From: justisaur@yahoo.com   
      
   On 10/8/2025 3:07 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:   
   > On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 14:00:33 -0700, Justisaur    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/2/2025 8:21 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 07:01:26 -0700, Justisaur    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>> On 10/2/2025 2:13 AM, Kyonshi wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> By the way I prefer the metal dice I bought for cheap on Aliexpress.   
   >>>>> They give notably more random results than the plastic ones I have.   
   >>>   
   >>>> I've wanted metal dice for some time.  They're so expensive from   
   >>>> anywhere here though.  I wanted to buy some gold plated tungsten coins   
   >>>> there too as props, but afraid that will get me on some list as   
   >>>> apparently those are used by scammers often enough to be a problem.   
   >>>   
   >>>> I don't really NEED either of those things though, and space is very   
   >>>> limited.   
   >>>   
   >>> I dunno. Throwing metal dice at the GM when they make a call you   
   >>> disagree with sounds dangerous. And it's not like you CAN'T throw dice   
   >>> at people.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Besides, I don't WANT random results. I want different dice with   
   >>> (mostly) predicitible results that I can use in different occassions.   
   >>> C'mon, black d20 that has a higher probability of rolling a natural   
   >>> 20!!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)   
   >>   
   >> True.  I don't have much like that anymore since my dice were stolen   
   >> (along with my minis, which hurts more.)   
   >>   
   >> I do have a purple d20 that seems to like to roll 17 a lot.  And I have   
   >> a large number of tiny red d6s I bought for champions that seem to roll   
   >> a little bit on the high side.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Which must lead to the inevitable side-discussion: name the oldest   
   > dice you own. ;-)   
   >   
   > Myself, I'm pretty sure my oldest die is a black d6 of unknown   
   > provenance; some old thing I picked up years and years ago. It might   
   > even date back to when I still lived with the parents as a kid. It   
   > wasn't really a D&D die; just something I owned that I later rolled*   
   > into my rpg dice collection.   
   >   
   > My oldest "these were dice specifically made for D&D" were the plastic   
   > shit that came with my BECMI red-box. I've lost the crayon. They were   
   > absolutely terrible dice; I hated them from the start. I mean, sure it   
   > was neat to have dice with 12 sides, or whatever... but they just felt   
   > awful when you rolled them. They were so light and the corners were so   
   > dull that you had no confidence in the results.   
   >   
   > [Oddly enough, though, this is the one set of 'complete' D&D dice   
   > (e.g., d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20) that I still own. All my other sets   
   > have, over the years, lost one or more members. I guess they can't   
   > sense my despite ;-)]   
   >   
   > The dice I have most fondness for was a set of 'jewel' dice I   
   > purchased in the early 80s. I don't think they were any specific   
   > brand, but you know the type: dice made of a too-light translucent   
   > plastic in a variety of colors. After so many 'traditional'   
   > solid-plastic dice, the jewel dice felt wild and exciting; they helped   
   > make the game seem all the more novel and exciting.   
   >   
   > These days I don't have a particularly exciting selection; it's a mix   
   > of a a lot of different dice; mostly solid plastic, a few a bit more   
   > esoteric. When I see I'm short on a specific type (e.g., 'Hey, where   
   > did all my d4s go?') I just buy another set or two to make up the   
   > deficit. But by and large, few of these have any real memories   
   > associated with them.   
   >   
   > God, those TSR dice were shit. I should go and check if I still have   
   > the complete set. Maybe I'm lucky and a few of them finally   
   > skedaddled; then I have an excuse to buy new dice. ;-)   
      
   Well, as my dice were stolen...  It's probably from 1970's or even   
   earlier in one of the board-games buried in the garage, those are just   
   D6's though.   
      
   For D&D sets, it's one of those sets my players bought after my dice   
   were stolen, that's probably around 1999.  Just the cheap ones from the   
   local stores.   
      
   Before my dice were stolen it was the Gama World set which must've been   
   around 1980. (my Holmes box came with the chits.) Those were horrible   
   dice, but I loved them, they started peeling early. The old d20 with 1   
   through 0 twice you had to color with different colors or roll a d6 with   
   to decide whether you got 1s or 10s.   
      
   My preferred dice were unfinished or 'razer' translucent dice where you   
   had to remove the sprues and fill in the numbers with grease crayons.  I   
   bought a bunch of sets of those after a while after my dice were stolen   
   after some time, the replacements weren't of as good a quality as the   
   originals, I forgot who made the originals but the replacements were   
   Chessex.  The purple rolls 17 a lot die is one of those.   
      
   I have a few of the really large dice that light up when they roll max   
   my wife bought me, I really like those.  They're large and easy to see   
   for my old eyes.  They seem to be reasonably fair.   
      
   https://laughingsquid.com/critical-hit-led-dice-set/   
      
   The d20 with other dice so you can see the size:   
   https://www.facebook.com/thinkgeek/photos/flashes-red-when-you-r   
   ll-a-crit-critical-hit-led-d20-die-is-on-sale-for-50-off-/10155986912262074/   
      
   I also have some very precise glass dice, but I'm afraid to use those as   
   I'm worried they might break.   
      
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