With one hand if they're two or three; otherwise (1 or 4+) with both hands. When the roll is crucial, I blew on my closed hands immediately after shaking, but before rolling.

I find that there are many different methods for rolling dice, and it is difficult to list them all. However, the most common methods involve hands, and personally, I would recommend against using your feet to roll your dice.

i always roll my dice with one hand; the free one. either it's the right hand, or the left (if i'm currently holding a mythos card or a drink.. or similar).

important note is however to never say what you roll (in cases where it's obvious) until after you've rolled. it's a good trick to reduce the risk of the game intentionally failing your dice rollings. and that's how i keep my blessings for so long..

*roll dice*
*wait for dice to show result*
"rolling for blessing.."

Usually with a gibbering squeal when I see that a critical and/or multi-die check has been failed.

The madness!

Tibs said:

I accompany that with bouts of screaming and rage at the cardboard chits for not forcing the dice to roll in my favor.

I close my eyes, pray nothing would go wrong, then, with dice, shake both hands vigorously as I throw them on the table. Sadly, it rarely rolls to my favor.

mi-go hunter said:

That's because you're not shaking them hard enough. You have to get the dice good and intimidated, make them believe you'll kill them if they fail, if you want them to roll successes.

H.P. Lovecraft said:

I give up. Why did you post this?

To see if his rolling is the craziest? From what I hear here and what I've seen, probably not.

And to answer the question, I basically just roll like a "normal" person, so to speak. Usually just one hand (using the 5 dice given to me by the base game), shake it a few times, then open my hands and let them spill out, towards the inside my body. No blowing, no hurling, no harassing and mentally scarring (Avi!) of my dice.

Though some people use a dice tower, espcially if you're using a lot and/or are confined for space.

The Old Man said:

Probably as a space filler. Or maybe because he has a strange sense of humor.

Oh! Because he didn't want to re-ask the question in the title (which is silly, indeed), and it makes you use 17 or so characters, and he doesn't know the fun cheat around that yet...

That's my guess

Albeit this thread is a meant to be a gas I still think the way people throw their dice IS fascinating. I have friends who hold a staunch Darwin/Dawkins view of the universe YET will kiss, talk to, blow on, rattle in their hands flamboyantly and shout strange oaths before casting their dice forth. They refuse to take dice from the common pot trusting only their own and will regularly change a die if it throws poorly over consecutive bouts. I have witnessed terrible cursing when players have inadvertantly thrown alien dice, not their own, then demanded a reroll because quite obviously the alien dice were not attuned to them...they had no relationship, a terrible mistake, a one night throw.

Me, I usually throw my dice down in disgust (secretly hoping for a nice surprise) for after 20 + years of chronic dice play I KNOW i'm cursed.

Be furtive, listen to the noises

J

Taking every dice i need (the black ones i bought with green elder sign on 5's and 6's) up to ten, using one or two hands depending the number, shaking a little bit, not stirring, and then throwing them in ... (oops don't know the word in english... Google Translator propose: ) dice track.

I'm not blowing, not cheering.

Because I'm a smart ass Besides I thought Id get some really funny replies, which I did........just a bit of fun.................Oh and that too Old Man

Arkham Horror tutorial:

EcnoTheNeato said:

They roll better when they're totally traumatized I tell you. If you want to step up your game, you need to physically, verbally, and emotionally abuse your dice.

Jonathan Ward said:

Good post. Heh... I've noticed the same thing about atheistic dice rollers and find it very amusing. Even atheists become animists in Arkham's foxholes. You don't happen to have any Murphys in your extended family, do you?

H.P. Lovecraft said:

See! It's true!

Pizza started it, but now Zebra will do it too: they begin to speak on a subject completely non-sequitur from anything remotely resembling Lovecraft. Movies, work, politics, MMOs...anything to apparently distract the Universe from sacking their dice. Works best if the entire table gets involved in the conversation, then dropping dice in the middle of someone else talking.

I don't really subscribe to any of this (although I do my part to participate when they do it); I'm too familiar with Lovecraft's cosmic nihilism to believe that my dice will ever fall for anything I try to do to coax them.

Wings keeps all twelve of her pink dice in a perfect 2 x 6 rectangle, 6s face-up and aligned like train tracks. She takes her dice from the bottom of that rectangle, and dice that throw 1s are "demoted" to the top of the rectangle. But when she throws, she just throws, no frills.

After years of being the guy who rolls failures on easy dice rolls in every RPG system we've ever played, I roll the only way appropriate for a Lovecraftian game: with hopeless despair.

But seriously, I usually just pick up as many as I can, shake them a couple times, and then chuck them in a random direction. If it's a big dramatic roll (like when I've already gotten two successes and need one more, and am getting a re-roll of failures thanks to Mandy) I tend to roll one die at a time.

I also almost always roll any remaining dice I had even after succeeding, just to see. When I actually succeed with dice, I want to know by how much!

(It's always disappointing.)

Avi_dreader said:

i always break out a new set of dice in the same way. the first 1's rolled are placed in the middle of a circle made of the other dices. then i smash the 1's to tiny fragments.

it's important to let them know failure.

Avi_dreader said:

I've found that "rolling" dice by popping them in your mouth and spitting them out often has negative social consequences, no matter how well the roll turned out. I would recommend against trying that method, especially if you aren't the owner of the game in question =P

(I would doubly recommend against it if you have any kind of bite-sized snacks in the vicinity, as you'd be surprised how easy it is to mistake a die for a pretzil when you're only half paying attention =P)

I think this thread should be sticked.

I'm sad. Describing my method, i made a reference and no one noticed it :'(

Nah, some of us noticed. But didn't care