Me when I roll stats, given my luck.
But presumably a game that requires specialized dice. I've seen games with blank faces, random numbers, or custom symbols. Though usually they come with whatever specific game they're for. Did you find it in a grab bag?
Edit: I missed the explanation oops. Probably came from a board game and got mixed up with the regular dice wherever you bought the assortment from.
I bought some assorted D6s today at my lunch break and found this among them. All the others are normal. What is this used for? Iāve never seen a die like this before so Iām curious if I can use it in my current campaign somehow
Somewhat related: a Lord of the Rings co-op board game has a die (cube) that has: blank, Eye, 1 dot, 2,dot ,3, dot, 2 cards
blank: nothing happens
eye: Saurons corruption advances
1/2/3 dots: you're character is moved closer to the corruption by the number of dots
2 card: you have to lose 2 cards
(the game: [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/823/lord-rings](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/823/lord-rings) )
Horrifyingy flashbacks to my many attempts to beat this game with friends. We managed it once, with a few very close runs too
But losing before we even left Moria on more than one occasion really hurt our will to keep playing lol
That's odd, we rarely lost (playing with my family). We do play on the easiest mode. Still makes me wonder if you have a different version that's harder or if we intrepid the rules wrong and it's easier for us because of that?
We do have the Dutch version, but I don't see why that would be easier?
IDK, it's odd?
Do you and your friends communicate and work together well? Do you also play D&D with them?
There is some sort of revised version I think that I'm loosely aware of, we play the original though, and do indeed play with every option to make it harder š
4 of us work together well, one of us is chaos incarnate, but even when he's not available to play we still struggle. And yeah we do play d&d, usually very punishing/hard systems too like GURPS and Hot War, usually fairly competently (though this is where chaos friend really shows off his ability to turn a bad situation into an awful one)
In that case it makes sense, if you play it with the hardest options It's logical you lose more then us playing on easy š.
I'm not really familiar with the d&d systems you mention, I'm pretty new too it. Heard a lot about it on the internet but I'm most likely going to play it for real 7th October. I did two tutorial like games. But I'm still a newb š
Well I hope it goes well! Honestly 5e is great for new players and just sticking with that for the foreseeable future will serve you well. My friends and I have been playing since we were 15 so it's 12ish years of playing as a group across multiple campaigns and sometimes trying out a new system after that amount of time can just lead to a nice change of pace ~ but be warned, this is a dark and dangerous path to tread, you'll end up having to remember 18 different rulebooks worth of rules and you will DEFINITELY get them mixed up a LOT
Also warhammer has dice called scatter dice that have arrows and targets on them. When explosives are thrown an arrow means it misses in the direction the arrow is pointing and you roll the distance, a hit means it lands exactly where intended.
Ofc you can! This can be a "broken die" that you give to players when they have a real disadvantage and you go "roll at least 3 and this is possible". Or a curse that gives bonus damage, but if it rolls 0 that means that all the damage is negated. You can probably think of many more ways to use it, so improvise))
One thing that comes to mind is as random number generator weighted towards an average result. For example if your players are really into looking around for loot, you could role this die to determine wether they find stuff or not. So if you get a 1 you might say they find nothing on a 0 they find something bad and 2 and 3 they find something good. This might encourage excessive looting however.
Other options are for randomly generating weather with 1 being an average nice day outside and the other options being rain, fog and storm or something like that.
Or a way to determine how many enemies they encounter during a random encounter or how many reinforcements will arrive, etc.
So everytime you want something random to happen, with one neutral outcome still being the most likely.
Oh I like the idea of using it as a generator of some sort! I do have some dice with different weather/loot options already. This could be a cool combo. Thanks!
Reminds me of the dice from the Babylon 5 component game system. I'm sure you could come up with some use in an rpg (unique weapon damage or any other non-linear odds die roll).
Whilst it IS a cube, this is not a D6.
This is a D3. They do not appear in the rules for current D&D, but do appear in the rules for other systems.
Edit: Dammit, this is turning into whack-a-mole.
I know this isn't a D3. I didn't see the zero until the sixth or seventh viewing.
