The most useless dice I own

[@dazaran714]

I think the mobius die is useful for a really passive aggresive DM who is sick of their player's nonsense. "a natural 1? sorry, looks like you fail to seduce the dragon. Oh you had advantage? my mistake, here you go. *hands them another d1* "

[@robhogg68]

I had similar thoughts, but for, say, an ability check when one of my players tries to hack through the stone wall of a fortress with a non-magical sword.

[@znix13]

Or just to emulate a curse of some sort@@robhogg68

[@joejordan401]

I was going to say, players who insist on rolling for something need to be introduced to it for sure.

[@Nvenom8.]

The correct answer is: "Roll a D1 to see if your fate is predetermined."

[@Sceptile29]

I'd use it for unarmed damage on a wizard/artificer personally Very unlikely to be used, but when you pull it out it'll be great

[@noahr333]

I keep a large marble in my dice tray so I can pull out a D1 whenever people at the table talk about their useless dice. The OG mobius strip!

[@paulmdevenney]

ah, the "infinite sided die"

[@BixLovesMiley]

I have a marble, too! But more because one of my characters used to be a glass blower and it was the same colour as their astheatic. Gonna use that for your purpose now!

[@K-Anator]

@@paulmdevenney I'mma need a VSauce video about the number of atoms on the surface of an extremely precise 1mm bearing. Then we just triangulate and count the faces, make some sort of Farnsworth-esque quantum die.

[@paulmdevenney]

@@K-Anator 🤣

[@simonnading]

I have a gomboc with a 1 on the top, so it can actually roll and will always come up 1

[@lukeholdsworth6506]

If the levitating dice could be rolled while levitating (ie. something in the electronics cause it to spin wildly and erratically until you click a button to make it stop). Then it would be amazing. You just have it threateningly sitting in front of the players doing nothing most of the time, then you click a button on your phone/laptop, it spins, and the players panic. THAT I would consider buying, as it could add to the emotional experience for my players!

[@voidseeker4394]

Funny enough, that't how electric motors work, but they spin around one axis, it's hard to make it spin around at least 2 axis and make the result trully random.

[@GondolaParadiso]

@@voidseeker4394 Have it spin on 2 axis then you cut the power. It drops and rolls the result.

[@AlanTenore]

That would be terrifying and amazing!

[@TheSeaItIsStillViolent]

Fuck yeah!

[@seanthomas6563]

That is a cool idea and plausible. There is no way that dice should cost $200 as a computer tech and engineer I would say $50 maybe. Once the design is done the parts would only cost $25.

[@markschippel7974]

I had a machined set of steel dice. They were beautiful. They were fair. They were heavy. They would cut and gouge any surface they were rolled on...or in. I think I still have some scars from the many cuts I got from those dice. You gave a blood sacrifice to Fortune every time you rolled them. I loved those dice.

[@LadyArtemis2012]

I also have an absolutely beautiful set of metal dice that...I cannot use. If you don't have a dice tray, they WILL dent the table. If you have a dice try, they WILL gouge the felt, scratch the leather, or dent the wood. Beyond that, they are loud, even when rolled on padded surfaces. But they are just, by far, the most beautiful set of dice I own. It's such a shame they are practically impossible to use.

[@Revolutionarythought]

This is why I use Game Science dice so much. They are actually random! I absolutely hate it when my players pull out their "I've got to roll high" or "I've got to roll low" dice. :D

[@Atomsk2]

I have a set that are stainless steel - the only place they can be safely rolled is the grass/dirt. But being what they are I can just wash them - usually with a garden hose and not by rubbing. Learn one does not hand wash power-polyhedra without sacrificing something of themselves

[@annafantasia]

But what happened to them?? :(((

[@markschippel7974]

@@annafantasia I believe I still have them buried in a chest with my Yaquinto, Games Workshop, Judges Guild and Metagaming games. I will have to look for them. They are probably a bit rusty now. If I can find them I will post a video showing them in all their tetanus inducing glory.

[@bAt_h]

D3's are occasionally brought up in D&D, but usually they are replaced with a D6 with 1-2 being a 1, 3-4 being a 2, and 5-6 being a 3.

[@IrrevMike]

d2s and d3s are pretty much standard dice in Mörk Borg and Mörk Borg compatible games.

[@bAt_h]

@IrrevMike That's very cool, I can see how the lower dice fit well with an apocalypse game!

[@BobLHedd]

Challenge Laura Bailey to a "Dice Off" during which you compete in a number of categories: total number of dice, best of each material, traditional vs esoteric, commercial vs boutique vs hand-made, best of each theme (fairy, vampire or gothic, dwarven rune, etc.), etc.

[@BixLovesMiley]

YES

[@preacherjohn]

THIS!

[@SWatson410]

I immediately began to think of Laura as well. Would love to see them do a tour together even if they had to do it remotely.

[@bayushiteishiru6291]

Do not challenge Laura to a 'who can roll more 1s on their dice dice-off' tho. You would lose. Even using the Möbius strip die.

[@InkyPetrel]

This would be amazing. Also, an opportunity for them both to cosplay as Jester again, it was so cool last time :D

[@xanathar8659]

I'll never forget when my friend Paul whipped out his new dice bag filled to the brim with sets of dice, and also marbles. I asked what the marbles were and then he looks at me with a perfectly blank expression and said "d1" and then threw the marble onto the table which rolled off and landed directly into the dm's waterbottle on the floor.

