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Original MERP Dice
Frewfrux:
I still have the original MERP dice that came with the boxed set I bought a few decades back. They are 20-sided D10's, and the only ones I've ever found. (To be honest, I haven't looked all that hard for new ones.)
These days it seems it's more common to use 2 D10's, with one of them numbered with the 10's digigt and the other the 1's digit, but I find that the D20's just seem to roll so much better.
Also, and I'm sure it's just my imagination, these dice seem to come up with the most appropriate results at the oddest of times. Once, a character used a magic ring that summoned a god to save him when a crit result stated that his spleen was punctured. The god gave him a magical, iron spleen. He went on to get the same crit result 2 more times throughout that character's existence, each time being able to "sluff off" the damage because of his iron spleen. No other character that I recall got that crit result. We all used the same dice back then.
Aspire2Hope:
My fellow die-hard MERPers also swear by the 20 sided D10. I still have mine and the original book (held together with tape).
There are small manufacturers producing them https://www.gmdice.com/products/twenty-sided-d10-dice-0-9-twice took about 2 seconds to find
Spectre771:
A few friends also prefer the smoother roll. My group in college all agreed to use D8/2 instead of the D4 die simply because D4's don't roll. One friend had the D100 die, but that thing just kept rolling off the table or into the figures. I only have 1 pair of die that I use for RM faithfully, for all other games, I set that pair aside and use whatever I have around. I'm just a little superstitious. ;)
gog:
--- Quote from: Spectre771 on July 22, 2021, 03:51:23 PM ---I only have 1 pair of die that I use for RM faithfully, for all other games, I set that pair aside and use whatever I have around. I'm just a little superstitious. ;)
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Also have the twenty sided d10 somewhere in the box. I tended to use the same dice for RM and Call of Cthulhu, so they could get all the rolls out in the right place...
Frewfrux:
--- Quote from: Aspire2Hope on July 22, 2021, 03:14:09 PM ---There are small manufacturers producing them https://www.gmdice.com/products/twenty-sided-d10-dice-0-9-twice took about 2 seconds to find
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They appear to have only one colour available, sadly (sold out of everything else). But yes, you are not the first to tell me that this type of dice is available, I've just never seen them available at any gaming store I've been to. (Like I said, I haven't looked all that hard, only in passing when I'm at a shop.)
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