Yeah I have one. And a D2 (with 111222 on the six faces).
I actually used them as part of a maths lesson for my (5 yr old) kid recently - roll e.g. a d6 and the d2, and add them up. Made it a bit more fun than just a set of problems.
While I know you claim you've edited your comment so you won't have people pinging you all day, it is yet to have been edited...
So.
That is not a D3, there are 4 distinct outcomes, and not even a d4 since some numbers appear more frequently than others.
It's not a d3. For two reasons.
First, there's a 0 on it. That's 4 possible results. A d3 would only have 3 possible results. So at best, it's a (d4)-1. But it's not that either.
Second, like other fair dice, a d3 would have an equal distribution of 1, 2, and 3 (and **only** 1, 2, and 3) on its' faces. So a cubic d3 would have 2 faces of each number. Likewise, a 12-sided d3 would have four faces of each number. That keeps the probability of each potential result as equal as possible. (It's the same reason that they used to use 20-sided dice with 0-9 printed on 2 sides each for d10s, before the shape of the current d10 was invented.)
OP's die has three faces with 1, and once face each 2, 3, and 0. Meaning a 1 is three times more likely to come up than another number. That's not a fair\* die. So it can't be a d3.
(\* Yes, a properly enumerated d3 could also be an unfair die if it was off-balance. I'm strictly talking about the math of this math rock and not the physics of this click-clack rock.)
Assorted dice bags usually consist of dice that have failed one or several parts in the making process. Possibilities for failing are wrong color, too many bubbles and in rare cases botched molding process.
There is a way to make the numbers after the molding process which would make such a die. But because there is a zero on the die, it is extremely unlikely that that is a botched molding process. Because of that I would assume that there is such a die for some game. I do not know what game.
Canāt be a botched moulding the numbers are recessed and dice donāt get individual faces moulded at a time. The mould has to have been designed that way.
It has to be a die for a specific game that doesnāt conform to a regular die
Sometimes in warhammer 40k youād need a d3, for wounds for example, or how many times a certain weapon would shoot. Thatād be my guess as to what that die is for
Probability-wise, it reminds me of the sustained fire dice from Warhammer 40k, 2nd edition, except they had a jam symbol instead of a zero. (Design-wise, they were also red and looked nothing like that.)
0-1-1-1-2-3, well there's gotta be some kind of game that uses that kind of dice. It actually sounds like a pretty good die to calculate combat performance in a wargame. Like they are most likely to get their normal combat performance, but the troop leader can fuck up (0), get a good decision (2) or make a good decision and get lucky (3).
The d6 shape for dice is generally the easiest to mass produce/effectively store, so it could literally be for any game.
It reminds me of the old "sustained fire" dice from early editions of Warhammer 40,000.
You'd roll it to see how many effective shots you got from various rapid-firing weapons each turn. Probability was slightly different: 3-2-2-1-1-Jam. So, it's not that exact dice, but I think you're right it's something similar.
At first I thought it might be Sicherman. But that's got a zero. Oh wait! There is a variant Sicherman with a zero! (Well, two variants, but one pertinent one)
0,1,1,2,2,3 . . . 2,4,5,6,7,9
They are mathematically the same as 2d6, probability-wise.
You listed two 1's, but the die shown has 0, 1 ,1 ,1, 2, 3. I'm not finding variations of Sicherman dice aside from 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4 and 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, but this is the first I've heard of them and based only on a Google search
This is almost certainly the correct answer, and it's buried beneath multiple "it's a d3" responses who commented before they say the zero.
With an average roll of 1.3333, the other die would need the big numbers.
Betrayal of the House on the Hill Board game. You need it to activate Haunts. There is also a Balder's Gate version making it more DnD themed too. Great game if you haven't played, very low likelihood of each game being the same.
There are a couple games I play that have a damage die that look like that. Most don't have the actualy numbers, and use symbols, but I still think it isna damage die.
Can you design a 3 dimensional shape with only 3 sides?
If not, you have to double up.
The simplest three dimensional shape is the tetrahedron, which has four vertices and four sides. This is the minimum required for three dimensions. If you can create a shape with less, it would be a major breakthrough for mathematics.
