Why are you obsessed with ten-sided dice? (d10) What do you do with them?
PrevNode LinkNextI originally ran into Ten-sided dice (d10s) in tabletop role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, and I found them remarkable due to the facts that:
They correspond with our decimal system (Base-10) and with the SI / International System of Units / Metric system.
They are the only role-playing-game-die that is not a platonic solid and instead has a man-invented shape.
As a result, the d10 became a symbol of power of mine. Now what I do with them:
After I donated my role-playing games' gear to a local role-playing-games club that my friends ran, I was given a solid brown 1d10 die that my friends at the time (~1997ish) allowed me to take. I carried it in my pencil case, and it became a symbolic object and feel it brought me a lot of good luck and bad luck (which are often two sides of the same coin).
Now, however, I decided to give it to Ms. Summer Glau (who is a Hollywood actress, but much more than that for me), and it is now her property, which I intend to officially pass it along to her and see what she will decide to do with it.
I also buy d10s in large quantities (went up to 10 packs of 10 purple translucent d10 dice each from The Dice Shop) and offer to give them away to people I interact with in real life (IRL), such as vendors, clerks and sellers in shops. While not everyone accepts them, many people do.
Following the transition from Selina Mandrake - The Slayer to Summerschool at the NSA, I bought a complete set of Tabletop role-playing games' dice, and use it as a symbolic object. This is its photo after being placed on my NUC computer along with the 1d10 die that I have given to Summer Glau.