(Possibly a 'which side of the puddle' question might have helped for correlation purposes?)
The only game I can bring to mind at all in which players each use different dice is backgammon. Under all other circumstances, not differentiated by the divide between 'mainstream' board games and 'geeky' roleplaying/wargaming, I'd naturally assume that somebody (typically the session's host, or a guest by prior arrangement if the host couldn't provide) would bring along a collection of the appropriate dice for the game, and everyone would use the same ones and pass them on to the next player when necessary.
Backgammon has always struck me as a very strange exception: using distinct dice per player is an obvious security hazard, and it therefore seems particularly foolish to have it be the norm in a game traditionally played for money!
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The only game I can bring to mind at all in which players each use different dice is backgammon. Under all other circumstances, not differentiated by the divide between 'mainstream' board games and 'geeky' roleplaying/wargaming, I'd naturally assume that somebody (typically the session's host, or a guest by prior arrangement if the host couldn't provide) would bring along a collection of the appropriate dice for the game, and everyone would use the same ones and pass them on to the next player when necessary.
Backgammon has always struck me as a very strange exception: using distinct dice per player is an obvious security hazard, and it therefore seems particularly foolish to have it be the norm in a game traditionally played for money!
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