Re: [piecepack] on D4s

[Ed Thorn <prophesor@...>]

If I were painting a d4 tetrahedron, I think I would
divide each face into thirds, the border line going
from the face center to the nearest edge, three such
lines per face.  This leaves three of a sort of
lopsided diamond region, rather like the shape of the
face of the standard d10.  I would then paint (marker,
actually) the regions such that any 'point' of the d4
was surrounded by three regions of a single color.

But blank tetrahedrons are fare rarer than blank
cubes, which are already part of the piecepack spec,
and therefore already part of any piecepack
construction effort.  The ability to roll to select
suits or otherwise choose colors seems to me to be
already included in the spec, or at least easily
supported by a ruleset without need for additional
equipment.

--- Electronicwaffle <electronicwaffle@...>
wrote:
> Not to confuse the issue further, Side-face is not
> painted, but 
> indeed, the corners, or the edges can be painted. I
> have many D4 and 
> some rely on the number rolled to be read on the
> bottom... while 
> others have the number read on the top. What reamins
> and needs to 
> stay the same, is the fact that one face never ever
> has one of the 
> values 1-4 (A-D etc.). That is, each value is only
> on 3 faces, and 
> the die would need to land on the 4th face, for a
> given value to 
> show up.  Perhaps D4s are the most unique dice,
> given you can read 
> their rolled value on more than one side at a time.