Originally posted by Robert McKenzie:Not if your opponent has practiced rolling the spin down life counter (I refuse to call it a “die”) to land at the high end. If I see players rolling one to decide who goes first, I always step in and tell them they should use something else.
That said, if you are rolling the same die as the opponent, you have the
same advantages and disadvantages, so it is mostly moot.
Originally posted by Benjamin McDole:
The method needs to be mutually agreeable. If one player has an issue with it then its not mutual. Just ask the players to find something they both agree on and let them start playing.
Originally posted by Mark Mc Govern:I'd be good with that.
Another judge suggested the following to me after I objected to using a spin down (before we had rolled): rather than the highest roller winning, choose odd or even. That way the spin down guy gets to roll his 'die', and the other person is satisfied that a random method was used.
Originally posted by Robert McKenzie:
That said, if you are rolling the same die as the opponent, you have the
same advantages and disadvantages, so it is mostly moot.
Niki Lin
Or give players advice to let somebody call out “even” or “odd”, if he calls it right he chooses. With both a regular D20 and spindown D20 the odd and even numbers are distributed evenly so that “practicing” a throw doesn't work.
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