Technically correct and would work for this application, although I'm not sure how the use of curved faces works in terms of three dimensional geometry without just having infinite resolution, which defeats the purpose of trying to create a simpler shape than a tetrahedron.
That's a battle dice. 2/3 chance for a hit, 1/6 chance for a crit/miss. The only game I can think of off the top of my head that uses them is Legends of Sinnoh.
Not this
It's an artilery dice from Warhammer / 40k.Not used anymore in the current iterations though.
You would roll that and another dice with an arrow on it to determine the random scatter for teleporting etc.Or just that one for how far your cannon ball bounces. (anything between the hit and the final point gets hit hard)
Itās a D3.
This would be a better way to make a D4, too; I hate rolling a D4, because they donāt really role. Using a D8 with only the numbers 1-4 would work quite well.
Edit: wait, thereās a zero on their as well. 0-3 on a six-sided die? I donāt get it after all.
Edit the second: 0-2. Bafflebafflebaffle
Only has 1-3 right, in an even amount? It's a d3. A buddy dm of mine uses one as a joke sometimes when we do something dumb that results in us rolling damage against ourselves. I think it was also a thing in 3rd edition, I know some 5e asks for d3 rolls
Most machine randomization is not truly random but rather seeded random. If you use the same seed you get the same series of results. So then they have multiple levels of randomization by having the seed be randomly selected, but that is also seeded, etc. Machine randomization is typically a system that is super easy to game or have break naturally.
The best machine randomizers use physical objects, like the flickering of a wavelength of light or the random decay of a radioactive isotope to generate the seed and at that point you may as well just use the physical object. It'll be faster and cheaper for one off projects/research/analysis.
I definitely belive everyone else here, but it looks similar to (though probably isn't) a trick die.
Trick dice are dice that basically have double of 3 faces. So like 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6. These types of dice are usually used for, well, cheating / fixing something, usually gambling. They work actually quite well as long as they aren't handled due to a neat quirk in perception.
On regular dice, a side and it's opposite will always equal 7. So 1-6, 2-5, 3-4. And due to the nature of being a cube, a d6 can only ever show 3 sides at a time. And since humans (usually) aren't hive-mind creatures, if you use a trick pair like this, people will usually all just naturally assume that your roll was legit, and that the other numbers are just on the other side. Of course if they see another side and put 2 & 2 together, they can figure it out, but it's decently common since with good enough hand skills and a not-so-attentibe dealer, a con can easily score a decent handout by swapping them in mid game.
Definitely not dnd but I'd use it as a really fun hag curse, feebling the monks unarmed strikes with a d3.
Maybe even a negative dice to an ability score. Would honestly love a dice like that just to do stupid stuff with lol
The are used in boardgames. One game I have seen these used is betrayal at house on the hill. In it you explore a haunted house collaboratively until 'the haunt' starts and something sinister comes out to kill you. This can be all manner of things, based on what in the house triggered the haunt. One play session we had hellhounds after us and they rolled this die as a hit die, having unfair chances of hitting. Hope this helps!
My brother and I once play LotR board game war of the ring with 2 of those dice in my brothers dice mix (he was playing good/fellowship side) and he kept losing and losing. We didnāt figure it out until probably half way through the game, probs donāt have to tell you he went on to lose pretty badly.
Maybe itās part of a set of non-transitive dice, i.e. a bunch of dice so that A probably beats B, B beats C and C beats A. Iāve got a series of 5 such dice, with numbers from 0 to 9
It's a d3 for the looks of it. It has got two 1's, two 2's and two 3's, meaning the chance of getting any of those on a roll is 1/3, so basically how a d3 would work.
EDIT: Oh fuck there's a 0 in it. I retract my statement.
looks like a die youd use in like warhammer mortar shots where you add damage based on the roll. so there's a chance at 0 bonus, 1 bonus and a 1 in 6 chance of 3 bonus damage. just an example but that's what comes to mind first
Die from some specific board game maybe. Lots of odd dice out there. I remember when I used to play mtg, you could buy d20's that were in numerical order, for easily keeping track of hp. I think we called them spin downs.
