How To Check The Balance Of Your Dice | DIY Easy Trick 

Ahh crap, sometime life just throws a curve ball at ya

I wonder why.... oh! me small brain

Which is especially weird considering that it's a d8 :P

That's especially weird, because it was a D6.

I keep getting the same 10 numbers and not the good ones

Ahh, spoken with true experience in mind! haha :)

@@Rybonator Yup, one mistake that will never happen again.

PAIN APPEASES THE DICE GODS! YOUR LACK OF SACRIFICE WILL CURSE YOUR ROLLS!

I always find that you can wash out the salt with lemon juice. (Don't fkin do that please!)

Blood for the blood god, salt for the dice god!

Preservation of fun! Love to see it.

that's really sweet oh my god

She is a poet with words.

Same

Marry her. Or marry her again. 😂

Right lol!!! You just know it was something random like that when they started dating and he was “yup imma marry that women”

Ssshh, don't encourage her :P

I like salt too, no shame

@@Rybonator She likes a salty taste. Congratulations, my good sir 😉👍

@@MrBlack0950 i like salt to but that just makes me gag thinking about drinking that

@@hardwirecars no one said anything about drinking it

Lol I am going to assume this is for the funny, but in case it's not here is an answer! Metal is far too heavy to check this way, and yeah... rust from saltware :( No fun.

Coat it in plastic and put it in mercury

@@Rybonator You were right to assume that.

Copper doesn't rust it. When it oxidizes it turns green. That's why pennies turn green and why the roof on the Canadian Parliament Hill are green.

Marikroyals copper oxidises with oxygen The oxygen is taken out of the water with salt being a catalyst for the reaction It might as well be rust

I mean... when life gives you lemons

Dice to use for important moments

@@antoniusbritannia8217 D&D is more fun with the looming chance of failure.

Had me rolling... 20s!

You must be pretty easily entertained lol

Oh dang, throw those dice in jail!

I see you watch Doormonster

Andrew Ender Frost don’t know what you mean. I was playing a cleric who died, his godess gave him a second chance, then got revived in a NPC monk character that had also recently died. My character THEN proceeded to die in the same session, due to making a pact with an evil god, and revived in his old body, half-demon zombie death knight.

Well, if they killed your second character twice, your cleric must have had resurrection prepared.

Andrew The Mighty well no, but actually, yes. My characters soul was put into a body of a recently deceased monk by my goddess to carry out my mission. Then I betrayed her to join up with her son, and was reborn as a death knight with a direct connection instead of the speaking in riddles and signs bullshit.

Lol Just use mercury instead. (Note: DO NOT DO THIS.)

Rybonator k I will

Instructions unclear, made a hat.

@@manthak377 The only possible response, 10/10

You’re gonna need a lot of salt

From his League of Legends team.

@@alcaz2924 I think he was getting at its salt from his tears because of low subscribers

@@buddyguy4723 you got 0, kid

@@giampaolomannucci8281 oh wow you're a very observant idiot. You do realize I was inferring the meaning of his joke in the video and explaining it right? yeah of course people who don't make videos don't have subscribers usually, just like you. Moron.

buddy guy speaking of salt🧂...

Nice! Glad your favorites work so well :)

Well hopefully this will get you back on track, or at least able to identify the cheaters! Intentional or otherwise. Glad you liked it :)

So? Were they cheating? Sorry for replying 1 year later lol

Ahh dang that's no fun :/ Now if it were weighted towards the 20... totally viable haha

Use it as a life counter or just a display piece.

Use it for DMing where 1s are arguably more fun than 20s

Use it while DMing for NPCs that you want to have slightly higher chance of failing.

1s are pretty fun to roll! 2s are just boring

Y'all need those Salt Life stickers :)

Had a lot of people asking how to check, and a lot of people at the local game store I go to talk about this since a bunch of people like to make dice!

How I got here. No one: RU-vid Algorithm: How to make and weigh dice! My ambition due to living in a D&D/Pathfinder/Warhammer heavy hobby shop: DO IT!

The dice algorithm giveth and it taketh away haha :)

I understood that reference

Hey El Dorado :)

James Willis, El Darodo

GUARDS ARREST HIM!

"HE GAVE ME LOADED DICE!! GUARD! ARREST HIM!" (^_^)

Nice! Glad you found a set that you enjoy :)

I just hold the dice it works because im very salty

@@daylenhigman8680 are you data?

Orrr, the universe is trying to tell you that you should start ;)

"Oh noooo"

you're*

José Vargas “when you are dice”

Reagan Bui lol, there’s 2 “your”s in there

@@Rybonator what ever are you to doo. You would *never* roll those for important moments.

Haha Oh me and Morten go WAY back

Great tip! Much appreciated :)

Aka saline

more likely that the cloudy substance is anti-caking agent

Aka oversaturated solution. Finally i can apply my degree on chemistry in something D&D related.

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Happy to help Alex! :)

Amen

Ahh dang, gotta catch them cheaters!

