"You might have a dice fetish if you…" Topic

You might have a dice fetish if you…

Only want to roll your dice.
Don't want anyone else to touch your dice.
Carry your own dice in a bag.
Carry a variety of dice with you so you are always prepared.
Hold your dice and roll them a certain way to get better results.
Test your dice to see which die rolls better.
Constantly rolling your dice even when it's not your turn.
Will turn the place upside down to find one die.
Have a different dice for each set of rules you play.
Use dice that have the same color as your figure's uniforms.
Talk to your dice, even when you're not in a game.
Sleep with your dice under your pillow.
Keep the plastic case the dice came with to store them in.
Take a hammer to your dice when you roll poorly during an entire game.
You give your dice a name.

After reading this twice and ticking off the ones that apply, I've come to a realization.
I HAVE A DICE FETISH!

10 applies but not the rest

Great post.
Good fun.

A recent change for many gamers is that there will be reluctance to share dice when there are various transmissible diseases about.

I would not like to play a game wherein the dice were in a bag and various folk swilled them about and grabbed one.

Seeing how gamers like to blow on, rub and otherwise intimate their dice stops me from sharing.

I do take care to provide my own dice (plus pen, paper etc) for any game I attend. It shows that I am involved and not just a dipper.

martin

you left out:
executing bad rolling dice in the microwave while forcing the rest to watch…

I have trouble with the "different dice for each set of rules" and "different dice to match the color of army uniforms." Works for horse & musket, of course, but surely in moderns, fantasy and SF you need different dice--with appropriate symbols--for each nation, race or alignment?

(One of this year's projects is dice with the Vichy French "Frankish Axe" for my WWII games. Then it's on to the Dwarves.)

Or…

Ended up in the emergency room needing them surgically removed.

I do prefer to think of it as an obsession or addiction rather than a fetish, though. Nothing to do with sex or religion.

At least not MY sex life or MY religion. OC, if you really have a dice fetish, please don't tell us about it.

Word of advice, if any of the above apply, stay away from the Craps Table, or large men in Tuxedos will indicate their disapproval!

Of these, I have multiple dice bags (I have a lot of dice), and keep Chessex dice sets in the plastic case they came in. I also have an acrylic cube that formerly held candy which now houses several sets of "Official" D&D dice (which I got because they were on sale, not because they were "official").
Alas, I just got two more of these sets, and there's no more room in the cube… whatever am I gonna do?

But I have never, ever, gotten out my dice, rolled them around in my hands and murmured "My precious…" over and over.
At least, not when anyone could see or hear me.

My dice to have national colors, no other country can use them and count. Has to be yours or no dice

"Take a hammer to your dice when you roll poorly during an entire game"

The hammer only comes down on every 10th die – as an example to the others.

There was a youtube animated series that covered a guy's rpg experiences and the term I'm stealing, and my daughter assigned me, is a "Dice Dragon". It's my horde and I will protect my piles.

I admit, I am guilty of a couple of these. But I can give it up any time I want. I just choose not to give it up…

I fantasize about having a pair of dice that have "6" on each side, for my use only.

Wolfhag

If you take the hammer to every tenth die, is that "dice-imation?"

"…post questions about Dice Fetishes."

(Or post responses)😇

I once set fire to a pair of old dice from Las Vegas (their luck had run out, Ha!) I was surprised at how flammable they were… :-o

The things I have named my dice, at times, are unprintable in genteel company :0

I only checked off 7. And of course every army has to have their own dice; how else would they ever win?

Joe

I checked off 6. It would have been 8 once.

Adding…
Have a custom dice tower, die rolling tray, or storage container made for your dice.
Have multiple of the above dice accessories.
Having designed your own dice accessories.
Created one or more drop tables for your dice.

I occasionally match dice to uniform, but only if available immediately.

The rest isn't me.

"Hold your dice and roll them a certain way to get better results."

Get caught doing this in a craps game and expect broken fingers or worse. Stacking dice and rolling will affect probability of rolling a 7 due to the way 6-sided dice are made.

I won't say it is a great difference but measurable.

I keep my dice in a thirty year old salt water taffy box.