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?

Comments

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Tunnels & Trolls with nuclear weapons?

Operation Cavalry in Star Fleet Battles?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Maybe - I'd forgotten SFB. Some other very large scale wargames might go up to a couple of hundred for all players, but 2000 is just a bit silly...

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Practically speaking I don't think you'd need more than a couple of hundred for an all-sides alpha strike even in Cavalry. You're right - 2000 dice is definitely silly.

Maybe your staff member used to be a matchstick modeller but is branching out into a new medium?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

;-)