DCC RPG - which dice do I need again?

Benoist · May 29, 2012, 06:10:06 PM

So I looked for the type of dice required for the DCC RPG and I found this picture:

What I recognize here:

d3
d4
d5
d6
d7
d8
d10 and d%
d12
d14
d16
d20
d24
d30

Is that it? Am I missing something?

The Butcher · May 29, 2012, 06:14:22 PM

Just add d14, d16, d24 and d30 to your usual D&D complement of dice.

d3 can be improvised with d6, d5 with d10, d7 with d14.

Also, love the dice box with the gargoyle.

Benoist · May 29, 2012, 06:23:48 PM

I already have a game science glow in the dark set with a d3 so I'll probably complete the 12-piece set (like the dice pictured here, except I inked them black).

I just would need some d7, a bunch more d3, and I'll be pretty much set (I got all those dice but for d7 already).

crkrueger · May 29, 2012, 06:25:22 PM

Yeah you got it. If you're looking for matching Zocchi dice, not all of them come in all sizes. A lot of the transparent dice have all sizes, but for opaque it's limited.

Benoist · May 29, 2012, 06:30:35 PM

Quote from: CRKrueger;543633Yeah you got it. If you're looking for matching Zocchi dice, not all of them come in all sizes. A lot of the transparent dice have all sizes, but for opaque it's limited.

Yeah that kinda sucks, I'd like to complete my opaque sets (orange, blue and yellow) at some point, but that's not really necessary: I got the glow-in-the-dark translucent dice and I like those too. Will try to take a pic of the dice together too to show you.

crkrueger · May 29, 2012, 06:34:13 PM

Blue Opal has all sizes, that's a pretty cool Pearly color. Pearl White has all but d3 and d5 iirc. Translucent have a lot of complete sets, but Tanzanite is nice and dark, so readable well with white numbering. I think the Bronze and Copper were run in all sizes, but those are discontinued, so whatever stock is remaining, then gone. A friend of mine is working on a game with a dice step system using Zocchi dice, so I might pick up a set or two.

Benoist · May 29, 2012, 07:05:18 PM

Sets of dice, gamescience and others. Dice types: d3, d4, d5, d6, d8, d10, d12, d14, d16, d20, d24, d30, d50, d100.

Detail (d50 missing, it's the big pearl white thing in the center of the previous picture).

Missing the d7 as you can see. I'm going to try and complete my GITD set and find me some d7 at some point.

crkrueger · May 29, 2012, 07:21:59 PM

Those are Koplow 24s and 30s, for shame.

Marleycat · May 29, 2012, 07:36:50 PM

After reading the thread over at TBP it's first I ever heard of a d7.

Benoist · May 29, 2012, 07:50:30 PM

Quote from: CRKrueger;543642Those are Koplow 24s and 30s, for shame.

They're serviceable, but I'd like to get better ones, for sure (the numbering repartition on the d30 is terribad).

Benoist · May 29, 2012, 08:02:47 PM

Which are the dice we use the most in DCC RPG? Besides d20 of course.

crkrueger · May 30, 2012, 12:03:46 AM

Quote from: Benoist;543651Which are the dice we use the most in DCC RPG? Besides d20 of course.

It will start off all d20 with normal d4-d10 mostly for damage. It will be a few levels before people start using d14s as extra action dice. Someone dual wielding will use d16s instead of 20s for attack so you'll need at least two of those at the start prolly. The d5 and d7 aren't use much directly, they're normally used as a die shift in between standard die types. Lot of stuff is d3 of course, but that's easy.

FASERIP · May 30, 2012, 02:41:42 AM

Those d7s are pieces of shit, obviously not fair dice at all.

I'd use the d14 as suggested above.

The d5s are bad too.

Tahmoh · May 30, 2012, 04:14:05 AM

Why exactly did they decide to use weird dice for this game? i cant say ive ever seen any of those dice besides the d100 outside of specialist dice websites.

FASERIP · May 30, 2012, 08:59:13 AM

Quote from: Broken-Serenity;543714Why exactly did they decide to use weird dice for this game?

Just an attention-drawing gimmick.

Their justification? I would imagine it has to do with evoking that sense of bewilderment and intrigue that D&D's goofy--- but now naturalized--- polyhedrals had way back when.