[@finnulf]

Wellp... rolled a 1!

[@skemono]

You say there's no point to having a one-sided die, but my old DM used to do that. He didn't have a mobius strip die, instead he would roll a marble behind his DM screen whenever he wanted to make it seem like he was rolling for something but already knew what the answer would be. He called this marble "The Die of Fate".

[@WhisperingEchoes56]

Man that's smart I might do that as a DM

[@steffenpanning2776]

You could easily troll a Player that insists on a dice roll :)

[@joeyj6808]

In the 70s there were no high-impact plastic poly dice. Not yet. So dice corners would wear down. Eventually, your d20 would become a marble. Endless rolling. I held on to my first d20 for decades, still inked with orange ink. Looked horrible LOL.

[@Hifuutorian]

@@joeyj6808It sounds really cool though!

[@GromMolotok]

In grade school I had a marble, a clear amber color, that had somehow taken on a cube shape with rounded corners. It was like that when I got it, so probably a manufacturing defect.

[@DieselsVideos]

A friend of mine makes usable dice out of sugar. You can use them normally, you can store them or, if they don't roll in your favor, you can put them in your tea. :D

[@ThatAsianSamurai]

I feel like, at the least, the Levitating D20 would be a fun gimmick for a campaign. Like imagine going to a session every week and the DM always has this floating D20 next to him and you just after a couple sessions of it just being there you assume it is only set-dressing as it slowly becomes part of the background, out of your mind. Fast forward to getting ready to fight the BBEG and the DM reveals that the BBEG has actual been with the party this whole time; watching over every single move they have made in the background preparing for this very moment and instead of reaching for their normal dice, the DM goes for the floating dice that had been by their side all along.

[@slowestpoke8962]

storage is easy once you realize how a real dragon does it: Dump every dice in one big room as a pile to lay on it!

[@ChrisJones-cs2zd]

Oh, good. So, not just me then?

[@callmequaz9052]

But... what about the d4's?

[@djordjezivic2481]

@@callmequaz9052 grow tougher sking,you whink dragon skale is hard becoes they are dragons? NO, the timpenetrable armour comes from laying on uncomfortable gold coins

[@tjfrye11]

​@@djordjezivic2481 not just coins, they also have crowns, swords, etc. in their pile

[@stankulp1008]

A photo shoot idea for the next Calander!!

[@ShandorDavies]

A note on the giant d20 - our GM got one as we had a player who would immediately scoop up their d20 and announce a high roll before anyone could see. When we all played in person, everyone used the giant d20 and it hated everyone equally.

[@shannon3315]

Why is this a thing??? Not giant d20s, but players that you have to outsmart in order to get them to play fair! So annoying.

[@tulsaviolet]

I've done this before. For the same reason.

[@MrGranten]

Usually it's basically a rule that you can't do that. The benefits of DMs throwing their weight around and establishing basic etiquette from the start.

[@pattheplanter]

DM calls foul and tells them to roll again. They will soon learn.

[@ShandorDavies]

@@pattheplanter He did but the player would slip back into doing it. It became easier for everyone to avoid the issue entirely.

[@TalesWithHaggis]

At the end of the day, I think we can all appreciate the designs of most novelty (or vanity) dice. Impractical as they might be, it's fun to see someone being creative with shapes and purposes of them. I especially like the table generator dice, and could see myself using that for something like treasure- enemy- or improvised weapon generation.

[@prestonasher32]

I had already seen those floating dice and was definitely enticed to get one, but then you showed me coin dice and I don’t think my wallet has ever felt such fear.

[@thanesgames9685]

They are really awful. One of my players got them and while they are absolutely cool looking, they are a nearly impossible to roll in a random way that won't destroy your playing surface, nearby terrain, favorite pets, or whatever.

[@kobold_sushi_executive_chef]

The Ascendice could be fun for a Divination wizard to store their Portent rolls, something happens that you don't like so you pluck your floating roll from the air and say "no"

[@tahunuva4254]

Protip: Wooden chests make excellent storage for dice, especially if you layer them with trays. Nothing better than a chestfull of glittering maths rocks.

[@distortedmeatbal7191]

my friends mom has like a large 80 pound chest of die

[@tahunuva4254]

@@distortedmeatbal7191 Damn, that's a lot of numbers

[@Akrelide]

glittering math rocks.. XD haha. perfect :D

[@Tasarran]

@@distortedmeatbal7191 Your friend's mom has an 80-pound chest... huh. huh huh...

[@captianbacon]

Crown royal bags. When it fills up your get a new one. I have several bags that are all ready to go bags if someone needs to barrow dice.

[@barswa]

The great news for pathfinder 1e or d&d 3.5 players: small races often roll 1d3s, so there are 1d3s available to them!

[@GinnyDi]

OH THIS IS EXCITING!

[@kylebaryonyx9478]

In a similar vein but straying slightly, there are a few war games that normally use d6s but have specific conditions where d3s are used (number of attacks, damage, etc for specific units)

[@euansmith3699]

I like the Average Dice, that used to be used in Society of Ancients' wargames. These were 6 sided dice, marked 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5. @@kylebaryonyx9478

[@DOOMsword7]

I think Tasha’s had a couple class features that used a d3 (the Barbarian for sure) but I always used a d6 for those feature (with 1-2 being the 1 on a d3 etc). I have NO IDEA why they thought this was good design

[@graywolfdracon]

I still DM a 3.5e campaign and am excited to see that d3s are finally readily available.

