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On 10/2/2025 8:21 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 07:01:26 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On 10/2/2025 2:13 AM, Kyonshi wrote:

By the way I prefer the metal dice I bought for cheap on Aliexpress.
They give notably more random results than the plastic ones I have.

I've wanted metal dice for some time. They're so expensive from
anywhere here though. I wanted to buy some gold plated tungsten coins
there too as props, but afraid that will get me on some list as
apparently those are used by scammers often enough to be a problem.

I don't really NEED either of those things though, and space is very
limited.

I dunno. Throwing metal dice at the GM when they make a call you
disagree with sounds dangerous. And it's not like you CAN'T throw dice
at people.

Besides, I don't WANT random results. I want different dice with
(mostly) predicitible results that I can use in different occassions.
C'mon, black d20 that has a higher probability of rolling a natural
20!!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)

True. I don't have much like that anymore since my dice were stolen
(along with my minis, which hurts more.)

I do have a purple d20 that seems to like to roll 17 a lot. And I have
a large number of tiny red d6s I bought for champions that seem to roll
a little bit on the high side.

But using actual dice is pretty rare for me now, when I rarely play or
DM it's roll20's RNG.
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 14:00:33 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On 10/2/2025 8:21 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 07:01:26 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On 10/2/2025 2:13 AM, Kyonshi wrote:

By the way I prefer the metal dice I bought for cheap on Aliexpress.
They give notably more random results than the plastic ones I have.

I've wanted metal dice for some time. They're so expensive from
anywhere here though. I wanted to buy some gold plated tungsten coins
there too as props, but afraid that will get me on some list as
apparently those are used by scammers often enough to be a problem.

I don't really NEED either of those things though, and space is very
limited.

I dunno. Throwing metal dice at the GM when they make a call you
disagree with sounds dangerous. And it's not like you CAN'T throw dice
at people.


Besides, I don't WANT random results. I want different dice with
(mostly) predicitible results that I can use in different occassions.
C'mon, black d20 that has a higher probability of rolling a natural
20!!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)

True. I don't have much like that anymore since my dice were stolen
(along with my minis, which hurts more.)

I do have a purple d20 that seems to like to roll 17 a lot. And I have
a large number of tiny red d6s I bought for champions that seem to roll
a little bit on the high side.

Which must lead to the inevitable side-discussion: name the oldest
dice you own. ;-)

Myself, I'm pretty sure my oldest die is a black d6 of unknown
provenance; some old thing I picked up years and years ago. It might
even date back to when I still lived with the parents as a kid. It
wasn't really a D&D die; just something I owned that I later rolled*
into my rpg dice collection.

My oldest "these were dice specifically made for D&D" were the plastic
shit that came with my BECMI red-box. I've lost the crayon. They were absolutely terrible dice; I hated them from the start. I mean, sure it
was neat to have dice with 12 sides, or whatever... but they just felt
awful when you rolled them. They were so light and the corners were so
dull that you had no confidence in the results.

[Oddly enough, though, this is the one set of 'complete' D&D dice
(e.g., d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20) that I still own. All my other sets
have, over the years, lost one or more members. I guess they can't
sense my despite ;-)]

The dice I have most fondness for was a set of 'jewel' dice I
purchased in the early 80s. I don't think they were any specific
brand, but you know the type: dice made of a too-light translucent
plastic in a variety of colors. After so many 'traditional'
solid-plastic dice, the jewel dice felt wild and exciting; they helped
make the game seem all the more novel and exciting.

These days I don't have a particularly exciting selection; it's a mix
of a a lot of different dice; mostly solid plastic, a few a bit more
esoteric. When I see I'm short on a specific type (e.g., 'Hey, where
did all my d4s go?') I just buy another set or two to make up the
deficit. But by and large, few of these have any real memories
associated with them.

God, those TSR dice were shit. I should go and check if I still have
the complete set. Maybe I'm lucky and a few of them finally
skedaddled; then I have an excuse to buy new dice. ;-)

* ha, a pun!
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On 10/8/2025 3:07 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 14:00:33 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On 10/2/2025 8:21 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 07:01:26 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On 10/2/2025 2:13 AM, Kyonshi wrote:

By the way I prefer the metal dice I bought for cheap on Aliexpress. >>>>> They give notably more random results than the plastic ones I have.

I've wanted metal dice for some time. They're so expensive from
anywhere here though. I wanted to buy some gold plated tungsten coins >>>> there too as props, but afraid that will get me on some list as
apparently those are used by scammers often enough to be a problem.

I don't really NEED either of those things though, and space is very
limited.

I dunno. Throwing metal dice at the GM when they make a call you
disagree with sounds dangerous. And it's not like you CAN'T throw dice
at people.


Besides, I don't WANT random results. I want different dice with
(mostly) predicitible results that I can use in different occassions.
C'mon, black d20 that has a higher probability of rolling a natural
20!!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)

True. I don't have much like that anymore since my dice were stolen
(along with my minis, which hurts more.)

I do have a purple d20 that seems to like to roll 17 a lot. And I have
a large number of tiny red d6s I bought for champions that seem to roll
a little bit on the high side.

Which must lead to the inevitable side-discussion: name the oldest
dice you own. ;-)

Myself, I'm pretty sure my oldest die is a black d6 of unknown
provenance; some old thing I picked up years and years ago. It might
even date back to when I still lived with the parents as a kid. It
wasn't really a D&D die; just something I owned that I later rolled*
into my rpg dice collection.