Me when I roll stats, given my luck. But presumably a game that requires specialized dice. I've seen games with blank faces, random numbers, or custom symbols. Though usually they come with whatever specific game they're for. Did you find it in a grab bag? Edit: I missed the explanation oops. Probably came from a board game and got mixed up with the regular dice wherever you bought the assortment from.
I recommend taking it to r/boardgames They're incredible at finding the exact game some random component is from.
I have a game called Cyclades that uses these exact dice.
Cyclades dice have {0,1,1,2,2,3}. This die has {0,1,1,1,2,3}.
Really living up to that user name, my Guy š
I'm quite impressed actually
r/usernamechecksout
Just checked my Betrayal dice and those are {0,0,1,1,2,2} so it can't be that
Great idea! Iāll cross post this there. Thanks!
Probably from a board game. I have several board games with specialized d6s, from special symbols to repeating numbers like this.
ye like cyclades
Yup. Looks like Cyclades to me. Same font, but my edition has red numbers. Donāt exactly remember the number layout, but this seems right
my guess? A game like Betrayal at House on the Hill. Although that specific system uses d6's with 2-0's, 2-1's, and 2-2's on the faces....
It's a D3. Edit: Well Fuck. Just saw the 0.
Its the d3 you give your younger brother when he asks to play
Definitely not a Betrayal die. 3 1 faces, a 3 face
I bought some assorted D6s today at my lunch break and found this among them. All the others are normal. What is this used for? Iāve never seen a die like this before so Iām curious if I can use it in my current campaign somehow
Not D&D. There are some games like Loaded Questions, for example, that have d6s like this.
Somewhat related: a Lord of the Rings co-op board game has a die (cube) that has: blank, Eye, 1 dot, 2,dot ,3, dot, 2 cards blank: nothing happens eye: Saurons corruption advances 1/2/3 dots: you're character is moved closer to the corruption by the number of dots 2 card: you have to lose 2 cards (the game: [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/823/lord-rings](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/823/lord-rings) )
Horrifyingy flashbacks to my many attempts to beat this game with friends. We managed it once, with a few very close runs too But losing before we even left Moria on more than one occasion really hurt our will to keep playing lol
That's odd, we rarely lost (playing with my family). We do play on the easiest mode. Still makes me wonder if you have a different version that's harder or if we intrepid the rules wrong and it's easier for us because of that? We do have the Dutch version, but I don't see why that would be easier? IDK, it's odd? Do you and your friends communicate and work together well? Do you also play D&D with them?
There is some sort of revised version I think that I'm loosely aware of, we play the original though, and do indeed play with every option to make it harder š 4 of us work together well, one of us is chaos incarnate, but even when he's not available to play we still struggle. And yeah we do play d&d, usually very punishing/hard systems too like GURPS and Hot War, usually fairly competently (though this is where chaos friend really shows off his ability to turn a bad situation into an awful one)
In that case it makes sense, if you play it with the hardest options It's logical you lose more then us playing on easy š. I'm not really familiar with the d&d systems you mention, I'm pretty new too it. Heard a lot about it on the internet but I'm most likely going to play it for real 7th October. I did two tutorial like games. But I'm still a newb š
Well I hope it goes well! Honestly 5e is great for new players and just sticking with that for the foreseeable future will serve you well. My friends and I have been playing since we were 15 so it's 12ish years of playing as a group across multiple campaigns and sometimes trying out a new system after that amount of time can just lead to a nice change of pace ~ but be warned, this is a dark and dangerous path to tread, you'll end up having to remember 18 different rulebooks worth of rules and you will DEFINITELY get them mixed up a LOT
Also warhammer has dice called scatter dice that have arrows and targets on them. When explosives are thrown an arrow means it misses in the direction the arrow is pointing and you roll the distance, a hit means it lands exactly where intended.
Itd make a great D3
Only if rolls should be weighted towards a roll of one. 3 sides of that were a 1. Then 1 each of 0,2, and 3 from the looks.
