Five shapes are perfectly regular. Every one of them is in your dice bag, and there will never be a sixth. Why Only Five Pick up a d20 and turn it over in your hand. Every face is the same triangle. Every edge meets its neighbour at the same angle. Every point has the same five triangles crowded around it.…
Nine Solids and What They Are For Every die in the set, one at a time. What it is, what it looks like, and the moment at the table it was made for. Dice are written in dX notation, where d means die and X is the number of sides. Nine shapes cover nearly everything D&D asks you to roll.…
D&D runs on one idea: roll a d20, add a number, beat a number. Everything else is a footnote to that sentence, and this post is the footnotes, with the odds worked out so you know when to push your luck. Rules here are from the System Reference Document 5.2, the free version of the 2024 rules [1]. The 2014…
