Swap Your Icosahedron For A Perfect Sphere With Orbidice
June 7, 2021 by fcostin
Do you personalise your game with dice or use generic? My favourite set of dice were gifted to me by a friend. They are lilac (shocker!) with pastel numbers all around. They are what I would call my 'Lucky Dice'.
Orbidice // Blaster Light
Dice come in all colours and sizes, and until recently - they came in one format. Your usual D4 to D2o would be in the stereotypical Tetrahedron and Icosahedron shapes. However, on Kickstarter, Orbidice has a new take on the shape. A spherical take on a classic look.
Can you surrender the control of the dice which you hold so dearly? For years we have trained ourselves (at least in to thinking) that we can throw a dice in a particular way to achieve the desired number. With a spherical shell, we relinquish the control and the luck of the dice truly does become held in the palms of fate.
Orbidice // Blaster Light
There is a range of different sizes available on the Kickstarter campaign, starting from D4 up to D20, you will have spherical dice for all types of tabletop games and occasions.
Orbidice // Blaster Light
The mechanics behind the dice are absolutely fascinating. Soft enough to throw without the feeling of a marble smashing up the place, the inside is carved in a particular way to counterbalance the stopping mechanism. The dice are designed to roll and stop within a short time at a short distance.
Orbidice // Blaster Light
Not a fan of red and black? More and more goals are unlocking the further we go into the campaign, with a beautiful Dragon Eggs style already unlocked and the Two Sword Village not far behind.
The Kickstarter campaign and crowdfunding involved has already obliterated its initial target. I guess tabletop gamers are looking for a new modernised shape alongside their games. Let's just hope they don't go rolling off the table!
How do you feel about changing the shape of your dice to a spherical shape?
"Can you surrender the control of the dice which you hold so dearly?"
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This is truly dark magic!
I’m not under the delusion that i can roll polyhedral dice in a particular way to get a particular result and i don’t see that people who do believe that they can do such a thing will be dissuaded from believing they can do the same with these monospherical dice ™ especially given the weighted way in which these monospherical dice ™ work, quite apart from the fact that in any game i’ve come across that uses dice any attempt to influence the dice roll to get a particular result is to undermine the purpose of using dice and such… Read more »
or in other words : cheaters gonna cheat 😉
yeah, I doubt it’s going to stop anyone from trying to do the dice their bidding (and anyone attempting such feat is usually easily spotted anyway).
A solution to the unsatisfactory rolling sensation of the D8 and D4
D4’s are terrible dice and so ridiculously easy to cheat with even if you don’t want to.
Wouldn’t a D12 or D20 with alternate faces solve the crappy D4 situation ?
D8’s aren’t quite as bad, but they’re not much fun to use either.
an interesting alternative to stranded dice.
There’s a video on Orbidice’s Kickstarter comparing an Orbidice D20 and a ‘generic D20’. I’m not sure what it was trying to show. If it was trying to show that the dice took less time to roll then it didn’t look like a significant difference. One throw sent the generic D20 rolling off screen (!) and the Orbidice never rolled for more than a second, so i suppose that’s an advantage if it’s something someone cares about, but the Orbidice barely rolled at all (in the hand nor on the table) and i suspect that actually i might well be… Read more »