Friday, April 25, 2014
Followup to my earlier dice question.
Followup to my earlier dice question... how many believe precision dice are superior to that tumbled crap that fills the shelves these days... and, if you do, how do you suggest we help younger/new players understand this? (or are they so concerned with feel and visual style, that they are completely resistant to the possibility?)
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Nope no Bias here
ReplyDeleteDice is dice is dice.
ReplyDeleteI prefer precision dice. For one thing, they stop rolling more quickly. Unfortuantley, it's sort of a moot point until GameScience resumes manufacturing.
ReplyDeleteIn order for me to be enticed to purchase "precision" dice I would need more than "these are totes better than round edged tumbled dice because precision." It would also help if they weren't not much more expensive than other dice, which off the top of my head is the reason I have not purchased them even though one of my FLGS does stock Game Science dice.
ReplyDeleteAnd maybe if they had more mass. I have a few Game Science dice, but I do not enjoy either the way they feel in the hand nor the the sounds they make when roll. Which at the end of the day is why I play games that use dice. If I want much more assuredly random results I would use some kind of software to do so.
I find it laughable to base an appeal to using a game aid based on precision, not so much because it is a game, but because I have throughout my life worked in fields where precision and accuracy were part and parcel of the professions, drafting, small parts manufacturing, small arms repair, and small arms marksmanship. You're making an appeal based on a quality that doesn't matter to me, or, extremely likely, most other young people.
It doesn't help that you start your assertion than precision dice are superior to the "tumble crap" that is the status quo of majority of people.
Snobbery about anything tends to turn off portions of the a target demographic.
After a brief "Hellz yeah, precision dice!" phase I am now more and more convinced that Koplow is the better tradeoff. First they are "even enough" as far as I am concerned (see http://www.1000d4.com/2013/02/14/how-true-are-your-d20s/ for example). Second they are heavier than the GameScience dice; they feel less flimsy and are more fun to roll for me. Finally their coloring (for the numbers) holds up a lot better than the GameScience dice I have had in my dice bag for about a year (and for which I am already having a hard time reading a few numbers).
ReplyDeleteI just show everyone the Lou Zocchi dice videos and let them draw their own conclusions. If there were more variety(gem dice with sparkles, swirled colors) like the Limited edition Tigers Eye dice that Gamescience put out a couple years back, that would also help entice younger player's to use them. Most people I have gamed with over the years buy dice because of the look of them, not because they roll better than other dice(most don't even think about this).
ReplyDeletePeter Fröhlich if you contact gamescience they will replace your faulty dice for free. gamesciencedice.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite dice are my first dice of crappy make, you can't put the precision dice in your pocket without risking a punctured testicle.
ReplyDeleteMichael Pace I don't think they are "defective" in any way, they just don't hold up as well, color-wise. I figured that's because they expect to sell them without ink by default. But I am beyond the crayon phase myself. :-)
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