ttrpg_dice

What to carry in case you suddenly need dice and don’t have them.

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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All-metal six-sided dice with skulls for pips.

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.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a846d490-2b2d-49c7-9dc4-fe8aa03e7011.jpeg...

Temptation #1: Carved aventurine percentile dice inscribed in gold inked Chinese script....

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.

They’re just bog standard six-siders, honest!...

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.

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)....

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....

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...

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...

This is the second full set of the many, many, (idiotically) many dice I’ve ever owned that is made from semi-precious stones. These literal gem dice are cut from unakite, essentially a highly decorative form of granite.

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...

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2435866...

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/1990557...