Loaded/shaved dice.

[mosker]

Was thinking about ways to best simulate curses in a less obvious manner than simple deductions from die totals.

As players can be territorial about their dice, it would be too much for a GM to sneak them in unknowingly. But what about knowingly? i.e. until the curse is lifted, you roll dice with a greater chance of lower numbers. Alternatively, given the benefits of DARO, one may purchase (spell? luck points?) a chance to use dice that veer toward fives or sixes.

Obviously, they shouldn't come up with the same number every time, but over time...

Looking for thoughts--especially from someone who actually knows something (which by definition is more than I do) about modified dice.

[zanshin]

Another quick option would be to treat rolls of d6 as d3, or treat higher numbers as lower, 5 =1, 6 = 2 say, which would drop the average roll to 2.16 (only allow Daro if the face of the dice matches)

[mosker]

Good thoughts. I was actually focusing on physical dice because I wanted the emotional and psychological effect of players actually dealing with consistently crappy die rolls, expected or not.

[zanshin]

There are various wargame dice - average dice, fire dice and the like, which give alternate results to 6. There are also polyhedral dice I'm told, which give ranges of other numbers. A d4 (I think that is the notation) would give you a lower range of outcomes ...

[zanshin]

Or try 'the dice shop' , one example

www.thediceshoponline.com/dice-sets/839/Ubiquity-Dice