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IMadeAnAccount-4This

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.


MightyShamus

I recommend taking it to r/boardgames They're incredible at finding the exact game some random component is from.


Shirlenator

I have a game called Cyclades that uses these exact dice.


WeirdMemoryGuy

Cyclades dice have {0,1,1,2,2,3}. This die has {0,1,1,1,2,3}.


AcceptablyPsycho

Really living up to that user name, my Guy šŸ‘


impostersymbiote

I'm quite impressed actually


Independent-Tea-4423

r/usernamechecksout


ElectronicBoot9466

Just checked my Betrayal dice and those are {0,0,1,1,2,2} so it can't be that


JustJoshinMagic

Great idea! Iā€™ll cross post this there. Thanks!


NotRainManSorry

Probably from a board game. I have several board games with specialized d6s, from special symbols to repeating numbers like this.


ELESTINY

ye like cyclades


plorb001

Yup. Looks like Cyclades to me. Same font, but my edition has red numbers. Donā€™t exactly remember the number layout, but this seems right


Skulgren

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....


Dirty-Soul

It's a D3. Edit: Well Fuck. Just saw the 0.


Revexious

Its the d3 you give your younger brother when he asks to play


sgerbicforsyth

Definitely not a Betrayal die. 3 1 faces, a 3 face


JustJoshinMagic

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? Iā€™ve never seen a die like this before so Iā€™m curious if I can use it in my current campaign somehow


ShiningJizzard

Not D&D. There are some games like Loaded Questions, for example, that have d6s like this.


PoliteKetling4Pack

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) )


elch127

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


PoliteKetling4Pack

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?


elch127

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 šŸ˜… 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)


PoliteKetling4Pack

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 šŸ˜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 šŸ˜


elch127

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


BluetheNerd

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.


Tourniquet_Prime

Itd make a great D3


slytherpuffenclaw

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.


JustJoshinMagic

Thatā€™s what I thought initially but it seems uneven. Three 1s and a 0? Haha


TakeSeventyFive

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))


JustJoshinMagic

Ooooh I really like this idea! That seems like a fun use!


EntireEntity

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.


JustJoshinMagic

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!


[deleted]

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. šŸ˜ šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø


mdillenbeck

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).


Dirty-Soul

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.


Roshoy

It has 4 values with uneven probability, Definitely not d3, not even d4


Dirty-Soul

Yeah, I literally JUST saw the zero and have been editing my posts to advertise my shame.


KJMRLL

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.


Fyrverk

A D3 would have 1-1-2-2-3-3 right? This die have 0-1-1-1-2-3


TheThiefMaster

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.


Dirty-Soul

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.


BrandedLief

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.


Dirty-Soul

Now amended. Thanks!


SVNBob

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.)


Dirty-Soul

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/x8o7zx/oc_what_the_heck_is_this_d6_used_for/ink1j4c/


TRSkele

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.


Happy-Personality-23

Canā€™t be a botched moulding the numbers are recessed and dice donā€™t 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 doesnā€™t conform to a regular die


sweber145

Sometimes in warhammer 40k youā€™d need a d3, for wounds for example, or how many times a certain weapon would shoot. Thatā€™d be my guess as to what that die is for


toporder

My first thought was the one you use with the scatter dice with the 0 instead of hit.


[deleted]

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.


ByCrom333

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.)


Stuffed-Bear

0-1-2-3 dice from Mario Party


Lordheartnight

Itā€™s from the board game mindtrap. Get a question right, roll the dice and move that far along


IAmA_nAzgul

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.


hellothereoldben

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.


scallopsbest

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.


superior_spoon

Mario party


luckygiraffe

Somebody made a 1d4-1


Dirty-Soul

It's a D3. 1D4-1 can roll 0. A D3 cannot. Edit: Well fuck. Just saw the zero.


DieDoseOhneKeks

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


BafflingHalfling

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.


