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[–] 65 points 1 year ago (16 children)

This kind of thinking is wasteful. Every d20 has a finite lifespan. It was created, and it will, at some time in the future be destroyed, as all things are. That means it has a finite number of rolls in its lifetime, with an equal distribution of all possible outcomes. When you "practice roll" and get a nat 20, you have wasted one of the limited number of nat 20s that die has in it. Think of the 20s. Don't practice roll.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    This is like a common house fly worrying about the lifespan of Cthulhu.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You haven't seen how some of the folks I play with roll.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I try hard to only roll my old fair dice on felt (in the past) or plastic (since 3d printers). They work by having hard corners, those wear down making the dice less fair when rolled on surfaces harder than ABS

    I guess if your dice were pre worn by polishing you can't make them worse, and fair polyhedric dice are pretty much no longer available

    Online dice simulators are probably fairer still

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That’s stupid. But obviously how the dice strikes the table impacts its balance and therefore the probability of rolling specific numbers. So we must figure out what side need to strike the table first to decrease the probability of getting an undesirable roll. Boom, I out physicsed you’re probabilities.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Besides, everyone knows you play the long game of training your dice by always resting them with the high value up.

    It probably does nothing, but maybe the atoms shift over time and it warps just a bit and rolls better.

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