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[Mephisto]

Another fast food based RPG innovation.

[Rolan7]

The link doesn't work for me.  I have a Facebook account but I'm probably not logged in, and also I'd rather have a screenshot than a direct link to Facebook, if it's all the same to you.

[Mephisto]

It's a video so screenshots are blah but here you go.



Not pictured, the Arby's branded d20.

[scriver]

Doesn't having steps like that make it easier to manipulate what face face upwards when it comes out?

[wierd]

somebody needs to invent a pop-o-matic-bubble that you can open and insert whatever number or kind of dice into.

 I've seen videos of people that surgically extracted the one from a Trouble!(tm) board game, but fitting the correct numbers and types of dice inside for each situation is not really doable with that solution.

One with pop-off cap on top would be ideal if it was large enough. (high level chars can have absurd numbers of hit dice, so lots of room inside is needed.)

[delphonso]

Yes please. Screw rolling boxes - this is what I want for Christmas.

[wierd]

for some reason I am reminded of a thing I came up with when visiting my friend a few months ago.  Bear in mind I have made no effort whatsoever to flesh this out, it's just a nebulous concept at the moment, but all the same:

if you and your group dont want to commit to a long and drawn out campaign, you could try something like this:  everyone puts an idea for a random encounter on a bit of paper, along with a kind of dice, and a number appropriate for it.  This includes loot finds, monsers, etc, and also character templates. The idea is to do a mad-libs kind of random one-off session. Absurd actions, loot items, and outcomes are ENCOURAGED. we are talking things like "Traveling Drow televangelist" and "gnomish interior decorator" level of absurd here. once you have all the batshit crazy from your players collected and organized in your notebook, you load up a bingo tumbler with as many whole bags of dice as will reliably fit inside. 

Now, rules are fast and loose. no rule lawyering, since this is meant to be pure silly.  To start, each player rolls the tumbler to determine what they are playing as (die value and type together determine, based on what the players threw down earlier.) Once everyone knows what they are playing as, the DM tumbles and collects a die from the tumbler to state the current objective. (again, the type and value determine).  then rolls again for the first encounter.

each player gets a turn, each drawing a random die from the tumbler. Regardless of how absurd the drawn die, that is what determines how effective your chosen action was.  at the monster's turn, a die is selected which determines its action and outcome.  When the players vanquish the monster or finish the encounter,  a draw from the tumbler is made for loot.  this continues until either everyone dies spectacularly, or the tumbler runs dry.

This kind of thing is intended for "everyone but a few people cant make it this week" type nights, where you want some fun, but dont want to progress a campain.

I am sure there are problems with the idea, it's just a nebulous concept after all.

[Trekkin]

somebody needs to invent a pop-o-matic-bubble that you can open and insert whatever number or kind of dice into.

 I've seen videos of people that surgically extracted the one from a Trouble!(tm) board game, but fitting the correct numbers and types of dice inside for each situation is not really doable with that solution.

One with pop-off cap on top would be ideal if it was large enough. (high level chars can have absurd numbers of hit dice, so lots of room inside is needed.)

How about taking a hamster ball and gluing a flat piece of cardboard to the bottom, opposite the cap?

[scriver]

One of those dog toys that rolls out candy when rolled?

Bonus if it's in the shape of a big die with small dice coming out of it

[Iduno]

somebody needs to invent a pop-o-matic-bubble that you can open and insert whatever number or kind of dice into.

 I've seen videos of people that surgically extracted the one from a Trouble!(tm) board game, but fitting the correct numbers and types of dice inside for each situation is not really doable with that solution.

One with pop-off cap on top would be ideal if it was large enough. (high level chars can have absurd numbers of hit dice, so lots of room inside is needed.)

How about taking a hamster ball and gluing a flat piece of cardboard to the bottom, opposite the cap?

You need the thing that rolls them. I'm not sure what makes the pop-o-matic bubble work, but I'm guessing it's the metal being flexed (by some object beneath it) the opposite way it's formed, and bouncing back.

[Trekkin]

How is that better than just shaking the whole thing, though, particularly when you may well have dice piled on top of each other?

[Iduno]

How is that better than just shaking the whole thing, though, particularly when you may well have dice piled on top of each other?

Nothing? It's a conversation about dice towers, which are the most difficult way to keep people from controlling the dice rolls. Those old felt-lined cups were the best solution, and always will be. We're just looking for a particularly complicated type of lesser solution.


Edit: Someone create a Rube Goldberg gimmick account, I've got an idea...

[pikachu17]

Character suggestion: A tabaxi who is a human otherkin (To clarify, it is a tabaxi, but it identifies as human). Probably shaves its fur.

[Mephisto]

Character suggestion: A tabaxi who is a human otherkin (To clarify, it is a tabaxi, but it identifies as human). Probably shaves its fur.

If tabaxi have breeds like real cats do and there's a tabaxi-sphynx, is this basically unintentional blackface?

[Cruxador]

How is that better than just shaking the whole thing, though, particularly when you may well have dice piled on top of each other?

Nothing? It's a conversation about dice towers, which are the most difficult way to keep people from controlling the dice rolls. Those old felt-lined cups were the best solution, and always will be. We're just looking for a particularly complicated type of lesser solution.


Edit: Someone create a Rube Goldberg gimmick account, I've got an idea...

If you're tricky, you can stack your dice in those cups. It's just harder.