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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 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] THJr@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They could count the number of lines still ;)

[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

And the die uses the old form of 5: 伍

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Welcome to the wonderful world of calligraphic writing. 😬

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

They might gues 1-3 , nice try though

[–] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

Complying with the social contract under a technicality.