Submitted by DerMagicSheep t3_z5xje6 in mildlyinteresting
FatigueVVV t1_ixz5ulr wrote
This is a particularly awful looking d100, which is an already terrible die. Percentile d10s will always be preferable.
dmaster1213 t1_ixzuqhq wrote
My dad had a d100 and it looked nothing like OP's picture. It rolled alright and didn't feel unbalanced.
Amiiboid t1_ixzwfb6 wrote
Was it the “Zocchihedron” or something like that from the 80s? I had one of those. It did, in fact, roll alright. Sometimes the challenge was getting it to stop rolling.
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JudgeAdvocateDevil t1_iy0fag8 wrote
Yes Jeff
dmaster1213 t1_ixzx4di wrote
Oh yea he said it was hell to roll, and never liked it.
ExceptionCollection t1_iy0mzx1 wrote
It's a conversation piece, really. You can roll it but why.
My other "conversation piece" dice are a D12 from an old National Geographic game and a metal D20. I also have "long" dice I use sometimes, but at least those are functional. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_dice)
Oh, and a set of D6 that have a D6 inside of them.
Amiiboid t1_ixzye04 wrote
Apparently weights were added at some point as a braking mechanism. Your dad and I must’ve had the first generation.
dmaster1213 t1_ixzyjfy wrote
Oh yea he was into it in the 80s, he even still had his old characters from campaigns back then.
HellbellyUK t1_iy0ebm0 wrote
I’ve still got one. I seem to remember someone wrote into White Dwarf magazine claiming that the D100 was biased against results at the extreme low and high numbers. They showed this with a graph produced by tabulating something like 2-3000 dice rolls. Some people really need a hobby :)
WalkerBRiley t1_iy0p78m wrote
What if that WAS their hobby? Just because you don't approve of it doesn't make it valid.
Imthewienerdog t1_iy1b590 wrote
Nah can't be. Only weird things I'm interested in are okay.
jazzkott t1_iy1xurt wrote
based
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FasterAndFuriouser t1_iy1ti2c wrote
Challenge accepted.
0ba78683-dbdd-4a31-a t1_iy09lqt wrote
d% and a d10 is the way
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