RE: [DL] more questions

[Ivan E <ivan_gaming@yahoo.com>]

What you call physics, we call fate. Same process,
different names. ; )

- Ivan
http://www.gamesgroove.com/ivan/

--- Joe Frankovitch <slvrdrgn@larp.com> wrote:
> Bah!  Dice are dice.  They follow the laws of
> probability, not mind over
> matter or luck.  If a die is rolling badly, and has
> been for a while,
> probability says its due for a good roll soon.
> 
> I personally like to follow the tenets of Physics
> with my dice.  I
> always leave them with the highest number facing up.
>  Gravity then makes
> them settle imperceptibly on the opposite side, and
> thus the weighted
> dice will roll that high number more often.  (Bear
> in mind this process
> takes somewhere between 1 and 2 millenia to notice a
> perceptible
> difference.  But hey, every little bit helps!)
> 
> Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net
> [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net] On
> Behalf Of Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:09 PM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [DL] more questions
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:53:38PM -0700, Lisa
> Kenison said:
> > i have cursed dice--i always lose initiative and
> miss more than i hit 
> > when i play
> 
>  I disagree - rolling well or badly is caused by
> belief, mind over
> matter, not  by particular dice.  Any given die
> rolled idly will produce
> a fairly random  number, but when it's an important
> roll (including any
> roll in a game), the  result will be influenced by
> what the roller
> believes will come up.  The  only reason lucky dice
> are lucky are
> because people BELIEVE they will be.  What you
> believe to be lucky dice
> can be handy as a focus for your mental  powers, but
> ideally we should
> all be seeking to elevate ourselves beyond the  need
> for such corporeal
> anchors.  Experts can actually affect others' rolls 
> as well as their
> own.
> 
> > so what is your favorite color of dice to use?
> 
>  My favourite die in the whole world is a D12 I
> picked up in Zurich.
> It's  just a Chessex die, but it's red and blue with
> silver numbers and
> I love  it to bits and have been looking for others
> like it for ages and
> have never  found any.
> 
>  Wishkah
> 
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