Dice - Show 'em if ya got 'em!

[Steve]

Where do you guys get the casino d6? I'd want some of that myself. Thanks.

I like casino dice too, but be warned, do NOT roll them in your hand like normal dice. Those corners are sharp, and they will take chunks out of your table, your hand, and even the dice! I was playing a game of T&T, rolling handfuls of casino dice, and afterwards it felt like I had been rolling porcupines in my hand. I now use a padded dice cup and tray whenever I break out the casino dice.

[Benoist]

I bought the ones that came numbered and in gold foil.

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Thanks Donovan!

[deathanddrek]

Here's my latest bag. It's a custom dicebag for Barrowmaze that matches the stone on the cover of the dungeon - inside lined with gold coins

That's awesome! Did you get it at the same place as mine? The construction looks similar but I can't really tell.

[kilted-yaksman]

Nope it is 100% DIY.

[deathanddrek]

Very nice!

[deathanddrek]

Bought some Crystal Caste hybrid dice and tried them out last night. W/ 4d6 drop lowest I got 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 but by far the worst rolls were for my level 1 spells.


crystal_caste by deathanddrek, on Flickr

[grodog]

Some of my old, original dice (that I don't use anymore, for the most part):

1) My bag of old, now-crappy dice. Some are undoubtedly my younger brothers' dice, and they include some misc. bric-a-brac too, including a Kenner Jawa Star Wars figure; various standard d6s looted from board games, some old coins, arcade, and subway tokens, some board game pawns/men, and what-not).



Here's my regular play sets of dice:

2) This is my favorite d20: a plastic die that's bronze-metal coated with black numbers. If you or someone you know can find me more of these, please get in touch


3) My regular dice, starting at mid-left and proceeding clockwise: a bulette plastic toy from the '70s; a selection of mottled dark green and gold inked dice that I bought when starting up my last Greyhawk campaign while living in CA---I bought the dice according to my usage patterns, so 3d4s for magic missiles/thrown daggers/etc., 4d6 for generating PCs, 2d8 for bastard sword damage/level 1 ranger HP, 2 d10s for d100 (although I picked up a wrong one and they're both numbers as 10s ), 1d12 because you need one, and 3d20 for c/c/b attack routines; five sets of Q Workshop Cthulhu dice---two black with yellow ink sets, one black with glow-in-the-dark white ink set, and two white with black ink sets; an assortment of d6s, including two amber d6s from Lithuania, 2 American Sign Language d6s, 2 chaos dice d6s, and 1 dragon d6, and a Flying Buffalo weather d6; the top center then shows my TORG d20, a white d20 that came with some WotC product; my bronze-and-black killer d20; the white one you can't read is my "omen" d20, which I broke out of a Magic 8 Ball; below that are my favorite d100 dice, which originally came with Cyborg Commando; to the right of them my d30 and d24 (both "necessary" for rolling MU spell scrolls); and to their right, and above the bulette, 4 freebie Q Workshop dice from GenCon, and 1 plagmada.org die which I was given at GaryCon last year



And some other fun sets:

4) 2 d6 at 12 o'clock are real amber dice from Lithuania when we were there in 2010, a gift from Heather; to the right are two American Sign Language (ASL) d6s, also gifts from Heather; big blue 25th Origins anniversary die; below that my favorite aforementioned bronze-and-black d20 ; KantCon green-and-gold d6 from 2011; above that are two 1982 Baltimore Origins d6s; left of them is my TORG d20, and a Torg Stone that I never redeemed for another d20 for some reason now unfathomable to me; the ugly white d20 above them is my omen die; and a dragon die I've had forever, don't remember where it's from now.



5) And here are the DungeonMorph dice, which I still like quite a bit (although I haven't built one of my maps using them yet---will have to give that a try soon!):



I didn't post pics of other old dice I have that came with various lots I've bought over the years, spare sets of Flying Buffalo or Gamescience dice, etc.: the above are all my dice that I game with, vs. other folks' leftovers and oddments.

[kilted-yaksman]

Speaking of dice, Koplow made a set of dark purple dice in the 80s. If anyone has a set (or partial) in decent shape Get in touch

[rredmond]

...2) This is my favorite d20: a plastic die that's bronze-metal coated with black numbers. If you or someone you know can find me more of these, please get in touch

I think that's my go-to d20! I have that kooky bronze d20, it rolls great. My 10yo daughter fights me for it all the time.

[Steve]

Hello, my name is Steve, and I'm a diceaholic. This is my story.

I started with gems/translucents, and that was fine. For awhile. But now I'm into opaques, too.


Trick? Or treat?

Coal black & pumpkin orange. The pic makes them look yellowish, but they are a straight up pumpkin orange. Of all the dice I own, the white numbers on black dice are the easiest to read. But I bet they will be a pain to find if they ever roll under a couch.


Lime green and glow-in-the-dark.

The pic throws the colors off. The glow-in-the-dark aren't bluish as they appear in the pic, but are a really cool off-white pale hue. They glow an eerie shade of green in the dark - awesome, but not terribly practical. I think they look great apart from the glow schtick.


Here are the opaques all thrown together. Kinda looks like when your kid puked after making them eat their peas and carrots.

Hmmm, just noticed that both of the trick or treat d20s rolled natural 1s. We're not off to a good start.


Old hotness: Casino dice
New hotness: Casino backgammon dice

These are precision dice with rounded corners. So they're actually practical to use. And awesome. Now that I have these, there will be no going back to using the six-siders of the common folk.

I'm tempted to include these with future Swords & Six-Siders sets, but at $5+ per die , they ain't exactly cheap.


Size comparison, left to right:
Casino, casino backgammon, game science, and some cheap chessex-style die.


Of all the things, I just happened to find my old TSR Marvel Superheroes RPG dice from when I was a kid (it only used percentile rolls). Still has a bit of crayon in them. Man, they look nasty. Now if I could only find my old BX dice...

[francisca]

My old webserver went teats up, taking all my old pics with them.

I recently got rid of most of my dice, giving a bunch to my kids. I kept most of my gamescience dice, as shown below:



I also have a similar sized box with various d6 dice (including some red and green translucent dice from the 60s), souvenir dice (gencon, garycon, etc..), and my old TSR and armory sets from the 80s.

[Falconer]

What about your players? My players would never bother to go to a game store buy their own. That puts me in the position of either loaning dice or buying extra sets with the intent of reselling them (or gifting them). Does anyone else have this problem?

[francisca]

What about your players? My players would never bother to go to a game store buy their own. That puts me in the position of either loaning dice or buying extra sets with the intent of reselling them (or gifting them). Does anyone else have this problem?

I've let people borrow dice from time to time, but they've all gone and purchased their own, eventually.

[TRP]

I've got a Bucket O' Dice wherein I toss my discards/rejects. It's up to about a liter's worth. It's a dice pool for whenever players lack their own dice.

[Steve]

What about your players? My players would never bother to go to a game store buy their own. That puts me in the position of either loaning dice or buying extra sets with the intent of reselling them (or gifting them). Does anyone else have this problem?

Dice get loaned out all the time, especially when non-gamers join in, but I've never known regular players who didn't buy their own set of dice.

You could always do what Is_907 does - make them use a set of pink dice. Or even worse, one of those hideous, speckled, impossible to read dice.

As a player, I always try to have 2 or more sets on me for the sake of choice, or in case someone needs to borrow a set. When I am DMing, I try to have enough extra dice to provide a set for every player if need be, especially if I'm playing with people new to the game. There is no such thing as too many dice.