Jul 29 2025
If you’re into Dungeons & Dragons, you may be familiar with the idea of rolling dice for different types of damage during combat, although of course this concept isn’t just applicable to D&D. The concept of having different dice for different types of damage is also not exactly new, but today I’d like to spotlight …
Jul 01 2025
There’s a new Kickstarter out today for Botch Dice – new acrylic dice fully made in the US. These are different in that the faces are printed on, which gives them a unique look I’ve not quite seen before, and an opportunity to do more intricate, colourful designs.
Dec 28 2024
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.
Jun 18 2024
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.
Apr 05 2024
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 …
Jan 18 2024
The names for the exclusive sets that are distributed in the little brown envelopes together with the Chessex PoDs get voted on in a Speckled Collectors group on Facebook every time they release new sets. Below are the names for the current run that are now in circulation.
Nov 01 2023
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 …
Feb 25 2023
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 …
Feb 25 2023
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.
Dec 06 2020
Updated 08 Oct 2023 The Original Chessex Borealis Some of the most sought-after dice in the collecting world are the old Chessex Borealis lines like Aquerple, Clear and Confetti that are made out of a clear acrylic base with colour shifting glitter inside. Sadly, these three particular lines are no longer made because the EU …
