I have a vague suspicion that all of these questions lately, might be asked so in the end you could try to create a game that would appeal to the much largest possible audience.

I this case, one of the questions (if it hasn't been already asked) is the amount and style of art requested in a game book so it would be more pleasant to read...

My favorite die was my D20 that came with the Torg box set. It just looked sweet. Rolled nice. Was the favorite. But it has been lost to the sands of time. Right now my faves would probably be a green was gold pips chessex set of d6s.

Put up a Poll!!!

For me, it's the D20. For me, it's the die that defines RPGing...even though I love rolling D6s.

Though for pirate games, I love the D8...'cuz pieces of eight. Truly something I love about Crimson Cutlass.

Quote from: Omega;819921Favorite die type? The d10 percentile dice.

Favorite personal dice? My Star Frontiers d10 percentiles.

I had a green crystal d6 that I was quite fond of, but it got lost in somebody's dorm room during an intense game of Three Man (the drinking game) when I was a freshman in college.  

Currently, my Star Frontiers D10's - one red and one yellow - never let me down.  I always read the yellow 1st, and stuff seems to work a lot more often than not.

For an individual die type, the d12 is pretty cool. It has lots of faces and rolls well, yet each face is large enough to give decent-sized numbers. On the other hand, if I'm rolling a handful of dice I don't think anything tops basic d8's with pips instead of numerals.

My favorite set of dice has to be my old soft-plastic OD&D poly set from the 1970's -- the one with yellow d4, orange d6, green d8, blue d12, and white d20. I keep my original set in a plastic box and carry it to game sessions, but I also bought several "sets" of hard-plastic Chessix dice with similar color schemes for actual play.

For one single favorite die, I agree that the TORG one is pretty neat.

I also bought a set of amber colored dice to set on the table unused during my Amber Diceless games. I get a chuckle out of that.

Quote from: Spinachcat;820068Put up a Poll!!!

If anyone voted for the d4, I'd have them shot. I would take them outside, and execute them in front of their families.

Quote from: tuypo1;819962speaking of die i have been thinking lately why do they call them percentile die wouldn't a percentile die be d101 there is such a thing as 0%

A post from tuypo1 with two punctuation characters? Odd.

Because a percent is a hundredth part and there are one hundred possible outcomes? If it bothers you, treat 00 as 0.00 and just keep rolling digits until you have enough precision. Both 0% and 100% (and any exact value) have probability zero, but you should never roll for such probabilities anyway.

Quote from: Ravenswing;819992In terms of genre, I have a sneaking fondness for d8s, for no reason I can bring to mind.  I use a d8 even now, however much I've been playing 3d6 games since 1981, for various bits of linear randomization.

Wish I had my original polydice, but they were lost in a move many years ago.

Our company only uses d8.  They are my favorite as well.

D6's. Can do most anything with it.

Quote from: Ladybird;820079If anyone voted for the d4, I'd have them shot. I would take them outside, and execute them in front of their families.

Youd step on a d4 caltrop and while you were hopping around screaming theyd escape with a villainous laugh. nyah-haa-haa-haa!

I have a set of brass dice that I love to use when running. A collection of "peacock" dice when playing.

I don't have any superstitions, per se, but I've discovered I really don't like people touching my DM dice. I'm happy to share my others, however.

Quote from: Turanil;820050I love the d12 who gets too little use in D&D. I like it because it's cool to look at, rolls very well (unlike a d4 or d8), and represents an excellent range of number (not too much, not too few)

All of this. When I used to play Earthdawn with my brothers, the way we knew our characters had finally achieved Big Damn Hero status was when we started rolling dX+d12 for general skills and abilities. I've loved that die ever since.

As for a favorite particular di(c)e, I'd probably have to go with my black and yellow set given to me by my DM, on account of they look vaguely bee-like, which was kind of a big thing for my character in her previous campaign.

This despite my tongue-in-cheek superstition that set dice are even more The Enemy than dice in general. Hey, it's a silly elfgames superstition. It's not supposed to make sense.

Quote from: woodsmoke;820530This despite my tongue-in-cheek superstition that set dice are even more The Enemy than dice in general. Hey, it's a silly elfgames superstition. It's not supposed to make sense.

If I'm playing a game that requires rolling more than one die at once, even percentiles, I insist on using a matched set.

This caused a problem in one game, where a player was borrowing dice, and I insisted she took a matched pair; she then pointed out that I was wearing odd socks, so maybe I was being a bit too obsessive about the dice thing.

My original set that my mom drove me all over everywhere to find in the 80's.  The kind that has to be periodically colored in with a crayon, and the d20 is numbered 0-9 twice with a + to indicate 11-20.  Sadly lost the d8 & d12.

Otherwise, I want the die to be a solid color with easily read numbers.  Prefer pips on a d6 to numbers.

Rolling a d20 and hoping for high is the most fun number generator.  Percentile roll under also feels good.

Quote from: Old One Eye;820556I want the die to be a solid color with easily read numbers.

As my eyes have weakened, I've retired the hard to read but nice looking dice I own in favor of black numbers on white. And I still manage to misread the 7 on the d12 as a 1 every so often.