DCC RPG - which dice do I need again?

Fifth Element · July 03, 2012, 02:31:23 PM

Quote from: Exploderwizard;555979...or the one that you tried was warped in some way.

Obtain four more of these dice,perform the same test, and get back to us with the results.

I did check its symmetry as well, actually.

The biggest lesson I learned when doing it was that I would never ever do it again.

DKChannelBoredom · July 03, 2012, 02:34:50 PM

fuck it, all these pictures have now made me order my first set of GameScience dice. Just the regular seven though... for now.

KenHR · July 03, 2012, 04:39:23 PM

Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;556016fuck it, all these pictures have now made me order my first set of GameScience dice. Just the regular seven though... for now.

I never thought I'd say it, but when I gave in to temptation a couple years ago, I had to admit that they were worth the price.

Fairness/precision manufacturing aside, they somehow just feel more solid than my other dice.

Benoist · July 03, 2012, 04:58:59 PM

I agree. Precision and all that aside, I just like the feel of the GS dice.

flyingcircus · July 03, 2012, 06:29:38 PM

I bought nothing but 2 dice of each d14, d16 & d24's.

RPGPundit · July 04, 2012, 05:20:45 PM

Let's face it, NONE of the gamescience or any other RPG dice will be "fair". Not "Vegas fair", anyways.

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crkrueger · July 04, 2012, 05:29:47 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;556535Let's face it, NONE of the gamescience or any other RPG dice will be "fair". Not "Vegas fair", anyways.

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Yeah, they're 6-sided, so easier to get right then a weird type, but they're also machined to a 10000th of an inch tolerance.

Still when you put two stacks of Koplow d20's together and one is an inch taller then the other, you wonder about degrees of unfairness.

RPGPundit · July 05, 2012, 03:50:07 PM

I don't think it matters that much (barring say, dice that are VISIBLY flawed) than some gamers seem to think it does.

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SJBenoist · July 05, 2012, 07:14:48 PM

I actually had to take a file to my GS d24. There was some kind of "rough" spot on one of the faces, and it kept catching the crayon in a bad way.

I'll have to go back with a paint pen anyway, as the grooves aren't really deep enough, making some numbers pretty hard to read.

Benoist · July 05, 2012, 07:46:02 PM

Welcome, SJB. Any correlation with my own name?

SJBenoist · July 05, 2012, 08:31:04 PM

Thanks.

Not that I know of.

I used to think it was an uncommon surname, but I've found at least two other unrelated families in St. Louis alone.

Benoist · July 05, 2012, 09:06:56 PM

Interesting! Benoist is my first name, and spelling it with the S instead of the much more common "Benoît" is exceedingly rare.

SJBenoist · July 05, 2012, 10:25:32 PM

You pronounce it Ben-wah?

Maybe the local families were related at some distant point, and it's a localized thing? Was your family ever in St. Louis?

RPGPundit · July 07, 2012, 04:56:07 PM

I'm pretty sure that like certain coneheads, Benoist comes from France.

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Benoist · July 07, 2012, 06:16:22 PM

Quote from: SJBenoist;557052You pronounce it Ben-wah?

Maybe the local families were related at some distant point, and it's a localized thing? Was your family ever in St. Louis?

Sorry for not answering earlier. Saw your post but forgot about it somehow.

Yes, like Pundit said, I'm from France. It's possible that these families are related. Actually it would make sense that these are descendants from a family of "Benoist" whose name stretches back as far as the Middle Ages, considering the spelling of the name. That particular spelling was chosen by my parents for my first name in the 70s because then in France it was particularly popular, but they wanted it to stand out somehow, so they went with the medieval spelling (-oist) instead of the modern "Benoît".