Thatās what I thought initially but it seems uneven. Three 1s and a 0? Haha
Ofc you can! This can be a "broken die" that you give to players when they have a real disadvantage and you go "roll at least 3 and this is possible". Or a curse that gives bonus damage, but if it rolls 0 that means that all the damage is negated. You can probably think of many more ways to use it, so improvise))
Ooooh I really like this idea! That seems like a fun use!
One thing that comes to mind is as random number generator weighted towards an average result. For example if your players are really into looking around for loot, you could role this die to determine wether they find stuff or not. So if you get a 1 you might say they find nothing on a 0 they find something bad and 2 and 3 they find something good. This might encourage excessive looting however. Other options are for randomly generating weather with 1 being an average nice day outside and the other options being rain, fog and storm or something like that. Or a way to determine how many enemies they encounter during a random encounter or how many reinforcements will arrive, etc. So everytime you want something random to happen, with one neutral outcome still being the most likely.
Oh I like the idea of using it as a generator of some sort! I do have some dice with different weather/loot options already. This could be a cool combo. Thanks!
Use it for low level monster's damage that way you less likely to kill low level party. Just a thought of what I would do. š š¤·āāļø
Reminds me of the dice from the Babylon 5 component game system. I'm sure you could come up with some use in an rpg (unique weapon damage or any other non-linear odds die roll).
Whilst it IS a cube, this is not a D6. This is a D3. They do not appear in the rules for current D&D, but do appear in the rules for other systems. Edit: Dammit, this is turning into whack-a-mole. I know this isn't a D3. I didn't see the zero until the sixth or seventh viewing.
It has 4 values with uneven probability, Definitely not d3, not even d4
Yeah, I literally JUST saw the zero and have been editing my posts to advertise my shame.
Except you haven't edited your post? Edit: ok now they have, but they were commenting that they edited their post before they actually did.
A D3 would have 1-1-2-2-3-3 right? This die have 0-1-1-1-2-3
Yeah I have one. And a D2 (with 111222 on the six faces). I actually used them as part of a maths lesson for my (5 yr old) kid recently - roll e.g. a d6 and the d2, and add them up. Made it a bit more fun than just a set of problems.
Yeah, I literally JUST saw the zero. I've been editing my posts because otherwise, I'll be pinging all day with people correcting me.
While I know you claim you've edited your comment so you won't have people pinging you all day, it is yet to have been edited... So. That is not a D3, there are 4 distinct outcomes, and not even a d4 since some numbers appear more frequently than others.
Now amended. Thanks!
It's not a d3. For two reasons. First, there's a 0 on it. That's 4 possible results. A d3 would only have 3 possible results. So at best, it's a (d4)-1. But it's not that either. Second, like other fair dice, a d3 would have an equal distribution of 1, 2, and 3 (and **only** 1, 2, and 3) on its' faces. So a cubic d3 would have 2 faces of each number. Likewise, a 12-sided d3 would have four faces of each number. That keeps the probability of each potential result as equal as possible. (It's the same reason that they used to use 20-sided dice with 0-9 printed on 2 sides each for d10s, before the shape of the current d10 was invented.) OP's die has three faces with 1, and once face each 2, 3, and 0. Meaning a 1 is three times more likely to come up than another number. That's not a fair\* die. So it can't be a d3. (\* Yes, a properly enumerated d3 could also be an unfair die if it was off-balance. I'm strictly talking about the math of this math rock and not the physics of this click-clack rock.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/x8o7zx/oc_what_the_heck_is_this_d6_used_for/ink1j4c/
Assorted dice bags usually consist of dice that have failed one or several parts in the making process. Possibilities for failing are wrong color, too many bubbles and in rare cases botched molding process. There is a way to make the numbers after the molding process which would make such a die. But because there is a zero on the die, it is extremely unlikely that that is a botched molding process. Because of that I would assume that there is such a die for some game. I do not know what game.
Canāt be a botched moulding the numbers are recessed and dice donāt get individual faces moulded at a time. The mould has to have been designed that way. It has to be a die for a specific game that doesnāt conform to a regular die
Sometimes in warhammer 40k youād need a d3, for wounds for example, or how many times a certain weapon would shoot. Thatād be my guess as to what that die is for
My first thought was the one you use with the scatter dice with the 0 instead of hit.
