I'm going to be completely honest: I understand the probability distribution is better and lots of d6 systems are more elegant and better balanced than d20 systems.
However, my love for fancy math rocks almost always keeps me coming back to d20 systems...
I really like the Genesys dice system. It sucks that they're proprietary dice, but you get them in various shapes and colors and it feels good to just roll a big handful of them. The main appeal is that you get something more interesting than a pass/fail result.
Proprietary dice are just an hour of 3d printing away. I was curious what dice you were talking about so I looked them up, it appears the originals are hard to find but people are already selling printed dice to take up the slack.
Flat distribution is great when you want swingy results and the drama that comes with it, and bell curves when you want a "realistic" chance of your character succseeding on a task roll.
Oh, I agree. But I like my big rolls to be infrequent and therefore even more dramatic, so I usually prefer bell curves in terms of game design. But again, fancy math rocks drag me back every time.
Don’t think I’ve used a d6 system but I love a d10 system but also, shiny rocks are shiny.
It's that way with d10s for me. I see a nice-looking set of D&D dice and I pass it up because I know that I will basically never really use exotic dice like d12 or d8. Or d6, actually.
Look, what I'm saying is that they should sell pretty sets of 100d10 for those of us who play Exalted 2E.
My favorite d10 system is Dungeons: The Dragoning 40,000 (7th edition)
Gotta say rolling a bunch of d6s in Shadowrun is pretty satisfying every now and then.
That's why there's also other dice pooling systems, like Ironclaw's system, which pools d4s through d12s for every check.
