Game Science d5

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Anonymous
August 20, 2011 - 10:16am
Picked one up a GenCon. They roll really well. 
d5

Considering pick some up for your Star Frontiers games. Smile
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jacobsar
August 20, 2011 - 10:58am
What the heck? Symetry does not compute!
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jedion357
August 20, 2011 - 11:03am
Maybe its loaded.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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jacobsar
August 20, 2011 - 11:06am
Maybe. I would have to look at one to understand.
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jedion357
August 20, 2011 - 11:20am
Instead of a 3sided pyramid its shapes like an A frame house: gives you front, back, 2 sides, and floor for 5 sides total.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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jacobsar
August 20, 2011 - 11:28am
So...four triangular sides and one square. And it doesn't favor one side?
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
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jedion357
August 20, 2011 - 11:46am
No, I believe its 3square sides (floor and 2 roof sides ) front and back would be the only triangles. At least that is what I see in the picture
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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jacobsar
August 20, 2011 - 12:11pm
Oh. That makes more sense.
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Captain Rags
August 20, 2011 - 12:21pm
Well the d5 will certainly replace rolling a d6 and rerolling whenever a 6 comes up, or otherwise rolling a d10 and dividing by 2Money mouth

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Shadow Shack
August 20, 2011 - 12:30pm
I dunno, it looks like three skinny sides and two broad sides to me. It would be akin to gluing three pennies together...flip it onto a table and it might land on heads or tails (most likely) or simply roll on its side (least likely but still feasible). A die has to have all sides equal.

This looks like utilizing a domino for a d6...it will most likely end up on one of two sides.
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w00t (not verified)
August 20, 2011 - 7:38pm
I've found it very well balanced. 
It looks all science-fiction'ish. 
We also picked up glow in the dark d10's and a d10 that's two d5's.

It was fun using crayon for the "inking" process, although next time I'll spring for a permanent white marker. 

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jedion357
August 21, 2011 - 4:53am
w00t wrote:
It was fun using crayon for the "inking" process, although next time I'll spring for a permanent white marker. 


Ah yeah, I remember the days when a Box set from TSR contained low quality dice and a crayon to "ink" in the numbers.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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Sargonarhes
August 21, 2011 - 6:13am
Wouldn't a pentagon shaped cube get the same effect. You know as long as the 5 lengths are long enough and the ends are shaped so it can't stand on them.

Much like how the gem style dice work.
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AZ_GAMER
August 21, 2011 - 11:00am
Or you could use a D10 with just the numbers 1-5 printed twice, You still would get a random number between 1 and 5 generated every time you rolled.