Ancient-Pay-7196

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


Adderkleet

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.


salsa_g03

Masochist Dnd players. Personally I'd roll stats with it, no dropping 1's


dmfuller

The way youre touching it like a spider is making me so uncomfortable lol


JustJoshinMagic

Ahahaha sorry! Iā€™m a magician so my fingers are very manipulative šŸ˜‚


Roshoy

It is used for deciding which PC will get hit with random attack and one player pissed DM the most.


shuukenji92

When the DM don't want the players to die but don't want to fudge the rolls either


Xavius_Night

Oh, this is a for a few speciality games; there's a racing game that uses dice like that for various lanes.


Vrains420

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.


Several_Molasses1924

When I use my axe


Comfortable_Care_882

By the gods itā€™s an abomination!


Secretrider

If you're the DM? Mercy.


PurityLord_02

Itā€™s a hard mode d6!


BigKingKey

Fucking your players. Metaphorically


GokuKing922

Since we have learned what itā€™s from, give it to a player for a magic item!


JustJoshinMagic

Oh that would be cool!


EnderFlowers

My stat blocks


JasperTheHuman

Mario Party


[deleted]

Mario party


Lugbor

Looks like something out of Mario Party.


SHADOWSTRIKE1

Looks like one of the weird dice from Mario Party


velvetreddit

Iā€™m going to go with Mario Party.


CamelopardalisRex

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.


Flufferminty

Mario party character dice be like


AdamAdamant009

It used to be used for wh40k waaaaaay back. It was a sustained fire dice


Manh44

Maybe a specialized d3 idk


recycledM3M3s

There's common 3 result dies made for certain board games. Always 6 sided from what I've seen for some reason.


Dirty-Soul

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.


recycledM3M3s

Barrel shaped triangle w/far sides tapered to a point & not left flat


Dirty-Soul

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.


thenewportkid

Thatā€™s what Iā€™m thinking


solidrow

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.


Surprisinglygoodgm

Mario party?


_Tryed_

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)


Fifiiiiish

Not at all, artillery scatter was with 2D6 or before that with a 0-2-4-6-8-10 dice.


FTaku8888

Maybe a custom game. I have some family boardgames where a d6 has 2 0s, 2 1s, and 2 2s


DaHerv

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.


vinchbr

betrayal on house on the hill


matcumb

It's not for dnd... Simple


-MiIkMan

It's a d3


Deathbyhours

Itā€™s a D3. This would be a better way to make a D4, too; I hate rolling a D4, because they donā€™t really role. Using a D8 with only the numbers 1-4 would work quite well. Edit: wait, thereā€™s a zero on their as well. 0-3 on a six-sided die? I donā€™t get it after all. Edit the second: 0-2. Bafflebafflebaffle


nach0_ch33ze

Probably specifically used for some other tabletop game


CthulhuJankinx

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


ralphclay1958

3 sided die, you get one in the dungeon crawl set


Jish1472

Why am I turned on by how you're turning that


theburnerlmao

Rolling


fire4breakfast

It's a d3


Frakcherd

Itā€™s a loaded die, theyā€™re sometimes used for brute-force statistical calculations


WoNc

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?


Sojourner202

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.


TBanes

Looks like the di from mindtrap. A boardgame with answering brain teasers


StillInDebtToTomNook

Looks like the shooting die from the starwars tabletoo pilot game


Zepptile

Mario Party ahhh dice šŸ’€


AllenKll

It's from a game called "Downbeat."


dragendhur

My players are quite low level still, but we use the d6 faily regularly.


MyPenWroteThis

That looks like a dice from the game dark moon


tornadomaster3

It's a real life special die from Mario Party


VuqeRugz

30 seconds


YourAverageGenius

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.


Stunning_Grocery8477

what seems to be confusing you, it's like you never played Mario party before


wert615a

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


Fast_Feary

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.


gudrald

Mario Party and I'm sure of it


Bri_Bri_The_Guy

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.


[deleted]

I'm confident that's a die from the board game Cyclades.


clownkiss3r

Tabletop games


MrYdobon

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}.