[@RijackiTorment]

Dice can be mini works of art and I am all for it. Though I haven't succumbed to a dice collection again and when I was collecting the variety was exponentially smaller, it takes a lot of will power not to buy the ooo-ahh dice. Having a partner opposed to collecting things just because might help.

[@GinnyDi]

Having a supportive husband is both a blessing and a curse 😅😅

[@elfdragon1227]

One of my younger sisters actually gave me a d20 and d12 that she sewed for Christmas, so yeah! 100%

[@CadanL]

My dice outgrew their jar and seeing as they only just fit inside the new jar I'm not buying anymore dice

[@bloodelfreku]

I've had a mobius strip die for years now. It sits in a bronze dragon box with bronze thorn dice, and is of course made of bronze itself. It is very fun to use when telling a player "no."

[@JeffreyCuscutis]

For the D3, there is an RPG that uses it and other nonstandard die shapes: Dungeon Crawl Classics. It adds D3, D5, D7, D14, D16, D24 and D30 which are part of a dice chain that includes the standard die shapes. Bonuses or penalties can move you up or down the dice chain. I have a set and have used them one time, at GenCon, so somewhat useless.

[@randydoffing3204]

I'm GM-ing a Traveller RPG game which uses almost exclusively D6's. But, occasionally, there's a need to roll D3. The core rules suggest rolling a D6 and interpret a roll of 1-2 as 1, 3-4 as 2, and 5-6 as 3. But, I recently ordered a set of D3's for those occasional situations that call for it.

[@chaddersh3736]

Apparently there's not a lot of Games Workshop fans here. D3 is a staple over there

[@MegaJoka100]

Pathfinder also uses D3's from time to time.

[@MrKoemgun]

Oooooh that's why when i bought 6 pounds of random dice i got some of those D3, D5, D14 D16 and D24. Yeah i'm a real dice dragon, i order then by weight.

[@replikantx1050]

the d3 i got in a set, had instructions that said to use it for rock, paper, scissors.

[@VictorLHouette]

"Too many dice" is an asymptote. You can be constantly approaching that point, but you'll never actually reach it

[@PaulGuy]

Like with motorcycles, power tools, and other fun stuff, the appropriate amount is n+1.

[@butsukete1806]

I'll take knives and guns first.

[@emr1d341]

People who collect "too many dice" really take it to the limit.

[@mattsadventureswithart5764]

​@@butsukete1806Bread knives and glue guns are great for crafting with. Bravo, crafty person.

[@robertabarnhart6240]

@@PaulGuy Also potato chips and cats.

[@warmongerous]

We have a chonk dice at our table, where the 1 is a goblin. The rule is it's only used for death saves, and if your character dies as a result of rolling a nat 1, your next character has to be a goblin. It is affectionately called the goblin dice

[@AM-hf9kk]

My wife bought me a set of metal "bullet" dice in a "revolver cylinder." They're fun and pretty, but the d12 and d20 are nearly impossible to read. Cramming that many sides onto a cylinder 3/8" in diameter means that ANY imperfection in the table makes them lie strangely. She calls them my "honesty dice" because I constantly have to be aware of my own bias in thinking that something should/shouldn't succeed, and call someone else at the table to confirm. We got our toddler an enormous set of closed-cell foam dice. That's a d4 that wrecks your whole ankle rather than poking a hole in your sole.

[@Hifuutorian]

A friend of mine owns one of those and it's absolutely sick!

[@LawTaranis]

My favorite die is a completely unique d20. It is a hand-soldered, gem studded sterling silver filigree dice styled after a cage of some sort. It has a ruby in the place if the 1 and an emerald in the place if the 20. It was a gift from my party that I played with for 18 years. I have only rolled it a half dozen times on a soft felt surface.

[@vladimir.smirnov]

I also have an Ascendice (and actually half of the dice you showed in the video, but that is another story :) ) and yeah, magnet inside is also like that, and I think it is by design, because it needs to be stabilized by electromagnets and if it can't move it would've been harder. There is another "problem" with it - as it have a magnet, if you have a dice tray that requires assembly - it probably have some metallic pieces and die will happily role towards them and attach to them :) So you need to be careful with the materials that you have. Because of that I can't use it with 2 trays that I mostly use.

[@jordanw2741]

I have a d1 as well. Got it in my denary dice set from Curiosity box. It has dice from d1 to d10. Only thing I have used the d1 for is to add heft to my rolls behind the screen (sometimes it's nice to add a few extra dice to make that enemy fireball sound extra threatening with extra click clacks)

[@GinnyDi]

HA, I love that idea!!

[@Tersidian]

damage needs to be rolled, unarmed strike for most adventurers is 1 base damage - or a d1! :D

[@orsolyafekete7485]

@@Tersidian Aren't unarmed strikes actually technically a d1, because the 1 damage does get doubled on a crit, and only the diceroll result is supposed to do that?

[@procrastinatinggamer]

@@orsolyafekete7485Maybe but that’s only of use in 5e. Most other games I’ve looked into just make a punch a d4 or a d3 or the like. Can’t think of any other systems where a straight punch is just a single point of damage (before stat modifiers) like in 5e.

