My first session as a GM with my new party went kinda like this... Player: I have no dice Me: here (throws them a bag of dice) Player 2: Me neither Me: (throws dice at them) Me: who else has no dice? (Everyone raises their hand) Me: here you all go (throws them all a bag each) Player 3: how many dice do you even have?? Me: YOU COULDN'T EVEN BEGIN TO FATHOM
Ahhh, the beauty of being a dice goblin!! XD My hubby took We Be Goblins! to a work potluck a few weeks ago, he made extra characters so more than 4 people could play and everything. I literally supplied the whole group of 9 with dice and had easily 10 or so sets left over :P
I've had one GM when we were playing VTR (dicepool system with d10s) who pulled out a dice bag, went "nope, that's the d6 bag. That's d8s. Ah, here's the d10 dice bag." The d10 bag was twice the size of the other dice bags because she's played loads of World of Darkness games before
@@earlknit5372 I had similar issues with our Shadowrun games... I was dice supplier.. But well it kind of started to get problematic once you roll 300+ D6 for damage at once. :D At that point I was sadly forced to use phone to roll... Not as much fun, but at least I am not finding those little suckers all over my room anymore :D
I knew a party who had an issue with a prior player. They'd play all night, sleep over, and head home as party members woke up. One of them would sneak to the fridge and steal the DM/host's food. Frustrated by this, and unaware which fucking player of his was stealing food, he scattered a bunch of d4s in front of the fridge. In the dark kitchen, the player was unaware of the trap awaiting him, stepped on one, screamed, outed himself, and was promptly kicked out of game and friend group.
Funny thing: Clerics can use all the dice. HEAR ME OUT!!! d4: Healing Word. d6: Cure Wounds. d8: Hit points. d10: Inflict Wounds. d12: Toll of the Dead. d20: Everything else. Percentiles: Lets be honest, they are gonna use it for Divine Intervention.
"You know that game I was telling you about?" "The one about sacrificing your friends, right?" "Ri- wait, what?" "What?" "No, Dungeons and Dragons." Theres a difference?
Considering the very first session that my friend's cousin joined and sold all of us to ogres so he could live, yeah I would say there isn't much of a difference.
I am a dice goblin, no dice are too obscure to not collect. I don't care how much pain they have caused my characters, they are all precious and will be forever in my collection and rotated for use. DICE FOR THE DICE GODS!!!
Unless you have fat, stubby and/or sweaty fingers, or your die is made from a slippery material, I don’t see how that’s an issue. Anyway, I’m probably thinking about it too hard lol 🙃
"This is a d3..." "What the hell is that thing!" "A d3." "yeah, but why is it shaped like that?!" "ive got more." "No no no!" *begins putting out dice* " a d5, a d7, a d9, a d11, a d13..." "who will use these!?!?" "probably no one. Anyway wanna see a d1" "NO!"
The d1 is extremely useful in roll20 because a lot of the macros work with either using two constants together or using two dice rolls together, not a constant and a die roll, so if you wanna make a macro for say where if your die rolls lower than a 2 it counts a a 2 you can't do [1d6,2]kh1, kh is keep highest with the number denoting how many of the highest to keep, so instead you'd do [1d6,2d1]kh1, though using a d0 is actually even better because with 2d1 it'll always show up as blue, having rolled both min and max value at once, so instead with a d0 you can do [1d6,1d0+2]kh1, giving the same result, but without the always blue number.
Me : looks at dice I bought specifically for characters even tho they were online campaigns Me:.... But the goblin soul is not satisfied by virtual dice, they do not klick klack like the math rocks, you see
You forgot to mention how once you get one set of dice, you will inevitably find yourself getting more because you need them and no you don't have to explain why
*joins a new campaign* DM: “welcome our new player to this campaign, so you’ve played dnd a little bit right?” Me: *pours out 30 sets of dice* “yeah, just a little”
Three things: One: When I threw the dice at my forehead, the dice landed on the edge of my screen protector and broke the protector #rip Two: I am BEYOND proud of the Harry Potter Joke Three: Should I ask my wife out on a date? I think she is cute and kinda like her....
"Sacrificing our friends." Edit 1: "oh good, you found it." Edit 2: dice story, my dad's friend who is now sadly passed away kept dice in a container and separated them by high roll, low roll, and neutral roll, would ask wether he needed to roll high or low and used the corresponding dice.
My boyfriend and I have a similar method called murder/mercy dice depending on whether we're dm-ing or playing and don't want to or need to kill something
I have one pair of dice I like to call the "cursed set" and as the GM I like to give that set to every new player. It always rolls low no matter what. Anyway so one time I gave that set to one of my new players (my sister's boyfriend) first thing he wanted to do was punch a kid and he rolled a nat 20.
We have a similar set for people who forget their dice, our first dm abandoned them (and the rest of his dnd stuff) when we kicked him out for being a manipulative guy running on power trips. He's now in antifa...
@@aonirnolaloth should be said that I give noobs that set so they realize that they cant always do what they want in the game since its really up to chance and just to see how they handle that. They only ever have that set for the first introduction round I like to do.
Fun fact: The design of the d4 was based of a way for players to protects themselves back in the Satanic Panic, where people would raid/attack DND sessions. The solution was to provide players protection, and with what else but a trap, namely caltrops, fitting for DND. The caltrops were contained in the DND products purchased, and were painted and inscribed with numbers, so they could hide amounts the actual dice without raising suspicion, unless you had already fallen victim to them. They were then scattered on the ground before the session to create an obstacle for any attackers, giving the players much needed time to escape/hide. Eventually the caltrops were incorporated into the game as the d4, and while the points are much duller, they still retain spike shape of the caltrops, and that is why the d4 is so painful to step on.
