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Selkares Villager
Posts : 27 Join date : 2016-12-29 Location : Paris
| Subject: Dice design 23rd January 2017, 10:19 pm | |
| Small question on the dice,
On KS they are shown as having "pointy angles". Recently I've seen dice beeing more with smooth and "rounded" angles that help to better roll.
Are the dice designs definitive in this regard? | |
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Malamute Villager
Posts : 70 Join date : 2016-12-30 Age : 54 Location : USA
| Subject: Re: Dice design 23rd January 2017, 10:23 pm | |
| Rounded angles tend to be less randomly accurate due to the edges being formed by tumbling of dice for polishing which is inconsistent. Think how sharp a casinos dice are. You can cut a biotch with the corners on those!!.... | |
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Voice of Olympus Herald
Posts : 385 Join date : 2016-12-29
| Subject: Re: Dice design 24th January 2017, 1:10 pm | |
| The dice shown are graphics rather than production samples. I've not seen the options from the factory yet.
Malamute is correct. Casino dice are dangerous! | |
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Telgar Hero
Posts : 204 Join date : 2016-12-31 Location : Paris
| Subject: Re: Dice design 24th January 2017, 1:18 pm | |
| If you've got (pointy) sharp-angled dice, you have to throw them from high as they won't roll a lot (that's what we see in Casinos). You'd also better use a dice mat. To limit noise, required space on the table and risk of knocking mini's over, I would prefer round-angled dice. (wasn't there a poll about dice somewhere ?) I believe Conan's dice are nice in this aspect. | |
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Voice of Olympus Herald
Posts : 385 Join date : 2016-12-29
| Subject: Re: Dice design 24th January 2017, 3:54 pm | |
| The poll was for numbers vs swords. | |
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Asgo Villager
Posts : 21 Join date : 2016-12-31
| Subject: Re: Dice design 24th January 2017, 5:05 pm | |
| the advantage of pointy dice is that they could be used as weapons for the meta game of "Who leaves the table alive wins!" basically as part of the strategy of "death by a thousand (dice-)cuts"
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Cryocat Villager
Posts : 63 Join date : 2016-12-29
| Subject: Re: Dice design 24th January 2017, 5:43 pm | |
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Hellikin Villager
Posts : 40 Join date : 2016-12-29 Location : United States
| Subject: Re: Dice design 24th January 2017, 7:29 pm | |
| I'd prefer rounded corners, rather than sharp pointy corners.
Otherwise my game boards will get chewed up pretty quickly! | |
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Malamute Villager
Posts : 70 Join date : 2016-12-30 Age : 54 Location : USA
| Subject: Re: Dice design 24th January 2017, 7:43 pm | |
| They will be tumbled and rounded almost guaranteed. Its just what they do except in very rare circumstances. | |
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Voice of Olympus Herald
Posts : 385 Join date : 2016-12-29
| Subject: Re: Dice design 25th January 2017, 12:18 pm | |
| Almost certainly rounded to some extent. As has been pointed (ahem) out, sharp corners mess up boards. | |
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