Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
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Re: Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
#2More than just the d100 he was a pioneer of being very exacting when it came to making polyhedral dice. See http://www.1000d4.com/2013/02/14/how-true-are-your-d20s/
Re: Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
#3https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zocchihedron
I didn't see a picture of Zocchi's d100, Wikipedia has one
Re: Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
#4More than just the d100 he was a pioneer of being very exacting when it came to making polyhedral dice. See http://www.1000d4.com/2013/02/14/how-true-are-your-d20s/
> More than just the d100 he was a pioneer of being very exacting when it came to making polyhedral dice.
Absolutely, but i couldn't fit all of that into the subject line ;) and he's best known for the d100. Many of us remember the articles and ads from the 1980s describing the effort he put into that particular die.
Re: Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
#5I just throw 17d6 and subtract 2.
Problem solved.
(I am joking!)
Re: Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
#6https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zocchihedron I didn't see a picture of Zocchi's d100, Wikipedia has one
Interesting they had to redistribute the numbers to take account of its natural bias.
Re: Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
#7I've never played any games that require this, but the Wikipedia page makes reference to percentage rolls, but wouldn't you need 101 sides to get 0% and 100% for that?
Re: Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
#8I've never played any games that require this, but the Wikipedia page makes reference to percentage rolls, but wouldn't you need 101 sides to get 0% and 100% for that?
> but wouldn't you need 101 sides to get 0% and 100% for that?
There is no 0% in d100/d-percentile rolls. Every "how to interpret these dice" paragraph in games which use them will tell you to interpret 0-0 on 2d10 as 100, not 0. Or, hypothetically (but i don't recall having ever seen this), they'll have a stated range of 0 to 99 (inclusive). Either way, the numeric range spans precisely 100 digits.
Re: Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
#9Re: Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died
#10The amount of games that use those kinds of dice make his contribution to tabletop gaming incommensurable. Sad to see him passing. But 91 yo is more than respectable