[@Ourtheus]

The Ascendice magnet within is meant to be loose. The reason is because if it were perfectly centered within it would have to be placed onto the base in a specific way everytime in order to allow the magnet within to keep it levitating making it more of a hassle if not impossible to place centered. Not to mention making the die itself predictable to roll and therefore not a legal to use die for any game using a d20.

[@danielfarrugia5492]

I came here looking for this clarification. Thankyou very much!

[@PendragonDaGreat]

Mobius strips are so cool. I think my favorite mobius strip fact is that if you take your paper model, stab some scissors into the middle and cut along that line you drew you'll end up with a loop with two sides again. I think another fun fact is that places that use long belts to move things like mines or mills will sometimes intentionally introduce a half twist into the belt so that the whole thing wears evenly.

[@kristianwichmann9996]

Even better: Glue together two Möbius strips at an orthogonal angle and cut both in half and you'll get ... ❤❤ Great xmas party trick!

[@unnameablename]

The impracticality of actually rolling a d100 is vastly outweighed by how cool it feels to roll one and I’m so glad I own one.

[@eesedesesesrdtsuperjoshuab7907]

This is my new favourite dnd video, I love those death saving throw dice, I’m absolutely buying some of the dice from that website

[@relaxedfantasyreview]

On the subject of Viridian's randomizer dice, I once did an entire year long campaign where the DM decided literally everything using randomizers. All the plot points, world layout, monsters, and just challenged the group to weave a story out of it all. One of the most memorable campaigns I've ever been in. ❤

[@_stonhinge]

The randomizer dice would also make for an interesting "rogue-like" adventure. You could make a whole campaign about a shifting dungeon that the characters try and make it through. For even more shenanigans, have them start with nothing each entry and a small amount of starting gear in the entrance. At it's simplest, each room has 4 doors. They enter through 1, that leaves 3 doors with varying amounts of dice you roll for that room, which may or may not be telegraphed. Then use the dice to determine what's in the room. Is it treasure, a hostile encounter, or a friendly encounter? How many of each? Go nuts with it. If they die, have them "respawn" in the town outside the dungeon. Or maybe it's all a mystical trap and the exit is at the end, so when there's a TPK they respawn back at the entrance with nothing. Character levels are the meta-progression, so depending on how difficult you make it determines how quickly they level.

[@lukamurphy2021]

Looking forward to more Topology With Ginny, honestly. (Fun-ish fact: When a two-dimensional object moves around a Möbius loop it will arrive back at the point of origin after one tour mirrored.)

[@u.v.s.5583]

I had a die shaped like the Cantor set, but I stored it in my Klein bottle pouch and can't find it now for some reason.

[@lukamurphy2021]

@@u.v.s.5583 Pushing comedy to the limit, I see. If you find your dice set inside (or indeed outside) the Klein bottle see if my Gabriel's Cake is in there too.

[@srellison561]

@@u.v.s.5583 lol

[@riuphane]

As a dice goblin (or i guess dragon now), I'm envious of your variety. And if anything, I think having "useless" or form-over-function dice is a stronger indicator of the tabletop gamer than almost anything else... Other than maybe dice accessories (bags/trays/chests/prisons/towers/etc.)!

[@sarad2487]

Honestly, I'd use a mobius die. I could put a mobius die in one hand and any other die in another, and tell a player to choose one to roll. Also, the other die would also be a mobius die. It's just used to troll people and I am here for it.

[@caramba2345]

One of my favorite dice right now that I own is a fidget spinner with all the dice from a standard set on it. Some of the “odder” dice I have include, but are not limited to, a Kamasutra die, Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock die, an unpainted D20 which goes to 10 but has each number twice, a D120, Whiskey Stone D6s, and a set of Spin-Top dice.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

I have a set of dice that are transparent and fluid-filled; inside each one is an eldritch eyeball that always lands looking upwards. When you lean over to read the number, the die is staring into your soul . . . And, for reasons that some people will figure out immediately, I chose the set where the eyeballs are yellow, with a cat-like pupil.

[@Hifuutorian]

That's so cool!

[@Brettski89]

sounds dope? got a link or store / item name?

[@travischeney9874]

I got one of those from Dice Envy. I went green with an eldritch feel.

[@AllenKnutson]

@@travischeney9874 I found the Dice Envy site, but it is vast -- do you remember the name of the die?

[@EmissaryofWind]

Witcher reference?

[@khw1425]

The pencil D6 is funny to me since I grew up as an early teen playing warhammer with not enough d6 and alot of stuff like coins and soda bottles being subbed in for minis...we would write 1-6 on the sides of number two pencils for dice sometimes...but we were always thankful to have extra cubes shaped normal 6 sided dice, since rolling 10-30+ d6 at once for a whole unit of troops at once was the norm for that game.

[@_stonhinge]

I have soooo many tiny d6s from when I played WH40K. I do have a small set of "fiery" colored ones that are perfect for casting Fireball with. Sadly, not enough if you upcast it.

[@khw1425]

tiny d6's really come in handy alot@@_stonhinge

[@robertabarnhart6240]

Geez, and I thought Shadowrun took a lot of d6s! They sell cubes of 36 dice, 4 layers of 9 dice each, especially for those types of games. I have 2 of them.

