Seeing it now the month of October the question is asked what is the oddest thing you have seen people do in or before play?

I have played a fair amount of games and have seen some hacks/idea that were just plan amazing and time saving to the down right crazy. My first Gen Con there was a guy who had little array of stuffed animals to watch the corners of the mat. To a local guy who jokes he gives all his pilots who die in a tourney a funeral when he gets home(he does by the way actually keep a list of deaths after each game). Lets hear what you have seen or do. Cause after all there wasn't an update for the week so far and how much more can we talk about TLT and MOV.

My ritual is seven trips back to my kit before the first game to recover various game essential items I forgot before the first game of the day. Damage deck is normally one of these items. Range ruler almost always.

Anytime someone scores a hit with Wes Janson, you have to say "Good shot, Janson!"

Having 3 original cores and 3 TFA cores I have a large pool of dice to pull from. When my dice are cold (always) I put them aside and grab fresh ones from the organizer compartment.

That and chasing enemy Firesprays off the board whlle repeatedly saying "No 1 turn."

Before the game I slaughter lambs to please the dice goods

Then when I roll crits with every roll I say a quite thank you

If I roll blanks mist of the game I look to the sky and ask "how have i displeased you? Please grant me mercy"

I also drink nothing but coke and eat nothing but mars bars while playing

To ensure favorable statistical probability I often pay tribute to appease the Machine...

Oops, wrong game

Well to be honest I have pay plenty of tribute to FFG so does that count?

A friend of mine took every die he had and rolled each die 100 times, tracking results. The weakest die of both attack and defense has been removed from circulation.

Another friend has a Biggs figure that attends every game.

I took a plumbing torch to one of my Evade dice. It's a lump with remnants of a focus and an evade.

When I need a big evade roll, I pull out the casualty and I shake the dice with it in there. I want them to remember what happens to failures...

I'm kind of obsessive about my play area: I've a small 3x6 bin to the right of my side, off the edge of the map, with all my token pools. Next to that, I place my dice bag, with extra dice inside but smushed to form a bowl for the six attack and six defense dice. Next to that, damage deck. Maneuver templates are grouped nearby according to bearing. Range rulers and casualties along my left side of the mat.

I've found that if I relocate to another mat, and there isn't enough room for me to spread how how I usually do, it really throws me off.

I keep meaning to get the Space Jam theme to augment my K-wing kick

keep forgetting

I yell about the Emperor. It works for my Ultramarines and my Imperials.

Especially on important dice rolls. And non important dice rolls.

Before the game I slaughter lambs to please the dice goods

Then when I roll crits with every roll I say a quite thank you

If I roll blanks mist of the game I look to the sky and ask "how have i displeased you? Please grant me mercy"

I also drink nothing but coke and eat nothing but mars bars while playing

Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, X Wing Nut. Your sad devotion to that ancient luck-based religion has not helped you conjure up the required evade rolls, or given you enough clairvoyance to see the rebels unflipped maneuvers. Your faith in your goods is your weakness, and I find it disturbing.

Making engine noises while moving my ships.

Oh and can't forget my daily Prayers to the Dice Gods.

I say sorry when I roll too many crits and hits... erm, Canadian eh?

Before the game I slaughter lambs to please the dice goods

Then when I roll crits with every roll I say a quite thank you

If I roll blanks mist of the game I look to the sky and ask "how have i displeased you? Please grant me mercy"

I also drink nothing but coke and eat nothing but mars bars while playing

Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, X Wing Nut. Your sad devotion to that ancient luck-based religion has not helped you conjure up the required evade rolls, or given you enough clairvoyance to see the rebels unflipped maneuvers. Your faith in your goods is your weakness, and I find it disturbing.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

But when I look at my store champs plaque my regionals trophy and all the medals I've won I don't feel so bad. I guess the dice goods have rewarded me with clairvoyance

As I play among friends, a common practice is to shame your team mate and employ non polite words when he roll 4 blank green dice, makes a Random Selection.die roll that moves an Asteroid over you or do a Hard Left turn...wrong way

On really important rolls I close my eyes when I roll them.

In 40K I use white dice for when i want low results, red dice for when i want high.

Personally, I never shake dice in one hand. They always show more pictures with two

I keep a stack of about 8 dices per color (red and green) and when dice go cold and roll low constantly, I switch them out for fresh ones.

I like to fly in formation even when it's to my detriment because it looks cool.

If I'm flying multiples of a certain ship type, I'll put one on 1 peg, one on 2 pegs, etc. This ends up looking really sweet and is also practical for ship models like the Y-Wing. Anything past 5 pegs is pushing it though, god help me the next time I fly 8 TIE Fighters.

If I need lots of hits, I tend to pick my regional dice. If I need lots of blanks (stepping on a mine), I tend to pick my regular dice. The weird thing is that I do it without even being conscious of it

My rituals/habits:

- Everything I fly is on three pegs. My ships should figuratively and literally dominate my opposition.

- I like tapping a die on the tabletop. It feels good.

- My movement templates are meticulously arranged in order along the sideboard. I will not play at shops that do not give me enough room to do this.

- I talk through every game phase and declare all my actions and intents - it helps me to remember to use all my actions and abilities and more often than not it announces to my opponent when they can step and declare their own actions and intents. Glitterstim is a good example of this - too many players go right from moving their last ship to rolling attack dice not giving their opponent the proper break to declare their pre-combat-post-activation actions.

Things other players do that drive me crazy:

- Elaborate dice rolling procedures. Show me proof that you roll better when rolling with pizzazz and I'll stop thinking less of you as a human.

- Leaving your movement templates in a heap mixed in with random tokens and candy wrappers when playing. Have pride man.

Whenever I run multiple Y-Wings, I've a habit of saying "Stay on Target" when moving to engage during the first couple rounds. If I bump them into each other, I'lll often say "We're too close!" or "Loosen Up", especially if Dutch is in play.

Also, if Porkins dies in a game, either myself or someone nearby always seems to say "He couldn't hold it"

Saying that you are going to "Take a 2 on <insert ship name here>" so everyone can giggle.

I really like when I have about 6 inches of space behind the board to spread my cards, tokens, and templates out neatly. Can't really think of any superstitions or rituals I do in game though...I try to stay pretty reserved in my mannerisms.