I recently came across a dice set on a second hand platform that caught my eye, because it looked like the Chessex Opaque urea dice out of the Danish Dan-Tern factory, but it curiously had a bottom-read d4 in a mould I had never seen before. My curiosity piqued, I went ahead and purchased said set.
Continue readingFeb 25 2023
Reference Guide: Ancient & Gold Mist
I recently wrote a post on why the Ancient vs. Gold Mist names that collectors differentiate are actually a myth, but nonetheless is it useful to have this distinction in the dice collecting community. In a nutshell, collectors now differentiate between the somewhat darker and swirlier Ancient variant and the lighter and more misty Gold Mist variant of these dice.
Continue readingFeb 25 2023
The Idiosyncrasies of Dice Naming
If you’ve been in the dice collecting community for a while, you might know that collectors sometimes give things names in order to tell certain dice apart that may look very similar or just to have a name for something specific that wasn’t quite disguished in that way by the company who made the dice.
Continue readingNov 07 2021
Dice Digest — October 2021 (#21)
Here’s all the dice releated news from October that have caught my eye.
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Dice Digest — September 2021 (#20)
Here’s all the dice releated news from September that have caught my eye.
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Dice Digest — August 2021 (#19)
Here’s all the dice releated news from August that have caught my eye.
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Dice Digest — July 2021 (#18)
Here’s all the dice releated news from July that have caught my eye.
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Dice Digest — June 2021 (#17)
Here’s all the dice releated news from June that have caught my eye.
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Vox Machina – The Polyset Edition
Like some people before me, I embarked on a quest to make my Critical Role Vox Machina d20s into full sets, trying to find existing polysets that matched the designs of the d20s. And let me tell you, it’s not been very easy.
Continue readingJun 16 2021
Dice IDing and where to start
The Basics
This blog post is mostly aimed at people who are newer to dice collecting and are looking for more basic information. Call it a starter guide. 🙂
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