"The best dice are..." Topic

Red, with white numbers.

Numbers? I'm sure you mean pips, sir!

My opponent's.

…usually being rolled by someone else.

Whatever the 12 year old kid at the table is rolling. They are freaking unbeatable!

Properly weighted to roll what I need!

+1 for all of the above responses.

For me, the contrast between the die color and the pip/dot color needs to be one dark and the other light. Otherwise these old eyes have trouble!

Jim

Pips on a d20…?

Could be any. You must treat the chance cubes with respect and maintain a positive attitude. YMMV.

16mm (if they're D6's) plainly colored with a strong contrast between dice color and pip/number color. D6's are allowed a symbol associated with their army in lieu of 6 pips.

(On a D6, I insist on pips so they won't be confused with my DAV's.)

The first duty of dice is to be clearly visible and unambiguous.

I like numbers on them. Color depends army I am running.

@mildbill: You can buy those in Las Vegas, I hear. You can also get your thumbs broken if you try using them at the craps table (or gaming with the people I know)!

I prefer pips on 6-sided dice, but simple Arabic numerals for all other types.

I don't like transparent dice at all. I just can't read them.

No surprise then that I prefer pips/numbers to be of a color that contrasts strongly and clearly with the color of the body of the die.

As I get older, I find that I like bigger dice too, if not necessarily casino-sized yet (although I do appreciate them when I'm using them at a craps table!).

I keep some 1" dice next to some 54mm castings, just in case, but I don't actually know of a wargamer who couldn't get by on 28/30mm castings and 16mm dice.

Firelock's dice are gorgeous, but altogether too busy to be readily usable. I got some nice dice from Poland to sub in.

"The best dice are…"

…not Las Vegas casino dice, because they have sharp corners, and are extremely flammable.

Zephyr1, I would dearly love to know what games you play with your dice.

I like the Tenzi dice. Good contrast between pips and die color.

D6 with contrasting pips. I generally prefer white dice. I blame Avalon Hill and SPI.

…served cold.

Like the revenge I pretend I am serving my opponent…

Mwahahahaha.

Eric

This sounds like a pre-poll discussion!

Nothing with multi colored spots. I usually have to pick them up and let someone else tell me what they are. Or else they think I might be cheating, LOL!

No doubt it will be done, DeRuyter. But it won't we well done. You basically need a poll in three dimensions, if you will--size of dice, coloring of dice (translucent? multicolored? Opaque?) and numbers vs pips or symbols. Instead, we'll get all these "funny" comments, mixed with possibly four descriptions of actual dice.

… winning dice !

Interestingly my 'Virtual D6' worked well in our Conan game, and seemed to be faster than throwing dice!

Rolling dice are my baine but i still don't like card-driven games.