Gaming Dice
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Emergency Dice
pixelfed.social ๅผ ๆฎฟๆ (@[email protected])Are these practical? Or are they just nerdy flex? I don't care. I find them delightful! The pill-box keychain filled with pill-sized dice is going to be on my person all the time. And for "formal occasions" (like gaming conventions) the pendant filled with them will be around my neck and ready ...
What to carry in case you suddenly need dice and don't have them.
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New dice bag and dice.
pixelfed.social ๅผ ๆฎฟๆ (@[email protected])What's that? New #rpg #dice? And a new #DiceBag? Of course. #ttrpg โ the added tag needed because somehow those crap games on computers took over the "RPG" moniker even though they're not I'm an addict.
I'd ordered just the d20 (in copper) before as a trial, liked it enough I got a whole set in brass.
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Roll 3D6 for damage, or get it thrown at you if you tick off the GM.
All-metal six-sided dice with skulls for pips.
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Visually intriguing, but not too practical.
pixelfed.social ๅผ ๆฎฟๆ (@[email protected])This is an interesting set of #ttrpg #dice in a bizarre "wireframe" design. They look nifty and are probably great conversation pieces, but, as you will see with the individual photos (and the paired alt text) they may not be the most practical. (Mastodon users will have to click through to see al...
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The heaviest dice I own (for the moment)
pixelfed.social ๅผ ๆฎฟๆ (@[email protected])I got some all-metal #ttrpg #dice. These are standard sized dice and have quite the heft. I got a full set of "copper" coloured dice and one "gunmetal" d10. Quality is good and the price was surprisingly low: about $13 total, give or take.
The core is some kind of fairly dense metal (possibly iron/steel?) and then has different metals on top to colour them. I chose copper and gunmetal colouring.
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These are very unusual d10s.
They roll almost as nicely as the aulde skhoole d20s numbered twice, by my testing seem to be more than sufficiently random, and are pretty good conversation pieces when you pull them out in a room of people who've never seen them before.
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When I want to roll dice openly but don't want the players to know what I rolled.
They're just bog standard six-siders, honest!
- Front left: 4 on top, 6 and 2 facing.
- Rear left: 1 on top, 2 and 3 facing.
- Front centre: 3 on top, 6 and 5 facing.
- Rear right: 2 on top, 6 and 3 facing.
- Front right: 5 on top, 6 and 4 facing.
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When it's time to put fear in the hearts of your players on a damage roll...
These are wooden. Obsessive lunatic that I am, I actually rolled them a thousand times and checked that they were sufficiently random for play. I have an all-metal set in my shopping cart ready to buy when I get the urge.
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Assorted Divination Dice
These are not, strictly speaking, gaming dice, but I make use of them in gaming for in-character purposes (and sometimes when I face idea blocks as a GM: using them to foster ideas like I might use a tarot deck).
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Tibetan Mo Divination
These dice are a hold-over from Tibetan shaman practice incorporated into Tibetan Buddhist tradition. I have three sets of them:
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A wooden set that has the Tibetan symbols writ large and in small beside each their Chinese translation. !
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A brass set that has just the Tibetan symbols. (I later coloured in the symbols so that it was easier to distinguish first and second.) !
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A "literal gem dice" set: one in "egg yolk opal" (literal translation), and the other in yellow jade. !
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Yijing Divination
These dice will look unusual to people who have a preconceived notion of how the Yijing (I-Ching) are consulted. The ways most people know of are the "yarrow stalk" technique, the "three coins" technique, and, if especially familiar from afar, perhaps the "bamboo strip" technique. But there are many ways that the Yijing are consulted that have developed over the millenia. In addition to the aforementioned techniques there's also tiles (similar to the bamboo strips) and my examples here: dice.
I have two sets of these dice:
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A wooden set that has the Yijing hexagrams written by name, not by the six broken/whole line sets that people outside of China are most familiar with. !
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An all-metal set ("bronze", but not really made of bronze, just coated with a bronze layer) that is again done by hexagram name. !
In both cases and extra six-sided die is used to determine the "moving line" of the hexagram. (Yarrow stalk and coin methods can have zero to six moving lines. Dice methods will have one always. Slip and tile methods will never have any.)
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Not all d4s are caltrops.
Taking a break from literal gem dice to show off the best d4s ever made. Not only are these not caltrops waiting to pierce slippered feet at night when a stray one happens to be right where you're stepping in a rapid trip to the bathroom after a night of drinking way too much tea while playing RPGs, they also roll much better.
Whoever invented these is a genius.
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Literal Gem Dice: Assorted
The d4 is a special kind of petrified wood. The numbered d6 is (sintered) turquoise. The d8 is a cats eye. The blue d10 is lapis lazuli. The red d10 (tens) is red sandstone with gold flecks. The d12 is opal. The d20 is malachite. The funky d12 with astrological symbols is blue sandstone with gold fleck. The really funky d6 (a Tibetan "Mo" divination die) is yellow jade.
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Dichroic Prism Dice
Sadly I could not find a way to take a photo that shows just how glorious these dice look in actual use. (I'm not exactly a professional photographer.) These are a set of gaming dice cut from dichroic prisms. This makes them sparkle in unusual ways and colours that makes them unique of all the dice I own. They're instant eye-grabbers on the table.
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Literal Gem Dice: Unakite
This is the second full set of the many, many, (idiotically) many dice Iโve ever owned that is made from semi-precious stones. These literal gem dice are cut from unakite, essentially a highly decorative form of granite.
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Literal Gem Dice: Bloodstone
This is my absolute favourite set of dice of the many, many, (idiotically) many dice I've ever owned. These are literal gem dice, in that they are cut from actual bloodstone (a semi-precious stone). For complicated reasons (that begin with Judas Priest) bloodstone is my favourite gemstone so finding dice cut from it was a transformative experience for me.
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Jesmonite d20
I have become fascinated with dice made from alternative materials, and am slowly building a collection.
Here is my latest addition, a couple of chonk d20s made of jesmonite from Magpies and Trinkets via their Kickstarter campaign. My photo doesn't really do it justice, sorry!