Hello from Glasgow

Welcome! Glad you're here.

Feel free to post any questions or ideas whenever you're ready. There are a lot of people here with all sorts of experience and wisdom to share, and I'm sure your experience in the RPG world will be a great addition to the community.

I look forward to hearing about your games.

Welcome, Ideal! It's great that you came here to share ideas with others. I believe there is no greater endeavor than basking in the joy and intense interest of inspired creativity. The process is what's most rewarding, regardless of the outcome. Whether the question is your own or someone else's, pondering the problems and solutions of game creation is a wonderful way to spend your time!

See you around, and have fun!
Brian Blackwell

What's your fave, poly? I'm partial to 12's myself :)

In fact, I wanted to use 12 siders for one of my games, even though there are only 6 results. Each number would appear twice! hahaha

Then I thought it would be cool to have a bell curve distribution tending toward the mean, so maybe:

(result x number of sides that depict that result)
1x1
2x2
3x3
4x3
5x2
6x1

Someone must have thought of this already, no? I've never seen it, but it seems a logical thing to do... AND you get to roll 12's! heh heh heh

I must admit that despite many years of playing RPGs, I am something of a traditionalist and I love me some good, old fashioned D6es.

That sounds cool: some good potential for games built on that.

I have a bag of "Double6" dice here that are d12 shaped, but with 6-spot D6 faces. Cool dice nerdery there.

Actually, BBB, I'm kicking myself for not thinking of this before, but there is a sort of die that is used in some wargames (as well as in the classic Railway Rivals) that is not quite the same as your suggested new type of D6. It's usually called an "average die", and is a D6 with faces: 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5.