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Good question. I remember that the d10 came out later, but not when. Someone more knowledgeable will no doubt fill us in.
Olgar Shiverstone said:Shoot, those are nice dice. I never saw a set from that era that had multi-colored dice or pre-colored in numbers. All of my sets had cheap blue dice and a crayon. I still have the dice, but they don't get much use.
You're also missing a d10. Did TSR get cheap later, and go to lower quality dice without painted numbers, but added the d10?
They were of different colors, if my memory serves correctly. My Basic Set has Elmore's artwork (a loin-cloth wearing barbarian facing a dragon).Legildur said:Were they the soft green ones? (from the Basic Set?)
Olgar Shiverstone said:You're also missing a d10. Did TSR get cheap later, and go to lower quality dice without painted numbers, but added the d10?
Gary has said the chits were the result of the Blumes going cheap.Ranes said:Chits were little numbered pieces of card used to generate random numbers when TSR suffered from a shortage of these babies.
Delta said:Only later did they invent a specific new shape for d10's.
As a mathemetician, the shape of d10's still sort of bothers me, actually.
Yeah. I bought mine early 80's, so I had to color my numbers in with the provided crayon.T. Foster said:In the later 80s I believe TSR switched over again to higher quality pre-inked dice for their boxed sets, but I never owned any of those myself, and am just going from vague memories.
Arkhandus said:How/why is that, exactly? I'm curious.
Gentlegamer said:Gary has said the chits were the result of the Blumes going cheap.