@@vanguardbreaker8826 LOL it is definitely not. Satanic Panic really happened due to the Manson murders, where were real and horrific, and never involved raids of DnD parties XD Parents just became afraid their children would become like Manson and confiscated DnD stuff. (Source: 1988 LAmag report on Manson; FBI data) I can give you a true dice story though! The object believed to be the world’s oldest d20 (found to date) is from Ptolmeic Egypt (304-30 BCE). (Source: Metropolitan Museum)
You see you have dice goblins who collect any old dice. I am a dice kobold. My collection is expansive but I am very choosey about the dice I add to the collection. No kobold would buy a mystery bag just to have 10 lbs of dice. No we carefully decide which set will be number 23, line them all up to admire their beauty, and then curse because a single d12 rolled away somewhere and you have to stop everything, count all the dice, make sure nothing else is missing, and go find that precious d12 that rolled away.
There's a difference? I thought I was just a picky dice goblin! I guess I'm a dice kobold like you, though. I only have 5 sets to my name, but I'm really picky to what kind of sets I put on my shopping list as well. My dice sets also need to match in terms of colour. I really don't get how people can live with rolling a mismatched set, where they take a D20 out of one set and a D6 out of another. I really couldn't do that without matching up either cool colours like blue and green, or warm colours like red and yellow. Even if I need extra dice because my spellcaster learned a new spell that's going to need them; the set has to look nice, even if she ISN'T burning the party's enemies alive.
Yes I am a dice kobald... with only one set. But I just know that, given the opportunity to buy more dice, I will make sure they are all matching and aesthetically pleasing
Don't forget to put all of your lovely dice on display with the the highest number facing up. It's like pausing an image on an old CRT television, and burning it into the screen. The die must have that number seared into its soul, as that's the only way to reliably tame them. Also, this is ideal for artsy-fartsy photo shoots.
so, I play pathfinder not d&d, so here's how I use each die: d20: hand it to the dm because spells that require saving throws are way better than ones with attack rolls. d12: yeah, I played a barbarian once. d10: I feel like this is never used. d100: my dm decided to make a wildmagic-like thing for nat1s. d8: THIS is the one for healing spells. d6: sneak attack, but also the dm needs to be absolutely sure he has 20d6 for the breath weapon of the ancient red dragon he keeps threatening us with. d4: magic missile.
If you play a pathfinder rogue you should be using d8 sneak attacks, knife master ftw. Also attack roll conjuration spells, esp acid damage ones like acid arrow, are great to counter magic resistance, magic immunity, and best of all antimagic field, it can't be cast from inside the AMF so you'd have to shoot it from outside but acid arrow has long range and a wizard should never actually be affected by an AMF once they're 5th level as long as they wear their multiple layered shrunk lead cone hat and always have a short range teleport spell prepped.
@@giorgitsiklauri840 I don't really know about the sneak attack, it's not me who plays the rogue. As far as the spells, I did use conjuration a lot, but I was playing a druid so I mostly used Stromwave (saving throw focus spell), heal, hydraulic push (yes, that has an attack roll, but I needed something to spend my hero poins on), and Lightning (I think it's called that, we were playing in French. it might be Thunderbolt). and when I hit level 7 I went for direct dammage with torrent, and replaced heal with summon fey because a summoned unicorn can cast 3rd level heal twice, which adds up to more than a 4th level heal.
@@giorgitsiklauri840 I haven't played that much pathfinder either, until recently I played Chroniques Oubliées instead, so here's the dice guide for that: d20: literally every situation. d12: random loot generration. d10: could I interest you in a katana? d100: what did you say? d8: healing and one-handed dammage. d6: the elder dragon still needs 6d6+42. d4: magic missile (but this time it's only 1d4)
I still play mostly 2nd ed lately, so: d20: Almost everything d12: The die that usually gets stolen by people who only ever play once, because no one ever uses them (good for random encounters and reaction rolls 1d12+1d8) d10: Two-handed Swords, 24d10+12 breath weapon of the ancient red dragon that your dm keeps threatening you with d100: Thief skills d8: Healing Spells (Agreed!), long sword d6: Lots of different weapons, spells, and skelly damage d4: Daggers and magic missiles
Nothing stopping you from using real dice unless you really don't trust your players. The only time I use roll20 dice is for my character I'm a masochist with.
@@ElvinMayenCarrillo For me: It is easier to use the D&D Beyond Discord bot and it is better if you want to roll many things at one. And it serves as a trust thing kind of. Also, I have no real dice.
One thing I like about virtual tabletops is that they automatically keep track of all bonuses and penalties. 1d20 + 5 attack bonus - 2 because target has half cover + 1d4 from Bless... it gets complicated. But I still love the feel of rolling physical dice. I've never even gotten to use my glow-in-the-dark set.
I was playing Lost mine of phandelver and I had to enter a town (this was a solo campgain), and had to roll the d20 with a dc of like 15 or 10 to enter. I failed the check 3 separate times.
@@kirbywithaknifeisawesome6028 I have god awful luck in literally everything except for character creation (rolling stats and rolling health at higher levels) and Fallout: New Vegas, specifically hitting enemies in VATS. I’ve gone for so many 1-5% chance to hits in VATS and have almost always hit them in the first three bullets. Past that, I get closer and try again. I’m in a campaign that is essentially D&D on hard mode, and I RARELY roll double digits, and usually they’re between 11-14 with my skills that I have a +6 in. Despite that, I’m the tank. As the Druid. I don’t wildshape to tank, either (Wildfire Spirit), I just have almost double the HP of our rogue, and our Paladin has been absent for the past couple sessions (after her second character in the campaign, a barbarian, died).
