Daddy needs a new Sword of Wounding

I am off to a gaming (D&D, etc) con this weekend. (Dragonflight in Seattle, in case you're going to be there.) And I have been thinking lately about the various superstitions we have about our dice.

* I won't let anyone else touch my dice. If someone does, I have to discard that particular die.

(That's also how I came to ship Bob and Dave. In one strip, they were rolling up new characters and Bob was having a terrible time. Dave offered to let Bob use his dice. My god, I thought, Dave has it bad for Bob. Bob, though, was horrified and refused.)

* The Boy likes to train his dice. He leaves them sitting on the table with the highest number showing. (Since he's usually our DM, sometimes I turn them all to ones to train them more to our advantage.)

* We have a group superstition that it's bad luck to roll your dice on the battle map.

* A friend sometimes uses a "helper die" when she has to make an important roll. She adds a d10 or d12 in with her d20, just to make the d20 roll better.

Do you have any dice superstitions or other gaming rituals? I could use all the luck I can get for the con!

PoT Fic: D is for Date (InuKai)

The first of the request meme thingies, for th_nightengale, who asked for some good old fashioned InuKai, please, going out to dinner. This turned out rather longer than one line.

D is for Date by Halrloprillalar
Prince of Tennis, InuKai, PG13, 900 words.
Dinner and dessert.

Yeah, my Japanese slang book is over ten years old. I'm sure the cool kids don't talk like this now. But Kaidoh and Inui aren't cool, so it all works out.

( They had never gone out for dinner before. )