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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 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] THJr@ttrpg.network 2 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[–] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They could count the number of lines still ;)

[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

And the die uses the old form of 5: 伍

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

Welcome to the wonderful world of calligraphic writing. 😬

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They might gues 1-3 , nice try though

[–] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ZDL@diyrpg.org 1 points 10 months ago

Complying with the social contract under a technicality.