I rolled a 1 in 2nd edition D&D, then immediately rolled 100 with the percentile dice, in the very first battle with a new group. It was embarrassing. I proceeded to do it two more times in the same session. I have since retired those dice, since I became a dice goblin and now carry several sets with me. ....still didn't prevent me from earning the nickname of Queen Crit-fail for a long time. 😆 Lady Luck loves to stomp on me.
I have a homebrew rule called Chaos Dice, where I roll the percentile and d10 whenever an idea comes into my head or if the players give me an idea. On a high roll, it usually benefits the player, but the lower the roll, the more awful for the players it becomes.
You know you found your d4 when you hear someone screaming in pain as for asking your wife on a date let the dice decide hopefully it will be good results unlike me and my bad dice rolls
Percentile dice should definitely have more uses. And hey spellcasters can wind up using all of the dice, only melee fighters are stuck with 1 or 2 based on weapon choice.
All except d100 too, pally, D20 because it is, D4 is heal wounds, 2D6 is my sword, d8 is my holy divine smite, d 12 are some of my checks, so I get a random souvenir and boom, all done. The biggest roll i had were 9 at a time.
My gm has used d100 for random weather and random encounters quote often. Once I had a player worship a weather diety and we were rolling it pretty much every day in game. We were in a hurricane out at sea and a monsoon in the desert because of it. The hurricane ended up taking the entire session because our boat was damaged and we had to fix it and fight off a bunch of shark loving enemies. The gm has also used d100 to determine who gets attacked when there are multiple targets.
Playing dnd with my dad as a dm involves a lot more percentile dice rolls than most other campaigns He loves using them for deciding encounters, decisions, whether or not an enemy notices you from another room, etc. It makes the game pretty interesting. Also using your dice to decide everything makes it go pretty quickly. Like, we use our d4s for deciding who an enemy is going after. 2 people attacked the same enemy, on a 1 or 3 it'll turn to player 1, 2 or 4 it'll turn to player 2, or whatever you decide based on the situation. It's a pretty fun way to play actually
Fun story. I had the same set of dice for playing dnd the first few years. They're these purple-blue ones with gold numbers. I had this set for the first 3 years I played dnd and never lost any of them. On the 4th year, a friend of mine got me a dice set. They're these gorgeous pastel rainbow ones with fun white numbers. I was so excited to use them! I was DM-ing on my birthday (same day she gave me my present). I knocked the set off my desk by accident. I found all the dice....except the d4. I thought I saw it roll under my desk, but it just wasn't flippin' there. Moved everything away from my desk to look for it and still found nothing. Pretty sure I'm gonna find it by accidentally stepping on it one of these days
Totally not a dice goblin right here :P Always on the hunt for more dice :D I also have to explain dice structures to new players frequently lol so I can't wait for this vid :P
Haha the beginning of this, primarily once he started introducing the d20, reminded me of Screenrant's Pitch Meetings. Was honestly expecting "Barely an inconvenience" to come up XD
Forgot....or never knew and never took the time to learn before creating and publishing a video for the public to consume. Definitely doesn't make me want to watch more of this creator's videos.
We still play a hybrid of 1e and 2e, and with the character mixes we have we use all of the dice a LOT, plus percentile often. The die that truly must be ridiculed, however, is one almost all of us grognard old-school players owned at least one of (even if we are ashamed to admit it)- the d30 :D
The one to be ashamed of is the D100. Bigger than a golf ball and still too little surface area per face. That thing does not want to stop rolling once it starts. Remind me, why is this thing better than using two D10s?
d12: if you use this you're a barbarian (hit dice + greataxe damage) d10: eldritch BLAST! d8: the most popular dice for damage rolls d6: if you use this you're a mage (or paladin with smites) d4: bard vicious mockery
"Dice" is the plural, gentlemen. "Die" is the singular. So the title should correctly read "What Each Die is Used for in DnD". (Also, "how it's used for/how it looks like/etc" is incorrect grammar. "What it's used for/what it looks like" or "how it's used/how it looks" is correct grammar.)
I bought a really cool set of 3D printed dice online, and it came with two bonuses: a + - die that I'm going to use when odds are 50/50, and a d8 shaped like a mace
I recently bought a set of dice at the dollar tree. Not the high end stuff, but pretty awesome for just a buck. The 5 of the 15 on the d20 isn't painted completely, but I can fix that myself at some point.
Apparently other systems tend to use the d100 for alot more and some even complete the d20 as the core skill check mechanic. Then there are some systems that asked the question: what kind of dice does everyone have at home? And use the d6 exclusively
I actually started a solo DnD campaign recently, and the d100 is INCREDIBLY useful for generating what happens! There’s even a table I ended up using frequently that requires adding a d8 because there are a few hundred outcomes :)
Does anyone else find it irritating that he casually swaps between die and dice when talking about a singular die? At 1:03 "This one is a die 10, and this one is a percentile dice." And "The uses for that dice is endless" These are just two of the more annoying cases from the video.
“I lost my d4” something that makes even the most experienced player shiver in fear.
especially in our group where five of my players have metal dice that were designed by sadists... hate those things.
the d4 is a triangle dice?.
real life dexterity saving throw to avoid that bad boy
D4 are just dice landmines.
@@BreandanOCiarrai When a metal D20 hits your hardwood table and your praying your parents don't notice the dent
2000 sets are already owned with 2000 sets well on their way.
Are they all caltrop dice? (D4s)
My lord there is no such force
A surprise to be sure but a welcome one for sure.
They have brought peace to my new empire
@@Calebgoblin yoUR NEW EMPIRE??
My first session as a GM with my new party went kinda like this...
