Re: on D4s

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--- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Schoessow" 
<mikeschoessow@c...> wrote:
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Ed Thorn 
>   To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:53 PM
>   Subject: Re: [piecepack] Re: on D4s
>   >Well, for me, part of the allure of the piecepack is
>   >it's democratization of the process.  Anyone can
>   >pretty much get the specs for the components and make
>   >one of their own, and write rules, or use any existing
>   >rules.  D6 are cubes, easy to make, easy to buy in
>   >blank form.  All the other polyhedra lack this
>   >ubiquity.  Yes a grognard will be undeterred, but
>   >piecepack is, to my mind, horribly squandered if aimed
>   >at grognards.
> 
>   I agree. So then, is there  any way to utilize a D6 for a color 
selection die? Keep in mind that the piecepack has null and blank 
tiles and coins, so there is a precedent of a sort here, that could 
be used to justify a fifth, and *perhaps* sixth, face. How about 
Red/Green/Blue/black/None/All, for the six faces ( the None face 
being blank and the All face being indicated in some as yet undefined 
way). I don't particularly like this but it might be useful. If the 
fourth color was something other than black (such as yellow), then a 
Red/Green/Blue/Yellow/blank/black die would work, but with black 
being one of the suit colors, I'm not sure how this could be done. 
Perhaps the word ALL could be printed on the sixth face, or maybe 
crossed lines with arrow heads on all four ends (implying all four 
colors), or maybe the sixth face could include all four colors (draw 
an X on the sixth die face, (lines from corner to corner) and then 
color each of the resulting triangles one of the four colors; 
red,green,blue,black). Any body else have ideas?
> 
>   -Mike Schoessow

The implementation I've seen (in the extended icepack IIRC) was 
Arms/Crowns/Moons/Suns/Ace (The spiral)/Blank. Besides, most people 
don't mind rerolling a couple of times...

Lardarse Greg