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Polyhedral Dice

Gaming and multi-sided dice.

What Are Polyhedral Dice?

Polyhedral dice are multi-sided dice used in various tabletop role-playing games. The standard set includes:

d4

Four-sided die (tetrahedron)

d6

Six-sided die (cube)

d8

Eight-sided die (octahedron)

d10

Ten-sided die (pentagonal trapezohedron)

d12

Twelve-sided die (dodecahedron)

d20

Twenty-sided die (icosahedron)

Popular Games Using Polyhedral Dice

The most known games using polyhedral dice are Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder. Both are Role Playing Games that rely heavily on dice rolls for gameplay mechanics.

Below are some simple games that can be played with polyhedral dice.

Simple Dice Games

Below are some simple games that can be played with polyhedral dice. For these games, the 10s-d10 is mostly not used. But if you want to include it, use it like the other d10 (10 = 1, 20 = 2, etc.). Even though the games involve capturing someone's dice, make sure and return their dice once the game is over!

Rolling Percentile Dice

The percentile dice are often made up of two die:

These two dice can be used individually as d10s. Each number represents itself, or itself divided by 10. For example, 1 or 10 equals 1. The odd side out is 0 and 00. These equal 10.

These two dice can also be used together as percentile dice. You roll both of the dice at the same time then, you take the numbers and add them together. For example, if you roll 20 and 5, the total is 25.

Where the percentile get tricky is what to do when a 0 or 00 shows up. If you think of all zeros equals 100, then everything else works fine:

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