Player: I have no dice
Me: here (throws them a bag of dice)
Player 2: Me neither
Me: (throws dice at them)
Me: who else has no dice?
(Everyone raises their hand)
Me: here you all go (throws them all a bag each)
Player 3: how many dice do you even have??
Me: YOU COULDN'T EVEN BEGIN TO FATHOM
Ahhh, the beauty of being a dice goblin!! XD My hubby took We Be Goblins! to a work potluck a few weeks ago, he made extra characters so more than 4 people could play and everything. I literally supplied the whole group of 9 with dice and had easily 10 or so sets left over :P
I've had one GM when we were playing VTR (dicepool system with d10s) who pulled out a dice bag, went "nope, that's the d6 bag. That's d8s. Ah, here's the d10 dice bag." The d10 bag was twice the size of the other dice bags because she's played loads of World of Darkness games before
@@earlknit5372 I had similar issues with our Shadowrun games... I was dice supplier.. But well it kind of started to get problematic once you roll 300+ D6 for damage at once. :D At that point I was sadly forced to use phone to roll... Not as much fun, but at least I am not finding those little suckers all over my room anymore :D
I have dice sets i bought for the purpose of handing them to newbies
@@WardNightstone I'm trying to get my hubby to do that, and to get dice trays too
Stepping on a d4, the only thing more painful then stepping on lego
That can’t be true can it?
It is the shape of a caltrop.
I knew a party who had an issue with a prior player. They'd play all night, sleep over, and head home as party members woke up. One of them would sneak to the fridge and steal the DM/host's food. Frustrated by this, and unaware which fucking player of his was stealing food, he scattered a bunch of d4s in front of the fridge. In the dark kitchen, the player was unaware of the trap awaiting him, stepped on one, screamed, outed himself, and was promptly kicked out of game and friend group.
@@dragonsswarm1987 I was gonna say caltrops too
@@super-zw3ep as someone who has stepped on both, well there's a reason walking on D4 contests don't exist.
Funny thing: Clerics can use all the dice. HEAR ME OUT!!!
d4: Healing Word.
d6: Cure Wounds.
d8: Hit points.
d10: Inflict Wounds.
d12: Toll of the Dead.
d20: Everything else.
Percentiles: Lets be honest, they are gonna use it for Divine Intervention.
I cast Guidance a lot more as a cleric than Healing Word...
so they're the class that uses D10 and Percentiles
@@hazdra1896 Hey, wild magic sorcerers use d100 a lot...
much to the party's protest and detriment.
But you'd be hard-pressed to make one cleric that can cast all of those spells. Some of them require opposing alignments to cast.
@@ThePCguy17 What is this thing you call 'alignments'?
Losing a d4 is like the little piece of glass left after cleaning broken glass, you only find them when someone gets hurt XD
As someone who is looking for a D4 this comment put fear into my soul
@@Chaotic_Club have you found it.
@@SergioLopez-my8su yes… Unfortunately
I find great pride in being the 669th like here
Hurt for a d4 of piercing damage
"You know that game I was telling you about?"
"The one about sacrificing your friends, right?"
"Ri- wait, what?"
"What?"
"No, Dungeons and Dragons."
Theres a difference?
No, so remember, if you are unsure how serious the DM is, throw a paladin with 19 armour to test them.
You are thinking of monopoly.
@@priyanshugoel3030 can you sell your friends soul to a succubus to save yourself in monopoly
I didn’t think so
Think he might have gotten it mixed up with -the devil's game of torture and suffering- Paranoia.
Considering the very first session that my friend's cousin joined and sold all of us to ogres so he could live, yeah I would say there isn't much of a difference.
I am a dice goblin, no dice are too obscure to not collect. I don't care how much pain they have caused my characters, they are all precious and will be forever in my collection and rotated for use. DICE FOR THE DICE GODS!!!
I live in a socialist country where the only dice they sell is the D-6. Soon as I find a way to make money I will have to order them online.
@Magnus_dead you should check out Orbidice they look cool (in my opinion)🙂
Magnus you say you are a dice goblin than prove it do you have a d100
ROLLS FOR THE ROLL THRONE
@@Zinc_The_4 XD there is no such thing.
You forgot to mention that once you roll a d4, it is pretty much impossible to pick it up from the table.
*me, who plays dnd on a carpet*:
I HAVE NO SUCH WEAKNESS!!!!!!!
Just slam your hand down like Ashton Kutcher in the butterfly effect.
Unless you have fat, stubby and/or sweaty fingers, or your die is made from a slippery material, I don’t see how that’s an issue. Anyway, I’m probably thinking about it too hard lol 🙃
Why? You just pinch it with three fingers.
Just use the numbers, dude. It’ll get you some purchase.
"This is a d3..."
"What the hell is that thing!"
"A d3."
"yeah, but why is it shaped like that?!"
"ive got more."
"No no no!"
*begins putting out dice*
" a d5, a d7, a d9, a d11, a d13..."
"who will use these!?!?"
"probably no one. Anyway wanna see a d1"
"NO!"
The d1 is extremely useful in roll20 because a lot of the macros work with either using two constants together or using two dice rolls together, not a constant and a die roll, so if you wanna make a macro for say where if your die rolls lower than a 2 it counts a a 2 you can't do [1d6,2]kh1, kh is keep highest with the number denoting how many of the highest to keep, so instead you'd do [1d6,2d1]kh1, though using a d0 is actually even better because with 2d1 it'll always show up as blue, having rolled both min and max value at once, so instead with a d0 you can do [1d6,1d0+2]kh1, giving the same result, but without the always blue number.
@@giorgitsiklauri840 I was referring to how it looks.
@@dew-it8744 mobius strip?
