Crystal shaped dice

[abk108]

Hi there, I wanted to know if those weird crystal shaped dice (you know, the elongated ones, that you roll "like a log" rather than "like a ball") actually perform their duty well.

I fear they might not stop clearly on one face, or risk being unbalanced, and with that shape I fear that might influence the outcome far more than a usual d20.

[goodmangames]

I've used them a bit and they work okay from what I can tell. I personally prefer to use the "normal" polyhedrons, just because the barrel-shaped ones start to blend together. It's easy to tell a d4 from a d12, but a bunch of barrel-shaped dice all look the same when you're reaching for one quickly.

[abk108]

Thx for the reply.
I've actually bought them - and i like using all of them except the d20, which tends to keep rolling endlessly because our table seems to be not perfectly horizontal
But they're fun, they look like the rune-carved bones shamans throw to divine the future