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Wonder what the practical use for gamers would be. There's obviously good reasons for having 20-sided dice (e.g. more granular results in fights). Would 120-sid

• NegativeK 11y ago
  Fun, not practical. Reducing game mechanics to one or more d6s is within the power of the game makers, but they use weird effects to differentiate themselves.
  • WorldMaker 11y ago
    There's an aesthetic difference in rolling different sorts of dice, they have a different look and feel, so game developers could reduce all rolls to some standard die like d6, but rolling a variety of dice is "more interesting" to players. There are systems that are all d6s, there are systems that are all d10s. There are systems that like to pick dice based on the whims of what seems most interesting to players. Games are typically more about fun than practicality.
• egypturnash 11y ago
  "The d120 can be used as a dn, where n is any proper factor of 120. For the standard seven-dice polyset, a d120 is the ideal "multi-die", as 120 is the least common multiple of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 20." - http://thedicelab.com/d120tables.html http://thedicelab.com/d120tables.html So you could whip one of these out instead of the usual Crown Royale bag full of a zillion different dice if you wanted to have a minimalist flair at your regular gaming session. Mostly though I think it's just a cool thing to add to that bag full of dice. You're playing these games in part to fantasize about collecting lots of pretty gems, and this is like adding a big diamond the size of your fist to that collection of little rubies and sapphires.