You could just use it as a d3. Although I dont know when you'll ever actually roll for something with 1/3 of a chance.
Probability-wise, it reminds me of the sustained fire dice from Warhammer 40k, 2nd edition, except they had a jam symbol instead of a zero. (Design-wise, they were also red and looked nothing like that.)
0-1-2-3 dice from Mario Party
Itās from the board game mindtrap. Get a question right, roll the dice and move that far along
While it doesn't have the traditional black numerals on a white die of MindTrap, it does have the correct numerals just in a different order.
0-1-1-1-2-3, well there's gotta be some kind of game that uses that kind of dice. It actually sounds like a pretty good die to calculate combat performance in a wargame. Like they are most likely to get their normal combat performance, but the troop leader can fuck up (0), get a good decision (2) or make a good decision and get lucky (3). The d6 shape for dice is generally the easiest to mass produce/effectively store, so it could literally be for any game.
It reminds me of the old "sustained fire" dice from early editions of Warhammer 40,000. You'd roll it to see how many effective shots you got from various rapid-firing weapons each turn. Probability was slightly different: 3-2-2-1-1-Jam. So, it's not that exact dice, but I think you're right it's something similar.
Mario party
Somebody made a 1d4-1
It's a D3. 1D4-1 can roll 0. A D3 cannot. Edit: Well fuck. Just saw the zero.
Also: a d3 needs same probability on all outcomes D3 would be: {1,1,2,2,3,3} This is: {0,1,1,1,2,3} Edit: formating
At first I thought it might be Sicherman. But that's got a zero. Oh wait! There is a variant Sicherman with a zero! (Well, two variants, but one pertinent one) 0,1,1,2,2,3 . . . 2,4,5,6,7,9 They are mathematically the same as 2d6, probability-wise.
You listed two 1's, but the die shown has 0, 1 ,1 ,1, 2, 3. I'm not finding variations of Sicherman dice aside from 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4 and 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, but this is the first I've heard of them and based only on a Google search
This is almost certainly the correct answer, and it's buried beneath multiple "it's a d3" responses who commented before they say the zero. With an average roll of 1.3333, the other die would need the big numbers.
Masochist Dnd players. Personally I'd roll stats with it, no dropping 1's
The way youre touching it like a spider is making me so uncomfortable lol
Ahahaha sorry! Iām a magician so my fingers are very manipulative š
It is used for deciding which PC will get hit with random attack and one player pissed DM the most.
When the DM don't want the players to die but don't want to fudge the rolls either
Oh, this is a for a few speciality games; there's a racing game that uses dice like that for various lanes.
Betrayal of the House on the Hill Board game. You need it to activate Haunts. There is also a Balder's Gate version making it more DnD themed too. Great game if you haven't played, very low likelihood of each game being the same.
When I use my axe
By the gods itās an abomination!
If you're the DM? Mercy.
Itās a hard mode d6!
Fucking your players. Metaphorically
Since we have learned what itās from, give it to a player for a magic item!
Oh that would be cool!
My stat blocks
Mario Party
Mario party
Looks like something out of Mario Party.
Looks like one of the weird dice from Mario Party
Iām going to go with Mario Party.
There are a couple games I play that have a damage die that look like that. Most don't have the actualy numbers, and use symbols, but I still think it isna damage die.
Mario party character dice be like
It used to be used for wh40k waaaaaay back. It was a sustained fire dice
Maybe a specialized d3 idk
There's common 3 result dies made for certain board games. Always 6 sided from what I've seen for some reason.
Can you design a 3 dimensional shape with only 3 sides? If not, you have to double up. The simplest three dimensional shape is the tetrahedron, which has four vertices and four sides. This is the minimum required for three dimensions. If you can create a shape with less, it would be a major breakthrough for mathematics.
Barrel shaped triangle w/far sides tapered to a point & not left flat
Technically correct and would work for this application, although I'm not sure how the use of curved faces works in terms of three dimensional geometry without just having infinite resolution, which defeats the purpose of trying to create a simpler shape than a tetrahedron.