[@SerialSnowmanKiller]

For the d1, they should use a Gömböc, which is a fairly recently-discovered shape which, when rolled on a flat surface, will ALWAYS settle into its 'upright' position.

[@Hifuutorian]

That's so cool actually!

[@IcebaneFilms]

It's the shape of turtles and other heavy shelled animals. It was discovered when trying to figure out how animals could correct falling on their back when they would otherwise be stuck. The shape would always roll over with gravity due to it's pointed top, rounded edges, and low center of gravity, even when set upside down, so long as it's on a relatively flat surface. @@Hifuutorian

[@Hifuutorian]

@@IcebaneFilms You made an already cool fact even cooler, thank you!

[@annatarsoly941]

Wait... Gömböc is actually an old hungarian word! (I'm hungarian.) It means sphere-ish. I wasn't aware of this meaning, and I was so surprised to see it in english text! We have a lot of words and phrases basically adopted from german and english, it's so cool to see it the other way around!

[@Bageer1]

​@annatarsoly941 it was discovered/constructed by Hungarian mathematicians!

[@Neruomir]

Ah, you know you are in good company when mobius strips, Pythagorean cup's, klein bottles and other miscellaneous arcane artifacts start to magically manifest on the table.

[@rc3043]

The levitating one is something I would add into a custom made boardgame table. Imagine sitting there with people playing DnD and your dice are levitating over the table! How awesome is that.

[@trident042]

I really appreciate that you demonstrated a mobius strip for anyone who might have missed that day at school.

[@tegelstenen4178]

I found the guy who skipped class

[@trident042]

@@tegelstenen4178 Good, tell him to watch this.

[@Valandar2]

D3 has a lot of uses in games outside D&D 5e. The usual method is to roll 1d6, and treat it as 1/2 = 1, 3/4 = 2, and 5/6 = 3.

[@jasonreed7522]

I feel like this is the real reason d3s are so rare, they aren't regular polyhedron (all ofther dice are), and you can easily simulate a d3 with a d6. (Really any scheme that maps 2 faces of the cube onto 1 output, and you tell everyone what you are doing before rolling. Or just keep rerolling any die until you get a result in the desired range, but that could take awhile.)

[@Hawkskull]

For example, Call of Cthulhu uses d3 for first aid & medicine hit point restoration.

[@TheXasti]

Also recall Rock Paper Scissors is a d3. So instead of doing it with your hands, you can do it with dice!

[@filipemesquita7372]

Lancer has a ton of weapons that deal 1d3 damage like that

[@t0k3p0k3]

A dozen D3 can be handy in Warhammer 40k, if you have a lot of attacks with D3 damage. Although most D3 damage weapons were changed to 2 damage in 9th and 10th edition. In 8th edition D3 damage was really common.

[@RedNZBlue]

I loved the pacing and setup of this video, I too was thinking "how do we outdo the levitating die?!" Nailed it. I'd love to see a follow-up of this video about dice bags!

[@negimaaddict742]

The thematic ones like the potion bottles, fireballs or the death save dice feel like they would bring a lot of fun for the table irl.

[@Hoehlenmaensch]

levitating dice with a big tray for rolling it while levitating would be pretty dope.

[@dimitriusvoldun8031]

Other people: "You have too many dice." Me: "Shiny math-rocks go click-clack!"

[@GromMolotok]

What does "too many dice" mean, anyway?

[@dimitriusvoldun8031]

@@GromMolotok No clue, mate. I can't swim in them like Scrooge McDuck, so I still have a long ways to go in my collecting.

[@JeiJozefu]

Sorry, but I saw your pfp and immediately thought of that meme "Inside you are two wolves. Roll for initiative."

[@servietsky67]

I have a d3. I use it to randomly select a player on the table, like when a monster is in range of 3 characters, I assign a number to each player and roll it to choose which one to attack. It's the same thing as using a d6 and giving each 2 numbers, but it makes me happy.

[@Tasarran]

But what if you have four players?

[@jfridy]

Gamescience designed the original d100 back in the 1990s. It’s looks the same as everyone else’s, but to cut down on the rolling golf ball problem, they put some small weights in the hollow center. So as it rolls, the weights are always going to the bottom, slowing the die from the inside.

[@tagg1080]

The local game store I grew up near had them inside little bottles like a magic 8 ball. They worked great.

[@BorisJosz]

I don't think I've used a dice in over a 5 years, yet somehow still watched the whole video. I either have a problem with collections (which KZbin has understood and funneled me here) or you're very entertaining! I suspect a bit of both :p I loved the "I'm glad you asked" part, exactly how I would convey it as well xD

[@JELWwL6unE8V7iGB3]

If you have a levitating die with a loose magnet inside, you should be able to make how the interior shape holds up the die cause it to be able to be rolled over the platform. The magnetic part of the interior shape would probably have to be coin shaped so that you get the effect of the flatness of a table or box, and then the part around that disc and the interior shape of the die would have to be designed so that when a corner is pointing up, it slips to where a flat is pointing up. What I'd worry about the most would be getting it random enough, so that the previous roll had no influence on the next one. Could be a nice 3d printing project for the prototype.

[@speculativemusings3593]

The Möbius 1-sided die is actually cheap enough to be worth getting as a novelty die.

[@pattheplanter]

"I walk into the next room through the open door." "Roll a die to achieve that" "What!!!" "Here's your die". For a one-off prank, it would be worth it.

