One of the biggest differences between e and I is that she’s a roleplaying maven, while I’ve never made it past a character sheet in my life. Still, one of my favorite possessions is a set of dice.
Granted, my reasons for loving these dice are more personal than anything. They were a gift from roleplaying family members more than ten years ago. They’re made of rose quartz, which is my longtime favorite, and they’re teeny tiny – I don’t think one of them measures longer than a centimeter. The whole lot fits into a little pouch on a necklace ( I’m a big fan of miniatures – when I hang out with my nieces and nephews, I’m sometimes guilty of enjoying their toys more than they do!). More than anything, they’re gorgeous – more like jewelry than something you’d use.
Because my family members are into that aspect of gaming, I’ve seen some crazy dice – ones made from weird textures and materials, ones printed with aliens, tiny ones and giant ones. What I want to know is, do you have any crazy or beautiful dice? Or, are they merely utilitarian for you?
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When I got the Chessex Pound-o-Dice, I ended up with several really pretty ones that didn’t have anything printed on them at all. I roll them at games when I feel like being a smartass. “Look! I rolled max damage!”
@e – well that’s one way to mess with people heads.
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It has been a tradition every GenCon to get at least 1 new die or dice set. What I get depends on what catches my fancy and whether I’m shopping for a specific character (yes, I use different dice for different characters). My current favorites are both large d20s. Heavy Metal is a bronze die that I use for neutral rolls while GMing and Mean Green is a malachite colored die that I use for my bad guys. Mean Green is very temperamental, rolling a lot of 20s and threatening TPKs or rolling abysmally low and turning my villains and monsters into Keystone Cops wearing clown shoes.
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I haven’t added to my dice collection in a while; my most exotic is one of those d10-in-d10 d100s, which a friend from one of my old game groups used to enjoy referring to as the “singular dice”. All the rest of mine are minis; I can roll absurd numbers of d10s and still have it constitute “one handful”, and my hands are pretty small.
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j – did you see and enter the contest for the chromed steel dice by the same people on http://www.gnomestew.com a few weeks back? If not, shame on you, but you can enter next time.
e- Quote: “When I got the Chessex Pound-o-Dice, I ended up with several really pretty ones that didn’t have anything printed on them at all. I roll them at games when I feel like being a smartass. “Look! I rolled max damage!””
WAYYYY back in HS, I played Big Jule in our production of Guys and Dolls. One of his lines, to the best of my memory was:
“These are my lucky dice. I gots the numbers removed for good luck. But I can still calls them on account of I remembers where the numbers were.”
Try that one next time.
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@ Matthew – Ha! I will so have to use that line next time!
I had, until a year or few ago, literally hundreds of dice. I actually sat down and counted them one day and decided, sitting there amongst them like a dragon with its hoard… That I had a problem.
So, I swore then and there that I would buy one more cube of 16mm d6s (in case I played Shadowrun again), and that would be it. No more. I would only buy dice to replace what I had, AND I would give some away as gifts.
So far I’ve stuck to my guns and I’m still giving away dice on occasion. Most of mine are Chessex poly sets and cheap-o-depot d6s, though I have a couple sets of WoD d10s of which I’m particularly fond.
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(dice….bane and delight, master and servant, objects of lust and despair….)
I like dice
I don’t think I have any unusual ones though….mostly just ones that caught my eye because they were so nice 
I do love little stone dice – we gave some like them as attendant gifts because they’re so cool
I have a set of d6 dice that were plain white but I painted them all myself
They are my lucky dice!
I got some really cool dice in a set I found at a toy store going out of business. It was just a bunch of random dice from games, or something. In it, I got a die that has different colors on each side (Oh, I did pink damage!) I also got a d6 that goes from 13 to 18, which I keep trying to get my DM’s to let me use for damage, but no luck yet… I have at least a couple hundred dice, and yet, my will is still tested everytime I see cool dice on the web. An the ole Pound’O'Dice is great for getting some unusual dice aren’t they? My fav one is a d10 that didn’t get the edges buffed down.
My bf (the geeky love of my life) introduced me to D&D when we started dating as part of an X-deal; he’d try a hand at drawing, while I’d joing in one of his campaigns. We’re still together and I’m still playing more than a year later.
But now, my dice collection is the envy of all of his friends. I just got addicted to dice! My personal gaming dice are a hot pink collection, but I have a lot of miniature gemstone dice, and dice sets that are 35mm and a 55mm d20. Oh, and a set of steel dice, too. XD
On a trip to the comic book store the other day I asked my fiance to buy me a set of dice, primarily because of this post and the fact that I know he wants to try to play a game with me (and others if we can find them) sometime soon. He’s been amassing Star Wars minis and the books for months.
I picked out a cute little set of pink ones that come in a nice clear box. They are now added to my collection of pink “geek” items (pink iPod nano, pink Nintendo DS, pink XBox controller) which I started when I told him that he could turn me into a geek as long as everything came in pink!
Now off to read “Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress” which was a Christmas gift from him after I showed him E’s review of it here (despite her opinion). LOL
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@ Kristin – You’re entitled to make your own opinion about the book.
I still haven’t started it yet. It’s on my list but I got tons of books for Christmas!
We were intrigued by your opinion…I actually hope to find her as valley girl annoying as you did. I think that would make for a funny read for me. I’ll be able to imagine her as some of my friends. LOL
I should read it soon though if it will give me a little more of a working understanding of how everything works in RPGs. I’m playing Tiny Adventures on Facebook, and now I have my snazzy pink dice…I can’t hold out from him getting me to try a game with him much longer. haha
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