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The original D&D dice were the 5 platonic solids, the 10s were added later. But there are lots of shapes that can be "fair". You can stick 2 pyramids with any number of sides together, you can make a long prism with any number of sides since it will never land on the long ends, a coin can be considered to be a 2 sided die. I seem to recall somebody made a 30 sided die where the sides were parallelograms, although I never had one.


> The original D&D dice were the 5 platonic solids, the 10s were added later.

True; IIRC, the rules used d10 but it was a way of reading the d20 before d10s were manufactured.


yup the original d20's were labeled 1-10 twice, and you used a crayon to colour the on set differently. If it landed on your "blue" 10 it was a 20, if it landed on the uncoloured 10 it was 10 for example.




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