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Post by scottanderson on Jul 16, 2017 1:58:43 GMT -5
Tonight we had a session and at one point, I threw my attack and damage dice together. Half the table was astonished by this and I had to explain why I threw the dice together - it just feels good to do it. As it turns out I didn't hit. But I was amused that it amused the several players.
Back in a 3.5 game in maybe 2010, I had an elf fighter who specialized in throwing hammers. He could attack three times per round in any combination of melee and missile combat. Very versatile. But that's six die rolls! So I got three different pairs of one d20 and one d6 sorted by color. I wrote on his sheet the color order of the attacks and threw all six dice at once. It was a fun little flourish that made playing him unique.
Have you seen this, have you tried it, and do you like it?
Do you have a unique flourish or ritual with your dice?
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Post by robkuntz on Jul 16, 2017 4:49:57 GMT -5
Tonight we had a session and at one point, I threw my attack and damage dice together. Half the table was astonished by this and I had to explain why I threw the dice together - it just feels good to do it. As it turns out I didn't hit. But I was amused that it amused the several players. Back in a 3.5 game in maybe 2010, I had an elf fighter who specialized in throwing hammers. He could attack three times per round in any combination of melee and missile combat. Very versatile. But that's six die rolls! So I got three different pairs of one d20 and one d6 sorted by color. I wrote on his sheet the color order of the attacks and threw all six dice at once. It was a fun little flourish that made playing him unique. Have you seen this, have you tried it, and do you like it? Do you have a unique flourish or ritual with your dice? Nothing out of the ordinary other than to reach for a Ranch Dorito afterwards... |
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Post by scottanderson on Jul 16, 2017 11:10:52 GMT -5
Let me add that Rob Kuntz pretty much established what it means to throw dice in D&D. We all follow him or deviate from him, but he was there at the beginning.
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Post by robkuntz on Jul 16, 2017 12:00:12 GMT -5
Let me add that Rob Kuntz pretty much established what it means to throw dice in D&D. We all follow him or deviate from him, but he was there at the beginning. Heh. As long as I don't start throwing Doritos and eating dice--that would be a strange form of D and D...  Kinda like letting the "chips" fall where they may... |
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Post by ripx187 on Jul 16, 2017 13:14:35 GMT -5
Let me add that Rob Kuntz pretty much established what it means to throw dice in D&D. We all follow him or deviate from him, but he was there at the beginning. Heh. As long as I don't start throwing Doritos and eating dice--that would be a strange form of D and D... Kinda like letting the "chips" fall where they may... One year my wife bought me some D&D dice made of chocolate for Xmas. I couldn't bring myself to eat them. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 16, 2017 22:58:37 GMT -5
Playing TnT for years got me hooked on throwing handsful of dice at once, so now I do it even when I don't need to.
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Post by scottanderson on Jul 17, 2017 2:57:46 GMT -5
Playing TnT for years got me hooked on throwing handsful of dice at once, so now I do it even when I don't need to. Champions/HERO System is like that. You commonly throw ten-fifteen dice for damage. |
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Post by fearghus on Jul 17, 2017 13:59:43 GMT -5
Hello,
Rolling attack and damage together is not uncommon with the tournament play of 4e and 5e. I was chastised by some friends that play often due to my wasting of time with single rolls. I am fine with it, but only have run social games where it is not critical to roll the dice at the same time, so I do not enforce it.
This is also commonly used on PBP games on the Giant in the Playground (GitP) forums (order of the stick). Again, not everyone enforces it, but I have seen it in the majority of games threads I read.
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Post by ripx187 on Jul 17, 2017 14:29:52 GMT -5
Playing TnT for years got me hooked on throwing handsful of dice at once, so now I do it even when I don't need to. Champions/HERO System is like that. You commonly throw ten-fifteen dice for damage. That is absolutely insane. Rolling that many dice would drive me nuts (it's a short trip). It makes me appretiate the beautiful, well thought out mechanics of D&D that I had always taken for granted. Back when I first started playing we were dirt broke, we shared dice a lot until we could go get our own. We didn't have the huge bag of ugly missmatched dice yet, and players do get superstitious about their dice, almost to the point where it becomes a religious thing. Once I had my set, I would sit there and roll that single 1d6 3 or 4 times to generate each character stat; it was quite pathetic. Today I hoard six-siders like they are going to quit making them. Seriously, I picked them all out of the community bag and am always buying more. On game day, I use two or three sets . . . well, I have two or three sets, I rarely use them all, but BY GOD I'VE GOT THEM! And my giant bag-o-d6s is never that far away. |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jul 18, 2017 11:08:56 GMT -5
Love to roll dice and I have quite a few. I don't like anyone to touch my dice, but I don't feel that way about other things. I will loan almost anything out, but not my dice. My goto snack is various cheeses and crackers.
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Post by sixdemonbag on Jul 18, 2017 16:01:18 GMT -5
Mighty Darci Fire-roasted tomato and olive oil Triscuits with pepper jack cheese (very lightly melted to make it "stick") is my jam when I'm not trying to be fancy. In college, nacho cheese Doritos, jalapenos, and pepper jack cheese in the microwave was our "poor man's" version of homemade finger foods. (Yes, I like spicy foods...)
