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FatigueVVV t1_ixz5ulr wrote

This is a particularly awful looking d100, which is an already terrible die. Percentile d10s will always be preferable.

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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.

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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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dmaster1213 t1_ixzx4di wrote

Oh yea he said it was hell to roll, and never liked it.

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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.

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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.

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dmaster1213 t1_ixzyjfy wrote

Oh yea he was into it in the 80s, he even still had his old characters from campaigns back then.

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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 :)

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WalkerBRiley t1_iy0p78m wrote

What if that WAS their hobby? Just because you don't approve of it doesn't make it valid.

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