Misc polyhedral dice games of chance?

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The party walks into the stereotypical tavern. There's a band of
inebriated patrons throwing darts at a drawing of the king. Over in
the other corner are people placing bets on oil-wrestling halflings.
And, over here .... the prerequisite dice game.

Query -- anyone come up with novel dice games involving polyhedral
(non-d6) dice? Something like Yatzee for d12s, or craps for D20, or
the like? Something enjoyable enough that people would actually choose
to play it OUTSIDE of the context of the game?

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The party walks into the stereotypical tavern. There's a band of
inebriated patrons throwing darts at a drawing of the king. Over in
the other corner are people placing bets on oil-wrestling halflings.
And, over here .... the prerequisite dice game.
Query -- anyone come up with novel dice games involving polyhedral
(non-d6) dice? Something like Yatzee for d12s, or craps for D20, or
the like? Something enjoyable enough that people would actually choose
to play it OUTSIDE of the context of the game?

I did something like that--it was a pretty playable cross between
Yahtzee and craps. I'll see if I can dig up the rules.

[Billy Yank]

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The party walks into the stereotypical tavern. There's a band of
inebriated patrons throwing darts at a drawing of the king. Over in
the other corner are people placing bets on oil-wrestling halflings.
And, over here .... the prerequisite dice game.
Query -- anyone come up with novel dice games involving polyhedral
(non-d6) dice? Something like Yatzee for d12s, or craps for D20, or
the like? Something enjoyable enough that people would actually choose
to play it OUTSIDE of the context of the game?

ISTR something like this from 1st or 2nd edition. It was a list of several
gambling games for the characters. The only one I remember was a craps-
like game played with 3 d20's. The shooter rolls two dice, then he rolls
the third. The object is to roll a value on the third die that's between
the values of the first two. Like craps, onlookers would make side bets.
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Query -- anyone come up with novel dice games involving polyhedral
(non-d6) dice? Something like Yatzee for d12s, or craps for D20, or
the like? Something enjoyable enough that people would actually choose
to play it OUTSIDE of the context of the game?

ISTR something like this from 1st or 2nd edition. It was a list of several
gambling games for the characters. The only one I remember was a craps-
like game played with 3 d20's. The shooter rolls two dice, then he rolls
the third. The object is to roll a value on the third die that's between
the values of the first two. Like craps, onlookers would make side bets.

This game was called "In Between" and it was in the 1E DMG Appendix F:
Gambling (p. 215).

Other games included "Slot Variant" and "Zowie Slot Variant", which had
the player roll 3d6 and get a payoff if certain rare dice combinations
came up (much like a slot machine) and a version of poker dice: roll
5d6, trying to get a pair, three of a kind, straight, full house, etc.


Arivne

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Post by N***@gmail.com
Query -- anyone come up with novel dice games involving polyhedral
(non-d6) dice? Something like Yatzee for d12s, or craps for D20, or
the like? Something enjoyable enough that people would actually choose
to play it OUTSIDE of the context of the game?

Back in 1993, an AD&D player named Desmond Reid created a document
called "Dice Games for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" with 3 games that
used non-d6 dice: "One-Hundred" (d10), "Rotation" (d8), and "Sixes"
(d10). It also had 9 other d6-based games that could be adapted to use
non-d6 dice. It can be downloaded here:

http://www.textfiles.com/rpg/px2_dice.txt


Arivne