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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6394834" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>No, they are not. He never claims they are made to Casino quality. He claims they are more accurate than the competition for gaming dice...and he's right, they are. <a href="http://www.gnomestew.com/tools-for-gms/analysis-of-desmets-dice-measurement-data-set/" target="_blank">As this independent analysis indicates</a>. They concluded, "Crystal Caste translucent dice are clearly the least consistent dice, Chessex and other styles of Crystal Caste appear to be more consistent than Crystal Caste translucent but less consistent than GameScience and Koplow dice, with Koplow opaque dice representing a “middle of the road” option." So, no scam. If you want more consistent dice, you should buy GameScience or Koplow. If you don't much care, then Chessex or non-translucent Crystal Caste is fine. And translucent Crystal Caste is the worst.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And this I find hilarious.</p><p></p><p>ALL dice are made this way. It's just that competitors are sticking the dice in essentially a rock tumbler...to round ALL the edges, including the sprue. You are much more accurate in carefully removing the sprue, than any dice company that is bulk rolling the entire die, sprue and all, in a polishing device. Because you're just removing the sprue - not all those other edges in an essentially random method.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>First, Gamescience does offer inked dice, it's just up to you which you buy. Second, yeah, "polishing" means "dumping them all in essentially a rock polisher" to make all the edges rounded. That is not a "feature" for many people, it's a "bug". It means some edges are more flat than others. It means stacking those dice on top of each other will get you a more random height, not as fixed a height. And that's provable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6394834, member: 2525"] No, they are not. He never claims they are made to Casino quality. He claims they are more accurate than the competition for gaming dice...and he's right, they are. [URL="http://www.gnomestew.com/tools-for-gms/analysis-of-desmets-dice-measurement-data-set/"]As this independent analysis indicates[/URL]. They concluded, "Crystal Caste translucent dice are clearly the least consistent dice, Chessex and other styles of Crystal Caste appear to be more consistent than Crystal Caste translucent but less consistent than GameScience and Koplow dice, with Koplow opaque dice representing a “middle of the road” option." So, no scam. If you want more consistent dice, you should buy GameScience or Koplow. If you don't much care, then Chessex or non-translucent Crystal Caste is fine. And translucent Crystal Caste is the worst. And this I find hilarious. ALL dice are made this way. It's just that competitors are sticking the dice in essentially a rock tumbler...to round ALL the edges, including the sprue. You are much more accurate in carefully removing the sprue, than any dice company that is bulk rolling the entire die, sprue and all, in a polishing device. Because you're just removing the sprue - not all those other edges in an essentially random method. First, Gamescience does offer inked dice, it's just up to you which you buy. Second, yeah, "polishing" means "dumping them all in essentially a rock polisher" to make all the edges rounded. That is not a "feature" for many people, it's a "bug". It means some edges are more flat than others. It means stacking those dice on top of each other will get you a more random height, not as fixed a height. And that's provable. [/QUOTE]
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