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DeadNeon
Between game sessions, i lock my dice in a dark, dark room on a table sitting right in the middle of a giant pentagram crafted from goat's blood. They roll really great when i do this, even though instead of the usual "clackety-clack" normal dice make when they're skittering across the tabletop, mine make a sound much like the gnashing of teeth and the wails of the dead.
ES_Riddle
QUOTE (psykotisk_overlegen)
I think all gods of dice will agree with us when we put the french one beneath the swedes.

I'm sorry, but the gods of dice are keen on rolling things. The solution is to take the french, japanese, and swedish ladies and roll them around in a vat of baby oil.
Krazy
Wouldn't that make a mess, oil on the character sheets, oil on the new players, (your going to need a big stick to keep the hands off) It'd piss off the ladies in my group that's for sure.

now would different animals blood be optimal for different die rolls, and are the forces of darkness really necessary, hate to have darky influenced dice decide the future or something? or what if you roll them onto a zen sand garden, could it calm dice that roll erratically due to stress?

Do you need a stone blade to sacrifice a poorly preforming die, or would a five pound sledge suffice, inquiring minds want to know.
DeadNeon
I wouldnt say dark, eldritch rituals are necessary, but they've always worked for me. smile.gif

As for my preferred way of sacrificing badly rolling dice, i usually go for a quick squirt of lighter fluid and a zippo lighter.
Kagetenshi
Billy played in my group once. He always used my dice, and they always rolled really well for him. Never that great for me, but he had the magic touch.

So I've made sure that there's always a little bit of Billy in my dice.

~J
Catsnightmare
Need Crown Royal bags? They're finally selling the bags on the website! In fact you can get them personalized, with your name and/or favorite quote stitched on them.

I'm now awaiting the delivery of my "Never Deal With A Dragon" Crown Royal dice bag! biggrin.gif
Garland
QUOTE (Ancient History)
I have a pair of jade dice that I roll on a naked 19-year old female Japanese masseuse for luck.

Did you ever know that you're my hero?
nezumi
Firstly, I use an online dice roller, so aside from sending checks with my user name or ip on, I can't see having a lot of effect on them.

Secondly, I'm the GM, so mostly it's just me thinking evil thoughts.

However, when I use to play table top as a player, I wrote a tiny, little book, all in little spots. It talked about a wonderful afterlife, where the twenty sider laid next to the four sider, and beautiful three siders proclaimed the good news. And how every die there lived happily for eternity for the many good things it had done during its life. Then I describe the horrible, painful end reserved JUST for those dice who prefer to botch important rolls, and how for the rest of eternity they'd gnash their little dots in anguish and wish they had been better little dice during their short lives.

I'd read to them every night, and when a die was no longer useful to me, I'd either have a pleasant burial for it, or put it in the blender for about ten minutes.


I generally don't go for the dark, eldritch dice ceremonies. It works very well for a while, but in the end, your character's soul is forfeit.
Ancient History
QUOTE (Garland)
QUOTE (Ancient History @ Apr 2 2005, 04:42 AM)
I have a pair of jade dice that I roll on a naked 19-year old female Japanese masseuse for luck.

Did you ever know that you're my hero?

I'm everywhere you'd like to be?
Garland
QUOTE (Ancient History)
QUOTE (Garland @ Apr 11 2005, 05:47 PM)
QUOTE (Ancient History @ Apr 2 2005, 04:42 AM)
I have a pair of jade dice that I roll on a naked 19-year old female Japanese masseuse for luck.

Did you ever know that you're my hero?

I'm everywhere you'd like to be?

From your quote at the top, apparently so.
CircuitBoyBlue
QUOTE (DeadNeon)
As for my preferred way of sacrificing badly rolling dice, i usually go for a quick squirt of lighter fluid and a zippo lighter.

QUOTE


Shouldn't you be sacrificing the best rolling dice? I mean, if I were a dice god (and, God willing, one day I will be), I wouldn't want punks sacrificing their crappy dice that nobody else wants to me. I'd want the cream of the crop, and I'd reward those that gave it to me with my favor. That's the way the Romans rolled, that's the way I'll roll. (Oh, ha ha, I said "roll." Get over it; it's not that funny).
imperialus
couple of superstisions. Not limited to Shadowrun though.

1) my cousins old dice (the red dice that came with the D&D boxed set and you coloured with a crayon) are to be used only to save the life of a character.
2) vergin dice will be bought for each new campaign.
3) The aformentioned vergin dice will spend the first session observing more experianced dice in action and not be used.
4) Vetren dice (2 through 5 campaigns service) are to be used only if the new dice for that campaign are not rolling well.
5) Dice that have served honourably in 5 campaigns are retired with the character sheet or adventure notes they were purchaced for and not used again.
6) Dice that are responsable for a character death become loaner dice. At this point the youngest veteren dice will take over for the new character.
7) current dice are kept in a small chainmail dice bag, vetren dice in a larger suede bag, and loaner dice are kept in a large red sack called the brothel which anyone can make use of. The orriginal dice both my cousin's and my first set are kept in a small chest with a velvet liner.

Edit:
I'm wierd I know.
Dog
(hanging head in shame)

Sometimes when there were sweets included in the game-night snacks, I would make sure to rub the "one" side of the die with a sugar-sticky finger in the frail hope that side would stick to the table, resulting in a six.

