A Brief History of Dice

Ranes

Adventurer

• Mar 2, 2007

• #1

Not a good day for WotC getting its facts straight. In this article, the writer (whose name is misspelt in the byline) claims:

"The 1974 "Blue Box" edition of D&D came with a full set of (badly made) polyhedral dice."

The "Blue Box" edition or basic set wasn't released until 1977 and the original 1974 edition didn't include dice at all.

 

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Mark Hope

Adventurer

• Mar 2, 2007

• #2

Ranes said:

Not a good day for WotC getting its facts straight. In this article, the writer (whose name is misspelt in the byline) claims:

"The 1974 "Blue Box" edition of D&D came with a full set of (badly made) polyhedral dice."

The "Blue Box" edition or basic set wasn't released until 1977 and the original 1974 edition didn't include dice at all.

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And what's more, several editions of the Blue Box didn't come with dice at all - they came with those little chits instead...

 

Ranes

Adventurer

• Mar 2, 2007

• #3

That's true. You'd think the great Find A Die competition of '79-'80 would have warranted a mention.