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 Oct 5 2010, 12:57 PM
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Shooting Target  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,755 Joined: 5-September 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 9,313  |
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Oct 5 2010, 01:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 297 Joined: 11-April 10 From: Raleigh, NC Member No.: 18,443 |
Aaron Pavao's site has pics of translucent, blue dice that have been modified for Shadowrun.
With sharpies, you color the 1 pip in red, the 2-4 pips blue (or the color of your dice like green for mine), and leave the 5 and 6 white. For those of you who haven't yet tried this, it makes reading your dice ten times faster, No exaggeration. Players with normal dice rolling 12-15 take several seconds counting and sorting after a roll. Players with modified dice instantly see their successes. It makes a difference when you have limited time and you want to keep the action rolling. So if you can't afford the Limited Edition, special symbol Shadowrun dice, these manually modified dice are a must have! Mesh |
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Oct 5 2010, 01:28 PM
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Old Man Jones Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,415 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New York Member No.: 1,699 |
Heck, if you can bear to modify them, coloring the "Limited Edition, special symbol Shadowrun dice" speeds things up too!
-k |
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Oct 5 2010, 01:34 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,755 Joined: 5-September 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 9,313 |
Need a different color for number 2 (Rushed tests).
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Oct 5 2010, 01:37 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
QUOTE (Prime Mover @ Oct 5 2010, 02:34 PM)  Need a different color for number 2 (Rushed tests). Nah not really they are rare enough you can manually scan for it. |
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Oct 5 2010, 01:58 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,179 Joined: 10-June 10 From: St. Louis, UCAS/CAS Border Member No.: 18,688 |
QUOTE (Mesh @ Oct 5 2010, 02:26 PM) Aaron Pavao's site has pics of translucent, blue dice that have been modified for Shadowrun. With sharpies, you color the 1 pip in red, the 2-4 pips blue (or the color of your dice like green for mine), and leave the 5 and 6 white. For those of you who haven't yet tried this, it makes reading your dice ten times faster, No exaggeration. Players with normal dice rolling 12-15 take several seconds counting and sorting after a roll. Players with modified dice instantly see their successes. It makes a difference when you have limited time and you want to keep the action rolling. So if you can't afford the Limited Edition, special symbol Shadowrun dice, these manually modified dice are a must have! Mesh Ye gods. Why have I never thought of this? |
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Oct 5 2010, 02:08 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
QUOTE (Mesh @ Oct 5 2010, 02:26 PM) Aaron Pavao's site has pics of translucent, blue dice that have been modified for Shadowrun. With sharpies, you color the 1 pip in red, the 2-4 pips blue (or the color of your dice like green for mine), and leave the 5 and 6 white. For those of you who haven't yet tried this, it makes reading your dice ten times faster, No exaggeration. Players with normal dice rolling 12-15 take several seconds counting and sorting after a roll. Players with modified dice instantly see their successes. It makes a difference when you have limited time and you want to keep the action rolling. So if you can't afford the Limited Edition, special symbol Shadowrun dice, these manually modified dice are a must have! Mesh I for mine (blue dice) reded the 1, left the 2 white, blued the 3-4 and greened the 5-6 with 6 a slightly different shade. |
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Oct 5 2010, 06:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 10-August 10 From: Madison, WI Member No.: 18,916 |
Why can't these companies make the dice smaller?
I'm using 12mm black and whites which are great. Rolling two handfuls of normal sized d-6s is a pain in the ass. |
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Oct 5 2010, 06:31 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,996 Joined: 1-June 10 Member No.: 18,649 |
You sure it's not just that Shadowrun's D6 system kinda blows? and we're rolling too many dice.
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Oct 5 2010, 06:35 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 352 Joined: 10-August 10 From: Madison, WI Member No.: 18,916 |
Blasphemy!
I actually like the stat/skill system. Although, I ran a lot of on White-Wolf games early on... |
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Oct 5 2010, 06:43 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
Bah think SR rolls too many D6? Play some Wharhammer(40k or FB) I've had to roll 100s before.