Glad I can help :) The difference is SUPER small, but it does exist. My mom made us lick them too! Country bois unite haha

Y'all know those have already been licked by cows right? Cows that regurgitate cud? Idk I just don't jump to taste the last thing many other animals have licked lol

True! Gotta make sure you have as accurate as can be :)

This and sharp edges (not round) are actually 100% more important than tiny imperfections in weight. You're not rolling your dice in salt water after all.

Idk who Ms. Conception is, but yeah I hope this clears things up for you haha :P

@@Rybonator They turn every die "good side up" in hopes that the molecular movement and other stuff makes all the dice remember how to stop and other "magical" jumbo mumbo, they should know better?

@@EnraEnerato oh... Oh Lord lol. I guess it's like wearing your favorite team Jersey on game day, sitting at home. Whatever makes you happy :)

@@Rybonator Sometimes they do it when we are not yet done calculating the result (Star Wars Fantasy Flightgames dice with different symbol, D6, D5, d12), it's annoying when we are not yet done...

@@EnraEnerato oh gosh I bet

Thanks for the sub and like :) Hopefully you enjoy the rest of the stuff on my channel!

Of course! Also sshh! Don't let her know that :p

It's an Aggie Ring :) Class of '16 Whoop! Also my sleight of hand check was a 16 so you just BARELY beat it out!

Rybonator it would help if I had a higher perception, but I have this weird magic spell that lets me relive moments I have seen on my handheld spellbook. Yoo toob ;p Love your vids and thank you for the response! I used to build sets for table top games like warhammer back in the day when I was much younger so I thoroughly enjoy seeing what you put together! (This vid also helps me understand my dive Kharma better :P) Thank you for making quality work! Keep it up I will be tuning in from here on out for sure!

Lol the Yoo Toob got me :P Glad you like my content :) That's awesome! I need to up my terrain skills, I've been so dice focused lately haha

Rybonator I used to play with a variety of flocking when it came to grass and moss. It really helped make things fuzzy :) it works really well for snow as well! That and I strait up went outside to get bits of moss for tiny little bushes. After a while they are fragile and break apart, but while they last they really add a nice effect! :)

Hope you like em :)

Fair enough, it does make that assumption :) That's why I try and adjust the salt content of the water, but yeah it can give off false alarms. The TRUE way to check it is to troll 10,000+ times on each one, but even then it could lead to false conclusions.

Rybonator you could try rolling it down a slope and use a slow motion camera to film the entire thing, if the centre of mass is off, it will have a higher moment of inertia (via parallel axis theorem) therefore resist rotation, so as long as you are using D20 or higher numbers, and as long as your dice is the same size and mass, the difference in angular velocity of the dice captured by the slow motion camera will tell you if it’s a good dice.

Thank you, I was looking for someone to point out the difference in buoyancy and mass. Just because dice float differently doesnt mean they will roll in a particular manner. Im not saying its impossible, but floating has different physics than rolling.

Thanks, I appreciate that :)

Honestly like you said, it's probably not that big of a difference. I plan on testing how much weight it takes to REALLY effect a dice roll in a future video. But yeah that would probably take out some of the weight, but be careful, if you make the shape all wonky, that's no good too!

It's not a HUGE difference, probably less than .1% but it cane matter to some folks :)

Chloe Mcholoe Same lol. all my rolls suuuuuuckkkkkkk

Do it! I'd love to watch the process for creating some metal dice like that :)

They will only be as good as the material they are made out of. If the stock isn't consistent, the dice won't be.

@@ionstorm66 I'm talking about pure, fine mechanics grade aluminium.

lol, gotta make sure you were paying attention!

I jumped up thinking someone was breaking into the house through my window lol

Nah, THAT'S in my candy dic emaking video haha

A source of vitamins d and d

Go for it!

@@Rybonator so maybe I'm using the wrong salt or something, but all but 8 of my dice sank to the bottom. And none of them were the metallic looking kind. :(

Of course! Hope you find it helpful :)

I am just using it as a placebo effect form of salt... even though I know it has less "salt" in it haha.

Perhaps the same reason you buy 3-6% bleach

AnduRo you buy diluted bleach because pure bleach is way too extreme and way too dangerous. You don’t need pure bleach, you only need very diluted bleach for most purposes.

Typical table salt is Sodium-Chloride (NaCl). Doctor's used to tell patients with high blood pressure to reduce sodium intake and the most common switch was to use Potassium-Chloride (KCl), another form of salt, instead for salting food. Morton's "lite salt" is probably a 50/50 mixture of NaCl and KCl. Nowadays doctor's don't generally tell patients to reduce sodium intake for blood pressure (but may on depending on a patient's specific situation) but people that want to reduce sodium intake for other reasons can easily find KCl alternatives to NaCl in grocery stores.

but don't buy 50/50 antifreeze/water. that's just less antifreeze and overpriced water, ie, a *scam* always get pure antifreeze and add water to radiator to dilute it. oh, and don't use it to check dice. (just a guess)

You have no dice YET ;D

Lol I love that movie!

