the judge should be able to make that call without anything in a rule book. There are probably lots of things that are not in the official rulebook but can still be considered cheating

open palm sliding dice on to the table. Had a friend once that slide the dice off his open palm and they would only roll once or twice. He didn't always get high rolls but it was enough to make me wonder. I think that the less times the dice roll, the fishier it seems.

The boards that are layed down for the map area at the venue I play doesn't allow much bounce. So if you have fairly square dice, they don't roll much, once they hit the surface. This is just an obsevation. The shape of the dice and the surface you use, can effect how much 'rolling' occurs after leaving your hand.

ive just been using dice that have 2 sides with "6" instead of "1".
no ones seemed to notice so far so its been pretty good.

seriously tho. theres plenty of ways to roll a dice so its random. as long as it rolls, i see it as legit. if the rulebook told us how to roll the dice, it would get really really lame. just want to say that

gotta love a hand dump. (i.e., a dump that juuust fits in the palm of your hand).

Hey scoff if you will, Quick. But there are people out there.

Has anyone ever thought of just using a random number generator program? Its what we do when we play online...

That's even easier to rig than dice.

http://www.sjgames.com/dice/

Great dice roller.

Too bad its not more portable...

It's about repeating the same motion and maintaining the correct height above the table to ensure a consistant result. That's how DATA kept winning he did the exact same roll every time and thus eliminated the probability of any other result.

Agreed. That's what the judge is there for. Last time I checked there wasn't any section in the rulebook about cheating either.

I've seen the dice drop technique several times and while it isn't 100% effective it definitely reduces the randomness of the dice rolls. That's cheating.

I like to cover my maps with pieces of plexiglas. Makes for pretty good dice action. I almost hate to play on anything else anymore...


Sweet! I'm using a cup next time!

It's easy to understand that most judges are NOT going to want people thinking that some of the players are manipulating their dice rolls.
People can get somewhat quirky with their dice... superstitious perhaps. Maybe that's where the frustration comes from but at some point you have to see it from the other side of things.
It would be bad enough to get hit by 4 out of 5 attacks. It's even worse when the other guy has some wacky technique that they insist on using.

When it comes to dice, players have to be willing to make concessions for the sake of the playing environment.
If they're not doing anything hokey, well, should it really be an issue?

I would suggest that if you hold two dice, 6's up in your palm, and then roll them sideways, you might reduce the tumbling and be more likely to end up with one of those 6's.

Any situation where you actually situate the dice in your palm would be totally uncalled for in a game based on random rolls.

Really, i pity those who learns the most efficient dice rolling technique AND those who rigs their dice/rigs others dice. I mean, this is just a game for casual fun, i can accept the cheese, but this? this is just lame, i mean, get a life if you do rig dice.

Data is also a cyborg, and can do stuff like this. For any human being it would be impossible to recreate die rolls.