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This is a trick that golfers use to find the balance of their golf balls but we in the TTRPG community can employ it ourselves to test the probability of rolls in our dice.
The process is simple- make a salt and water solution with a high enough salinity that your d20 (or which ever die you want) can float freely and consistently. Then tap them down and let them float back to the top. You can get really deep in if you want and record and sample your results or you can just get a general idea.
The purple and grey die has always rolled really well for me and I was extremely excited to see that no matter what when I reset the float it would always return to the Nat 20. I floated the green die next to it for comparison, it didn’t really seem to favor one result over the other which means it’s a more well balanced die.
The reason that this test works is because there are occlusions in the dice them selves. Somewhere in the casting process not everything was emulsified enough or an air bubble was trapped which is enough to throw off their center of gravity. If you’re the type of player who wants to have a more random die generally transparent dice are better because it’s much easier to see occlusions in them before they go to market.
Yo- so- I’ve been doing some thinking recently. Specifically about what ways in TTRPGs geography would/should/does effect the prevalence and manifestation of magic.
Like we all get druids hang out in the woods- clerics are around temples- wizards have towers and schools and all that jazz in some classic fantasy. That just sorta scratches the surface of what I’m thinking about though. And to a certain extent this idea has been considered by the Circle of the Land Druids but id like to explore it further.
For example- let’s us, you and I- look at the Tempest Cleric. It makes sense to me that the storm gods are prayed to more heavily in costal regions and so it tracks to me that in port towns or seaside villages the most common/largest/best kept temples would be staffed by Tempest Clerics. And that when a ship goes out to sea they either get blessed by a stormy priest or even bring one along both to keep wind up and in the sails and to prevent shipwrecking storms from arising.
I think this train of though kinda continues to track with other classes too. I would posit that rural or more isolated communities would be more likely to have a sorcerer or warlock as arcane casters than a wizard just based on access to fancy magical education. It’s way easier to make a deal with a hag for some good good magic then it is to move your ass a thousand miles just to be the man who went to wizard school. AAAAND think through this with me- I would argue it is more beneficial for a village to have an in with a hag than one good wizard- help protect your crops in the fall, maybe get a milder winter, maybe your village livestock never really seems to have issues with predators. No good ol’ wizard is really gonna be able to do that.
On the subject of arcane nerds however I think some schools of magic would be more popular foci of study in different areas. A rural wizard might practice divination to find the ideal time for planting and how late you can leave crops in before the seasons change. An urban wizard might be more inclined towards abjuration or evocation- two schools where they city they live in might be more interested in employing them for defense or what not.
I dunno if all this makes sense to anyone else but I’ve really been thinking about it a lot recently and wanted to throw it on out there.
Does…… Does this count as dice shaming. Or dice praising?
I gave my master two nat 20′s in a row…on golems
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I only roll high to impregnate a fetchling by a kitsune. I made a baby! :D
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“Wish”
Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter the very foundations of reality in accord with your desires.
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“Sunken Treasure”
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“Dragon’s Treasure”
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“Tiger Eye”
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“Regal and Royal”
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“Carnage”
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“Orb of Pondering”
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“Mystic Arcanum”
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