I have rolled 1,000 times the personalized ties of HeroForge to see if they are balanced

Héroforge has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its new personalized dice, and Die Rollers around the world is very excited. The possibility of bringing your personalized character into a 20 -sided resin prison will pass your D&D campaigns to the next level. At the time of writing this document, the campaign is already funded at 300% only a few days after launch, so that players will personalize their dice before knowing it.

You can consult the kickstarter here, but Heroforge has sent us test dice to check, and the first impressions are good. We received four D20s – two regular size and two extra -large – and one D4. Two of the D20s (a regular and a jumbo) contain a dragon head, with the “20” panel left empty so that you can look directly in its ardent eye.

The dice themselves

The other Jumbo D20 contains a gray tabby cat playing with a wire ball. I am not particularly a cat guy (hateful comments) but I must admit that it is quite cute. Finally, there is a small D20 containing a bust of a kind of character from Ranger, while the only D4 has a small guy of mushrooms trapped inside. All the characters are clean and well printed; The clear resin that surrounds them virgins.

However, the figures are not particularly easy to read, especially on cat death. This Jumbo D20 uses a small gray font, and I found very difficult to analyze, in particular against the gray cat itself. Admittedly, I rolled the dice on 300 times in a row rather than making a check of skills in a D&D game, but the biggest figures on the Dragon Die, as well as the black color, made it much easier.

I would prefer that these figures are in relief, because they seem a little cheap, as if they had been printed after the fact. However, I understand that this would increase costs and therefore the price. Since Héroforge is known for the massive quantity of personalization it offers on its figures, it would have been good to have the option, however, for those of us who are In DICE, rather than just using them as tools.

However, I couldn’t help but ask myself if these dice rolls true.

How to test the disasters

Looking at the dice, I had my suspicions that they might not be perfectly balanced. It should be noted that the Kickstarter himself explains that Heroforge has carried out his own tests, including a floating test and an average test of 1,000 rollers, but I wanted to see for myself.

The floating test implies, as you think, floating the dice in salt water to see if a specific face goes up to the top.

The diced Dragon intrigued me the most, because the design is strongly “weighted” on one side, where the bust shoulders are located. If the character resin was really heavier, I would expect to see a lot of 2, 12s, 18 and 20, which are on the opposite side. Likewise, I would not expect to see a lot of 19, 9, 3S or 1.

I rolled the D20 dragon 220 times extra-large, the dragon of regular size 250 times and the Jumbo Cat D20 (which seems more balanced in terms of the place where the animal is in the matrix) 250 times. As a control, I also drove a random D20 from my personal collection 250 times. This die had come from the charming retro set of 1985, which I regularly use for my D&D sessions.

If the 1985 games die prove to be weighted, my DM will be so crazy.

The reasons for this propagation were simple. I wanted to see if each death was, individually, weighted in any way. 250 rollers is not a flawless sample size, but it’s quite good. Having two of the same conceptions would also give me 500 jets to determine if they would be in the same way because of this fact.

It is 1,000 dice rollers meticulously marked by hand. I am not exaggerating when I say that it took me hours to test, but I am nothing but engaged in the pursuit of science, equity and quality dice. I can also hear the sound of rolled dice when I sleep now. Help.

The results

After having rolled somewhere in the field of what a medium ork player launches by shooting phase, just one at a time, I arrived at some quick conclusions. First, my wrist hurts. Second, these dice seem quite balanced.

Take a look at the graphic above. This shows the results of all 1,000 rollers, separated by the matrix launched and sorted by the rolled result. There is no clear model or correlation. Even the control matrix varied wildly, suggesting that perhaps 1,000 rollers was not a sample size large enough to really know if a dice is weighted or not.

However, there have been a few conclusions that we could draw from the addition of the three heroge dice. As you can see below, the three dices generated on 12 and 19, and the least rolled result was, by far, a 9. Now, 12 and 9 are direct opposites on a 20-faces die (each set of opposite faces always adds to 21), so it may suggest that there is a weighting on the 9. The 9 on the Dragon Matrix is ​​also located near this shoulder articulation that I looked at suspected.

That being said, 19 is just on the “bottom” of the sector, next to 9. This result probably should not have appeared as many times if it was really weighted. It is also worth taking into account the frequency on each die. The Dragon Jumbo Die drove a 12 in 14 times, the little dragon and the cat rolling him 19 times each. The cat, which I could guess the lightest side would be 10, rolled this result eight times.

I work on the hypothesis that the colored resin is potentially heavier than the clear resin.

There is also the fact that these results are not reversible. If the colorful resin was lighter than the clear resin and that 19 on the Dragon Die was really lighter than its opposite, we would not see much of 2. However, through the three dice of HeroForge, a 2 was rolled 34 times, slightly lower than the average for 750 rollers. On the diced dragon only, a 2 was rolled 21 times, only four below the expected average. With a relatively small sample size, it does not seem to be an unreasonable variance.

You can consult the full results in this table and draw your own conclusions, but I decided. This test was not concluding due to the small size of the sample, but if someone else wants to add their results to mine, we can easily increase this. In the meantime, these dice do not seem to be weighted significantly. Maybe your local casino would not let you bring them (this is probably the policy that players cannot use a D20 in CRAPS anyway, not to mention their own D20), but for role-playing or table games, they seem good.

The extra-large dice look comfortably the coolest, with so many details visible on the models locked up inside, but they are heavy to roll. They are not particularly satisfactory and land with a cycle rather than a clicking. You can only adapt a very small guy in a D4, so make it count. A bust in a regular D20 is a joyful environment, and I can see the players personalize dice for each weapon that their character has and others for a great effect. Do not choose a character with a bulky beard so that you can try to weight your personalized detective to give you a constant NAT 20. Believe me, it won’t work.