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

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Some of the enormous multi-player Warhammer and 40K games at Games Day might well call for several hundred dice. I'm just trying to think how many you might reasonably need; I guess there are units & squadrons that might conceivably call for 60-odd dice to be thrown at once, and if you had 20 players in 2 teams of 10, that's 1200 dice... you might want to have more than 2000 handy, if you were organising the entire event, with several such large-scale games going on.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

And it sounds like we have a winner. Good grief - I thought I was being silly.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

But you now have another mystery to solve - who is the phantom Warhammer player? And why haven't they bought any of your other gaming stuff yet?