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They're just bog standard six-siders, honest!

  • Front left: 4 on top, 6 and 2 facing.
  • Rear left: 1 on top, 2 and 3 facing.
  • Front centre: 3 on top, 6 and 5 facing.
  • Rear right: 2 on top, 6 and 3 facing.
  • Front right: 5 on top, 6 and 4 facing.
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[–] TonyToniToneOfficial@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] THJr@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dang, need to find me a deck like that, travel sets keep getting me stopped in the airport

[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 2 points 1 year ago

Here's one source. I cannot vouch for or against it; I buy inside China, not outside.

[–] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could count the number of lines still ;)

[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only works from 1-3. 4 has 5 strokes (6 lines), for example.

[–] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You only count the four central strokes for four when its written that way, how those kanji came about or how theyre taught to children, is that the stroke number is equal to the numbers value up until you reach ten.

[–] ferret@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That doesn't work at all though? 五, 六 have 4 strokes, and 七, 八, 九, 十 have 2 strokes.

[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 4 points 1 year ago

And the die uses the old form of 5: 伍

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not a native speaker of any language that uses Chinese numerals, but I have some familiarity with them and these look weird to me.

1, 2, and 3 are the ordinary forms, 5 is the more formal version used in finance, 6 looks like the ordinary form but with an extra stroke, and 4 is so off that I only identified it by process of elimination.

[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 1 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the wonderful world of calligraphic writing. 😬

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They might gues 1-3 , nice try though

[–] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But... whats even the point of rolling them openly then ?

[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 1 points 1 year ago

Complying with the social contract under a technicality.