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Thoughts on "Dice Chain" dice? d3, d7, d14, d16, d24, d30 etc?

Started by Nerad, December 23, 2024, 03:14:29 AM

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Nerad

December 23, 2024, 03:14:29 AM
For a while I was using a roll under mechanic for skills but leveled them with different dice.  So you'd roll a d30 under your intelligence if you had basic knowledge of a topic, but a d20 or even d16 if you were an expert master...
Anyways I moved away from it mostly because those dice are hard to keep track of at the table.  But I still like the idea.  Has anyone used the "dice chain" dice much?
These are the ones popularized by Dungeon Crawl Classics rpg.

StoneDev

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December 23, 2024, 07:56:43 AM
I love the dice chain. DCC is great obviously but I also love the way their used in usage dice from the black hack.

mekhawretch

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January 06, 2025, 09:05:52 AM
I haven't played DCC yet but I have those dice anyway cause I'm a bit of a dice goblin and I want to have every kind. They've come in handy for edge situations where I've needed to pick randomly between an odd number of things, or give a d5 to a player when their d8 longsword gets damaged, and now they have to roll with the weird ugly die.

semi-urge

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January 07, 2025, 04:35:21 PM
Got the chain for DCC ages ago and haven't looked back since. Especially since my first DCC roll was for some random encounter on a d50 and I managed to roll a 1... almost got TPKd by what showed up. Fun times.

But yeah, I've been using the full chain as a GM extensively... weird homebrew mechanics, random tables, it's all good.
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