Three sided Dice..
 

Geo, I remember a set of dice I had with a three sided die.
It was a triangular tube with the rounded ends. (like the 4 sided die, the face sitting on the table/floor was the one that counted.)
fyi: it was not much bigger than the D6 cube die. just about 1x1x1.5.
I can draw you a pic if you would like.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

P.S. I also seem to remember that my old 'Risk' game with the wooden pieces had some short triangular sticks for the armies.
One of those could easily be made into a three sided die.

Nuf said. Cheers again.

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..connect the dots to make triangular tabs on the ends.
cut out the shape, then fold along the dash'd lines.
tape the edges and voila.

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[ December 23, 2003, 11:17: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

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Test.. yes, very wierd, the body of the text in my first post is up against the avatar pic, and this post is indented (normal)

gee, how'd I do that?

Aaah, I found the culprit.. I had too much text on one line in the 'code' section. I edited it onto several lines and all is well.

That was sureal for a few moments. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ December 23, 2003, 11:18: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

Re: Three sided Dice..
 

Yeah, I remember those Risk pieces. Can't remember if they counted as 10 armies or 5 (it's been so long).

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Or in Excel:
=RAND()*(3-1)+1

Re: Three sided Dice..
 

How about a 1-sided die? You know, for determining if those Talisman shots will hit...

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Slick.

Re: Three sided Dice..
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">A die for the Talisman is a chit with the words "Hit" on both sides.

Edit: or maybe MC Escher or David E. Gervais could create one

[ December 23, 2003, 14:39: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

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I was thinking more of a sphere with "Hit" written all over it.

You want to make a true 1-sided die? Cut a strip of paper, say 1/2" x 1'. Hold both ends and give 1 end a half-turn then tape the ends together. 1-side! and 1-edge!!!

Proof of 1 side: grab a pencil and start drawing a line down the strip. Soon you will be back where you started, having covered all of the surface.

Proof of 1 edge: do same thing along 1 edge.

Slick.

[ December 23, 2003, 22:35: Message edited by: Slick ]

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I love Mobia strips. I should have thought of that when I said MC Escher.
Edit: my favorte graphic by Escher:
http://djust.hypermart.net/imgpages/img/esc025p.jpg

[ December 23, 2003, 14:42: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

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Speaking of sphere dice, I found a site selling them. Perfect spheres with the dots on six sides just like a regular six sided die. And they are supposed to work like regular dice where one side always comes up.

Apparently how they work is they are hollow with a cubical cavity inside and a ball bearing. The bearing will always come to rest in one of the corners, causing that side to be down.

Re: Three sided Dice..
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I had a set of those when I was the "every-popular" dungeon master a long time ago. And, yes, that's how they worked.