(TFT) My Favorite Die

[Martin Gallo <martimer@mindspring.com>]

Not that this is relevant, but my favorite die is still the miscast 
d10 I found at a Polycon in the early 80's. It is always cocked! 
Great fun to whip out during a late-nite game, or when gaming with 
total strangers.

I almost got to squeeze it into a game at a local con (DieCon) 
yesterday (Bugs vs. Romans using TSRs Battlesystem). Unfortunately, 
we were out of time, and the last 'turn' was spent discussing the 
potential outcome rather than rolling dice. A shame, since all hits 
were assigned after the defender rolled armor saves using D10s and 
those crunchy romans were about to get hit with our big stuff.

Speaking of which, BattleSystem seemed like a good set of rules. It 
suffers from the 'too many dice for Martin' syndrome (24 was the 
highest number thrown that I recall - I rolled 15 a few times). It 
does manage to squeeze different dice types in depending on the 
strength of the unit type (I liked that feature a lot) and 
differentiated quite well between unit types. The only slightly 
incomplete cheat sheet was one page long, easily corrected when I 
redo it into a more useful 2-sider.

The GM had created custom unit types based on the fantasy material in 
the book. He had even had some custom miniatures made (some of the 
bugs). Really cool!

>  > (Asking this of the TFT list is likely
> >  not the place to get the big "LOTS OF DICE!"
> >  response...)
>
> I loved them all, I collected lots of different ones over the years, ones
> with pips on them not numerals etc. (can't remeber where they came from). I
> would get them while I was backpacking round the world (eg: Divisadero St SF
> had a great gaming store, Leeds, Utrecht, Perth Western Australia - all
> these places had great stores with 2nd hand stuff. overinclusive stores
> rather than 'slimmed down'.
> Unusual dice were easy to lug around the world till I got back to Sydney
> (and better than a t-shirt, mug or whatever as a souvenir)
>
>
> A friend had a d7 which I was never able to find...............
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