Hi, everyone
I wanted to share that I’ve written another great guest post. That means, for everyone who follows this blog, another post written by me worth reading, published elsewhere. In this case, on Awesome Dice Blog.
In this post, I discuss different ways to use dice. I’m not talking about basic uses like attack rolls, ability checks, and saves, which everyone is already familiar with. I’m talking about giving boss monsters special dice to accompany their really powerful attacks, giving players special dice for when they have special abilities that they can only use limited times a day, and things like that.
What brought this idea on is the fact that there are so many fancy D&D dice out there. Some people have lucky dice, that they use for especially big rolls, but there are also websites selling dice to go along with various classes, various characters, and more.
Let’s say that you have extra money to spend, you choose to buy special red dice to match your fire sorcerer or cleric, or blue dice to match a healer or water mage, and then your character get killed.
Or let’s say that they don’t. Let’s say that you play an entire campaign with them, lasting for as much as a few years. Eventually, the campaign will come to an end, you’ll retire the character to go live a long happy peaceful life, and you’ll probably choose a different character to go on. Most people don’t like always playing the same character build again and again and again.
What do you do with the leftover special dice?
My family has a whole collection of different dice from different sets. I would imagine that anybody who’s played D&D for as much as a few years does likewise. While the dice are useful for introducing someone to the game without expecting them to buy their own dice, that doesn’t need to be all you can do with them.
Read this article. From finding ways to use dice to make enemies more impressive, to using dice as a timer, to incorporating various rules from other games into D&D tied to various items as a localized homebrew, there’s something here for everyone.
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