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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago

I actually have a bag of metal D4s specifically becsuse then they can be used as caltrops or those things Betty wore to give him super strength in Kung Pow.

[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago
[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Shite. Hope that's an AI image. That looks like Lego's evil cousin.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 23 points 11 hours ago

Oh god, that's horrible!

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago

Please NSFW or spoiler.. that's gnarly.

[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Ah, sorry. Is there coding to mark comments as NSFW, or do you mean applying the Spoiler coding to comments?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago
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that's how you do spoilers. looks like:

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[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Just a way to prevent auto loading the image.

[-] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago
[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 3 points 7 hours ago
[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It is, and they're lucky it's only 1 damagetoo. NPC's don't have a very large HD pool after all.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

So is there a war between the number on top and the number on bottom d4?

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Picture I made for this thread a few months ago:

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 hours ago

D4s are annoying. They're the only die without a top face, so it's hard to read the number, and since the faces slant inwards it can be hard to pick them up.

On the other hand, it's satisfying that the typical RPG dice contain the 5 platonic solids. If I had to play a game where a D4 was used often (unlike in say D&D where it's rare), I'd probably go with one of the alternate D4 shapes. Even if you prefer platonic solids, you can just use an 8-sided die and renumber 5-8 as being 1-4 again.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

Give an arch D4 a try

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I love the infinity d4

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)
[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Do you need a microscope?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

i like the ones with a bottom face personally, but that might be because my first d4 was that way

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

Unfortunately we're still stuck with caltrops as the standard d4 shape when so many better options exist

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 8 points 14 hours ago

There are not too many choices if you are a fan of platonic solids

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Platonic solids exclude the Rhombic Dodecahedron, so who needs them?

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

better options exist

Standardising on D6 only?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 34 points 14 hours ago
[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 20 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That's a really shitty d12

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 14 hours ago

How would this work?

I mean you could use a d8 with duplicate 1-4 numbers.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Or a d12 with 1-4 three times, which is what I use for my d4s

[-] coalie@piefed.zip 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The original d20s doubled as d10s. They came uninked and you were instructed to use two different colored markers to mark one set of 1-0 one color and then second set a different color.

https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2025/02/holmes-d-dice-replica-review.html?m=1

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Rejig everything so it's so multiples of 6.

Warhammer moved from D3, D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 and D20 to just D6 (and D3 from D6) You need a lot of D6, but they're ubiquitous.

[-] Yosmonkol@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago

Wouldn't that change the probabilty curve? I guess it could be nice if you wanted to limit critical success and failure but it might reduce the sense of randomness.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

That's actually a tough choice, I like having a variety of shapes for my click clacks but I despise the caltrop d4

Edit: I've thought about it, and if I had to choose between a "standard" dice set with tetrahedron d4, or only a pool of d6s, I would choose the dice set and try to avoid ever using a d4.

[-] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 7 points 15 hours ago

I like that story, Looks like as fake as the story of the internet troll being a lazy GM throwing a troll at every stupid question from their player, but that's cool

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

Nah dude, this is legit, I lived through the tail end of the satanic panic years, those FBI raids were no joke. We used to scatter a layer of d4s along the stairs leading the basement, right before the tripwire that releases a full paint can on a string. Every player was issued a smoke bomb before the start of the game so we could make a clean getaway while the officers were distracted.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

It's not "fake" so much as it is an obvious joke.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Wait, you don't mean to tell me this is a fabrication, do you?

[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 10 points 14 hours ago

There is zero chance that someone would just go on the internet and lie.

[-] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

Or the real life prismatic spray if you throw them really hard at someone's face and eyes. If two of them land into the persons sight globes point first, it will cause blindness.

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