Quote from: Ladybird;820533If I'm playing a game that requires rolling more than one die at once, even percentiles, I insist on using a matched set.

You fool! The dice are cruel and capricious creatures, and those that see in their neighbors a reflection of themselves will conspire together to ensure ever greater doom for all your role playing endeavors. Fortunately, they're also kind of stupid; they mistrust and will jealously guard their secrets against those not of their own kind, only grudgingly submitting to the least degree of wary cooperation at times of greatest peril for their captor's character.

That's the speech as I've perfected it thus far, anyway. I have sort of an absurd fascination with dice superstitions. I fully understand it's all bupkis, but, I mean, we're already playing silly imaginary elfgames anyway, why not throw discretion to the wind and go hog-wild? It's fun!

D20s, as they're just the iconic RPG dice and they look cool.

After that, a percentile set of dice, with one marked with the 10s, so people don't cheat.

Still, there's a lot to be said for the versatility of D6s.

Quote from: woodsmoke;820710You fool! The dice are cruel and capricious creatures, and those that see in their neighbors a reflection of themselves will conspire together to ensure ever greater doom for all your role playing endeavors. Fortunately, they're also kind of stupid; they mistrust and will jealously guard their secrets against those not of their own kind, only grudgingly submitting to the least degree of wary cooperation at times of greatest peril for their captor's character.

You're wrong! Dice of the same set have been produced together, painted together, sold together... they've seen some shit together, even before I adopted them to give some purpose to their lives. We're bros. When it all goes down, and it probably will, we've all got each other's backs.

For me it is a d10. I just like the number ten and like the way the die looks. After that it is the d4 or the d8.

I've never been superstitious about dice; but I do have a 'favorite' die.  It's a D6 that for some reason has a little skull in place of a 1.  I use it to roll probabilities of a random encounter.  The little skull comes up, the players run into monsters!

Quote from: RPGPundit;819913Do you have a "favorite" die?

If I'm rolling a d20, I tend to grab for either a red and yellow swirled color die or a black die with red numbers.

Quote from: RPGPundit;819913. . . [W]hy is it your 'favorite'? Is it a superstitious thing, or a sentimental thing, or both?

It's an aesthetic thing. I like how both dice look.

For our Boot Hill campaign, I'm using only orange and yellow dice, because they match the cover of the box, and I always roll them in mismatched color pairs, frex the yellow tens die with the orange ones die when rolling against a percentage.

At Dave Arneson's funeral there was a big bowl of d20s for people to take.  I grabbed one and it's now my "go to" d20.

I don't have a favourite die in the physical sense. The closest I get to this would be my set of made in China d10s which just have an unorthodox shape that allows them to roll better:).

In the sense of type of dice, I like, in order, 2d6 (I prefer to roll 2d6-7 instead of Fate/Fudge dice), 3d6, Xd6, d100, d30 and everything else, but I've long since stopped discriminating against games on the basis of the kind of dice they roll;).

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;936674At Dave Arneson's funeral there was a big bowl of d20s for people to take.  I grabbed one and it's now my "go to" d20.

Same here; the Missus and I each got one. My all-time favorite ones are the pink and white pair of d20 that I got in my boxed copy of EPT in '75. Still use them, to the horror of 'Serious Collectors'.

Favorite Die Type - D8 with D12 a close second, don't know why, just like 'em.
Colors - Not really a big deal, but they have to be colored so that with the right inking I can see them across the table.
Shape - I like the sharp-edged "Precision" dice.  They don't roll all the way across the table (I'm not a fan of die rolling boxes).

Put it all together, favorite dice of all time...
Gamescience Fire Garnet d12's inked with white paint.

I really liked the d20's (light green and beige, ugh..) that came with ElfQuest rpg (Chaosium). Marked 0-9 and then +0 to +9, they were easy to use as either d10 or d20 as need arose. And because of the plus marks, they could be used as 'exploding' d10's as well. Although the only use for the latter I've had was in determining daily wind strengths..

In d6's, I like pips way more than numbers. And preferably black pips on light dice.

I'm sure I have but I always end up forgetting and just grabbing whatever comes out of the bucket first. If I play at a friend's place I don't even bother with physical dice, I have an app that uses physics and 3D models. That works fine too.

I'm a traditionalist. d20.

EXTREMELY close runner-up: d10 (percentage).

This might sound *weird*. I like to buy a new set of dice every time I start a new campaign. But I don't actually use them. I have three sets of standard D&D dice. Each set "seems" to roll a certain way. My red-marbled metallics are angry. They seem to roll *really* streaky and kill my PC's and NPC's alike. My bronze set is for just free-form playing (I seem to use them in sessions where a lot of RP will likely be happening). My oversized golf-ball sized purple-marbled set is for total-combat, no screen, just big dice rolling big-ass numbers and let the fucking chips fall where they may.

My normal set I always use is my sharp-edged brass metal set. They kill for their master. oh yes... oh yesssss

I like d6's the most for dice type, preferably with dots.  

However, don't you fuckers know that dice are passe?  I no longer use them.  These days I'd rather use my feelings and spirit fingers to determine the outcome of an action.

Since my favorite systems have all used 3d6 and I am so used to using them and thinking in terms of them, I like using 3d6, and other amounts of d6. Also it's nice that d6 are cheap and everywhere.

I have some nice d6 that I like, generally in sets with different colors so I can roll several at a time - a series of rolls can be done as a pile of dice if they are color-coded (e.g. to-hit in red, defense in green, damage in black).

Though yes I also have a sentimental favorite d12, the first I got, which looks nice in red. I like the way a d12 looks and feels, and it is like a double-precision d6, and can also be a d2, d3 or d4. I sometimes use d12 to represent more complex odds I have pre-calculated with 3d6 and full rules, to be able to resolve heaps of action with the minimum number of dice.

Percentile dice can be good too, when you want to think of chances as percentages. I like d10 better than d20 for that because they feel slightly better/quicker to me.