It’s not always easy to stay up to date on new releases and also recently discontinued sets. Since Chessex is a big focus for a lot of collectors, let’s take a look at what has changed in the Chessex line-up over the past few years.
Continue readingDec 28 2024
Chessex Advent Calendar 2024 – My Review
Now that Christmas is here and all the dice in the Chessex dice advent calendar have been unveiled, let’s take a closer look at the contents and recap the experience and the results.
Continue readingJun 18 2024
Critit’s Trinkets, Knick-naks and Do-dahs Kickstarter
If you’ve been tempted to back Critit’s latest dice Trinkets, Knick-naks and Do-dahs Dice Kickstarter but are still on the fence because you’re not sure whether the dice will hold up to the product photos, this might just be the post for you.
Continue readingApr 05 2024
Different d4 shapes and where to buy them
Top-Read Pyramid d4
This is by far the most common d4 layout and used in the vast majority of commercially available polyhedral dice sets. Just look at any shop that sells mass produced dice and you’ll have several options for d4s like this. The Dice Shop Online and Dice Emporium also sell single dice if you don’t want a full polyset.
đź›’ The Dice Shop Online
đź›’ Dice Emporium
Mar 21 2024
Oddball Dice #17 – Leftovers
For the past two weeks, I have made daily posts where I spotlighted unusual or lesser known dice I have in my collection that I hope were interesting for everyone to see and learn about. This is the last post in the series, at least for now. I hope you enjoyed it!
The Ones That Got Away
After I had written up this series, I found a number of other dice in my collection that weren’t previously featured, so as the last post for now, let me conclude the Oddball Dice Series with a few more random oddities.
Continue readingMar 20 2024
Oddball Dice #16 – The Unknowns
For the next two weeks, I will make daily posts where I’ll spotlight unusual or lesser known dice that I have in my collection that I hope are interesting for everyone to see and learn about. Each day I’ll cover a different theme, I hope you enjoy this series.
The dice I haven’t been able to ID to date
The penultimate post of the Oddball Dice Series features a few dice that I haven’t been able to ID to date but that I think are interesting and maybe a little unusual.
Continue readingMar 19 2024
Oddball Dice #15 – Periodic Table d6
For the next two weeks, I will make daily posts where I’ll spotlight unusual or lesser known dice that I have in my collection that I hope are interesting for everyone to see and learn about. Each day I’ll cover a different theme, I hope you enjoy this series.
DoraTaco Periodic Table d6
This also isn’t necessarily an oddball die. It’s a custom d6 that Japanese retailer DoraTaco offered as Periodic Table die. The science nerd that I am, I had to have this one.
Continue readingMar 18 2024
Oddball Dice #14 – Halloween d6
For the next two weeks, I will make daily posts where I’ll spotlight unusual or lesser known dice that I have in my collection that I hope are interesting for everyone to see and learn about. Each day I’ll cover a different theme, I hope you enjoy this series.
Gio Lasar’s handpainted Halloween d6
This isn’t so much an oddity as more of a really special, unique die. Back in 2019 at the Spiel fair, some of the European collectors in attendance met up for a dice collector dinner, which is also where I met some of these lovely people for the first time in person.
Continue readingMar 17 2024
Oddball Dice #13 – “Real d10s”
For the next two weeks, I will make daily posts where I’ll spotlight unusual or lesser known dice that I have in my collection that I hope are interesting for everyone to see and learn about. Each day I’ll cover a different theme, I hope you enjoy this series.
The “Real d10s”
Some of you may have come across d10s that have an actual 10 instead of the usual 0, and today I wanna show off the two specimens I own. I think they’re most abundant in this particular D&G mould, but I also know Chessex has or had moulds in the Danish factory that have a 10 instead of 0 (this was used for the Chessex Speckled Scorched d10 set, for instance).
Continue readingMar 16 2024
Oddball Dice #12 – Danish Lottery Dice
For the next two weeks, I will make daily posts where I’ll spotlight unusual or lesser known dice that I have in my collection that I hope are interesting for everyone to see and learn about. Each day I’ll cover a different theme, I hope you enjoy this series.
The Danish Lottery Dice
Most long time collectors will have probably heard of or come across these in their day: The fabled Danish lottery d34.
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