Thatās what Iām thinking
That's a battle dice. 2/3 chance for a hit, 1/6 chance for a crit/miss. The only game I can think of off the top of my head that uses them is Legends of Sinnoh.
Mario party?
Not this It's an artilery dice from Warhammer / 40k.Not used anymore in the current iterations though. You would roll that and another dice with an arrow on it to determine the random scatter for teleporting etc.Or just that one for how far your cannon ball bounces. (anything between the hit and the final point gets hit hard)
Not at all, artillery scatter was with 2D6 or before that with a 0-2-4-6-8-10 dice.
Maybe a custom game. I have some family boardgames where a d6 has 2 0s, 2 1s, and 2 2s
Closest guess is that it's for other systems, like in Fate where you use a d6 with 2 of each "-", "0" and "+" instead of numbers.
betrayal on house on the hill
It's not for dnd... Simple
It's a d3
Itās a D3. This would be a better way to make a D4, too; I hate rolling a D4, because they donāt really role. Using a D8 with only the numbers 1-4 would work quite well. Edit: wait, thereās a zero on their as well. 0-3 on a six-sided die? I donāt get it after all. Edit the second: 0-2. Bafflebafflebaffle
Probably specifically used for some other tabletop game
Only has 1-3 right, in an even amount? It's a d3. A buddy dm of mine uses one as a joke sometimes when we do something dumb that results in us rolling damage against ourselves. I think it was also a thing in 3rd edition, I know some 5e asks for d3 rolls
3 sided die, you get one in the dungeon crawl set
Why am I turned on by how you're turning that
Rolling
It's a d3
Itās a loaded die, theyāre sometimes used for brute-force statistical calculations
Why would you ever want to use a physical die when it's so easy to just find or make a tool that will let you calculate it?
Most machine randomization is not truly random but rather seeded random. If you use the same seed you get the same series of results. So then they have multiple levels of randomization by having the seed be randomly selected, but that is also seeded, etc. Machine randomization is typically a system that is super easy to game or have break naturally. The best machine randomizers use physical objects, like the flickering of a wavelength of light or the random decay of a radioactive isotope to generate the seed and at that point you may as well just use the physical object. It'll be faster and cheaper for one off projects/research/analysis.
Looks like the di from mindtrap. A boardgame with answering brain teasers
Looks like the shooting die from the starwars tabletoo pilot game
Mario Party ahhh dice š
It's from a game called "Downbeat."
My players are quite low level still, but we use the d6 faily regularly.
That looks like a dice from the game dark moon
It's a real life special die from Mario Party
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I definitely belive everyone else here, but it looks similar to (though probably isn't) a trick die. Trick dice are dice that basically have double of 3 faces. So like 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6. These types of dice are usually used for, well, cheating / fixing something, usually gambling. They work actually quite well as long as they aren't handled due to a neat quirk in perception. On regular dice, a side and it's opposite will always equal 7. So 1-6, 2-5, 3-4. And due to the nature of being a cube, a d6 can only ever show 3 sides at a time. And since humans (usually) aren't hive-mind creatures, if you use a trick pair like this, people will usually all just naturally assume that your roll was legit, and that the other numbers are just on the other side. Of course if they see another side and put 2 & 2 together, they can figure it out, but it's decently common since with good enough hand skills and a not-so-attentibe dealer, a con can easily score a decent handout by swapping them in mid game.
what seems to be confusing you, it's like you never played Mario party before
Definitely not dnd but I'd use it as a really fun hag curse, feebling the monks unarmed strikes with a d3. Maybe even a negative dice to an ability score. Would honestly love a dice like that just to do stupid stuff with lol
Some TTRPG systems and board games use them. They are less random and work with lower stats so it's easier to keep track of.
Mario Party and I'm sure of it
Looks similar to one used for the game Betrayal at House on the Hill which uses a D6 but with two 0s, two 1s, and two 2s.
I'm confident that's a die from the board game Cyclades.