D3 and D5 are real D3 is a D6 numbered 1 to 3 twice D5 is the same with a D10
Really old school percentile are D20 numbered 0 to 9 and you had two colors and had to call one as the 10s die.
Me : looks at dice I bought specifically for characters even tho they were online campaigns
Me:.... But the goblin soul is not satisfied by virtual dice, they do not klick klack like the math rocks, you see
I am now forever calling dice math rocks
Pretty math rocks. so pretty. sometimes shiny. always math.
DND beyond dice do the click clack
@@eddieleung5714 not in our settings sadly :(
But!! I get to fidget with my math rocks while playing so it's cool :)
I have no math rocks as I do not have any friends to play D&D with.... nor do I have D&D.
You forgot to mention how once you get one set of dice, you will inevitably find yourself getting more because you need them and no you don't have to explain why
Well I know that ever since I got my first dice set some competition, they have been rolling a lot better...
Hey, I've got excuses! They're color-coded! Purple is regular checks, silver is attacks/major CoC dice, red is healing, lava...themed...dice...uhhh...
They were pretty and shiny and pink!
“And these?”
They are shiny and the 20 reads YEET and the 1 is a curse word, who wouldn’t want them?!!
Never mind the 30 sets you already have. Rolling a new character? Buy a new set of dice.
Shiny math rocks go click clack
*joins a new campaign*
DM: “welcome our new player to this campaign, so you’ve played dnd a little bit right?”
Me: *pours out 30 sets of dice* “yeah, just a little”
It was kind of you to only bring one of your hordes
@@kaldo_kaldo didn’t want to overwhelm the other players
Me: entering a new DnD campaign.
Everyone: I see you have loads of die. You play a lot?
Me: No. First time.
I think I own more sets of dice than I played sessions and more individual dice than I spent hours playing the game
Only played once But I think I have like 30 sets I really want lead .490 d20s for my hawken
Three things:
One: When I threw the dice at my forehead, the dice landed on the edge of my screen protector and broke the protector #rip
Two: I am BEYOND proud of the Harry Potter Joke
Three: Should I ask my wife out on a date? I think she is cute and kinda like her....
Do it!
DO IT (in Palpatine's voice)🙂
I say do it
please roll a DC10 seduction check. +3 because she is your wife.
Do. It.
"Sacrificing our friends."
Edit 1: "oh good, you found it."
Edit 2: dice story, my dad's friend who is now sadly passed away kept dice in a container and separated them by high roll, low roll, and neutral roll, would ask wether he needed to roll high or low and used the corresponding dice.
My boyfriend and I have a similar method called murder/mercy dice depending on whether we're dm-ing or playing and don't want to or need to kill something
@@gamergirl209 ah so murder dice must be used against the bards mercilessly I imagine
@@NishiTheRat More like the bards will use it to "murder that... cat..."
Like, just for the fun of it or were thosw dice prerolled?
What If a high roller, rolled low?
I have one pair of dice I like to call the "cursed set" and as the GM I like to give that set to every new player. It always rolls low no matter what. Anyway so one time I gave that set to one of my new players (my sister's boyfriend) first thing he wanted to do was punch a kid and he rolled a nat 20.
"The dice chooses the player, Potter."
The rocks want you to punch orphans, like any sensible thing playing dnd
We have a similar set for people who forget their dice, our first dm abandoned them (and the rest of his dnd stuff) when we kicked him out for being a manipulative guy running on power trips. He's now in antifa...
@@aonirnolaloth should be said that I give noobs that set so they realize that they cant always do what they want in the game since its really up to chance and just to see how they handle that. They only ever have that set for the first introduction round I like to do.
I save those for when the party is low on HP and I need to miss so the party doesn't wipe.
You should make a skit about coming up with skit material for future videos, but is actually a funny skit itself.
Fun fact:
The design of the d4 was based of a way for players to protects themselves back in the Satanic Panic, where people would raid/attack DND sessions. The solution was to provide players protection, and with what else but a trap, namely caltrops, fitting for DND. The caltrops were contained in the DND products purchased, and were painted and inscribed with numbers, so they could hide amounts the actual dice without raising suspicion, unless you had already fallen victim to them. They were then scattered on the ground before the session to create an obstacle for any attackers, giving the players much needed time to escape/hide. Eventually the caltrops were incorporated into the game as the d4, and while the points are much duller, they still retain spike shape of the caltrops, and that is why the d4 is so painful to step on.
o-o
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If this is true this is a horrifyingly cool story.
@@vanguardbreaker8826 It is not. No one was raiding dnd homes XD parents were throwing away their kids' shit, that's it.
@@vanguardbreaker8826 LOL it is definitely not. Satanic Panic really happened due to the Manson murders, where were real and horrific, and never involved raids of DnD parties XD Parents just became afraid their children would become like Manson and confiscated DnD stuff. (Source: 1988 LAmag report on Manson; FBI data)
I can give you a true dice story though! The object believed to be the world’s oldest d20 (found to date) is from Ptolmeic Egypt (304-30 BCE). (Source: Metropolitan Museum)
"Only 1 class"
Barbarian: "I guess my wild magic subclass doesnt count"
Wild magic sorcerers and Wild magic barbarians are the only classes I assume?
@@dull_demon4717 The only ones, unless ya count the DM rolling loot tables or random encounters
@@summermermaidstar756 I don't see that as a class so- no.
Still it's if odd their the only two to use them
@@dull_demon4717 yeah, hence the disappointment.
They should do a wild magic subclass for all classes.
