The cards contain unique texts about what might happen on the day. For example, you could meet a lost friend, have a day full of energy, or receive some good news. Fancy and plain dice trays are available for sale. Like the dice themselves, most are mass-produced, but there is also a community of artists that craft them by hand, or even take commissions. It is also relatively easy to make one yourself if you are crafty, or to repurpose a sturdy box lid, platter, serving tray, or decorative tray, provided that it has steep sides.

If you are already familiar with a symbolic system that is available in dice form, that may be an excellent place to start. For example, if you are familiar with astrology, dice with astrological symbols may work very well for you. Same for runes, ogham, planetary symbols, or symbols associated with a gaming system. Other dice that are available will have occult or cultural symbols on them. Some of the ones I found had runes, ogham, planetary symbols, astrological symbols, knotwork, or “spooky” drawings. And, of course there are the oddball dice that do not seem to fit in anywhere, that have seemingly random images inscribed on them once divorced from their source. I suspect most of those come from defunct games, promotions, novelty shops, or joke shops. Regardless of the specific images, if they have meaning to you, you can use them as a sympathetic link in magic, or find meaning in them when doing divination. Using Dice in a set of Bones As I mentioned above, you can get dice with symbols other than numbers on them. Exactly how many sides the dice will have depends upon the system the symbols come from, and the whim of the maker. For that reason, I am mostly going to refer to using D20’s, but a high roll on any die is usually considered more successful. If all you have are pipped D6’s from a board game, the 6 would represent success, and the 1 would represent failure, with the rest scaling in between. Using RPG symbology, high numbers are more successful, lower numbers are worse failures, and moderate numbers are mediocre results or close calls. Photo by Sidney Eileen. Rolling for Successful Magic Build and upgrade available heroes, and lead them into battle against powerful enemies in a unique blend of dice-based combat and RPG elements. With endless value and strategic depth, this game will keep you engaged for hours on end.

Rolling for Baneful Magic, Banishing, or Counterspells

BABY Audio released Magic Dice, a free random atmosphere generator in VST, AU, and AAX plugin formats for digital audio workstations on Windows and macOS.

Some divination can come into play with this method, with the various rolls representing real trials that you will face in accomplishing your goals. For that reason, be careful if you decide a successful roll is not “good enough”, and so roll again. It may be reasonable to set the bar high and keep working until you hit a lofty goal, or you may be setting yourself up for missed opportunities at success that will keep you grinding away longer than you need to or want to. Hand-crafted dice can come in just about any material, and some of them are stunning works of art. The price you pay for them usually reflects the materials cost and time spent creating the dice, but it is an option if you want a unique set of dice, or dice made out of a specific material. Some hand-crafted dice are even made with occultists in mind, using runes, ogham, planetary symbols, knotwork, or other symbols or sigils on the sides instead of numbers. If you want something truly unique to suit your practice, it may even be possible to commission a dice artist for a set of dice to exactly your specifications.This is especially true when I run out of inspiration during long mixing or sound design sessions. You know the feeling. After staring at the screen for hours, who wants to operate a modulation effect with ten faders, fifteen knobs, three rows of buttons, eighteen different algorithms, a step sequencer, four LFOs with editable waveforms, twelve types of saturation, a side-chain input (because why not?), and a three-dimensional modulation matrix? I wrote that Magic Dice is a one-button effect, but that’s not entirely true. It also features a Mix slider that lets you adjust the reverb/echo volume relative to the dry signal. So, use the button to generate new atmospheres and fine-tune the intensity with the Mix slider.

The main way to refer to dice is by the number of sides it has. You can sometimes find the rare die with sides numbering 3, 16, 24, 30, 50, or even 100 (yes, I did at one point own a true 100-sided die, and no, it did not work very well), but most dice are going to be D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, or D20 (“D” for “dice” + the number of sides). That is because those are the sizes used most often for tabletop RPG’s, and gamers are the largest market for dice sets. In fact, when you are looking to buy dice, “dice set” by default means an RPG set with a range of dice sizes. If you want a dice set for a specific board game like Yahtzee, you must ask for the game or specific dice by name. Collect and upgrade various dice, each with unique abilities and effects, and choose from a variety of different heroes, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. As you progress through the game, explore a vast fantasy world filled with challenging enemies and epic loot.Most tabletop RPG’s are based on a D20 for determining the outcome of any action or event. A high roll is generally good, with a natural 20 representing a critical hit or spectacular success. A low roll is generally bad, with a natural 1 representing a death blow or spectacular failure. “Natural” means the number that comes up on the die when you roll it, before any modifiers are applied.