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7/02/2014 2:47 pm  #1


Dice!

You guys have any favorite, cool or special dice? Let's see them!

I just finished up a nice set of blue dice for my upcoming AS&SH game. 


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7/02/2014 2:56 pm  #2


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Cool. I just picked up a set I love... Chessex Borealis
http://www.chessex.com/Dice/Borealis%20Dice/27467.htm

 

7/02/2014 3:04 pm  #3


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Borealis! 


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7/02/2014 8:58 pm  #4


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Chainsaw -- Those blue dice all inked up white and matched with your casino dice look pretty sweet. Nice job!

Maezar -- Great find! Borealis dice sound perfect for the AS&SH game! Synchronicity! ;)


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7/03/2014 12:45 am  #5


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I love me, my two sets of Zocchi precision dice I picked up a year or so ago. Is it true that Lou is out of the business for good? I've had a helluva time finding any more precision dice for sale.

 

7/03/2014 7:03 am  #6


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NAJones wrote:

I love me, my two sets of Zocchi precision dice I picked up a year or so ago. Is it true that Lou is out of the business for good? I've had a helluva time finding any more precision dice for sale.

I was told that the original molds have decayed over time and are not creating the dice to his standards.  The cost of recreating the molds is cost prohibitive so he is retiring.  This is hearsay so it may be the case or not.  Zocchi was at origins and seemed to be doing well.  Still working his booth and selling stuff!
 


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7/03/2014 8:42 am  #7


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Jeff, were the dice included in the AS&SH box set manufactured by GameScience? It makes no difference to me, as I really like them and have no complaints at all, but the font of the numbers looks a little different from my GameScience dice (maybe just my imagination). I bring it up only because I was wondering if maybe there is a lesser known company able to fill the spot if GameScience is done.


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7/03/2014 8:48 am  #8


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Chainsaw -- The dice were by a company that technically went out of business several years ago -- Diamond Dice, whose ads used to grace the pages of Dragon Mag back in the day. The owner, Victor Medley, retired from the business. He's very active on eBay selling model trains. Until about six months ago, he was still selling dice lots there, too. Well, as it turns out, about a week ago I sent him an email asking if he still had a stockpile of dice. He said he was out. Then I asked if there was any chance he still had the molds, and he said he'd destroyed them years ago. So, it appears that ship has sailed.


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7/03/2014 9:04 am  #9


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Damn!

At any rate, I do like the Diamond Dice, especially the d20, as all my Zocchi d20s are labeled 1-20 rather than 0-9 twice. Not sure if Zocchi's d20s were always molded that way, but that seems to have been the case more recently at least.


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7/03/2014 9:15 am  #10


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I've been using two sets of translucent dice - a smoke and a red - since high school, 20 years atom I think they are Armory dice... I know they came in a tube with a red cap. I have other sets that migraine into and out of my bag, but those two are always in there.


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7/03/2014 9:27 am  #11


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joseph wrote:

I've been using two sets of translucent dice - a smoke and a red - since high school, 20 years atom I think they are Armory dice... I know they came in a tube with a red cap. I have other sets that migraine into and out of my bag, but those two are always in there.

Sounds like your dice are a real headache, BA23.
 


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7/03/2014 11:26 am  #12


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Jeff, someone else is now selling Diamond Dice on ebay. Not sure if you can still get the large bags of them anymore though.
 

 

7/03/2014 12:03 pm  #13


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Ghul wrote:

joseph wrote:

I've been using two sets of translucent dice - a smoke and a red - since high school, 20 years atom I think they are Armory dice... I know they came in a tube with a red cap. I have other sets that migraine into and out of my bag, but those two are always in there.

Sounds like your dice are a real headache, BA23.
 

Haha that was "migrate"! Gotta love auto-correct!


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7/03/2014 12:13 pm  #14


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Obsidian dice set I purchased the day the music died. 
"Bye, bye to this Gary Gygax guy.  Took the Chevy to the gamestore to buy polyhederal die."

The wooden d6 was my great grandfather's.

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7/04/2014 9:59 am  #15


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I had to re-create my gaming collection about 13 years ago. College, grad school, my father dying, my sisters cleaning out the house--it all got lost. Somehow, through, I managed to carry my original dice with me the whole time! Still in the Crown Royal bag I found in my sister's secret stash in 1982! This makes me very happy. And, of course, it's been added to since I started playing again in 2001.

 

7/07/2014 8:46 am  #16


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mabon5127 wrote:

NAJones wrote:

I love me, my two sets of Zocchi precision dice I picked up a year or so ago. Is it true that Lou is out of the business for good? I've had a helluva time finding any more precision dice for sale.

I was told that the original molds have decayed over time and are not creating the dice to his standards.  The cost of recreating the molds is cost prohibitive so he is retiring.  This is hearsay so it may be the case or not.  Zocchi was at origins and seemed to be doing well.  Still working his booth and selling stuff!
 

I don't know what the story is, but the GS dice I bought after 2000 (I didn't buy any from 1985-2000), are not nearly as nice as the GS dice from the 80s.  Many of the d20s have convex faces, which lead them to spin when coming to rest, the mold marks are way larger, and I don't think the material was the same.  My rule of thumb: if the dice are part of a 7 die set, they are new (atleast 90s), and I pass them by.  (My favorites are the old 6 die sets with the "+" d20s.)  A few years ago, I stumbled on a guy with about a dozen 80s era  six die sets on ebay, and won 5 of the auctions, for around $3-$5 each.  So I'm good to go.

 

7/07/2014 9:02 am  #17


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Nice DMG, francisca.


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7/07/2014 12:07 pm  #18


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I like those solid GS dice in your box Francisca! Awesome. 

Pics of some dice of mine!











 

7/07/2014 1:44 pm  #19


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Benoist wrote:

I like those solid GS dice in your box Francisca! Awesome. 

Those are from the "Ugly" sets.

 

7/07/2014 9:40 pm  #20


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I love the "Ugly" sets! :D

 

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