61 points

This is honestly a legit die imo. I assume those balls are pretty well balanced.

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39 points

Figuring out which number is up is PITA though.

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6 points

Roll it on a glass table and crawl under it to check which number is in contact with the glass.

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4 points

I like the way you think.

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6 points

Even worse: with an odd number of sides, there are cases where none is up.

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30 points

I think the D120 is the maximum possible isohedral (geometrically symmetric) fair die. A golf ball is probably pretty close to fair, though number 327 seems like it might be more difficult to balance than 12, 20, 30, or 60.

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9 points

A D326 with one face a reroll.

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2 points

We have dice from them, the funny shaped dice are great to look at, terrible to stack

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2 points

Then what the heck am I supposed to do when it’s not my turn? >=[

Lol

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1 point

I’m just seeing a pattern here, but shouldn’t you be able to go to 240? I mean, it’d have to be a big fuckin’ die, but it seems like it should work.

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shouldn’t you be able to go to 240?

Not really. The faces of the D120 are already asymmetric (scalene) triangles. There’s no way to split these into additional faces while keeping them all the same shape.

Any larger geometrically fair die would have to be from an infinite family (prisms, bipyramids, and trapezohedra), which are “impractical in reality due to the tendency to roll for a long time”.

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uhhh you can see there are gaps between some faces and there arent on others, so it really isnt well balanced

edit: i somehow typed f`ces

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Oh yeah u right, i didnt even look that close. I just assumed nobody would create such an asymmetrical atrocity. I can never look at golf balls the same. Not that i do ever look at them.

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2 points

there are gaps between some faces and there arent on others, so it really isnt well balanced

But as long as all the faces are the same size, and the die never lands on the gaps (or is rerolled if it does), would that be a fair die?

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Unless some numbers are opposite of a gap, then it could never land with that number facing up.

Each side needs an opposing flat part, and I don’t think that can happen with a die with an odd number of sides.

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3 points

This is more of a spin down or a counting die than something you would roll

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14 points

Do opposing numbers add up to 328?

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13 points

DC is 7

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9 points

fuck it

I’d rather just fail the skill check

my head would burst trying to figure out which number is precisely on top

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4 points

Average the top 5 numbers?

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that would be uneven, imagine averaging the top 327 numbers. would be better to add them up modulo 327

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1 point

Roll it on a glass table and crawl under it to check which number is in contact with the glass

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5 points

I wonder what opposite sides add to

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In case it’s a genuine a question, there isn’t an opposite side to odd-sided dice. Had it been a d326 it would have been 326+1 in total, if it were a d328 it would be 328+1

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