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Oh god, that's horrible!
Please NSFW or spoiler.. that's gnarly.
Ah, sorry. Is there coding to mark comments as NSFW, or do you mean applying the Spoiler coding to comments?
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that's how you do spoilers. looks like:
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Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3...
Much appreciated, I'll keep it in mind.
Just a way to prevent auto loading the image.
That's a 1 isn't it?
It is, and they're lucky it's only 1 damage too. NPC's don't have a very large HD pool after all.
Naturally
Looks like it did 1d4 (and rolled a 1) points of dex
Take 1d4 damage!
Shite. Hope that's an AI image. That looks like Lego's evil cousin.
Can't say for certain, but I originally nabbed it about 7 years ago, and there's info about it being created by a 'Larry' in the file. Presumably Larry's either the caltrop victim or their friend who snapped the photo.
Unfortunately we're still stuck with caltrops as the standard d4 shape when so many better options exist
There are not too many choices if you are a fan of platonic solids
Platonic solids exclude the Rhombic Dodecahedron, so who needs them?
better options exist
Standardising on D6 only?
How would this work?
I mean you could use a d8 with duplicate 1-4 numbers.
The original d20s doubled as d10s. They came uninked and you were instructed to use two different colored markers to mark one set of 1-0 one color and then second set a different color.
https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2025/02/holmes-d-dice-replica-review.html?m=1
Or a d12 with 1-4 three times, which is what I use for my d4s
Rejig everything so it's so multiples of 6.
Warhammer moved from D3, D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 and D20 to just D6 (and D3 from D6) You need a lot of D6, but they're ubiquitous.
Wouldn't that change the probabilty curve? I guess it could be nice if you wanted to limit critical success and failure but it might reduce the sense of randomness.
That's actually a tough choice, I like having a variety of shapes for my click clacks but I despise the caltrop d4
Edit: I've thought about it, and if I had to choose between a "standard" dice set with tetrahedron d4, or only a pool of d6s, I would choose the dice set and try to avoid ever using a d4.
One fun fact about dice is you can have any higher faced die substitute for a lower faced one by rerolling any number not on the lower die.
This is why I only carry a d100
D4s are annoying. They're the only die without a top face, so it's hard to read the number, and since the faces slant inwards it can be hard to pick them up.
On the other hand, it's satisfying that the typical RPG dice contain the 5 platonic solids. If I had to play a game where a D4 was used often (unlike in say D&D where it's rare), I'd probably go with one of the alternate D4 shapes. Even if you prefer platonic solids, you can just use an 8-sided die and renumber 5-8 as being 1-4 again.
D4 with a top face:
Do you need a microscope?
i like the ones with a bottom face personally, but that might be because my first d4 was that way
I love the infinity d4
I like that story, Looks like as fake as the story of the internet troll being a lazy GM throwing a troll at every stupid question from their player, but that's cool
It's not "fake" so much as it is an obvious joke.
Wait, you don't mean to tell me this is a fabrication, do you?
There is zero chance that someone would just go on the internet and lie.
Nah dude, this is legit, I lived through the tail end of the satanic panic years, those FBI raids were no joke. We used to scatter a layer of d4s along the stairs leading the basement, right before the tripwire that releases a full paint can on a string. Every player was issued a smoke bomb before the start of the game so we could make a clean getaway while the officers were distracted.
So is there a war between the number on top and the number on bottom d4?
I actually have a bag of metal D4s specifically becsuse then they can be used as caltrops or those things Betty wore to give him super strength in Kung Pow.
Or the real life prismatic spray if you throw them really hard at someone's face and eyes. If two of them land into the persons sight globes point first, it will cause blindness.