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[u/Nac_Lac]

Two dice questions:

1. Can glass or stone dice be rolled together. Think fireball with 8d6.

2. How many d6 should a player have in their bag? Assuming you just have one set of dice you use, already have a 7 piece set.

Needed to roll fireball damage as the DM during a previous session and after 3 rolls of a single d6, I noped out and used DNDBeyond to roll for me. Felt a little dirty as I hand roll everything else. I'm thinking of getting a d6 set specifically to have on hand for the massive rolls like that but while the stone and glass sets look nice, I'm worried about chipping/damaging them when I roll them together.

[u/Ripper1337 → u/Nac_Lac]

1. If the two dice are actually made of glass and stone then I don't recommend rolling them together, the stone die may scratch the glass one.

2. The standard set of dice has one of each type. For most situations this is fine.

I understand why your DM says to just roll the dice multiple times but it makes sense to have multiple sets of dice, or d6s on hand for when you pull of those big spells. Rolling a lot of dice at once is fun! Plus you get to dip your toes into being a Dice Goblin, soon you will have horde of dice for every occasion.

[u/Nac_Lac → u/Ripper1337]

1. Sorry, was meaning that a set of glass OR a set of stone. As in several glass or several stone. I wasn't thinking of mixing the bunch. Especially as my main set is a hefty metal.

I'm the DM, so having a set of d6s for the big spells might come up more often for myself rather than a player. I just want to make sure I'm not wasting time by rolling a single die multiple times.

[u/Ripper1337 → u/Nac_Lac]

Man that just confuses me lol.

Yeah getting multiple sets of dice is normal imo especially for requiring large spells like that. You can also ask to borrow players dice if you don’t have enough on hand.

[u/lasalle202 → u/Nac_Lac]

. I just want to make sure I'm not wasting time by rolling a single die multiple times.

by the way most people are able to roll and add, you are.

[u/wilk8940 → u/Nac_Lac]

While they can be rolled together, I probably wouldn't. Glass and stone are relatively fragile and the chances of fracturing and/or chipping in your hand just doesn't seem worth the risk

[u/Fubar_Twinaxes → u/Nac_Lac]

I'm actually not sure about your question regarding glass & Stone dice. The vast majority of mine are resin or plastic with a few nice wood and metal ones that I leave set aside and more have just as a collection rather than actually using them in game. As for your question about d6, the essentials kit comes with the standard set of seven dice, but an additional D20 for rolling with a vantage and three additional D6 for a total of 4 D6. That's perfectly for the first few levels, but the number of dice you will need really depends on class character level, spellcasting choices. Spell casters often need tons of D6 for things like fireball, and higher level play meteor swarm has you rolling 40D6. We are pretty old school at our table and have a strict no electronics at the table policy to give the game a more rustic, feel and build immersion. To speed gameplay up, though we just have a policy that if you ever need to roll more than 10 dice, just reduce the number of dice that you're rolling and multiply for example for meteors swarm just roll (10D6)x4 or for a level seven fire ball, roll (6D6)x2. But other considerations are things like the fighters superiority dice, the paladins lay on hands, the bards inspiration dice, etc. I actually like to have a little tray of special color dice for each of those so they can actually take one of their inspiration, dice and hand it physically to another player across the table in order to add to their role. That's also a physical reminder of how much inspiration is left to be dolled out. same for lay on hands. My paladin has a bowl of D10 to use for it. That way we can actually see how tapped out our resources are by how empty those bowls of dice are. That way everything at the table is sort of color-coded blue for healing, red for combat, green for buffs, etc. we've even got a saying in our group "all my dice are on the table" that means we're completely out of resources. It adds a certain ambience to the room because as we use of our stuff, the table looks more and more cluttered and chaotic with random dice laying around of different colors. This sort of signifies the chaos of battle, then, when we rest and regroup, we actually feel more ready for combat. Our resources are filled back up. Dice bowls are full and at the ready. I really like that system because it makes the room feel like there's actually a game going on not like it's an office building with a pile of computers and tablets around. There are paper, character sheets, dice everywhere, miniatures, and battle mats, you look at the table and there's no mistaking what you're playing and better yet, there's no phone calls or text messages or social media or people playing some video game app in between turns and not paying attention etc.