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If a game asks you to roll a ten-sided die, you treat the "0" face as "10." This gives you the value range you'd expect: 1 - 10, matching the other dice.
This is extremely common. Usually if a game wants you to treat that face as a zero result, the game will call it out explicitly.
There are a couple reasons for this.
One is simply cosmetic. With nine single-digit faces and only a single two-digit face, using 0 instead of 10 allows them to print all the faces at a similar large font size.
The other is, as others have noted, to make the die work better for rolling "percentiles." In this case, you roll two ten sided dice. One is labeled (0, 1, 2, ... 9). The other is labeled (00, 10, 20, ... 90).
When read together, the two dice give you results from:
(00) (0)
to
(90) (9)
Or, (depending on the game) from:
(00) (1)
to
(00) (0)
With (00) (0) being treated as 100.
There are 10-sided dice numbered 1-10. You should be able to find some easily if you search. But it's extremely common, especially among wargamers, to use 0-9.
There's a simple reason for this: Percentages.
Many systems use a percentile chance of something happening. By rolling two dice labelled 0-9, in different colours with one die chosen as the tens digit, you get a number from 0-99 - a percentage chance (often, but not always, counting 00 as 100).
This is much less readable if your dice are labelled 1-10, because you have to treat the 10 as 0 on both dice.
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