I can be a sad little man. frown.gif
Cougaar
I have 4 places for my dice:
A tin I was given as a present for all my little SR dice.. I like the tinkling noise they make.. it's a happy noise and makes me look forward to playing. When I got those dice we hadn't played SR for a few weeks so I wrote a eMail in their name, stating that they wanted to show how good they are.. 'twas a great evening and I managed many a high TN, so I think they like their special home and the effort I put in so they could prove their worth.

I have a soft leather pencil case for most of my other playing dice. Before opening the zipper I gently massage them all. If I'm a player I'll roll all the D20s to see which ones are in a fighting mood for the evening and pick my D6s so they colour coordinate with the D20s. This bag also houses my "hearts dice" - these D6s have little hearts instead of dots - the red ones have the tendency to roll high then low so I roll them until I "know" what the next roll will be.

Then there is my "emergency bag". It's a small red satin bag that is the home for my "Stars" - a gift of assorted yellow dice that when I used them for the very first time ever produced an overwhelming char at creation. It's also the home for my "Killer D20" - I specialises in knowing exactly what I need at the time but doesn't work for others. *eg*

Lastly, I have a tupperware tin where I keep my oddballs and retired dice. How do I tell if a dice wants to retire? Well, I get them all out of the leather bag and ask them. Even means "I wanna play" and odd means "I wanna retire".
My dice know, once they land in there they will only be disturbed to show roleplaying novices the many different kinds of dice in the world and for a quick clean and rub. Gentle exercise.. a few throws. They have earnt their rest and I expect nothing from them. Sometimes, an old dice will roll of the table and hide under the sofa. I search for them a little and then let them have their fun. The next day or so I will get them and put them into the leather pencil case if they feel like being adventrous again (I ask them and if the result of the roll is even they are in the leather bag). We're one big happy family!

Some dice of friends creep into my leather bag when I'm not looking.. it only happens with dice of people who treat them badly, like burning them with a lighter or shouting at them or letting them drop on the hard floor too many times. I keep them until I see my buddies again.. and after the massage I'll get them out and ask who's dice they are. Sometimes people won't own up and sometimes I'm told to keep the dice.. but that's okay with me, I will take in the orphans and abused.
GrinderTheTroll
Anyone here play "HackMaster"? That RPG has an entire section on "how to roll dice" and shows different methods and techniques to restore luck and remove bad mojo.

If you've ever played AD&D (pre-2nd ed.), then you'll appreciate the artwork, names, etc. It's a gigantic spoof that gets funnier and funnier the more I read it.
Tal
Wasn't there one technique that required you go out and get a kobold's skull?
wagnern
Normaly, I am not a supersticous person, but after one remarkably bad searies of rolls, I bought a new set of dice and did not open the cube. I would then ask my friend sitting next to me to take out the neccary dice and roll them. I went a year wothout touching the dice, and they worked well.

Now I find that the cheepest dice I can find work fine for me.
Catsnightmare
QUOTE (Dog)
(hanging head in shame)

Sometimes when there were sweets included in the game-night snacks, I would make sure to rub the "one" side of the die with a sugar-sticky finger in the frail hope that side would stick to the table, resulting in a six.

I can be a sad little man. frown.gif

What's really sad is that my dice luck is so bad it sounds like a good idea to me.
(makes note to bring jolly ranchers to game from now on)
RunnerPaul
The catch about making sides of dice stickier than others is that unless you game in a Silicon Valley Clean Room, sooner or later, the microscopic particles in the environment will end up sticking to the sticky side, making it unsticky again.
DocMortand
Heh I have four cubes of dice that I used in my Warhammer 40K battles - I would get all 36 dice out of each cube and use them - for every one I rolled, that dice went back in the cube.

When I ran out of dice (BAAAD game) I would roll the newly-filled cube and pick out all the sixes - they obviously wanted to play again.

Ironically, the four colors were ivory, orange, maroon and blue...the ivory and orange were HORRIBLE in 40K, the maroon and blue rolled better. When I became a Shadowrun GM I performed the test - and suddenly the ivory and orange were rolling spectacular and the maroon and blue were rolling crappy - so I loaned those colors to my players and kept the orange and ivory for myself. This rolling trend has not stopped the entire time in my campaign so far - Lina can attest to some of the spectacular rolls I've pulled off to see their stealthy ways....

Oh yeah - and since then my players have bought their own dice and my "loaners" are only used for emergencies. Heh.
amadeus
Hehe, lots of wierd rituals,

as for me, I just treat my dice well, never cuss them out or blame them, and they seem to preform pretty well, (not the highest but I know they try.)

I GM a group and the super sneaky frigging ninja in the group (Phys. adept with tripped out stealth suit) can attest, this works quite well for me. Every time I really needed to spot them I have gotton stuff like 19, 20, and so forth.

The wierd thing is, as long as I am making good decisions, (not following up on dumb ideas, or using grenades inside a space station, long story don't ask) they roll well. When I make a bad decision, or something like that, they roll bad, thus for me when the shit hits the fan, it really hits the fan, altough it has been rare that they kill a character, just mangle them a bit. However, I would never force them to retire, or treat them badly, (this pleases the dice gods...) because this would throw off my mojo.

As for D20, I have a paticular set that almost always rolls the well on the really important rolls (umm, DRAGON!!! eek.gif ) so I always use them, and treat them nice.
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