[@RoyleCgaming]

@@pattheplanter Or when as the DM you need a creature to fail a save you roll the D1 and viola! it fails! lol

[@katanyafleet]

I think it would be a cool thing to have in a hopeless plot point against an enemy that needs to be weakened before it can be defeated. "Attack, rolled a 1, plus seventeen." "Miss." "We should run. Pass turn."

[@corgiw7281]

I want one.

[@mentalrebllion1270]

Yay! More dice!!! Oh and a cool way to use the levitation die is maybe to have the dm have a player roll it during the most intense of rolls, like dimension 20’s box of doom almost. Those situations

[@AlanTenore]

Maybe to roll it, you just knock it out of the magnetic field? And if it can be spun while levitating, even better!

[@Stormchaser2032]

Dragons never worry about storage, they just conquer another castle or cave. Lol

[@GinnyDi]

Another castle, you say? 👀

[@Stormchaser2032]

@@GinnyDi - Yes!!!

[@seccrecc67]

I have not played pen and paper for 30 years, but i still have my dice collection. I have a 100 sided die as well, it's pretty easy to read what was rolled. But most important, it does not roll around like a ball, because inside the die are weighted beads. that slow it down reasonably well. No dice box needed! Not sure if these are still sold, but they are nice to have.

[@freshrot420]

They're hard as heck to find, but yea, the only d100s worth a damn!

[@ViroHeresy]

My first actual purchased dice were these "elven writing" dice with fancy blue engravings on each side and a clear fill... they looked so neat online but in person, couldn't read them at all. Legibility just wasn't something I'd thought about early on in my dnd games. I still have them in my collection I just don't role them so I don't have to read them. 😆

[@KeandeLacy]

I have a d5 - a ten-sided die which has two faces each for 1 through 5. The only thing I've ever used it for is randomly choosing a character in a party of 5. I also have a 20-sided d10, which is the die that I leave closest to the person who "forgets" to bring their own dice and doesn't ask permission to borrow mine. And I have a d30, which I occasionally use with a d12 to generate a random day of the year.

[@cassandracastro2759]

I believe those are used in Dungeon Crawl Classics.

[@Nicsopana]

@@cassandracastro2759 Few dices DCC isn't using 😀.

[@bjornseine2342]

I recently saw a product called "Roulette dice" from uniquedice. Metal discs with spinners in them that give you a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 and d20 "roll" all in a single spin. Clockwork design; look like something straight out of Dune or a pirate movie. I want one.

[@AwkwardPasta004]

I am a dice dragon thats has historically been too poor to fully realize my dragon-ness but now…I make money *evil dice dragon cackling*

[@billiehopple6304]

Love you Ginny! No your levitating dice is not broken, the inner magnet needs to be free floating so it can levitate on any side. We just got the two we ordered (because as a dm my husband often rolls 2 d20’s at the same time) and another downside is the dice’s internal magnet is so strong they just stick together and don’t actually roll. The dice will also stick to and metal clasps on a fold up dice roller mat, or any metal screws in your gaming table. Don’t get me wrong it makes you feel like a wizard to walk by your shelf and see your d20 floating…but not terribly practical for actual use. Also I’m super sad it doesn’t float as high as I thought it would.

[@PollexTheCat]

The 1 sided die would be kindof a funny taunt to roll for a player that's preformed an action that is absolutely guaranteed to fail catastrophically.

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

I have the Pieces of Fate! My set came with little cards that give each coin-die magic item stats: the d6 can be used as a spellcasting focus for necromancy spells and you can cast Web from it once per day, the d20 grants immunity to mind control and resistance to psychic damage, the d12 grants resistance to necrotic damage and lets you cast Revivify once per long rest, and so on.

[@corgiw7281]

[high four!] I really like the aesthetic feature where they form a distinct image when arranged together.

[@ArchOfWinter]

D1, for when the DM really hates the player's decision. Perfect for railroading!

[@jasonreed7522]

Or its just straight up impossible for it to succeed or fail. (Not everything is possible) The D1 exists solely for the sass of it, which makes it the most useful die of all. Also the comedy of a Halfling rolling it and asking if they can reroll the nat 1.

[@rolebo1]

I won't classify myself as a dice dragon, more a dice goblin. My priced dice possession is a D120, mathematically the most useful useless die. It can simulate (with a chart) any standard polyhedral dice roll. It is the only dice you can never lose and always be able to use. It is big and clunky but surprisingly rolls better than my D100. My other weird dice are: D60, D30, D24, D16, D7, and a D5.

[@GourmetBurrito]

Coming from the board game world with basically no ttrpg experience, those custom death saving/bardic inspiration dice look soooo nice to have. Custom dice make understanding the rolls so much easier even if kind of extra.

[@tahroo4262]

"... it just rolls forever because it's basically just a ball." On the other hand, it's a fantastic way to let your cat control your fate.

[@NeedsMore360s]

"There is no reason to roll this die" *Divination wizards rolling Portent* "Hmmm....."

[@bjrnegillarsen1380]

Storage is easily solved, dice vaults for every set and then stack the vaults in one or more antique steamer-trunks...

[@GinnyDi]

Perfect!! I'll just get an extra house!! 😂

[@lornacy]

Although it seems a pity not to display them.