@@summermermaidstar756 wild magic warlock would be kinda terrifying
You see you have dice goblins who collect any old dice. I am a dice kobold. My collection is expansive but I am very choosey about the dice I add to the collection. No kobold would buy a mystery bag just to have 10 lbs of dice. No we carefully decide which set will be number 23, line them all up to admire their beauty, and then curse because a single d12 rolled away somewhere and you have to stop everything, count all the dice, make sure nothing else is missing, and go find that precious d12 that rolled away.
There's a difference? I thought I was just a picky dice goblin! I guess I'm a dice kobold like you, though. I only have 5 sets to my name, but I'm really picky to what kind of sets I put on my shopping list as well. My dice sets also need to match in terms of colour. I really don't get how people can live with rolling a mismatched set, where they take a D20 out of one set and a D6 out of another. I really couldn't do that without matching up either cool colours like blue and green, or warm colours like red and yellow. Even if I need extra dice because my spellcaster learned a new spell that's going to need them; the set has to look nice, even if she ISN'T burning the party's enemies alive.
Well now I know exactly what I am 😅 *carefully shops for more dice*
I too am a dice kobold. Though I only have two sets currently.
Yes I am a dice kobald... with only one set. But I just know that, given the opportunity to buy more dice, I will make sure they are all matching and aesthetically pleasing
Don't forget to put all of your lovely dice on display with the the highest number facing up. It's like pausing an image on an old CRT television, and burning it into the screen. The die must have that number seared into its soul, as that's the only way to reliably tame them. Also, this is ideal for artsy-fartsy photo shoots.
so, I play pathfinder not d&d, so here's how I use each die:
d20: hand it to the dm because spells that require saving throws are way better than ones with attack rolls.
d12: yeah, I played a barbarian once.
d10: I feel like this is never used.
d100: my dm decided to make a wildmagic-like thing for nat1s.
d8: THIS is the one for healing spells.
d6: sneak attack, but also the dm needs to be absolutely sure he has 20d6 for the breath weapon of the ancient red dragon he keeps threatening us with.
d4: magic missile.
If you play a pathfinder rogue you should be using d8 sneak attacks, knife master ftw. Also attack roll conjuration spells, esp acid damage ones like acid arrow, are great to counter magic resistance, magic immunity, and best of all antimagic field, it can't be cast from inside the AMF so you'd have to shoot it from outside but acid arrow has long range and a wizard should never actually be affected by an AMF once they're 5th level as long as they wear their multiple layered shrunk lead cone hat and always have a short range teleport spell prepped.
@@giorgitsiklauri840 I don't really know about the sneak attack, it's not me who plays the rogue. As far as the spells, I did use conjuration a lot, but I was playing a druid so I mostly used Stromwave (saving throw focus spell), heal, hydraulic push (yes, that has an attack roll, but I needed something to spend my hero poins on), and Lightning (I think it's called that, we were playing in French. it might be Thunderbolt). and when I hit level 7 I went for direct dammage with torrent, and replaced heal with summon fey because a summoned unicorn can cast 3rd level heal twice, which adds up to more than a 4th level heal.
@@cfMegabaston mm yeah I haven't played a druid, I was thinking more of wizard/cleric.
@@giorgitsiklauri840 I haven't played that much pathfinder either, until recently I played Chroniques Oubliées instead, so here's the dice guide for that:
d20: literally every situation.
d12: random loot generration.
d10: could I interest you in a katana?
d100: what did you say?
d8: healing and one-handed dammage.
d6: the elder dragon still needs 6d6+42.
d4: magic missile (but this time it's only 1d4)
I still play mostly 2nd ed lately, so:
d20: Almost everything
d12: The die that usually gets stolen by people who only ever play once, because no one ever uses them (good for random encounters and reaction rolls 1d12+1d8)
d10: Two-handed Swords, 24d10+12 breath weapon of the ancient red dragon that your dm keeps threatening you with
d100: Thief skills
d8: Healing Spells (Agreed!), long sword
d6: Lots of different weapons, spells, and skelly damage
d4: Daggers and magic missiles
I'm a DM who's only played virtually up to now. Can't wait to roll real dice
Don't start 😂 it's an addiction you won't be able to afford real quick!
Why don't you just roll a real dice instead of the virtual
Nothing stopping you from using real dice unless you really don't trust your players. The only time I use roll20 dice is for my character I'm a masochist with.
@@ElvinMayenCarrillo For me: It is easier to use the D&D Beyond Discord bot and it is better if you want to roll many things at one.
And it serves as a trust thing kind of.
Also, I have no real dice.
One thing I like about virtual tabletops is that they automatically keep track of all bonuses and penalties. 1d20 + 5 attack bonus - 2 because target has half cover + 1d4 from Bless... it gets complicated. But I still love the feel of rolling physical dice. I've never even gotten to use my glow-in-the-dark set.
I felt the "never rolls over 6" for the d12 .
“What’s it used for?”
“Mainly to swear at and tell it how it destroys everything it touches.”
“Understandable.”
_inhales_ Fair.
Unless you're Wil Wheaton, where the dice swears at Wil for cursing it forever.
I was playing Lost mine of phandelver and I had to enter a town (this was a solo campgain), and had to roll the d20 with a dc of like 15 or 10 to enter. I failed the check 3 separate times.
@@kirbywithaknifeisawesome6028 I have god awful luck in literally everything except for character creation (rolling stats and rolling health at higher levels) and Fallout: New Vegas, specifically hitting enemies in VATS.
I’ve gone for so many 1-5% chance to hits in VATS and have almost always hit them in the first three bullets. Past that, I get closer and try again.
I’m in a campaign that is essentially D&D on hard mode, and I RARELY roll double digits, and usually they’re between 11-14 with my skills that I have a +6 in. Despite that, I’m the tank. As the Druid. I don’t wildshape to tank, either (Wildfire Spirit), I just have almost double the HP of our rogue, and our Paladin has been absent for the past couple sessions (after her second character in the campaign, a barbarian, died).
