Why do d8s have a line to distinguish the six?

I've bought my dice on Aliexpress, a Chinese bizarro Amazon.com basically.

They're... alright... I guess...

I sometime have trouble with additions.
Law school will do that to a man

Aliexpress is pretty good for cheap stuff that you don't need quality.
I have a yuge pack of d6 I bought from them.

There are systems that use more than one kind of dice.
Of course, you being a pretentious bitter cocksucker don't know about them, cause you spend your weekends alone posting in Veeky Forums about crap that never happened but in your head.

>Of course, you being a pretentious bitter cocksucker don't know about them, cause you spend your weekends alone posting in Veeky Forums about crap that never happened but in your head

Holy fuck, how mad are you right now? :)

None of my d8s do this.

Never underestimate human stupidity.
D10 a best, fight me faggots

But D6 doesn't have the line.

Some d6 do have the line. I have one

I have two right next to me, different molds, with the sixes having lines under them. Mass production, my friend, leads to interesting things.

>TIMELESS CLASSIC TIER
D6. It was there for you all along.

>GOD TIER
D20
D12

>HIGH TIER
D8

>MID TIER
D4

>SHIT TIER
D10

>WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TIER
Dice with over 20 sides

>not playing with golfballs

Tell me, what does the 00 mean on the d10 tens place?

It means no tens/zero digits if you're rolling a percentage, I guess. Like, if you roll 00 and a 9, that's 09. If you roll a 9 and then 00, that'a 90.

forgetting about someone?

Some of them do.
Of the d6s I have that are numbered rather than pipped, at least half have underlined 6s.

For a reason, too.

>hating on d10
Scrub.

>d10 shit tier
>never uses dice with more than 20 sides
how the fuck are you supposed to roll percentile then?

Percentile rolls are by extension shit

>rolling 0 and 00

That would be a

Inferior.

>there's more weight on the 1 side

I'm doing a teach-abroad thing right now, and I actively use dice in my lessons, especially D6'es.

You would not believe how many kids roll a D6, even in middle school, and ask "Is that a 9"

I imagine there are a lot of people who don't grow out of that.

That's true for standard dice (that use divots) as well, but can be mitigated by altering the depth of the cut on the three and two sides, which might be the case with the example I posted.

To distinguish them from the 9s
>but le d8s le don't have le 9s on them!!
The d10s, 12s, and 20s do, and most d8s are sold as part of an RPG dice set with consistent formatting across the faces on all dice.

thread should have ended here.

They aren't going to do that. They tumble dices so the corner are rounded, and they don't care that one side may be a little larger than another. These aren't casino instruments.

So that you know which is the 6 and which is the 9 on dice that do have a 9. Otherwise how would you tell which is which?

>You would not believe how many kids roll a D6, even in middle school, and ask "Is that a 9"

I'd absolutely believe it because I'm also a teacher.

Like Carlin said, 'Kids are just like any other group of people: a few winners, a whole lot of losers!'

d8 is god tier you fucking pleb

d12 a shit

>d20
>god tier

Shit taste boy

They should just put dots on them all.

Nah. Lots of groups have that one guy that would double play time just trying to count his rolls.

That eight triggers my autism fierce

No one wants to fight you because you are right

>d20 god tier
Rod_in_water.b8

I don't like d20, it takes forever to stop and rolls off table easily. D6 is the true master race, easy to acquire and rolling a handful of them is an objectively pleasing sensation.

t. D&D pleb

>needing to state the painfully obvious
C'mon, man, you're better than that.

>Ultra god tier
d6
>god tier
d20
d12
d10

>doesn't feel nice to roll tier
d8
d4
d100

>dots
>10 dots
>12 dots
>20 dots
>30 dots
>100 dots

sounds like a bad idea

Fuck you I'm commissioning dotted rpg dice

Also
>30

d8s feel just fine to roll.
...I think you're racist.

>dem autists that get triggered by D&D
1: You know it's not only D&D that uses d20 right?
2: You will never changer the fact that D&D is going to be the standard RPG system, ever, so geting mad at it won't do any good

I am racist
also d8s are shit

What if you roll an 80 and 10?

