Roll 2000D6...

[ffutures]

One of the current mysteries for the accounts department at my day job (educational technician) is trying to work out who ordered eight tubs of 250 six-sided dice. They don't show up on any order, so someone presumably entered the wrong order code, at our end or the suppliers - it'll probably turn out we wanted eight packs of pencils or something. Unfortunately it's our biggest supplier, and the delivery note has gone missing, so it could be pretty much any department - I'm fairly sure it isn't me, but that's about all.

But I can't help wondering if any game could ever use so many dice for real. Maybe Champions, if someone used their rules to stat something like Galactus, but I doubt it. Some sort of war game?

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[elementalv.livejournal.com]

Shadowrun requires users to have an ass-ton (or is it ass-tonne in the U.K.?) of D6, and I think D&D uses the same. Other than that, I got nothing, because casinos usually go to a specific gaming supplier for craps dice.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

In Diana: Warrior Princess some of the gods etc. might need to roll 25 or 35 D6 if they used the right combination of skills, magical weapons, etc., but that's about as high as it goes.

I think the usual (fairly coarse) British equivalent is "Metric shit-load"

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Clearly it would be arse-tonne.