While we’ll touch on more advanced techniques, you’ll have to wait for our next installment for detailed instructions on advanced gambits.įor the beginner, the d4 is best saved for a capstone piece.

This installment of the Guide to Dice Stacking will deal with the basic uses of dice in a normal stack. This article and it’s follow-ups are designed to hone your dice-stacking skills so that you can fire back, building your own dice towers, bigger and better than anything your players can build, as they role play, describe their actions, and compete for your attention against your ever-growing plastic cityscape. After all, you’re the GM, and a player stacking dice at your table is a challenge, and should be interpreted and dealt with as such. Now, sure, when you see this cue, it’s important to re-evaluate the pacing of your adventure, but more importantly, you should be evaluating their dice stacking skills.

Chances are, you’ve run a session that was less than stellar, and one of your players has given you the most common player boredom clue ever: stacking dice.

Common gaming dice