#I wrote a whole paper for my college nonfic class on D&D that confused nearly everyone including the teacher

[well-only-mostly-dead]

At lunch once I lent some friends a d4 for a game they were playing since they mentioned generating 1-4.

After watching them get over their initial amazement that I had a die on me with 4 sides I just went about my own thing. (I carried my dice with me in the off chance I was gripped with the need to roll up a character or found a fun dice prompt while scrolling on my phone in high school. And still have at least a set in my backpack in college)

Anyway I noticed after a few minutes that one of them got up to write out sets of numbers like 1 4 3 and 324 and so on on the whiteboard,- and then writing one of their names with it or something.

'What are those for?' I asked.

'So we know which side is which person?'

I watched in dumbfounded silence as they rolled, picked it up, looked at the bottom and then at the board.

'....You know the top number is the same on all sides?'

Whoever was holding it stopped and turned it around in their hand several times and they all leaned in to look at it. They broke out excitedly how much easier that was and resumed whatever they'd been doing.

It amuses me to this day-though I know they had no prior experience with tabletops and hadn't even seen a d4 before so I don't hold it against them to much. (Just mildly wonder how four people looked at it and didn't assume the upright number at least was the right one)

For weird dice Wednesday! The blue one on the left was ordered as part of a standard set, but somehow I ended up with a die that can only roll a 1 or a 4? And the green one is normal except the result is read from the bottom of the die.

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