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jul 18, 2017 16:17:06 GMT -5
Mighty Darci Fire-roasted tomato and olive oil Triscuits with pepper jack cheese (very lightly melted to make it "stick") is my jam when I'm not trying to be fancy. In college, nacho cheese Doritos, jalapenos, and pepper jack cheese in the microwave was our "poor man's" version of homemade finger foods. (Yes, I like spicy foods...) Does anyone not like spicy foods!  Yes those Triscuits are awesome! |
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Post by ripx187 on Jul 18, 2017 19:52:44 GMT -5
We eat supper together, so everyone can catch up and then we play. I don't have enough room on my side of the table for much snacking, though as a player, no character sheet is truly finished until it is stained with cheeto dust.
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Post by robkuntz on Jul 19, 2017 4:04:54 GMT -5
Mighty Darci Fire-roasted tomato and olive oil Triscuits with pepper jack cheese (very lightly melted to make it "stick") is my jam when I'm not trying to be fancy. In college, nacho cheese Doritos, jalapenos, and pepper jack cheese in the microwave was our "poor man's" version of homemade finger foods. (Yes, I like spicy foods...) Does anyone not like spicy foods! Those who do not should not be trusted!  |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 19, 2017 5:56:27 GMT -5
Those who do not should not be trusted! You would fit in well in Southern Texas, where I believe even banana splits include habaneros. |
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Post by robkuntz on Jul 19, 2017 6:09:13 GMT -5
Those who do not should not be trusted! You would fit in well in Southern Texas, where I believe even banana splits include habaneros. Hot food is not limited to Texas; in fact the SW US populace, in general, really eats at the hottest spice level of a jalapeno only (low by standards of hotness), and which to Mexicans are like pickles are to Americans. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 19, 2017 6:38:31 GMT -5
Brownsville, right on the borderlands and where the chief of police of the week received human heads in the mail, considered habaneros to be mild - which pepper (along with my easily sunburned scalp) earned me the nickname of "Brother Gringo" at our first LingerLonger after church. There were the "real" spices in other dishes, but I abstained. Courteously.
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Post by robkuntz on Jul 19, 2017 6:42:22 GMT -5
Brownsville, right on the borderlands and where the chief of police of the week received human heads in the mail, considered habaneros to be mild - which pepper (along with my easily sunburned scalp) earned me the nickname of "Brother Gringo" at our first LingerLonger after church. There were the "real" spices in other dishes, but I abstained. Courteously. Try these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequin_pepperJust a tiny bit of one has had past friends of mine claiming that it felt like it was burning a hole in their tongues! |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 19, 2017 6:46:17 GMT -5
That may have been the Nut Chili that Sister Vasquez wanted me to try. She had a wicked smirk on her face and it looked too innocent (an almost clear broth in a crockpot) so I ran for my life.
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Post by sixdemonbag on Jul 19, 2017 10:56:27 GMT -5
Brownsville, right on the borderlands and where the chief of police of the week received human heads in the mail, considered habaneros to be mild - which pepper (along with my easily sunburned scalp) earned me the nickname of "Brother Gringo" at our first LingerLonger after church. There were the "real" spices in other dishes, but I abstained. Courteously. Try these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequin_pepperJust a tiny bit of one has had past friends of mine claiming that it felt like it was burning a hole in their tongues! I'm a sucker for these types of challenges. I grew up and currently live in Texas, so heat runs in the water. The hottest I've had are ghost peppers and Carolina reapers. Great, now I'm hungry... |
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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 24, 2017 21:43:33 GMT -5
I never had anything spicy or hot in the way of food until after I left home and discovered it on my own(I grew up on a farm and it was meat and potatoes all the way). Back in 1980 I lived in Cleveland, I went to a work related convention in the Renaissance Center in Detroit. The first night my co-worker and I and six guys we didn't know went to an Asian restaurant and it was my first experience with it about a year and a half out of college. The whole menu was not in English (I don't remember what at this point) except this one item had HOT in English about twice the size of the rest of the items on the menu in big bold print. So I ordered that and the whole table gave me grief, what was I doing, I'd never be able to eat that and it continued like that, all the way to the food arrived. All of these guys are 25-35 years older than I am. So the food arrived and my dish turned out to be a plate of white rice (which I don't normally care for) and strips of meat and vegetables and as it turned out strips of a hot pepper that were stir fried. The only thing to drink who steaming hot tea. The waiter didn't leave, he stood behind me to the right just barely within my peripheral vision. And they are all staring at me. So I started eating and it was delicious, I mean really good. Then the peppers hit and I started eating the rice too. The sweat popped out and it was hot, but not too hot to keep me from continuing to eat. They all just shook their heads in amazement and the waiter grinned and left. That was the hottest thing I had eaten up to that point, but it was also something I ate again the next evening. But I did learn that sometimes, even white rice is good. My wife and I both like hot spicy food, garlic, onions, sauerkraut and horseradish. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jul 25, 2017 0:54:43 GMT -5
Playing TnT for years got me hooked on throwing handsful of dice at once, so now I do it even when I don't need to. Champions/HERO System is like that. You commonly throw ten-fifteen dice for damage. When you throw 15 dice, there WILL be damage, yes. |
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Post by robkuntz on Jul 25, 2017 5:11:52 GMT -5
Love to roll dice and I have quite a few. I don't like anyone to touch my dice, but I don't feel that way about other things. I will loan almost anything out, but not my dice. My goto snack is various cheeses and crackers. "Don't Deign Dare Dabble w/Darci's Dice." |
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Kinda like letting the "chips" fall where they may...
