I think the 5 dice I got with this game are cursed. The majority of the time when I roll I get 2's. I haven't a clue why. Although when I try rolling for upkeep on curses I usually get a one (which is nice). I was just curious if anyone else had ever ran into this problem with the default dice that shipped with the game?! Or do you have blessed dice that really help you out?

Also would you guys recommend the new dice? (I was thinking of picking up 2 packs). I was worried about not getting the game on the table enough to use them, but after tonight I'm pretty sure I will pick them up.

na. same as you my dice are cursed, the mrs on the other hand has blessed dice..

remember if you get new dice to not tell or say anything in front of the old ones, if they find out you will get doubly cursed with the new ones

I play a lot of tabletop stuff, and have various sets of dice blocks. When we played Arkham the other night, we had a buddy bust out a set of silver dice, and they were rolling high all night long. We'd choose the game's dice when we needed to roll low!

Anyone know if the Arkham dice roll consistantly high or low or is it a pretty good mix?

My friends and I have a silly little ritual we indulge in before each game.

The vast majority of our d6s are white, so we put about 20 of them on the table for all to use. We then each pick up about a dozen different coloured dice and roll them all at the same time. Whichever dice rolls highest (re-rolling ties), we keep as our "lucky dice" for the game. It's amazing how much the allegedly "lucky dice" roll 1s and 2s ... :-)

Scott4263 said:

The set that I have seem to be suitably random.

Scott4263 said:

Having said that, you could always get a set of high precision dice from Essex or some other company (since AH only uses six-sided dice you could get dice produced for casinos) if you don't trust the regularity of 'normal' dice.

I know dice should be random, I just have a feeling certain sets of dice may lean one way or the other, maybe I say that because I have about 10 blocks of chesex dice and it seems some of them roll routinely high while others roll routinely lower. Maybe it's the physical make up of the actual dice and they aren't evenly weighted. I know the dice that came in my original arkham box seem to love rolling the number 2. Maybe I just haven't used them enough to get the higher numbers (maybe 15 games of AH).

How about praising the dice for rolling good and punishing the bad dice by drowning them in a bucket of water. They'll learn to roll good soon enough.

Knuckles Eki said:

Waterboard those dice! It's not torture. It's um... Motivational seminar!

I did a random roll test with them (I just got them today). They seem to be weighted at the extremes. IE. I roll 5's and 6's just as often as I roll 1's and 2's. However, hitting a 3 or a 4 is an odd occurance.

jhaelen said:

Nah, dice don't produce random results just the variables are so minute and complex we have a hard time predicting them. Snarky physics aside you would be surprised at how often production flaws affect how dice rolls, of course it usually affects the larger numbered polyhedrons more (10s seem to be especialy affected). Try an electronic dice roller if you are worried about the cursed dice, though it's not as satisfying as hearing the dice clatter.

Everyone has thier superstitions, but;

we can assume that your dice that came with the AH game and m dice that came with the AH game were produced in similar factories/molds, etc. My dice seem to roll suitably randomly, and I've not heard much complaining in this regard, so I would conclude that the dice themselves are probably not improperly weighted.

So, if you really are considering buying new dice purely based on the fact that you think they roll poorly, I'd say stop being silly. It is possible that you have simply had a run of bad luck. Like that classic trap where you ask somebody: "Hey, I just flipped this coin 9 times and it landed on heads every time! What's the probability that it will come up heads again?" the correct answer: about 50%.

It is actually *more* possible that you are merely *percieving* that you have bad luck, due to botched die rolls on certain critical rolls during your game. We tend to remember the times when 'the dice fail us' more than we do when they give us lucky breaks.

Now, with that said: there are plenty of reasons to buy new dice. The ones that come with the AH box certainly aren't very pretty. Now, as a matter of personal taste, I prefer clear red dice, so that's what I have. Beyond that, AH comes with like 5 dice, and characters regularly roll like 10+ on a single combat check. Compound that with maybe the fact that you're playing with multiple people who will all inevitably want enough dice to make their checks nearby, and yeah, there can be some major dice shortages going on. So by all means, by more dice, but not because you think yours roll badly.

Veet said:

If you think I would be surprised about the flaws in physical dice, maybe you would be surprised at the flaws of software dice. If you believe that algorithms that produce random numbers provide an even distribution of results while still being sufficiently 'random' you might be disappointed.

Did you just get "statistics served"?