Dice!

The title of the site is Dusty Dice, right? So, I thought I'd show off my dusty collection! I've always thought of myself as something of a collector. Being a dice collector was the inspiration for the site's name.

Anyway, we'll start off with my "Black and White" set.



These are my second oldest set of dice. My oldest set are the multiple colored, old school dice that came with my D&D boxes. Those dice are still buried in my stuff at my parent's place. Maybe someday I'll find a way to show those off here.

The Black and White set was slowly collected between 1988 to just a few years ago. I have probably lost more dice than I have retained. Where do all the dice we gamers lose end up???

I always felt that if I walked into a game store - I had to buy something. Even if it was just a single die. So, I made it easy on myself. Everyone sells black and white dice.

Why two bags? I had been using a subset of this collection for gaming, those went into the purple bag. The black bag is a bag I bought in the early 90's to support my collecting habit. These dice would completely fill one of those bags.

On top of the bags we have some over sized d6s and a huge d20. That d20 is about the size of a racket ball. Those are all fairly new. Just to the right of those is a d34. Why a d34? Why not? I bought it at a game shop in West Seattle not long after moving out here, probably '97 or so. It serves no purpose.

To the right of that is four d30s. One of those is actually smoke, not black, white or clear. I have a set of translucent smoke mini-dice that didn't get into the picture. If you have clear dice in a black and white set, you can have trans-black, too, right?

To the right of that are some pipped d10s - don't see those too often. A pair of blank dice to the right of that. Those are fun to use with a dry erase marker or if you are using a GM screen, and you want your players to think you rolled for something when you didn't, they make a good noise. Plus, they make your players worry about your sanity.

Speaking of worrying your players ... I play a lot of GURPS, usually as the GM. If you are GMing a game where you use a lot of d6s, buy some with skulls on them. In GURPS, a 3 is a critical success. Nothing like rolling three skulls and smiling at the player you just turned into paste!

Just to the left of the skulls are some d3s. These do have a use. I have used them often. I found those in a Milton Bradley board game I bought on the clearance rack about the time Top Gun was in the theaters (the game was jet fighter based) - the game sucked by the dice have been useful.

Between the d20s and d12s is a spherical d6. I used to have three of those. It works, it's a little hard to read. I keep it around more as a funny than anything else. Below that is one of those old school d6s, I bought it in the very late 80s. It still has the white crayon I wiped over the numbers to "paint" them - very old school! Those old school dice are very popular again.

Speaking of old school, to the right is a white d10x10, aka a Deckaider. That was the first Deckaider on the market. It, too, still has the black crayon I rubbed on it. That die has gotten a lot of use. I was so happy when this die came out, no more having to declare which die was the 10s and which was the 1s. This die is still on the market, albeit with ink.

Just below that are six off-white pipped d6s. They are actually light green - they glow in the dark. I bought them a few Halloweens back for a laugh.

I'm just amazed by how many dice I have bought and only these few remain. Oh well! Just means I need to buy more!

Next time I'll show off my Purples!