My oldest "these were dice specifically made for D&D" were the plastic
shit that came with my BECMI red-box. I've lost the crayon. They were absolutely terrible dice; I hated them from the start. I mean, sure it
was neat to have dice with 12 sides, or whatever... but they just felt
awful when you rolled them. They were so light and the corners were so
dull that you had no confidence in the results.

[Oddly enough, though, this is the one set of 'complete' D&D dice
(e.g., d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20) that I still own. All my other sets
have, over the years, lost one or more members. I guess they can't
sense my despite ;-)]

The dice I have most fondness for was a set of 'jewel' dice I
purchased in the early 80s. I don't think they were any specific
brand, but you know the type: dice made of a too-light translucent
plastic in a variety of colors. After so many 'traditional'
solid-plastic dice, the jewel dice felt wild and exciting; they helped
make the game seem all the more novel and exciting.

These days I don't have a particularly exciting selection; it's a mix
of a a lot of different dice; mostly solid plastic, a few a bit more esoteric. When I see I'm short on a specific type (e.g., 'Hey, where
did all my d4s go?') I just buy another set or two to make up the
deficit. But by and large, few of these have any real memories
associated with them.

God, those TSR dice were shit. I should go and check if I still have
the complete set. Maybe I'm lucky and a few of them finally
skedaddled; then I have an excuse to buy new dice. ;-)

Well, as my dice were stolen... It's probably from 1970's or even
earlier in one of the board-games buried in the garage, those are just
D6's though.

For D&D sets, it's one of those sets my players bought after my dice
were stolen, that's probably around 1999. Just the cheap ones from the
local stores.

Before my dice were stolen it was the Gama World set which must've been
around 1980. (my Holmes box came with the chits.) Those were horrible
dice, but I loved them, they started peeling early. The old d20 with 1
through 0 twice you had to color with different colors or roll a d6 with
to decide whether you got 1s or 10s.

My preferred dice were unfinished or 'razer' translucent dice where you
had to remove the sprues and fill in the numbers with grease crayons. I bought a bunch of sets of those after a while after my dice were stolen
after some time, the replacements weren't of as good a quality as the originals, I forgot who made the originals but the replacements were
Chessex. The purple rolls 17 a lot die is one of those.

I have a few of the really large dice that light up when they roll max
my wife bought me, I really like those. They're large and easy to see
for my old eyes. They seem to be reasonably fair.

https://laughingsquid.com/critical-hit-led-dice-set/

The d20 with other dice so you can see the size: https://www.facebook.com/thinkgeek/photos/flashes-red-when-you-roll-a-crit-critical-hit-led-d20-die-is-on-sale-for-50-off-/10155986912262074/

I also have some very precise glass dice, but I'm afraid to use those as
I'm worried they might break.
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I forgot to mention:

My favorite 'die' is my so-called "d2 randomizer"... which is just a
zorkmid coin (originally, a bonus 'feelie' from the Zork computer
games). It's a big, heavy thing that looks and feels so appropriate
for using in a fantasy tabletop RPG.

It seems reasonably fair in it's 'rolls', but amongst all my other
dice (including my nearly perfectly round d100) it is the one that has
the greatest tendency to roll off the table. One day I'm going to lose
it, and I will be absolutely devastated when that happens. ;-)


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On 10/10/2025 7:03 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

I forgot to mention:

My favorite 'die' is my so-called "d2 randomizer"... which is just a
zorkmid coin (originally, a bonus 'feelie' from the Zork computer
games). It's a big, heavy thing that looks and feels so appropriate
for using in a fantasy tabletop RPG.

It seems reasonably fair in it's 'rolls', but amongst all my other
dice (including my nearly perfectly round d100) it is the one that has
the greatest tendency to roll off the table. One day I'm going to lose
it, and I will be absolutely devastated when that happens. ;-)

dang, now I want a zorkmid coin
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On 10/9/2025 12:07 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 14:00:33 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>

Which must lead to the inevitable side-discussion: name the oldest
dice you own. ;-)

I think the oldest I have are is that one black d20 I got in a non-DnD
starter box (from Das Schwarze Auge/The Dark Eye 3rd edition)
I still have an incredibly ugly full red set that was packed with the
German ADnD 2e starter set I got a few years after. Only worse was the
ones they packed into the Forgotten Realms set (blue-light-blue-white,
with red sprinkles)
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:36:48 +0100, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/10/2025 7:03 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

I forgot to mention:

My favorite 'die' is my so-called "d2 randomizer"... which is just a
zorkmid coin (originally, a bonus 'feelie' from the Zork computer
games). It's a big, heavy thing that looks and feels so appropriate
for using in a fantasy tabletop RPG.

It seems reasonably fair in it's 'rolls', but amongst all my other
dice (including my nearly perfectly round d100) it is the one that has
the greatest tendency to roll off the table. One day I'm going to lose
it, and I will be absolutely devastated when that happens. ;-)

dang, now I want a zorkmid coin

Well, you can't have mine! ;-)

But here are some pics of it (as well as an assorted selection of some
of the other dice I've mentioned in this thread)
https://imgur.com/a/m9rShVC


IIRC, the Zorkmid coin was included as a feelie from the Apple II
version of the "Zork Trilogy" compilation. Despite the (intentional)
roughness of its design, it's actually a fairly reliable flipping
coin; if it's biased towards one face or the other, I've never been
able to tell.

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