"squared and rounded dice different???" Topic

I just heard someone say they use squared AND rounded off dice to "make things interesting".
Dont they give the same results? I've never heard of doing this. I know rounded dice roll farther, but what difference does that make?

You need to watch this asap:

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that video is private.

Weird, it's just a link to Board Game Geek.

Try this-

youtu.be/bR2fxoNHIuU

Dice are just as important as the rules, figures and terrain.

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Thanx folks, I knew I could count on TMPers for some info.
I've usually used clear dice as it just seemed to me that mixing swirls and sparkles would cause unbalanced results.
I'll have to question my source about his choice of mixing dice together.

I don't have 20 minutes to watch that. Can someone bottom line it?

I personally have converted over to Gamescience (squared) dice. Not as pretty, but I'm convinced they do give a more balanced, truly random result.

Someone actually did a study of thousands of die rolls, and Gamescience's probability curve was more consistent. Apparently rounded dice are rolled around in tumblers, but some corners are 'tumbled' more than others.

Small rounded dice may be pretty, but they can't fight well. Can have up to 30% chance of rolling 1s!

Big square Yahtzee dice are your next best friends to balanced Backgammon or Casino dice:
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buy lots of dice .. roll them and segregate them by roll.. reroll and segregate each sub pot, any dice that rolls 4 consecutive ones.. give to your opponent as a Christmas present.. – keep the ones that rolled 4 consecutive 6s..

(really need to do it thousands of times .. but I normally only do it to twenty levels and put the dice in the lower quartile in my opponents jar..)

Lou Zocchi, I hardly recognize ye. Nineteen minutes to expound on lopsided dice?…

Unless a die is so horribly misshapen as to be visible the difference in actual usage would be negligible at best.

You'd be surprised, Dynaman. Some good videos of people floating their dice and giving them a spin, and even when "even" to the naked eye, they give skewed results.

It would take a LOT of rolls, hundreds, before I would believe it. The differentiation caused by throwing them negates almost any other variable – once again unless they are really out of whack (and I've seen some like that)

I don't believe. I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid either.

Does it really matter all that much?
I don't roll my D20s in a glass of oil and let come to a natural rest. I throw them on a hard or cloth surface. And they bang into things.
The same with my Buckets O'D6.
I find all this searching for imaginary edges or subtle flaws laughable.

I have some little wooden D6s. Of course they are not precise. You can't see it but there is no way that they are "even". I was rolling one of them this evening, and it rolled a "3" no less than five times in a row. Of course I blamed the die. But then I simply changed the way I was rolling it and got the whole random range of numbers. Sometimes conditions mess with you. That doesn't mean that a given die is "prone" to roll one number more than another….

"I find all this searching for imaginary edges or subtle flaws laughable."

The expression "too much spare time" springs to mind.

I should have put "I agree, " at the beginning of my comment.

Left it too late to edit.