"How Do You Like Your D6s?" Topic

It makes no difference to me, the dice gods hate me no matter what the dice look like.

16mm without the pips please

Pips!

but now it's exclusively numbered dice.

Every department store I enter has dice with pips????
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Tim

Hmm, must be a local thing where Broadsword lives-- I haven't ever seen anybody using numbered D6s either here in NC or at any of the HMGS cons I go to. It's pipiquitous round here!

Numbers are a desperate attempt to appease those unable to count.

I buy my D6 at Dollar Tree. 6 differently colored dice for a buck. Pippers, every one of them.

Numbers?
We don't want no stiiiiiiinking numbers.

Numbers on a D6? Do you know who likes written numbers on their D6? Hitler?! Yeah, so sure you may hate pips but you are a fascist if you do.

But then again I was quoting Wikipedia so it may or may not be entirely accurate.

Smeagol loves the numbers but Gollum hates them, they are a Bagginses plot!

It's the colours that can matter.
If I'm playing ACW, I use blue and grey dice
If it's WOTR then Red and White, FPW blue and black
7YW then it's red British, black Prussian, white French/austrian, green russian.

You get the idea.

It doesn't matter to me either way as long as it is consistent. I can't roll numbered dice and pipped dice together in the same roll.

NobleHero makes a good point. Can you get a D10 or D12 with pips? No? I rest my case.

What, no Roman numerals option?

I have those dVIs!

Sure whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it's with a set of RPG dice, then I prefer Arabic numerals, for consistency, but for a handful of d6s for wargaming I prefer pips and in the 12mm size, not 16mm.. 16mm are too big.

Pips, but that's because our game uses pips as an integral part of the mechanic.

Pips. It all about the pattern recognition for a fast read of the die facets.

Rick

So I'm the only one who goes for appropriate colours?

It's not the dice, it's what you roll.

Pips for me

Saying that though I have not seen an average dice with pips – is this a new niche market I should exploit?

(No I have not looked for these at dice shops on the net)

So I'm the only one who goes for appropriate colours?

Well, again, as an artifact of the game we play the most, yes. Having theme colors for the dice makes it very easy to know which ones go with which figures.

Beyond that, yes, I think it helps evoke the mindset (and makes it more fun) to use, say, green dice when playing the Incredible Hulk, and a nice set of WWII Q-Workshop dice when playing a Von Ryan's Express game. I also have a few sets of very stylized Iron Dice (triangular pips!) simply because they are cool. These concerns compete with finite finances.

I prefer my D6s with a shield upgrade and with the D6D drone rack modifications.Sorry the StarFleet Battles moment seized me.

So I'm the only one who goes for appropriate colours?

Well I make visiting players roll white dice. As the home team I roll red.

Everybody uses the same dice,small tub of them courtesy of the dollar store and 90 plus Avalon Hill/GDW/SPI wargames in the closet.

Must have misunderstood the original post. I've got nothing against my D6's. I like all my D6's equally, they're all just fine.

Eric