I read an article written by an inmate who explained how they’d form dice out of toilet paper (because dice were banned in his case) to play D&D. I assumed that was the case in most facilities.
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pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 17 hours agoDon’t worry, there are dice in (at least some) prisons, every cell block had at least one D&D group going with 4-6 people, and they used dice.
Source: Was a prison guard in the ARMY for 4 years at Fort Lewis.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Yeah, no doubt different facilities run things differently. Depends on where you are, who governs it and it’s security level. Low security gets more privileges than medium, high, or maximum security. Though for us medium security and lower could have small games, dice, dominoes, etc during rec hours.
Deestan@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ah, so the chance of rolling a 7 changes to 1/20?
pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
If you’re rolling D20s, but there are also D4s, D6s, D8s, D10s, and D12s for 5e, and some spells require multiple of the same dice, so rolling 6d6 is a very real scenario, so you can have plenty of dice to use to find variations to get to 7 with different sided dice.
Deestan@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That just sounds confusing. You’re putting me off murder now.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Once again, D&D improves society.