A while back we asked our community if they performed any dice rolling rituals. You did not disappoint. Turns out, lots of you perform rituals before, during and after your D&D games. 

You can see a smattering of those (along with fantastic illustrations by Emi Tanji) in the latest issue of Dragon+, but because there were so many good ones we  just have to share more. (Lots of bad dice go in microwaves. Like, lots.)

We’ll share them here and please feel free to share your own rituals. It’s very therapeutic and makes us feel…normal.

D&D Dice Rolling Rituals:

“I always  put my dice on their highest value. Then when my dice roll low I whisper to them, ‘You tried your best, I don’t want anything more then that’”

“My “cold” dice are taken to the FNGS the next day and shown all of the  dice that don’t have nice warm homes. I remind the dice how easy it would be to find itself returned to the random die bin to be forgotten in the annals of time. This usually works.”

“I bury bad dice in cereal boxes.”

“ I have a separate bag for my bad dice. If a die fails me too many times i will banish  it to the bad dice bag so it knows it’s been bad, but also doesn’t  contaminate the other dice.”

“Align the dice in a row, from smallest denomination d4 to d20, with the high number topside, so they’ll ‘learn’ what number they are supposed to stop on.”

“I never let any of my dice touch/rest on the table until it’s time to roll, and then they can ONLY be rolled directly on the table.”

“First off, I have a roll-off between my two sets of dice to see which set will roll  better for that game. Then I lay them out with the highest values facing up, in descending order from d20 to d4. I never, ever let them stay on another value and I return them to their proper positions after each roll.”

“I gently caress my dice bag. Smoothly massage it, whisper sweet nothings in  it’s ear…then I pull out the die I need, d20, d10, whatever it may  be…then I roll it…and if it’s a bad roll I toss it in a blender and make the rest of the dice bag watch in horror as I blend their fallen comrade, in  hopes that it will teach the rest of the bag, and future additions to the bag, that although I love them, I WILL NOT TOLERATE FAILURE!!!” 

“I pray to the dice gods and shake till my DM gets pissed off.”