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Oct 5 2010, 11:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 135 Joined: 3-November 09 Member No.: 17,838 |
I play WHFB and 40k as well. Its where I pull my SR dice from (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) . Friend of mine has a dice case set up specifically for a squad of his eldar. Has all 36 or so dice, sorted in colors by ballistic skill, so he can just dump it out when it comes time for them to shoot.
I like having different color dice for SR so I can arrange them in grades covering my dicepool for my most common tasks. |
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Oct 5 2010, 11:36 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
QUOTE (Godwyn @ Oct 6 2010, 12:33 AM) I play WHFB and 40k as well. Its where I pull my SR dice from (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) . Friend of mine has a dice case set up specifically for a squad of his eldar. Has all 36 or so dice, sorted in colors by ballistic skill, so he can just dump it out when it comes time for them to shoot. I like having different color dice for SR so I can arrange them in grades covering my dicepool for my most common tasks. I was thining of doing the same but my Imperal Gaurd army its juts too much work. Any way with 2-4 peopel count the dice its ok. |
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Oct 5 2010, 11:53 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 633 Joined: 16-March 05 From: 51° 16' North 7° 11' East Member No.: 7,168 |
QUOTE (Prime Mover @ Oct 5 2010, 02:57 PM) These are really great. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) |
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Oct 6 2010, 09:42 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 647 Joined: 9-September 03 From: Sorø, Denmark Member No.: 5,604 |
They are already at my FLGS. I have odered, and will be picking them up next friday (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)
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Oct 7 2010, 04:16 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
They look nice, but I still have a brick or two of generic D6's that I can use & replace with relative ease. If I spot a (inexpensive) set by the time of, or during ICON, I'll consider picking up a set.
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Oct 7 2010, 09:55 AM
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jacked in Group: Admin Posts: 9,453 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 463 |
QUOTE (Doc Byte @ Oct 6 2010, 01:53 AM) Dunno. They are ok (I have a few sets of them). They look nice, but the fact, that they made them useful as regular d6 (i.e. numbers from 2-6 on them, the 1 is left blank) lowers their greatness a bit. The 1 should have a glitch symbol and the 2-4 should be empty for true SR4 dice. Bye Thanee |
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Oct 7 2010, 11:21 AM
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Man Behind the Curtain Group: Admin Posts: 14,871 Joined: 2-July 89 From: End of the Yellow-Brick Road Member No.: 3 |
QUOTE (Mesh @ Oct 5 2010, 07:26 AM) leave the 5 and 6 white. What if I spend edge before I roll? |
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Oct 7 2010, 01:05 PM
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jacked in Group: Admin Posts: 9,453 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 463 |
You count the ones with six white pips on them and roll that many dice in addition. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Bye Thanee |
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Oct 7 2010, 01:33 PM
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Man Behind the Curtain Group: Admin Posts: 14,871 Joined: 2-July 89 From: End of the Yellow-Brick Road Member No.: 3 |
Ah... I thought the dice were though flat white six siders with no marks. I made fudge dice with some of those.
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Oct 7 2010, 01:59 PM
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jacked in Group: Admin Posts: 9,453 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 463 |
Well, since he was talking about coloring the pips... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Bye Thanee |
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Oct 7 2010, 02:08 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,536 Joined: 13-July 09 Member No.: 17,389 |
QUOTE (yesferatu @ Oct 5 2010, 02:30 PM) Why can't these companies make the dice smaller? I'm using 12mm black and whites which are great. Rolling two handfuls of normal sized d-6s is a pain in the ass. I think I have 71 10mm dice. 35 red with black pips and 36 green with gold pips. I bought the red ones to use as counters for MtG. After realizing how great they were for Shadowrun, I bought the green ones to use. |
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Oct 7 2010, 02:31 PM
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Man Behind the Curtain Group: Admin Posts: 14,871 Joined: 2-July 89 From: End of the Yellow-Brick Road Member No.: 3 |
QUOTE (Thanee @ Oct 7 2010, 07:59 AM) Well, since he was talking about coloring the pips... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Never having heard the term 'pip', I thought that was a reference to the ink mark. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) |
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Oct 7 2010, 05:05 PM
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jacked in Group: Admin Posts: 9,453 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 463 |
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