@@Rybonator yaaaass!

Oh dang, that's no bueno. But at least if you step on it, it will crumble instead of impale you! So, you know... you got that going for you.

@@Rybonator no see if he steps on that D4 it's an initial D8 in damage with a damage over time effect added for every step after the shard embeds itself in his foot

@@maladroit5581 also roll against an infection, against loosing your balance, and on self control for starting to scream.

@@ulrichkalber9039 oh and an instant loss of concentration for any spells

Both you and my wife are strange human beings haha :)

Thanks :)

Haha oh no, that's magic that you cannot account for.

^

It's about increasing the water's surface tension. Which is affected by the depth of the water in question. Which in turn is affected by the length, width, and height of the container the water is in.

@@clothar23 nope has Nothing to do with Tension, it is only about the water becomeing denser than the dice, so the dice floats like wood on water.

Lol I hadn't heard it put that way before. That one got me :)

Hey well you lucked out on the purchase then :)

Glad i could help! :)

It's the next link in the chain!

Don't encourage her ;P

She do be hella cute :)

She keeps salt in sacks? Yeah I wouldn't mess with her salt either haha :P

Why are you using her good salt? Go buy the cheap stuff from the dollar store.

Ohh glow in dark would be awesome! I should get some pigment for that and do some experimenting.

Yes! The glow in the dark are super cool! then again I am kind of just obsessed with glow in the dark. I may get a giant set soon. So much easier to see what I rolled.

OH! I just bought some giant dice so I can make molds out of them to do some more interesting custom dice. Maybe large glow dice would be cool.

Might be easier to make big dice? Less detailed?

For sure. Even if something is slightly off on those, it's not nearly as big of a deal.

Good observation :) Thanks for the knowledge!

You and my wife at least haha

Like at first when I heard locally sourced salt I was like “fuck this dude talkin bout” but then I’s all like ohhhhhhhh dis nigga funny

It's hard to get a good salt meme these days, but if you mine hard enough you just might get one in the salt mines of RU-vid

Oh dang, they must be some heavy plastic!

All them damn casinos doxxing this video :p

Well yes but actually no, you'll be able to disolve a lot more since epsom salt contain a lot of water but the salt concentration will be yhe same in the end

@@Draconic404 really? is that accurate? It was my understanding that The dead sea has such a high salinity specifically because it has other types of salts in it which allows it to have more "saltiness" than it could have with sodium based salts. Specifically, magnesium based salts, which includes Epsom salt, make a big difference in getting past the traditional saturation point. Regarding the scenario I was referring to in the original comment, the cup I used literally could not dissolve enough salt, no matter what I did, how much I stirred (even used a whisking machine), or the temp of the water. Wound up with a pile of salt at the bottom of the cup that raised the dice halfway up the cup. Used Epson salt in the same cup and worked like a charm without any of the crazy shenanigans I tried before. Sure, that's all anecdotal, but it lined up with my previous understanding of Epsom salts. I Could totally be wrong, but it makes sense given the situation.

@@noblesseoblige319 idk about the dead sea, I think its just a the limit of dissolution but nile red did a video about epsom salt, its like 90% water from what I remember, you can check it out

Honestly it changes things in a super minuscule amount, like from a 5% chance per face, to like a 4.5-5% chance, so don't worry yourself too much :) BUT for some people, complete fairness makes a big difference!

Rybonator with the way the numbers are laid out the weighting has even less of an effect as well. I believe so, anyway. I've just been pondering this lately I don't have any maths to prove it. Opposite faces do average 10.5 though which sort of evenly distributes the values on each face. If a particular face is more likely to show up, so are the adjacent faces. So if you're more likely to roll a 20, you're also more likely to roll a 2, 14 and 8 (I think this is standard) I'm sure there's some ever maths out there regarding this, just dumping my thoughts here

I'll tell her she gained a sub haha :P

It is supposed to mimic the balance machines that casinos use in their dice balance testing. However you are totally right. Most of the time this may equate to a .1% difference, which in the grand scheme of things. Who cares! :)

@@Rybonator that's a margin of error I'm perfectly fine living with. I guess I don't need to throw away all my dice after all! Hahaha Thanks for the reply!

FLangevor how would that be?

because thats a prediction, and this is the facts.

@@thatsnotveryfresh that's not how that works

@@pigsnoutman roll the die like 100 times and there's your data ser

@@SteelFlange_ the point is not having to do that

yes

The universe is trying to change that ;)

Magic the gathering also uses alot of these dice too. And I find having more than just a regular D6 for counters is really helpful

@@maladroit5581 spindown d20 to count life points But mtg doesn't need to roll dice

@@Rishkar-Peema-Pants no but I use them for counters on creatures to keep track of all that for creatures that gain or lose counters often, such as planeswalkers

@@maladroit5581 yeah right. What i was trying to say is that itdoesn't matter if the dice are weighted or unbalanced because you're not gonna roll them anyways :)

Just buy double of each set so that you can open one, and roll the other :P /s

Wish I knew that before