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[Huntthetroll]

How do you roll a die? I seem to only get the option to name it by interacting with it with I.

Make sure your adventurers believes in a deity or it'll not give you the option to roll a dice.

I don't think this is true, actually. My adventurer doesn't worship any gods, yet one of them still blessed her with an artifact two-handed sword.

[madpathmoth]

Yeah, animal people often can't worship any of the deities, but they can still use divination dice.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Yeah, animal people often can't worship any of the deities, but they can still use divination dice.

Can't worship at all, broken culture apparently. 
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=11403

But, yeah, seems to work ok.

It seems that you can't take one god's D20 and take it to another god's shrine which only has a D4 available and throw it there hoping for a more interesting result.

[Huntthetroll]

I found at least one monastery where you had to roll multiple dice at once to perform a divination. That was an unexpected bit of complexity.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I found at least one monastery where you had to roll multiple dice at once to perform a divination. That was an unexpected bit of complexity.

Ooh, interesting, did it come with a bucket? 

[TheFlame52]

Some good science in this thread. My main problem is that I don't want to risk being cursed, since it's hard to tell what god owns a particular shrine. I'll try to roll more often if I can get a divine weapon!

[CptAWatts22]

Do you only get cursed if you use the dice in another gods shrine?

[madpathmoth]

Do you only get cursed if you use the dice in another gods shrine?

There's two kinds of negative results, right?  If your die roll goes poorly, which can happen with any die with a high enough number of sides (I think 12 might be the lowest for significant effects?), that is one way to be "cursed".  If you mean where you are turned into a werebeast or vampire, that happens if you try to roll the same die three times before the cooldown resets.  The second time you roll the die, you just get a warning.

You can also take the die with you, put it in a bag or something to remember that it is on cooldown, and if you find new dice you can take/use those while your other dice are on cooldown.

I think if you find a die that is devoted to the same god as one you already rolled for, then they will consider that the same as rerolling the one you have.  If that's the case, then it's still not that hard to avoid accidental hubris as long as you don't both roll every die you see immediately and try to reroll the ones you have ASAP.

[CptAWatts22]

Ah ok, good to know.

[TheFlame52]

Wait a minute, it's not the shrine, it's the die that matters? That changes everything! How long is the cooldown on a die?

[Ziusudra]

A week.

[madpathmoth]

Wow.  Guys.  I was blessed with...



A holy see-through thong.

And it doesn't fit. ;_;


EDIT:  Does anyone know if the rolling a second time too early and getting the "do not tempt fate" line means you must wait an additional week?  I assume that's the case, but its too risky to attempt to prove it wrong.

[Vicious_Unicycle]

A holy see-through thong.

Heh, must've been a deity of lust and/or depravity, eh?

I'm not sure if the "do not tempt fate" message resets the cooldown or not. I don't feel like that's ever been an issue for me, but I never remember to pay close attention to the date. I think I end up waiting longer than necessary as a result.


On an unrelated note, I had an old adventurer who at one point got his trunk severed, then later became paraplegic due to nerve damage in his lower spine. At one point the dice cursed him to spend a week as a hornbill. When he changed back, his lower spine was healed (as well as many scars), but his trunk was still missing. Later, a different god's dice granted him healing, which restored his trunk but left the scars he'd gained in the interim unaltered.

My current adventurer has chronic spine rot after an encounter with some intelligent undead. He got cursed to spend a week as a wild boar. When he changed back, the spine rot was healed (as well as all his scars), but since then the spine rot starts coming back anytime I Travel or Sleep.

[Huntthetroll]

I found at least one monastery where you had to roll multiple dice at once to perform a divination. That was an unexpected bit of complexity.

Ooh, interesting, did it come with a bucket? 

Sadly, no. I didn't realize what was going on at first, so I first rolled one die and than the other and was surprised to see that nothing happened each time. Then, just for the hell of it, I picked up both, and was again surprised that the "Interact" menu included an option to "Roll all." I chose that one: lo, and behold, there was the divination!

[Vicious_Unicycle]

The healing effect seems to be bugged. One of my current adventurers got a couple fingers bitten off by goblins. She's got a healing effect active from divination dice. The weird thing is that her missing fingers keep reappearing and disappearing, seemingly at random. I can only imagine how annoying it would be if the same thing happened with an entire limb.

I also got a holy weapon that's an artifact adamantine crossbow. A little disappointing to be sure, but interesting to note that adamantine weapons are a possibility. (though unfortunately, so are training weapons)