European D8s don't have that line

800, DUH

Some mass production as addressed already, but potentially also because its useful. Even if people know they're rolling a d8, they're going to see and react to the number symbols first. Humans see things and react way before we think about shit.

That's cause europeans spell 6 differently

How do you roll a 80 on 10-sided die?

we call it "le six"

Because my players, all of whom have been gaming for at least 5 years and most of whom have been gaming for much longer, still can't tell dice apart by sight. One of their more common mistakes is to mix up the d8 and d10. So without the bar under the 6 they could easily pick up a d8, think it to be a d10, and decide that they just rolled a 9.

You mean "correctly"?

Are they literally retarded? The dice look like nothing alike.

Nah, the americas are newer, so their rules trump the old.

I think a couple of them might be, yes.

How do you roll a 00 on a 10 sided die?

White House rules don't count.

To exacerbate the problem, one of them uses those stupid cylindrical dice. Those all look the same, even the d4.

>playing with outdated rules

Why are you buying dice that aren't from Gamescience

You mean "official" rules?

Sure, I forgot we live in the 1600s

Yep, we say Six, Americans say Sioux, because that's the remaining members or that tribe left.

>mfw the americans call rumbly-tumbly-bumbly-decahedrons "dice"

>Americans think British English has remained unchanged since the 1600s

Top drawer, my good man, top drawer.

d2 > d6 > d10 > d8 > d12 > d20

gr8 idea m8 :::;)

>Because my players, all of whom have been gaming for at least 5 years and most of whom have been gaming for much longer, still can't tell dice apart by sight.
Pretty much this.

I'm hanging out with a group that has supposedly been playing D&D for years. And yet I have one player who needs to be reminded that checks use a d20 roll, and only two other people can distinguish d10s from d8s.

Murrica, y'all.

That is objectively backwards

>objectively

D-dad, i-is that you?

I use 12-sided d4s and 12-sided d6s because an old group of mine refused to use any die 'that doesn't roll right' so I'm kinda partial to adapted d12s. Also nice large numbers for the visually impaired guy in the group.

This of course does give problems with d8s.

OP, you made me look at my dice and I found a dumbass d20

Note how the bottom of the number is towards the flat edge of the triangle it sits in and the top is towards the tip? So the number on the red(?) surface is a 9 and the number on the green surface is a 6.

It's not high-explosive armour-piercing self-propelled rocket science.

This is Veeky Forums, most of us need pictures and diagrams

Not a platonic solid please leave.

If I had to stick to rolling one game shape for the rest of my life, I'd pick d30.
Its prime factors (2, 3, 5) cover the range of the complete standard set.

what the fuck are you talking about

How do you mean to convert a d30 into the other rolls by way of prime factorization?

Do not allow those dice. The d20s and d12s completely fail as random number generators. The sides are so thin that minute differences in the rounding of the edges results in some numbers you will basically never roll, and others that are strongly favored. The d20s will actually roll backwards to favor certain numbers.

The d10s are flawed in the same way, but not as roll-y. They're still unusable, but just less blatant about it. The d8s may be the only half-way decent dice of the bunch, but they're too small to be desirable, leaving the regular d8s as obviously superior. The d6s are the size of chicklets. The d4s... well... they're too elongated and don't roll around very well in your hand, so they're actually kind of crappy, but they're still better than the regular pyramidal d4s, so I guess I can't complain here. The twelve-sided, roman-numeral d4s are obviously the way to go though.

A d3 can cover a d2,d3,d6,d5,d10,d15 and d30 with its prime factorisation, the lack of 2^2 hurts it though, really a d60 is needed if you only want one dice to cover all the common fractions.

d60 still doesn't cover d8.

d120 is just silly

I actually think that d20s are nice dice from the perspective of rolling, but I've had some bad results from Chessex dice as far as bias goes. That could just be the shitty Chessex dice (I did test some old, non-Chessex d20s that came out biased as well, but those were so ancient they were actually smaller in size, and one of the two was pretty beat up), but I'm wondering if d20s are susceptible to this sort of thing, given all their edges. Like, is it harder to fuck up a d10 or a d8?

So is d60 and d30

There is only one true dice to buy.

Wrong. I looked at all my dice from the same and different sets. The numbers are different on every dice because every dice is different.

Hint -D20 will have smaller sides to a D8