Wiki Topic: Dice Types
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Dice Pools: Counting, Keeping, and Comparing Rolls
A practical guide to dice pools, including totals, successes, opposed results, keep-highest rules, rerolls, and the information needed for a reproducible explanation.
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Odd-Sided Dice: d3, d5, d7, d9, and d100
Learn how games represent dice with uncommon numbers of outcomes, including d3, d5, d7, d9, and d100, and how to document their construction and rules context.
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Polyhedral Dice: Shapes, Faces, and Tabletop Use
Understand what polyhedral dice are, how faces, edges, and vertices describe their geometry, and why physical shape should be separated from game rules.
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Dice Mechanics: Randomness, Pools, Checks, and Tables
A guide to the main ways games use dice, from single checks and damage rolls to dice pools, opposed rolls, random tables, and special rules.
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Percentile Dice: How d100 and d% Rolls Work
Learn how percentile dice use two d10s to produce results from 1 to 100, how to read 00 and 0, and how to calculate simple d100 probabilities.
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Custom and Specialty Dice: Symbols, Shapes, and Rules
A practical guide to custom and specialty dice, including symbol dice, Fate dice, unusual face counts, custom numbering, and the evidence needed to catalogue them.
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Standard Dice Types: d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20
A beginner-friendly guide to common tabletop dice types, including d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, and percentile dice.
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Dice Notation: What Do d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20 Mean?
Understand common dice notation such as d6, 2d8, and 1d100. Learn what the numbers mean, how modifiers work, and why probability changes when dice are added together.