Minor idea: make dice-rolling more interesting.

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Minor idea: make dice-rolling more interesting.

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It's a small thing, but I don't think it would be arbitrary to ask that dice-rolling be made into a simple game.

I have one idea: every die you get can be rolled two or three times (before it perma-rolls to one). So, if you get something less than six, you can ponder whether it's worth another roll. (For instance, let's say my first study insert's a four. I can decide whether that's what I want, or whether I want to try for something else. If I roll, I have a chance for something better. If I don't get a good roll second time around, that's my own fault, and that's OK. It's not merely fate.)

Another variant might be: I can roll the die in my inventory as many times as I like - until it lands on a "one". (So an example roll might be: 2, 3, 3, 5, 2, 1. Another might be 2, 3, 4, 3, 5. Or you could, theoretically, roll a round like this: 2, 5, 4, 6. And so on.)

The chance to get a six at the risk of getting a one would make playing with dice much more interesting, I think.
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Re: Minor idea: make dice-rolling more interesting.

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I think the die should work just like an actual die, much like it does. If anything it could be fun if it once under a blue moon landed on random, ominous, nonsense.
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Re: Minor idea: make dice-rolling more interesting.

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you should increase the exp for die. they are pretty bad even if you roll a good number.
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Re: Minor idea: make dice-rolling more interesting.

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jorb wrote:I think the die should work just like an actual die, much like it does. If anything it could be fun if it once under a blue moon landed on random, ominous, nonsense.
and then we can pimp our rides by combining two of those ominous rolls with feathers and string creating "fuzzy dice"
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Re: Minor idea: make dice-rolling more interesting.

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jorb wrote:I think the die should work just like an actual die, much like it does. If anything it could be fun if it once under a blue moon landed on random, ominous, nonsense.
Come on, Jorb. You know what I mean. When it goes into the study?
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Re: Minor idea: make dice-rolling more interesting.

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i suggest the dice be increased to 2 dice, not just 1 die, so we get snake eyes and such
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Re: Minor idea: make dice-rolling more interesting.

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add a tiny chance for a good curio called "the 7th timeline" or "the edge" or something.

https://youtu.be/CxstwoTwP3I

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