How To Roll Some Dice Ranges

We all know how to roll dice. D4, d6, d8,d10, d12, and d20 are all pretty common in most folks collections. While there is a d100 out there any two d10s can be rolled to generate 1 to 100. There are funky dice out there for d30, d5,d7,d14,d16,d24, and d3 but it’s possible to use normal dice to generate most of those.

A d3 and a d5 are easy as pie just roll a normal die for d3 dividing the result by 2 and rounding up, d5’s are half a d10.

There a pesky notational die out there you’ll see on occasiona the d66; well there isn’t really a d66 but you can roll 2 six sided dice one as “tens” and the other as ones to get some of the numbers from 11 to 66, the neat feature here is you get a smooth distribution of 36 numbers that can be referenced on a chart.

Rolling a d24 without a physical d24 can be done with one of these two methods.

·      *  Roll a d12 and any other die, if the other die is odd add nothing to the d12 roll, if it’s even add 12 tio the d12 roll.

·     *  Roll a d6 and a d4.  Check the score on the 4 sided, if a 1 add 6 to the d6 roll, if a 2 add 12, if a 3 add 18, don’t add anything on a roll of 4.

Rolling a d30 without an actual d30 can be done with a 1d10 and a d6, on a 1 or 2 on the d6 add 10 to the d10 roll, on a 3 or 4 add 20, don’t add anything on a roll of 5 or 6.

One can fake a d5,d7,d9,d11,d19 with standard dice by rolling the next real die up and rerolling the highest possible roll if it come up. Example: rolling a d9  get your self a 10 sided die and roll it, kepe any score of 1 to 9 ignore any roll of 10 and rerolling. This will no come up much but it’s handy and works.

My last post offered 240 options that could be rolled on a d240. That’s a d24 roll for anything over 10 and a d10 for the the ones (get a 10 on the “ones’ die and it’s a zero just like when rolling for d100 with old fashioned d10’s).

Rolling a d300,d400,d500,d600,d800,d1200,d2000: roll a d100 and the other die. Use the d100  roll if the other die is a is it’s highest roll otherwise add the d100 roll to a 100 x the roll of the other die. Example a d600 is a rol of d6 and 1d100 if the d6 comes up a 6 and the d100 comes up 57 that’s a score of 57. If the d6 roll came up a 2 and the d100 was a 75 that’s 2X100+75 for a score of  275.

The d10,000 is easy that’s 3 d10’s the first is die is ones, the second hundreds, and  the third is thousands, scoring a 10,000 if all three dice come up a 10 (or zero depending on you dice).

Getting stranger:

I have no idea why anyone would actually want to do this but you can roll a d9 or d18 .

* d9:  roll two d6 , first one is halved and rounded up like a d3, if the second one is a 1 or 2 add 3, if the second one is a 3 or 4 add 6, if the second one is a 5 or 6 add nothing.

*d18: roll two d6s, keep the score of the first one, if the second die is 1 or 2 add 6, a 3 or 4 add 12, a 5 or 6 add nothing.

A d4 with no d4 or d8 or d12 on hand.  (d8’s and d12 can be divided appropriately to get a d4):

Rolling a d4 with 2d6 chart

First d6	Second d6
	1 to 3	4 to 6
1 to 3	1	2
4 to 6	3	4

You can get a d8 if you with just d4’s by  using the chart above and an extra d6. Get a 1-3 add 4 other wise add nothing.

The d15. Roll d10 and a d6. Consult the table here:

	D10 roll
D6	1,2	3,4	5,6	7,8	9,10
1-2	1	2	3	4	5
3-4	6	7	8	9	10
5-6	11	12	13	14	15

Or just divide a d30 roll by2 but where's the fun in that,

d36. The Old Fasa DR Who had a d36 that came up rarely

First D6	Second d6
	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	1	2	3	4	5	6
2	7	8	9	10	11	12
3	13	14	15	16	17	18
4	19	20	21	22	23	24
5	25	26	27	28	29	30
6	31	32	33	34	35	36

There are lot’s of ways to roll dice for a wide range of results, Hope the few I mentioned above can help out.