It has been observed by a friend of mine (who actually just stopped into town, thus prompting this thread) that the superstitions, rituals and beliefs gamers have about their dice practically border on an unorganized religion.
"Lucky" dice, "training" your dice, sadistic dice... the permutations are endless. Heck, I, personally, will occasionally incinerate one of my d10s to "encourage the rest" for the nWoD game I'm in (and it works
). One of my other friends threatens low performers with time in the microwave. Another lines up all of his d6s precisely with the table edge, with all of the dice in the same orientation (I threw in a die that had a different number arrangement into his pile once as a prank; that was entertaining). My Dresden group, before we bought the Dresden-dice premium sets, would roll each set in five-pack we had at the beginning of each session and give the lowest rolling set to me, the GM. And so on.
So, share the tales of those fun, bizarre and bemusing superstitions about our favorite purveyors of randomness, our dice. *sits back, munches on popcorn* This ought to be fun.