Jon HancockWhy yes, I may have just accidentally knocked a large tin of dice off the shelf, spilling them into the wood basket, the coal scuttle, behind the furniture, across the floor… However did you know?
I'll be finding these things for years.
Rats. There are six dice missing 😡
OK, we're down to two dice gone AWOL, but my break's over so I'll have to search later. One of them's black which doesn't make things easier. This is going to bug me all day…
I should probably do something to celebrate. Buy myself a new set of dice, maybe…
Hm… Now that I've found the missing dice I seem to have nothing trivial to worry excessively about.
That's not normal, not normal at all.
Kale @BigJackBrass Just wait until you somehow find two identical dice elsewhere in the house... and then have to devise some intricate test to find which are the real ones and which are the impostors...
@DarkestKale Rather than thinking "Cool! Free dice!"?
@BigJackBrass That's how they get you!
@BigJackBrass I tend to think that mimics get a bit of overexposure, but I kinda like the idea of slowly adding replicas of the same dice to a player's pool without them noticing until they say 'wait, how do I have 16 green d6s?'
Howlin’ Hobbit@BigJackBrass back in the early days of online ukulele forums the noob question “<something something something> Is this normal?” became a meme before people were posting memes.
Some Dude@BigJackBrass I approve this message
@somedude Enabler.
@BigJackBrass um Jon you said FUDGE dice "come in sets of four" and those are clearly not from the same set what gives
@somedude It's possible—and this will likely shock a fellow RPG player—that I have more than one set.
Geoff Crowther@BigJackBrass I'm so relieved...
@GeoffCrowther I know you'll have been biting your nails to the quick all night. Glad I could put your nerves at rest after this very difficult time for us all.
@BigJackBrass Looking for lost dice in a home that has cats is like solving a murder. If you don't figure it out in the first 48 hours, your chances of doing so begin to decrease exponentially...
@somedude While checking underneath the rather deep hearthstone overhang with a long stick I unearthed the cat treat that bounced under there last week. Carrie instantly pounced and devoured it.
@BigJackBrass I’m going to have to dig out my dice bag and post a pic of the Fudge dice I made from regular d6s. just takes a permanent marker and a wee bit of patience.
@howlinhobbit Used to be so difficult to buy official ones, didn't it? As well as joining the dots on six-siders to make pluses and minuses I remember printing out paper Fudge dice to assemble. They were less successful.
@BigJackBrass for me there was no difficulty finding the official ones, but the cost was simply silly.
I did buy at least a set (or two?) of them.
MattJohns@BigJackBrass the fact that you know exactly which dice are missing and their colours says that you’re the sort of person who is going to be bugged by them missing. #TakesOneToKnowOne
@mattjohns It does make it easier that they're Fudge dice, so they come in sets of four. But yes.
@BigJackBrass @mattjohns wow. someone out in the real world that actually uses the Fudge system. I’ve had the book and a bunch of dice for ages and, even back when I was gaming a lot, couldn’t get a group together for a Fudge campaign.
@howlinhobbit @mattjohns I recently ran a game of it for my regular group, using the Deryni Adventure Game based on Katherine Kurtz's novels. They had to retrieve an heirloom ring, believed to have been swallowed by a goat, before its absence was noticed by a rather frantic lady's future mother in law. I'm hoping to run The Princess Bride RPG (also Fudge) for them soon.
Ken Doyle@BigJackBrass nice of you to give the cats all those toys
@Kendoyle I'm relying on them to find the damn things.
SweetAI Belle 
@BigJackBrass
Well, the 4 sided ones will turn up soon enough... unfortunately.
Well, the 4 sided ones will turn up soon enough... unfortunately.
@SweetAIBelle Luckily they're all Fudge dice, so six or twelve sides. Dodged a caltrop there 😁
Tore@BigJackBrass Not with your bare feet I hope. 😞
@BigJackBrass Makes note to add catnip to the dice box so they will swiftly find any lost dice…
@DarkestKale Two missing… just two missing…
@BigJackBrass That's fine, it's not like you need matching dice for stuff :D
@DarkestKale Hopefully I can find enough in here to make up a matching set. Or two.
@BigJackBrass I never quite 'get' the whole dice thing for most people but I suddenly am jealous of this...
@DarkestKale I don't exactly collect dice, either, just pick them up now and again. It used to be so I was sure that everyone had some to use (particularly with Fudge dice, which used to be quite hard to get), but I've been gaming for 40 years and still occasionally buy new ones because… I dunno. Sometimes when I visit a new store, sort of a gesture, a thank you.
I shan't show you the rest… That tin is only for one sort.
@BigJackBrass hahaha I get that.
I have a few d10s and some Genesys dice and that's about it, really. The other GM for our group is the one with the extensive board and rpg collection, so I don't need to handle that stuff usually
@BigJackBrass But I really do get the 'please stay in business' token purchase as well