In Dungeons & Dragons each dice set contains an example of the needed dice variants, from the 4-sided W4 to the 20-sided W20. However, when a Dungeon Master finds 100 dice, he turns to the community to find out what to do with his find – and they have some wicked ideas.
What kind of dice are these? The DM (Dungeon Master) JourneymanHunt posted on Reddit a picture of 100 black dice he found. The dice are W6s, which are 6-sided dice used in many different board games.
Now the Dungeon Master asks the community what he could do with this mass of dice to use them in a session of Dungeons & Dragons. He also explicitly points out that he is ready to annoy his players. The respondents do not need to be told twice and share their ideas.
Here you see the presentation of “Daggerheart”, the tabletop role-playing game from Critical Role:
Drive your players crazy with a hundred dice
Which suggestions are the most popular? The two top suggestions under the Reddit post with the most upvotes clearly pursue a similar goal: to cause absolute paranoia.
For example, Kinfin writes: “Put them in a bowl, start a timer in the middle of a fight, and when the time is up, take a handful and roll them. Then tell your players that they see (the rolled number) birds flying overhead” (Source: Reddit). This is referred to by the reply, with over a thousand upvotes, as “art” (Partiallyedible on Reddit).
To fuel this even further, Justincrediballs adds the following tip: “I’m sure there’s no reason to worry, … Add a slight grin, and then everything is secured” (Source: Reddit).
Also, piznit007 feels that sometimes it’s enough to create a little unrest and fear, even if nothing bad really happens:
“I mean, if you just want to annoy them, have each of them roll one of the dice. Murmur to yourself, scribble something on a piece of paper and then give each of them another black die. Repeat this until they become suspicious or ask too many questions. Tell them it will be important later, and then never bring it up again” (via Reddit).
How can the dice actually be used in gameplay? Other players have further ideas on how to use the dice for actual gameplay purposes, rather than just as instruments of fear.
You can use the dice like a kind of Hydra by placing a die with a 6 on the map. When you defeat them, place 6 more dice showing all 5s. When you defeat those, place 5 more dice showing all 4s for each die, and so on. This idea comes from mightyatom13 on Reddit.
The player NumerousSun4282 brings another idea from another TTRPG (via Reddit), the so-called “Devil Dice”: Players get to decide if they want to add an extra W6 to their roll, and then may take a die. In return, however, the Dungeon Master may also take a W6 to use for their own rolls or to subtract from the rolled amount of a player’s roll.
The player moongrump also has a simple yet effective idea: “Twelve Fireballs” (via Reddit).
It is well known in the community that many Dungeon Masters love to annoy their players by making the role players nervous even when they are not in danger. Many DMs admit this themselves. Some of them were even willing to share their best methods to unsettle other Dungeon Masters: Dungeon Masters reveal their dark secrets, naming the best ways to unsettle their players in Dungeons & Dragons
