No d8s in the gaming kit

[sartorius]

How the hell am I supposed to roll hit dice in Gamma World now?

[Drago156]

standard dice sets have 7 dice, d4/d6/d8/d10/d12/d20/d100.

The kit does not have a d8 however...

This is an outrage!!!!

[Triacontakai]

This is an outrage!!!!

[Technature]

This is an outrage!!!!

[Gannets]

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[NateTheSquid]

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the true outrage is gannets being allowed to post less than 5 characters

[warcrimes]

ss13 d8ing simulator plz

[Noah Buttes]

Just use three coins as binary percentile dice.

Heads are ones, tails are zeros. A complete string of zeros is treated as an eight, otherwise, use the results as place values for the binary representation of the number:

TTH = 001 = 1
THT = 010 = 2
THH = 011 = 3
HTT = 100 = 4
HTH = 101 = 5
HHT = 110 = 6
HHH = 111 = 7
TTT = 000 = 0, which we convert to an 8 for our purposes.

[Firebarrage]

Hell, why not just extend this. Just provide us with a single die capable of rolling from 1 to an arbitrary prime p, which is adjustable. The crew can then simulate any die they want.

I guess we could just add the d8, too.

[warcrimes]

Give the AI a pseudorandom number generator.
Take time out of your busy schedule of tracking syndies and opening doors to the burn chamber to roll initiative on Farty McWizboy

[Mordent]

Added (and put in the gaming kit).

For the inevitable "what about a d10" request: roll a d100, discard units. It's not hard to implement a d10, but it doesn't fit in the box.

Also: this is a feature request, not a bug.