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I'd worry about germs if anything.
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When it comes to dice, we DO sorta prescribe to the notion of luck in my group. Its not terrible to see someone else touching your dice, but we've always stuck to our own more. >3 We like to say that they've got our respective DND mojo saved up into them.
You laugh, but I swear, I just went into a game after a 2 month hiatus? God strike me down now if I didn't roll three 20's in a row right off the bat. My group immediately began to joke that it was all my stored up DnD goodness flowing out. |
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I have no discriminations about people using my dice whatsoever. I carry a bunch in case people forget after all. So long as I get them back at the end of the night I really couldn't care less.
As to cards, I never pick up a card off the table without asking permission to look at it, though it rarely bothers me if the opponent spins one around to read it without asking. My binder, however, is basically off limits when I'm in the middle of a game. The only exceptions to this rule is friends that I've known for quite a while or if permission is acquired. I don't mind friends pawing through it while I'm in a game. But if I don't know you, woe unto you if you just grab it and start flipping through without acquiring permission. |
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My husbands die bag is known as the black hole. Every time we play he ends up with more dice in it somehow. I have my personal dice that No One gets to touch. It drives me nuts when other people try to use my dice. I have them tuned and I don't need other peoples energy mucking them up.
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I can relate with the black hole phenomenon. I have my dice bag that is specifically and only mine. But when I was DMing a lot I ended up starting to bring extra dice for more people and when I ran stuff at conventions and did play testing and demos, I ended up filling a crown royal bag with extra dice for people. And what is in that bag at anyone time can vary greatly.
With the cards I could see being more picky, because they can cost a great deal and tend to be less sturdy then dice. And this isn't really a luck thing but when I'm dming it makes me violent if someone doodles on my battle mat. |
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I had a player once who would shout obscenities regarding promiscuous women whenever he rolled low. So after one of these tirades I suggested he start paying his dice. So he took out a dime and put it next to the d20, and next time it rolled, it got a 20! So now he pays his dice over the course of the game; if it starts rolling low, he'll add more to the pile. Once over an 8-or-so-hour session he had accumulated approx. $3.50. What's more, is if someone needs to borrow one of his dice, we have to pay it.
When I play Warhammer 40k, I have a stack of small blue dice (for hit rolls), a stack of small red dice (for wounds), and a stack of standard green dice (for leadership, morale, etc.). I was mindlessly stacking them and found that when I built them into a pyramid at the beginning of the game, they would roll approx. 15% higher; I now do it most games. One of my d20 habits: I have three different d20s, which I don't designate. Normally I'll just grab the first one I see from my pile, but lately I've been having a 'superstition' about them. I take all three and roll them on the table stopped by my hand (think turning a dice cup upside-down), I'll note the rolls, then repeat two more times. I've been lately picking the ones that show the greatest variance of rolls (this varies based on time of day, ambient temperature, humidity, etc.). I'll retest about once an hour, or if I notice that one dice is starting to get predictable. I only do this whil GMing though. When I'm a player, I pick the one that consistently rolls higher. I have a dice bag too...remember when there was the Harry Potter Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans? The real ones? Remember that bag they came in? ...yeah... |
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CaelenVasius I have a dice bag too...remember when there was the Harry Potter Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans? The real ones? Remember that bag they came in? ...yeah... Most the people I know use the Crown Royal bags... >.> |
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