Showing Off My Cool Dice - with Tom Vasel
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
- Tom Vasel takes a look at some of the coolest dice in his personal collection!
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We get our first ever dice video after 16 years of The Dice Tower. Keep them coming!
Next he is going to show us his collection of dice towers!
Please, sir, some more. I would love to see more of your dice collection, especially some of those pretty Kickstarter dice. Thumbs WAY UP.
What did D12 do wrong?
Blue and yellow purple pills?
Right? Where is the D12?
This. The D12 is the most pleasing to me, shape wise. Never need them, but I still love them.
Your D12 cries itself to sleep at night.
There is a D12 in the video. It just has 1-6 pips on its sides twice each to be used as a rounder W6.
I have a set of odd numbered dice. While playing D&D I asked if I can roll a D7 instead of a D6+1 for my one attack. He thought I was joking and agreed. I took out the D7 and the whole table came to a halt and after what seemed like a trial, they were voted to not be allowed. I still bring a lot of different dice (coin, flip, oversized, foam) and everyone just...rolls with it.
Thanks for sharing, Tom!
"...and if you step on this thing it's horrifically painful" 🤣
Have you thought about stacking your dice up? Making a tall vertical structure out of them? A tower if you will.
That was much cooler than I expected it to be! You need to buy a cheap secondhand copy of Parker Bros.' Hearts game, just so you can add the wooden "cubes" to your collection. :)
Love the round dice!
Tiny dice are great for kid's math games. Put 3 of them in a tiny clear cup (like an ingredient cup) and have the kids shake them. They then have to make equations with the 3 numbers. Stuff like that. Doesn't take up much room and the dice don't get lost.
😮 mind blown. Didn't realize the differences in D20s
The fairness of the 7 sided die depends on the surface you roll it on. It is not equally fair on hard and soft surfaces like normal dice are.
Love the DoubleSix Dice!
I know. I want to start using them instead of normal 6 sided now. Just much easier to roll.
My new favorite is the rhombic D12
Waiting for a video of your dice tower collection too
You forgot to mention those asian-style(?) stick-shaped dice like in "Naga Raja".
Double d6 are great, but you can get d4 that repeat three times on the 12-sided. So much better than the pyramids
Those skewed dice hurt my brain! Do they actually roll with equal probability? 😮
Of course not.
Actually, yes. Well, I can't swear that every company that makes them makes them correctly, but there is math about them: czcams.com/video/uAnCL3vhVIs/video.html
Seeing the dots on the 36 sided die, I wondered: are there braille dice?
I know people often complain about the sharp cut dice.... but, in theory, they should roll more true as the very flat sides with sharp edges will keep then from rolling endlessly... when they land on a side they should stay put more often than not. 🙂 The Tumble Smoothed dice tend to roll more and may have certain sides that become "favored" by the inaccuracy of the cut.... That's the theory anyway... Cheers! Thanks for sharing your interesting dice!
Fun please share more dice
The first thing I thought of for mini dice was Backgammon. All my sets have come with super small dice.
Yeah, but where can you get them?
any Orbidice in your collection, Tom
I have some d4 that actually roll and not just plop down to get a result.
Some of those later dice looked like bogies.🤣🤣🤣
Unless a game really grabs my attention, I will probably spend most of my money on dice at Gen Con this year. I love dice and collect weird dice wherever I can find them.
I’d love a double d6 but I’ve never found one in the UK…
That d36 Tom showed functions as a double d6. Each face has white dots representing a 2d6 roll. I'm kind of surprised he didn't point that out when it hit the table.
Use D12 and subtract 6 from the higher numbers.
Any meal dice? Or dice spinners?
Lets see the gyroids developed by wyrmwood!
You missed out on the d12! How could you! 😛
Molly Hatchet called and wants to talk about that intro music...🤣
The intro? That's clearly Thin Lizzy.
Hugh approves!!
Will you be buying the new Wyrmwood gyro dice? They are differently shaped for the set of 7. Jason their Industrial Engineer created them.
Instead of a D4, it'd be great if the Triple D4 out of a D12 were made. Or maybe a Quintuple D4 out of a D20. D4s are just so awkward and don't roll nicely.
A video too beautiful for thine eyes.
It is quite pointless to have more than D6 and D20, although D10 and D12 are somewhat useful. You can fairly easily simulate most other numbers with D6 or D20 by doing multiple throws and/or by rerolling certain values. You just have to be careful to not skew the probabilities. It's also preferable to simulate a coin toss with a D6 (1-3, 4-6), because easier to execute. Same for D3 which works perfectly with a D6 (1-2, 3-4, 5-6).
D6 and D20 also have the best shapes for rolling, although D12 are ok, too. For example the shapes of D8 and D10 are not overall evenly distributed. That said dice are not only useful for rolling to generate random numbers but are also useful to keep state as markers and counters. D6 are best for that because they don't tip over easily.
Also, custom dice (those with custom symbols on the dice sides) can be easily simulated with normal dice by using a table to map the values to symbols.
Lastly, I think, D20 are fairly underused in board games, although D20 are very useful to have probabilities in 5% steps. The only board game I know that makes use of something similar is Twilight Imperium which uses D10 for having probabilities in 10% steps. The commonly used D6 are fairly weird in that respect with its 16,666% steps.
(Yes, I know RPGs like D&D use D20.)