[@corgiw7281]

[slooowly slides the pocket door shut on the trunk in the computer room]

[@aaronwhite1882]

There is one subclass that uses d3s. The Wild Magic Barbarian gets a pseudo-Bless ability where people can add 1d3 to their rolls.

[@reichstein011]

I have the metal d100 you showed, and the way I roll it is to put it in my dice tray, then shake the tray along the horizontal plane for a bit, and put it down to let the die settle on a result. I don't roll it on the table because I don't want to hurt the table :)

[@freshrot420]

The original d100 they're trying to copy is hollow and filled with beads or sand to add friction to its roll. When they're solid like that they aren't worth it.

[@skywardthedragon]

My most dragon-y dice is a giant sized Magic 8 Ball shaped like a D20. It has numbers on all the sides except the 20, which is the window that lets you see what your fortune is.

[@theservelify]

Posting here because this is your newest video. I dont really expect you to read this but I still wanted to say thank you for your work. I just found your channel today through the youtube algorithm and well there couldn't have been a better time. I will run our next campaign game on sunday and couldn't motivate myself to prep anything. Now with some new found fire in your whimsical videos I will give my group the best I can get out of 1 days time work. Thx

[@zackmyers805]

The Death Saving Throw dice can actually be detrimental rather than useful when you account for things like Bless, Cloak/Ring of protection, Flash of Genius, etc.

[@TheFangeye]

I have owned and used a d100 dice, though a different one made from plastic. Even with the reduced mass it still would roll extremely well like you demonstrated. Even when it settled on a face I found it tricky to read and would confirm by pressing down on the side I thought was face up. This usually worked but maybe 5% of the time I would guess wrong and accidentally roll the dice again XD. Also, because Valentines Day, here is a craft idea you may have heard of! 1) Make two paper mobius loops that twist in opposite directions. 2) Tape them together at one point so that the loops form a 90 degree angle where you tape them together. 3) Pierce into each mobius loop and cut them in half along the loop. Ta da! Now you have two linked hearts =D What we really need though is for someone to make a klein bottle die.

[@jasonreed7522]

D100s rolling like normal balls reminds me of early calculus classes where we used rectangles and trapezoids to approximate smooth curves so we could find the area under them. (The more you used the better the approximations, this is the build up to integration) Dice are the same way, the more faces you add the closer your dice become to approximating a sphere. D20s are pretty close to sphere shaped, and that d100 looked pretty close to a golf ball. Tldr: d100s are too good of approximations of spheres to roll well as actual dice.

[@captainkronos]

Ohh I have the Pieces of Fate flip dice! They are quite the set, but they are very unwieldy to use and read - and dangerous on a wooden table if you miss the rolling tray or mat, so they are on my display shelf now. The fancy iridescent black dragonscale bag they came in is getting use though.

[@samsinger5135]

haha i always love to see more of your collection.. as a wee baby Dice Dragon.. my falt is at kickstarter seeing all the new and different sets of dice.. my one useless die that i have comes from "The Flying Horseduck" with a solid stainless steel 120 sided die.. the thing weighs about 1.4 Lbs {redefine the term "Table buster"} but i love it all the same

[@euansmith3699]

I like how the upper end weight metric for hobby items, like metal dice and metal Chaos Dreadnoughts, is how suited they are to killing people.

[@voidseeker4394]

In computer roguelike game Cataclysm DDA you can find DnD dice as in-game item, and use them as ammo for slingshot or similar weapons.

[@iBLookinATu]

I never expected a die that I OWN would rank up to #8 on the Useless scale. I love the metal golf ball so much, and I keep it as a home defense weapon in case of emergencies.

[@CodeOmega0]

Woah, I wasn't expecting you to have entirely green hair again - it looks great! I like the darker tones to it too!

[@DarthMcLeod]

I got a plastic D100 as a prereg gift from one of the few Origins conventions that were held on the West Coast before they standardized on Columbus, OH. I remember because they were nicknamed "Origins Golf Balls." It doesn't roll forever because it is hollow and has an amount of beads inside to damp the kinetic energy of rolling. But even if it is rolled on a hard, flat surface, it's sometimes hard to be sure which is the "up" face so I don't use it a lot.

[@Destriarch]

D3s have been around for a long time, even if they don't crop up in games often, but they're usually a standard d6 numbered 1-3 twice, or you use a D6, roll it and halve the result rounding up. The 'loose magnets' inside the levitating D20 are probably intentional and intended to make it settle with a clear side uppermost, since it has no flat surface to correct its angle - I have some spherical D6's that work in a similar fashion, using a weight that settles into a specially shaped hollow inside to make it always land with a definite side uppermost rather than halfway between several.

[@InkyPetrel]

Okay but I need those death save dice. Like, immediately. They're just neat :p Also, the mobius die just delights me. Perfectly pointless, it's wonderful. I want one to hand to my players if they ask to do something completely impossible "sure, roll this" :p

[@fightingcorsair7297]

I bought a d100 about 30 years ago that quite literally looks like a golf ball. It has little beads or something rolling around inside. They help stabilize it when it rolls so it doesn't roll on for eternity. I also have a d30.

[@upinarms79]

Probably made by GameScience. I love their dice and if you have some, you probably want to hang on to them because I don't think they're making them anymore.

