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    Very cool from a maths perspective, but irrelevant to D&D

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      Not entirely irrelevant to D&D. Now we know that a skilled scholar could sculpt a boulder to roll in a specific way (for an Indiana Jones-style trap) without casting spells. Still, adjusting the terrain is a more productive way to do that.

      But they’re not useful as dice. Nobody ever uses a die’s trajectory shape to determine a random in-game outcome.

      A gömböc could technically count as the most rigged die – only ever rolling up one number – if the only requirements for a D&D die were for it to be a convex object with uniform density.

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        Plato: “A die is a convex object with uniform density.”

        Diogenes: holds up gömböc “behold: a die!”

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          (Diogenes is genius but poor so the gömböc is a peeled potato)

          Now seriously, the convexity requirement is there to ensure that spheres with voids inside don’t qualify.

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        As a DM, that’s my favourite die to roll. Well, other than the rocks-fall-you-die