I rolled a 1 in 2nd edition D&D, then immediately rolled 100 with the percentile dice, in the very first battle with a new group. It was embarrassing. I proceeded to do it two more times in the same session. I have since retired those dice, since I became a dice goblin and now carry several sets with me. ....still didn't prevent me from earning the nickname of Queen Crit-fail for a long time. 😆 Lady Luck loves to stomp on me.
I still remember the first thought i got when i first lost a d4
''welp time to slide anywhere i walk so i dont stab my foot''
And the really scary thing is now they're making dice with sharp edges so beware the 4 siders...
*laughs in those chaos dice which have a D4 that literally has a spike on each end*
They are evolving!
Someday d4 will become explosive i bet.
1:40
That must be one kick ass yatzee set
TFF - thanks to the Aussies for waking up early and/or going to bed late to attend!
They be the Real MVP's! And all of those around the world who do it as well!
*Walks into the dnd session with a white marble*
"This is my D1, for some reason I never get higher than a 1 with it."
D4 is also used to kill off the wizards
I only have one set of dice, and have to restrain myself from becoming a dice goblin the second I enter a hobby store
I wish you luck in life, I have not resisted that urge.
Just give into it. You'll be much happier for it
Why would you punish yourself like that??? :)
You are like me! Kind of. I has two sets of dice actually. I must await the day when I can become a dice goblin.
* sadness * I need moneys
I swore not to become a dice goblin but I have 14 sets, so I clearly failed.
*throws percentile* "it makes you shut up"
Dude I DIED lmfao that shit got me
I have a homebrew rule called Chaos Dice, where I roll the percentile and d10 whenever an idea comes into my head or if the players give me an idea. On a high roll, it usually benefits the player, but the lower the roll, the more awful for the players it becomes.
0:21 - This made me realize just how many things came in groups of 7. And it was a joke.
I multiple sets just in case my one decides to act up
Who doesn’t
Fun fact: IRL, the object believed to be the world’s oldest d20 (found to date) is from Ptolmeic Egypt (304-30 BCE). (Source: Metropolitan Museum)
You know you found your d4 when you hear someone screaming in pain as for asking your wife on a date let the dice decide hopefully it will be good results unlike me and my bad dice rolls
my phone had to buffer at 0:06 which made the joke even funnier
Pedantic note: die is singular, dice is plural.
“Those dice can be used for many purposes!”
“That die rolls badly!”
I also pointed this out!
Then you get those awful people who insist "But 'dice' is accepted as the singular now" and the rest of us dice inside.
Percentile dice should definitely have more uses. And hey spellcasters can wind up using all of the dice, only melee fighters are stuck with 1 or 2 based on weapon choice.
All except d100 too, pally, D20 because it is, D4 is heal wounds, 2D6 is my sword, d8 is my holy divine smite, d 12 are some of my checks, so I get a random souvenir and boom, all done. The biggest roll i had were 9 at a time.
My gm has used d100 for random weather and random encounters quote often. Once I had a player worship a weather diety and we were rolling it pretty much every day in game. We were in a hurricane out at sea and a monsoon in the desert because of it. The hurricane ended up taking the entire session because our boat was damaged and we had to fix it and fight off a bunch of shark loving enemies.
The gm has also used d100 to determine who gets attacked when there are multiple targets.
1:47 my group just sticks em on our foreheads and become u n i c o r n
Just gonna say if you got multiple d20s the red one is specifically for casting fireball
Yee
Why do you need d20 to cast Fireball though?
@@calasurien Spell Attack roll
@@TS-21 Fireball is Dex save for half damage, what's the attack roll for?
@@TS-21 ???
That was a perfect summary of the dice, well done.
I thought the d12 was supposed to represent the Cleric’s spiritual weapon on the board grid...
2:20 Who else *felt* that >×
Flashbacks to legos.
Playing dnd with my dad as a dm involves a lot more percentile dice rolls than most other campaigns
He loves using them for deciding encounters, decisions, whether or not an enemy notices you from another room, etc. It makes the game pretty interesting. Also using your dice to decide everything makes it go pretty quickly.
Like, we use our d4s for deciding who an enemy is going after. 2 people attacked the same enemy, on a 1 or 3 it'll turn to player 1, 2 or 4 it'll turn to player 2, or whatever you decide based on the situation. It's a pretty fun way to play actually
Fun story. I had the same set of dice for playing dnd the first few years. They're these purple-blue ones with gold numbers. I had this set for the first 3 years I played dnd and never lost any of them. On the 4th year, a friend of mine got me a dice set. They're these gorgeous pastel rainbow ones with fun white numbers. I was so excited to use them! I was DM-ing on my birthday (same day she gave me my present). I knocked the set off my desk by accident. I found all the dice....except the d4. I thought I saw it roll under my desk, but it just wasn't flippin' there. Moved everything away from my desk to look for it and still found nothing. Pretty sure I'm gonna find it by accidentally stepping on it one of these days
1:22 stares in wild magic
The D4 is literally a caltrop, a trap used for horses on the battlefield, basically a metal tripod expecting a horse to step on it
throw the d4 into the game, like the ingame universe
Totally not a dice goblin right here :P Always on the hunt for more dice :D I also have to explain dice structures to new players frequently lol so I can't wait for this vid :P
The D4: It's meant for healing spells, and in real life for heeling fells.
Great video, even tho the premier hasn't even started yet and there's no way I could have watched it already
1:57 those are called caltrops and i think they are a war crime.
