What’s your favorite set of die?

I don’t have them with me, but for me it’s a pair of blue stone die. I don’t love them because they’re hefty and pretty (which they are); but because I am banned from using them.

The die are infamously hungry for players blood, and when using them critical hits seem to flow like water. After they were involved in a second TPK involving rank mooks stomping the party through intense rolls, they were banned.

Later, a new player joined us. In the middle of combat he noticed I had the set of die off to the side. He asked why, and so as I explained the story I picked them up and began rolling them. A hit and two criticals later, a more senior player snatched them up and angrilyput them back with a “THIS is why Null isn’t allowed to use them!”

Since then I’ve only brought them out to play in a rare hard boss fights where I think the players will struggle, and they were snatched as soon as things went south. They’ve become accustomed to seeing them and knowing that they’re about to get rocked.

Its fun to have dice that make the party pause and are a byword for evil.
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