My Kingdom for a Natural 20!

Okay, I seem to have caused a flurry of confusion yesterday with my offhand reference to d20s.  I admit, sometimes I’m so completely immersed in life as a Super Geek that I forget the rest of the world isn’t always in step with me.  In layman’s terms?  Man I speak a lot of nonsense.

So, what’s a d20?  Well, I guarantee most of you have seen its more common little brother, the d6.  The d6s of the world are more commonly referred to as “dice” by people who don’t actually own them independently of whatever game they might be in possession of that requires dice be rolled.  Dice may work for the layman, but if you tell a gamer they have to roll a die, they’re going to want to know how many sides it needs to have.  (A-ha, you say.  Your dice have 6 sides?  That’s why they’re called d6s.)

Those of you who haven’t run screaming can infer where I’m headed with this.  If a d6 has 6 sides, a d20 should have 45.  Err, or 20.  (Mr. Bree, as it were, happens to be a collector of odd dice and could probably produce a d45 if necessary. I know he has a d100.)

So for those of you who were nervous to google d20 after my last post, wondering what crazy sexual anctics or practices I had referenced (or what accessories might be hiding in closets) set your fears at rest.  d20s are harmless, unless you happen to find yourself face to face with a fire elemental who wants to destroy your entire party and you roll a 1 when attempting to negotiate.  A botch, or “Epic Fail” as it is known everywhere including twitter and nunneries, is what happens when you attempt to let your berserker barbarian chick serve as a diplomat.

Actually, when I started googling looking for images to post with this, I had so much fun.  I found a d20 Pecan Pie (pictured here), d20 tattoos, a d20 gear shift, d20 necklaces and earrings, fuzzy d20s from Think Geek (errr, we might actually have those…)

Seriously, if you haven’t google image’d (is that a verb? gimaged? gogimaged? go-go-google-imaged?) d20, I suggest you do it now.  The results are what we like to refer to in Geektown as, “Epic Lulz.”