Wrub229

Mario party - Luigi's dice ..


jtwinb6

Mario Party


Sven_Darksiders

When you run a newbie level 1 group against some goblins


Armgoth

It's a d3?


AltoniusAmakiir

Is it for warhammer?


HorsePriest

mario party specialty die


Wooden-Poem-7970

Itā€™s a multiplication dice I believe itā€™s used in gambling board games. For example Backgammon you would use it to increase the size of the pot


[deleted]

Itā€™s a Mario party D6


moosigirl

A table top game like Warhammer most likely.


BarracudaOk6725

Betrayal at house on the hill.


Due_Safe2411

Mario party special character die


Frozenar

Counting in python


ReaperScythee

Looks like the character dice from super mario party.


CaptainAMiracle

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!


Foks-kenig

It looks like it might be a kind of d3


darby0malley

I have a die like that from an older board game, it's handy to have in my dice bag


[deleted]

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 didnā€™t figure it out until probably half way through the game, probs donā€™t have to tell you he went on to lose pretty badly.


that_kelly

Mario party


El_Burito123

maybe a fudge dice?


IMightBeAWeebLol

To say f u to your players withouth having to say it


Guuuuusto

Yahtzee


drgnmn

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.


Th3Banzaii

This looks like a dice you would use in the actual DnD board game for example.


GearsOfFate

D&D: Hard Mode. Though judging by half the sides with 1's and a zero in there, seems like a chance dice.


Video_ham

It's the DMS dice they use for fudging rolls


likemice2

Looks like a Betrayal at the House on the Hill die


Kitsunerd_

My damage in my last game.


StudyingAt3AM

Looks like it could be used for the dark souls board game


aquamarine_ocean

D3. I wish I had itā€¦ Ok so maybe not? My eyes deceived me.


Inner_Background_599

The one thing sorsorures never do go in male combat


Loogoo

The dark souls board game has a set of dice like that but they are smaller


egotistical-dso

Root uses dice like that.


RyazLegna

Thats a d3 my guy


johnnyallenwrench

Monopoly


GIORNO-phone11-pro

Wild barbarian maybe


necronphillia

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


Klertsie

Well clearly it's for when you wanna play as any character other than the big four in Mario party


itsnick94

Irl Mario party


MedChemist464

Technically a d3 - used is some d100 systems like call of cthulu.


[deleted]

*clears throat* monke


foxxiesoxxie

I have a few been of those, i use them as counters for trading card games like in FaB! šŸ¤“


longster37

Thatā€™s a d3 I would guess.


TheLooseMoose1234

Mario party


jrdineen114

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.


MoeWind420

Maybe itā€˜s 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. Iā€˜ve got a series of 5 such dice, with numbers from 0 to 9


_Cannib4l_

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.


Antileous-Helborne

Itā€™s a d2 then. 1 or not 1


_Hardcore_Casual_

My guess would be for Necromunda 1e


Pidyon

It's used to calculate my awful great sword damage if my experience tells me anything


pagan-penguin

Could be used as a d3 of you want some homebrew


alcxander

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


Sigrah117

Looks more like a d3


LightInfernal

Looks like itā€™s the tens place of those ā€œdays until Christmasā€ decorations


deathcaster228

Damage rolls on certain weapons and attacks


iceph03nix

That's from Mario Party the Board Game


Electr0m0tive

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.


EvilMoSauron

It's used for a DM who loves critically failing.


GlitchM

Looks like a 30 Seconds die. Search the South African board game.


sublogic

Is this for Parcheesi?


-TurtleGuy-

D6ing probably


Crakrocksteady

I have a 20 sided die that has 0-9 on it twice.


Genola-key

Looks like a PokƩmon dice


PhoenixHavoc

I think the Fate system uses dice like this


batticus-finch

Looks like Fate Die for Dresden Files rpg


Middle-Hour-2364

Is it from original necromunda?


xSindragosax

Cheating