Etsy seller KnitnutbyJL is offering this handmade Dungeons and Dragons dragon scale dice bag which is knitted in grey yarn and covered with 144 aluminium scales. The bag, which can fit up to 30 dice, measures 4″ in diameter at bottom, and is about 3.5″ tall. A red, blue and gold version is also available.
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This set of 12 high precision gaming dice are crafted of premium grade materials and are touted as being second only to casino dice when it comes to accuracy.
Standard dice start out pointy polyhedrons but are put through a rock tumbler three times during the production process. It’s impossible for a rock tumbler to smooth all sides of a polyhedral evenly. Thus, you end up with d20s that are vaguely egg-shaped and will favor certain sides.
Each set includes a d20, d16, d14, d12, 2x d10, d8, d6, d4 and d3 which are available in several different colors – all of which “shine like gemstones”.
If you want to learn exactly why these dice are so accurate, you can check out the 20 minute video after the break, featuring Lou Zocchi of GameScience.
One of the many benefits of 3D printing technology is beautifully detailed dice. Shapeways user gythawen designed these steampunk themed roleplaying dice. Much like these 3D printed thorn dice, they come in a variety of metals. You can order them in bronze, stainless steel, or glossy silver.
You could actually game with them, but they’re also pretty enough just to leave on display. They’re probably hefty enough to leave a bruise if you decide to chuck them at your GM, too.
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Any tabletop roleplaying gamer will tell you that you can never have too many dice. This is especially true when you use those dice to build life-size human figures. Artist Kim Hyun takes plaster casts of her subjects and then uses them as a base to make sculptures with dice. The dice are held together with wires, and they include everything from the standard six-sided variety to D10s. My dice are sitting in a bag feeling inadequate right now.
These beautiful 12-sided dice are embossed with tentacles, Elder Signs, and Cthulhu himself. The object of the game is simple: destroy rival cultists by driving them mad as quickly as possible. But beware—if you roll a Cthulhu, everyone goes insane.
The last sane cultist standing wins.
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Check out these magnificent “thorn dice” made by Shapeways user Ceramicwombat with a 3D printer. The designs are available in several polymers and metals.
Roll for a tetanus shot.
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Baby’s first D&D dice? Game night stress relief? A safe solution for game night violence? Indeed, these giant foam D&D dice have several advantages over the traditional versions. Comes in 4, 8, 10, 12 and 20 sided flavors.
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Roll the D20 Geeksoap across your body, defeat odor and score serious freshness hit points.
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Break out this giant inflatable D20 and get ready for full contact, live action D&D that allows you to actually feel your character’s pain as you rewrite the rules for hit points. A D20 in the face is one hit point, while a D20 in the crotch is seven hit points with the added humiliation and laughter penalty.
Hanging fuzzy dice in your car may be a completely dorky thing to do, but make that a pair of Rubik’s cubes instead of dice and you have some fine nerd style. Since these are permanently in a solved state, there is no way to prove that you don’t have the skills to perform such a feat. That makes these ideal for nerd posers as well.
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