D&D General $299 D&D Anniversary Sapphire Dice

This just dropped into my inbox. $299.99, limited run, available directly from WotC.

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Celebrate Forty-Five Years of Dungeons & Dragons and Five Years of D&D Fifth Edition with theD&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set

Only 1,974 sets - featuring a gnome-grown* sapphire gem - will be available to the public on November 21!


RENTON, WA – Nov. 11, 2019 – It’s been five years since Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition launched, and the explosion of D&D’s popularity since then has been a wonder to behold! Now fans can celebrate D&D through the D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set, available directly from Wizards of the Coast starting at 11a.m. (PT) on November 21, 2019. The set commemorates both 5 years of 5e AND forty-five years since D&D’s first publication in 1974.

“When the D&D team realized the sapphire is the traditional anniversary stone for both five years and forty-five years, and that adding a laboratory-created sapphire to a twenty-sided die wouldn’t jeopardize the integrity of a roll, we couldn’t pass up the chance to make something really cool to celebrate the milestones” said Nathan Stewart, VP of the D&D Franchise at Wizards of the Coast. “The team put together a fun product for our fans that includes art and newly updated stats for sapphire dragons, making these classic dragons ready for play in your next D&D session.”

The D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set includes eleven custom-designed aluminum dice from Level Up Dice. Embedded in one of the d20s is a sapphire lovingly grown** by a rock gnome artificer in a charmingly-cluttered workshop. Additionally, each set includes a high-quality dice box and a matching dice tray displaying the ampersand, fifth edition D&D stats and details introducing the sapphire dragon, commemorative stickers, and a sequentially numbered collector’s card confirming the set’s authenticity. Oh, and every die, except that extra-special d20 has an engraved ampersand on the highest number - boosting your D&D cred whenever you roll max damage with that trusty battleaxe!

Only 1,974 D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Setswill be available to the public, so mark November 21st at 11am Pacific Time on your calendar so you don’t miss out! These dice sets will only be available directly from Wizards of the Coast at a price of $299.99 (USD). For more product information, including more images of these beautiful dice, head to D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set.

Join in the celebration of D&D’s forty-fifth anniversary and pick-up this beautiful dice set when it’s available on November 21st!

* Okay, you caught us. Humans grew these sapphires in laboratories on Earth. Sorry.

** Still kidding. Still lab-grown by humans.

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General question: what's with the trend these days of putting the logo/graphic/whatever to replace the highest number on the die, rather than the '1' which used to be the standard?

Really annoying when you've got dice from all eras, as I do.....
There was no standard. I bought DEATH DICE (skull on the 1) back in 83. I also had dice with the logo on the high number.
 







What people? A few celebrities, overly rich kids, and gangsters.

The bad side of this is that there is a general trend in many industries to provide "uber-premium" services and products (read: uselessly luxury versions of something normally very simple and cheap) to a tiny minority of people who are getting suspiciously too much money too easily and are able and willing to pay mainly to prove that they can, in the face of normal people.

The good side is that WotC is actually ripping them off and taking a little bit of that money back to the rest of the world.

Suspicious? Gangsters? Rich kids?

Okay.

Sounds like you have more of an issue with the Western world's class system, than the existence of these fancy dice. A bit beyond our scope here.

Back to the dice themselves. They are fancy. They are expensive. They are worthwhile for some, not so much for others. How does the existence of these fancy, expensive dice somehow detract from your personal enjoyment of the D&D hobby, or the overall hobby?

If some suspiciously gangster rich kids pick up a few sets of aluminum with sapphire inset dice sets for their games . . . . how does that negatively impact you or the hobby?
 

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