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91 is respectable for a reasonable man in the early 21st century. A few unreasonable people want a bit more.
Nothing unreasonable about wanting to live healthy and longer. It's not likely tho.
That’s what people always say until science progresses. I remember when we believed HIV would not be treatable.
Science advances one funeral at a time.
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There are only 5 Platonic Solids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid : D4, D6, D8, D12 and D20. There are 13 more solids with equal faces and vertex (but not equal edges) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_solid but none of them has 100 faces (It looks like a nice project for 3D printing.) You can cut the corners, but now the faces are different and ensuring all the faces have the same probability is a ni…
Martin Gardner wrote an article on platonic solids in Scientific American, December 1958, and mentioned this in passing: "All five Platonic solids have been used as dice. Next to the cube the octahedron seems to have been the most popular". I have no idea what games using 8-sided dice were somewhat popular (or existed at all) in 1958 or earlier? I wondered about that since I first read that article some decade ago. I…
Besides gambling games most dice in antiquity were used in rituals or soothsaying.
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Joking aside, is throwing 2d10 and using one for tens and one for units different from throwing 1d100?
Throwing 2d10 of different colors is equivalent of trowing 1d100. It's nice they have different colors to avoid discussions, but you can throw them in two different bins or one at a time or something. Remember to sum them as (x-1) * 10 + (y-1) + 1, that is a clear indication of why zero-based indexing is better. (Does someone sell "decade" dice, which faces say: 10, 20, 300, ..., 90 and 100?)
Is that not equivalent to:
> (x-1) * 10 + y
or:
> x * 10 + y - 10
More 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/
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Throwing 2d10 of different colors is equivalent of trowing 1d100. It's nice they have different colors to avoid discussions, but you can throw them in two different bins or one at a time or something. Remember to sum them as (x-1) * 10 + (y-1) + 1, that is a clear indication of why zero-based indexing is better. (Does someone sell "decade" dice, which faces say: 10, 20, 300, ..., 90 and 100?)
E.g. * https://boxcarsandoneeyedjacks.com/product/10-sided-decade-d... * https://extrememathgames.com/product/10-sided-decade-dice-00...
I just throw 17d6 and subtract 2. Problem solved. (I am joking!)
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Joking aside, is throwing 2d10 and using one for tens and one for units different from throwing 1d100?
Throwing 2d10 of different colors is equivalent of trowing 1d100. It's nice they have different colors to avoid discussions, but you can throw them in two different bins or one at a time or something. Remember to sum them as (x-1) * 10 + (y-1) + 1, that is a clear indication of why zero-based indexing is better. (Does someone sell "decade" dice, which faces say: 10, 20, 300, ..., 90 and 100?)
I bought a Zocchihedron cos we were playing a game that used percentages (Icar RPG) but rolling it was hilariously haphazard as it was essentially a ball! Loved it tho. I later received the game science dice set as a gift, which I still have. Sadly little time to play these days.
One bit I love from the early history of Gamescience is he didn't have the capital to make a full D&D set off the bat, so he'd get one dice mold made, release that one, then take the profits to make the next mold. Forget which was first but I think the d4 was early.