got a gallon size ziplock bag filled with dice. Plus all the ones still in the 100+ games from 30+ years of collecting, so hundreds.

Three good ones, and 1432945 treacherous ones.

David F Brown

Well, maybe when I'm done using them! :). But currently I never know what dice I'll need for the next rules I get in the future, and it's not like they take up a lot of room to store. Plus I must say there a certain soul satisfaction to a big box of rattling dice, :) …plus a tactile and visual pleasure anytime I need to go rooting through my dice tin looking for the one particular dice I need.

I guess you could say it's the adult equivalent of collecting marbles. :)

Easily a thousand dice.

Probably more if I start counting the three hundred blanks, the two hundred colour matched rpg polyhedrals,

I have a preponderance of ten sided tens dice ( marked 10,20, 30, …) in red, as local club has a reds is tens rule.

But I try hard to make sure that dice for games are all same coloured per type, but different to other types , so that some idiot (usually me) does not find half way through that I have been rolling d8 instead of d10 !

these are elements of chance we're talking about
they long to lob monster-sized explosive shells at the Bismarck
they seek to correctly steer towards advancing MIG jet fighters
they live to explode under Nansen-class norwegian frigates!
dont keep them in isolation wards in your desk drawers
set your excess cubes of chance free!

Hundreds … as well as the trays of standard sizes, I got several of those hundred bags of small ones. I gave quite a lot of those away otherwise the number would be silly.

All of mine get used regularly.

Phil

175 – but 52 of those were acquired recently to play Force On Force. I wanted a full selection of matching d6, d8, d12 for both sides.

Have to admit, never quite understood this dice fetish that many gamers appear to have.

I'm not even sure why I have so many.

About 150 D6. I don't need that many for any game but I have them.
I have about 40 D20 for TSATF but would be more comfortable with a dozen more.
I have about 10 each of others but never use them.

Aprox 200. This includes smaller 6 siders, larger 6 siders, a box of pink ones just to get the boys in our group going; 8, 10, 12, 20 and percentage dice.

Somewhere between 3 and 4 dozen, half of that is D6

Several starter box sets for AD&D, a couple of stray just-because-they-look-cool polyhedral sets, souvenir pairs of d6s, some cheap packs of d6s to have plenty of identical ones for dice fest games, collectible minis that came with rules and a die …

One large Crown Royal sack full and a standard complement in a little sack.

They just multiply, but probably less than 100, ignoring the miniature d6s that piled up while I collected Pirates of the Spanish Main packs.

You've got to have backup dice when the ones you start with don't give you winning numbers.

A bunch.

Gameboards, I laugh at your puny 15 dice, no true gamer would settle for that few. I detect a serious case of dice envy in your comments.

ah, but there are no less than SEVEN ten-siders and so I cam simulate any possible occurance in any kind of battle

there is just no need for any more than that

are you saying that you actually need more than seven ten-siders

you can simulate a one in ten-million chance with those seven little dice

thats roughly the chances of my scoring on some cute eighteen year old anymore
and thats some pretty long odds

I've got about 125 or 150 board wargames plus bunches of family games so that is easily about 350 dice. As mentioned above in an earlier post, my mix of minis games require various different types of dice. An educated guess would be in the neighborhood of 500.

I have lots of dice in specialty shaker boxes of specific games. So I have D20s for Sides of Steel, D10s for my Vietnam etc.

That said, probably 200 or less….

Hi

Lets see 1,2, Many.

I've got more dice than I can easily count. Yet, for some strange reason, I still can't find any that roll well.
Probably a few hundred dice of various types.

About 1/3 to 1/2 of a cubic foot. A lot of it are from board wargames.

Well, I had several dice sets and then a 1/3 shoebox of mismatched dice. So I sorted all into partial sets by color then started hitting up game stores and players for matching mismatched dice sets. I ended up with oh six D&D sets of 3 polyhedral sets each in their own shaker.

And a 1/4 shoebox of mismatched dice.

Hundreds, but my old GM got wierdly obsessive about them. He had a Honda Accord, and the trunk was literally full of them. Boxes and boxes, to the point where you could not have fit another inside.

5000 years from now, archeologists will find all those dice…

Nowhere near as many as I ought to have.

I probably have 300 or so, maybe more. I've got at least 3 dice cubes, so that's over 100 dice right there. I also like to buy particular dice for my favorite armies. For example, I've got one pair of command roll dice for my Warmaster High Elves, and another, orcy pair for my Orcs.

I honestly don't know and I think I don't care.

I have a lot, definitely more than 200, probably more than 400 and perhaps more.

Most of them are standard D6

Two 12"x12"x12" shipping boxes full (minus the thickness of a few containers), last time I moved (2009).

Starts with 7 cubes of dice and then an uncounted bucket of dice. Strangely… a friend of mine only has 22. That's weird.

Not as many as some, but more than I really need. As well as the "working" dice that I use in games, I'm a casual collector of exotic dice: link

Hugh

Possibly too many, but maybe not enough.