The Origami Forum

Okay...I have a plan. The plan is to create a set of D&D die using origami. I have patterns for a decahedron (d10) and a dodecahedron (d20), but I'm having trouble finding a pattern for d12. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!

Thank you,
steampunkgrrrl

hm, I thouht a D12 was a dodecahedron, and a D20 is an icosahedron?

Oops.... ...You're right, I'm sorry. ^_^ So I need to be looking for an icosahedron pattern then. Thanks for correcting me!!!! (Otherwise it would have been a really long search.....)

John Montroll has a nice one-piece icosahedron in his book, A Plethora of Polyhedra in Origami.

Cool! I will have to check it out then. I'm really starting to get into Modular Origami. ^_^

John Montroll's polyhedra books yet incredible and really recommendable are filled with one square only models.
Sorry, no modular Origami there.

Can someone enlighten me on the meaning of D&D?... I am assuming that it is a game of some sort, because the post was asking for a set of dice..

I guess it means Dungeons & Dragons.

It's Dungeons and Dragons. The dice are described using the dX notation, where X is the number of faces, and hence the range of random number it generates:

d4 = 4 faces (tetrahedron)
d6 = 6 faces (cube - your usual 6-sided die)
d8 = 8 faces (octahedron)

and so on.

Montroll's polyhedra lead to unbalanced dice, as they are folded from single sheets. Some faces have more layers of paper than others, so some faces will come up more often than others.

insaneorigami wrote:Can someone enlighten me on the meaning of D&D?... I am assuming that it is a game of some sort, because the post was asking for a set of dice..

What they said. Plus there's even a 100 sided die. I will not be attempting that one.

still have some left



oh how do I miss those good old days

Well, perhaps you can look into the "Y" module by Francis Ow.
It allows you to assembly Tetrahedron, Octahedron and Icosahedron.
Years ago I folded those modules like mad (the engineering colleagues liked the polyhedrons very much! ).

Like Wolf said, I don't know how balanced the origami dices can be!

Chris, that's an amazing collection! I do too miss those days.... ohh well.

I would also request him to search in “A Plethora of Polyhedra”. It is a really wonderful book. I am pretty sure that he will find icosahedron in this book. If he doesn’t then I would advise him to search on the internet. Regarding D&D I am pretty sure that it refers to dungeons and dragons.