When beginning a new
campaign for whatever
role-playing system that the
GM has brought to the table, some people have consecrated a ritual that involves going to the local
gaming store to purchase a new set of dice for the game- a cleansing ritual, if you will. In games that use a single shape of die such as
Vampire the Masquerade or
Shadowrun, the purchase consists of a plastic fistful of the appropriate shape (usually with a single underlying color
theme); in games that use multiple shapes, they can purchase a small plastic box that contains the three magic
d6's and the
d4,
d8,
d10,
d12, and
d20.
Repeated practice of this habit leads to the accumulation of a
dice bag of ever-increasing size. As any semi-serious gamer will tell you, though, having a
dice bag the size of a
grapefruit is almost universally respected due to its ability to bonk people who've had a bit too much
Mountain Dew.