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Message no. 1
From: Geoff Skellams <geoff.skellams@*********.COM.AU>
Subject: Cheap dice (was RE: Dice Probabilities)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:04:45 +1100
On Shadowrun Discussion, Patrick Goodman[SMTP:remo@***.NET] wrote:
> I know it sounds like a silly tirade, but over the not quite
<shudders>
> 25 years I've been gaming, cheap dice have been one of my biggest pet
> peeves.

OK, so where does one get decent dice from? I've been looking
for a decent set for Dawn Patrol for a while (they need to roll LOW more
often than not).

cheers
G

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Message no. 2
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET>
Subject: Re: Cheap dice (was RE: Dice Probabilities)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:42:23 -0600
From: Geoff Skellams
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 9:05 PM

>> I know it sounds like a silly tirade, but over the not quite
>><shudders> 25 years I've been gaming, cheap dice have been one
>>of my biggest pet peeves.
>
>OK, so where does one get decent dice from? I've been looking
>for a decent set for Dawn Patrol for a while (they need to roll
>LOW more often than not).

What size does Dawn Patrol use? It's been a long time since I saw that
game.

In any event: Chessex makes good dice, as does/did GameScience (are
they even still around?). The bulk of the dice I use in my Shadowrun
games are Chessex dice, with a handful from an old game of Kismet and
four that someone ripped off (or bought or something) for me from
Caesar's Palace in Tahoe.

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(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 3
From: "D. Ghost" <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Cheap dice (was RE: Dice Probabilities)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 23:07:35 -0600
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:42:23 -0600 Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET> writes:
<SNIP>
>In any event: Chessex makes good dice, as does/did GameScience (are
>they even still around?). The bulk of the dice I use in my Shadowrun
>games are Chessex dice, with a handful from an old game of Kismet and
>four that someone ripped off (or bought or something) for me from
>Caesar's Palace in Tahoe.

MY favorite are a set of Chaos Dice I bought ... When new they tended to
roll high ... now they tend to roll high or low rather than midle (ie,
3-4.). They pissed off friends of mine while we were playing Battletech
because they rolled low for intiative and high for attacks (Same 2
dice.). In a short while, I had them in severely bad shape and they made
me change dice. :)

--
D. Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
"We called him Mother Superior because of the length of his habit" --
Trainspotting
"A magician is always 'touching' himself" --Page 123, Grimoire (2nd
Edition)

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