[@DannyboyO1]

Dice that are hard to read are, like, common though. Every group I've played in, everybody has some. I've got grey/black speckled dice with red numbers! I almost don't use them, but... some tables, some lighting conditions, they're okay. Lotta light, lotta contrast... so if they're usable, I've probably got a migraine. XD

[@corgiw7281]

Bet I know where those speckled dice are from, too.

[@DannyboyO1]

@@corgiw7281 Really? 'cause I've had 'em long enough to have no idea myself. (Not the highest bar, since there was no epic story involved beyond "looked cool & I needed dice".

[@appleschloss]

Me: IMMEDIATELY going to Viridian Gaming and getting the loot table die LOL. Loot tables are my *jam*

[@mikerickson01]

As a mathematician, I love the möbius die. I also think that oversized dice do have a practical use. As one gets older, one's vision makes it hard to read the small numerals on a d-20 that fits easily in the palm. Huge dice = huge numerals.

[@DrewTeter]

In Pathfinder the size of a weapon affect how much damage it does. So a dagger sized for a medium sized human does 1d4 damage but a dagger sized for a tiny sized pixie just does a flat 1 point of damage (plus modifiers). However, there are certain abilities that (like vital strike) affect how many dice you roll for a weapon. Rules-As-Written, the tiny dagger doesn't roll any dice so that ability shouldn't apply, I always make the ruling that the tiny dagger does 1d1 points of damage so the ability affects it. It'd be neat to have some D1s to give to my players the next time I cast reduce person on them.

[@NathanCamp]

Love math rocks in all their forms

[@Greyscal3d]

Damm, you know you are to obsessed with D&D when your dice collection is on part with someone who made D&D their literal job

[@AvatarPuls]

What is "on part"?

[@Greyscal3d]

on par*@@AvatarPuls

[@corruleumblue3317]

@@AvatarPuls "On par" but autocorrupt got to it, presumably.

[@LordPhobos6502]

I've seen D3 and D100 before... I think every dice collection should have one. D100 in resin works reasonably well, not too heavy, but you definitely need a hard flat surface to roll on. I am *genuinely* impressed at the D1 😂😂❤❤❤

[@Jeste_Kitku]

When comes to the d100 "ball" there is a way to make it practical, and also look cool! If you ever play with people more into narration that rolling dice for everything, you can just throw d100 into the air, catch it, and have the outcome be whatever (for example) your index finger landed on when catching this ball of a die. Also, for well skilled in this technique, you could always catch it while making a tiny window with your thumb and index finger, and read whatever lands in there! It may not be a clean read every time, you may "land" on the edge, and yet, If it is to not slow down the narration it is a great DM tool!

[@StuHambone]

I have the levitating dice...have yet to successfully levitate them. This does not matter to me as they are dice and dice are meant to be hoar....collected. To be clear, I control the dice, they do not control me

[@Random_Gamer-sh6pf]

I thought I wouldn't care about these, I really did. You just _had_ to show those beautiful coins and that awsome levitating d20. And they're the most expensive ones too 😭

[@marcusdire8057]

That little Ginny-color baby dragon is ADORABLE! ❤

[@Cortaxify]

Actually has a D100 from back in the early 90s that was like your but transparent plastic with the numbers on. The fun part of it was that the inside was full of small pits all over and it was half full of small metal pellets that settle in those pits as you rolled it making it heavier and stop faster. Gave of a rattling sound from all the metal pellets inside when rolled.

[@mikolajwitkowski8093]

There are so many board games that used D3, usually telling you to divide a d6 by 2, so having them is incredibly useful.

[@B.-T.]

I remember Spoony showcasing his dice collection years ago and he had a true d100, and also a d-everything. Like, a dice that could roll as all dice. It was madness.

[@GinnyDi]

Now I know what I need to add to my collection 😅

[@B.-T.]

​@@GinnyDi I believe both dice were by Game Science. His d100 wasn't metal but it was a true dice inside a transparent plastic ball.

[@elana1463]

@@B.-T. And the game science D100 rolled even worse :D (or better if you want a ball )

[@elana1463]

@@CatOnACell That is how the old ones worked(or were supposed to work more likely) The nwer ones I have a massive and try to have more flat facets. But both designs are more of a gimmick than practical.

[@taragnor]

I used to have an old d100 (not nearly as nice as Ginny's metal one) that was basically the plastic transparent golfball with numbers under it. Very similar design like Spoonys. Those thing were super impossible to read.

[@StarDustForge]

My favorite part at 8:57 "Because we live in the real world and there is no magic." that was so refreshing to hear. 😂

[@DB-zp9un]

You mean depressing.. It's depressing that there is no magic and we live in the real world..

[@Growls]

I honestly need a set with a d13 and a d18 for Dungeon Crawl Classic

[@Obstreperous_Octopus]

I think they do sell d26s... if you could get one of those with numbers 1-13 twice each, that'd effectively be a d13, so that's at least within the realm of possibility. Where you'd find a custom 36-sided dice, on the other hand... ... ...

[@selenagamya1612]

I used to have a set of hand carved ivory dice with silver inlaid numbers given to me by one of my tabletop friends back in high school. They were absolutely gorgeous and one of my prized possessions. But then my sister sold them in a garage sale while I was away at college.

[@The_memory_be_green]

i personally ADORE the look of the gyld dice, def gonna check them out. it's expensive but the full-range damage dice set is enticing as hell