Thanks man
Im new in dnd and I didnt know what each dice is for
Guide videos like yours are the best content on yt 👍
Ppl say that legos are painful to step on.
D4: Am I a joke to you?
It doesn’t only cause physical pain it can cause emotional pain when you roll low
Like casting Vicious Mockery on yourself. Just use the d4 again.
You never know pure torture until you step on a plug and jump off it only to immediately step on a d4... with the same foot.
Finally played my first session today!!
"Sacrifice your friends" and "Dungeon and dragons" i can't spot the differense
0:38 Hahahahahaha that was great
“And this is my d3.”
*universal collapse*
You forgot the most important reason for the dice! To hoard them like little math obsessed goblins!
Relating to the title: Die is the singular form of dice.
Edit: And for the thumbnail as well
So I bought beautiful elven themed transparent dice set. Guess which one of them got lost somewhere in the house.
For Xmas, I got a set of metal dnd dice, the ends were really pointy
as someone who owns metal dice, I can confirm that stepping on a d4 really makes you lose a decent amount of HP in real life
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I got my first set of DND dice yesterday, and now I FINALLY know what each one is used for! This video was super helpful!
2:05
Hah, jokes on you! I actually use 4 of them!😂
(Except when I'm the dm)
1:13 literally the only die we use in our RP system. It's so good.
1:15 well look who discovered CoC
Haha the beginning of this, primarily once he started introducing the d20, reminded me of Screenrant's Pitch Meetings. Was honestly expecting "Barely an inconvenience" to come up XD
I have more dice than friends to play with
tru story
I don't have any of either.... Lol.
Same
Somebody seemingly forgot that the singular form of “dice” is “die”.
Forgot....or never knew and never took the time to learn before creating and publishing a video for the public to consume. Definitely doesn't make me want to watch more of this creator's videos.
I have like five sets and I neED MORE
I'm a dice GREMLIN no die is safe frOM ME!
I WILL OWN *ALL* THE DICE!
PLEASE NO DONT TAKE MY DICE
Nothing like "finding" your d4 on your way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
We still play a hybrid of 1e and 2e, and with the character mixes we have we use all of the dice a LOT, plus percentile often. The die that truly must be ridiculed, however, is one almost all of us grognard old-school players owned at least one of (even if we are ashamed to admit it)- the d30 :D
The one to be ashamed of is the D100. Bigger than a golf ball and still too little surface area per face. That thing does not want to stop rolling once it starts. Remind me, why is this thing better than using two D10s?
I have two of those and still play 2nd... I didn't know it was normal for us to have those LOL! I don't even know why I have them LOL!
@@WildBluntHickok One of my players had a dream one time that she had a soccer ball sized d1000 and was trying to find me to bring it to me LOL!
d12: if you use this you're a barbarian (hit dice + greataxe damage)
d10: eldritch BLAST!
d8: the most popular dice for damage rolls
d6: if you use this you're a mage (or paladin with smites)
d4: bard vicious mockery
Did you seriously forget sneak attack?
"Dice" is the plural, gentlemen. "Die" is the singular. So the title should correctly read "What Each Die is Used for in DnD".
(Also, "how it's used for/how it looks like/etc" is incorrect grammar. "What it's used for/what it looks like" or "how it's used/how it looks" is correct grammar.)
I bought a really cool set of 3D printed dice online, and it came with two bonuses: a + - die that I'm going to use when odds are 50/50, and a d8 shaped like a mace
You're thinking of a coin.
"This mice is angry"
"This knives isn't sharp"
"Little Billy is a children"
"How each dice is used"
The singular is "die"
I recently bought a set of dice at the dollar tree. Not the high end stuff, but pretty awesome for just a buck. The 5 of the 15 on the d20 isn't painted completely, but I can fix that myself at some point.
I don't know what D&D stands for other than Debts & Depression but Imma wanna know where to get the dice that can do 1:30
Apparently other systems tend to use the d100 for alot more and some even complete the d20 as the core skill check mechanic.
Then there are some systems that asked the question: what kind of dice does everyone have at home?
And use the d6 exclusively
so when are we getting a full session yahtzee?
Literally this dropped right before my dnd game is supposed to start
Who else has stepped on a D4 and almost died?
"AAAAA-"
"Oh good, you found it!" Not even FAZED
The first time we played with my dad he couldn't pick up the d4 because his fingers were too dry, it was really funny 😂
As an old _RuneQuest_ and _Call of Cthulhu_ player 1:01 amused me.
😂😂😂 the d4 joke is brilliant
Isn't "dice" plural? "Die" is the singular version. That's why, when your d20 seems to hate you, you call it your "die die die!" die.
I was here during original stream!
I actually started a solo DnD campaign recently, and the d100 is INCREDIBLY useful for generating what happens! There’s even a table I ended up using frequently that requires adding a d8 because there are a few hundred outcomes :)
I... am the first comment... That's nice.
Yee
I once saw in a Puffin Forest video that he had an 8-sided d4, and honestly that makes way more sense than using those mini caltrops as dice.
And I am the second. That's a first
Sadly the 3rd
Hehe nice
I've been getting into D&D recently and your video is the first that made me genuinely laugh.
Does anyone else find it irritating that he casually swaps between die and dice when talking about a singular die?
At 1:03
"This one is a die 10, and this one is a percentile dice."
And
"The uses for that dice is endless"
These are just two of the more annoying cases from the video.
Very much so.
Just let me live my life!! 😂
Funny, the most common die used in my games is a d100 golf-ball-looking die. Followed by a d4.
It's painful to hear it said as "die 20" and not "D20" 🤣
Aw thanks for the heart! Keep up the great skits, man.
I have a metal D4 and if I ever lose that thing I'm moving before it has a chance to find my foot.