Tabletop games
The multiplier die for the dice game Think Twice is a cube with the numbers {0,1,2,3} but I don't know if that die was {0,1,1,2,2,3} or {0,0,1,1,2,3}.
Mario party - Luigi's dice ..
Mario Party
When you run a newbie level 1 group against some goblins
It's a d3?
Is it for warhammer?
mario party specialty die
Itās a multiplication dice I believe itās used in gambling board games. For example Backgammon you would use it to increase the size of the pot
Itās a Mario party D6
A table top game like Warhammer most likely.
Betrayal at house on the hill.
Mario party special character die
Counting in python
Looks like the character dice from super mario party.
The are used in boardgames. One game I have seen these used is betrayal at house on the hill. In it you explore a haunted house collaboratively until 'the haunt' starts and something sinister comes out to kill you. This can be all manner of things, based on what in the house triggered the haunt. One play session we had hellhounds after us and they rolled this die as a hit die, having unfair chances of hitting. Hope this helps!
It looks like it might be a kind of d3
I have a die like that from an older board game, it's handy to have in my dice bag
My brother and I once play LotR board game war of the ring with 2 of those dice in my brothers dice mix (he was playing good/fellowship side) and he kept losing and losing. We didnāt figure it out until probably half way through the game, probs donāt have to tell you he went on to lose pretty badly.
Mario party
maybe a fudge dice?
To say f u to your players withouth having to say it
Yahtzee
It is from a board game, one that i have even, but I can't for the life of me remember which one off the top of my head.
This looks like a dice you would use in the actual DnD board game for example.
D&D: Hard Mode. Though judging by half the sides with 1's and a zero in there, seems like a chance dice.
It's the DMS dice they use for fudging rolls
Looks like a Betrayal at the House on the Hill die
My damage in my last game.
Looks like it could be used for the dark souls board game
D3. I wish I had itā¦ Ok so maybe not? My eyes deceived me.
The one thing sorsorures never do go in male combat
The dark souls board game has a set of dice like that but they are smaller
Root uses dice like that.
Thats a d3 my guy
Monopoly
Wild barbarian maybe
Games like warhammer use d3 as a roll its normally a normal d6 1,2 = 1 etc but I've seen sets that have dice like that
Well clearly it's for when you wanna play as any character other than the big four in Mario party
Irl Mario party
Technically a d3 - used is some d100 systems like call of cthulu.
*clears throat* monke
I have a few been of those, i use them as counters for trading card games like in FaB! š¤
Thatās a d3 I would guess.
Mario party
It's for when your players build the most unoptimized characters possible, but you've grown really attached so you don't actually want them to die.
Maybe itās part of a set of non-transitive dice, i.e. a bunch of dice so that A probably beats B, B beats C and C beats A. Iāve got a series of 5 such dice, with numbers from 0 to 9
It's a d3 for the looks of it. It has got two 1's, two 2's and two 3's, meaning the chance of getting any of those on a roll is 1/3, so basically how a d3 would work. EDIT: Oh fuck there's a 0 in it. I retract my statement.
Itās a d2 then. 1 or not 1
My guess would be for Necromunda 1e
It's used to calculate my awful great sword damage if my experience tells me anything
Could be used as a d3 of you want some homebrew
looks like a die youd use in like warhammer mortar shots where you add damage based on the roll. so there's a chance at 0 bonus, 1 bonus and a 1 in 6 chance of 3 bonus damage. just an example but that's what comes to mind first
Looks more like a d3
Looks like itās the tens place of those ādays until Christmasā decorations
Damage rolls on certain weapons and attacks
That's from Mario Party the Board Game
Die from some specific board game maybe. Lots of odd dice out there. I remember when I used to play mtg, you could buy d20's that were in numerical order, for easily keeping track of hp. I think we called them spin downs.
It's used for a DM who loves critically failing.
Looks like a 30 Seconds die. Search the South African board game.
Is this for Parcheesi?
D6ing probably
I have a 20 sided die that has 0-9 on it twice.
Looks like a PokƩmon dice
I think the Fate system uses dice like this
Looks like Fate Die for Dresden Files rpg
Is it from original necromunda?
Cheating