D&D General Classic Adventure Themed Dice Sets From Beadle & Grimm's

Beadle & Grimm's, known for it's luxury version of official Dungeons & Dragons adventures, is set to release a selection of dice sets themed around various classic modules, including The Temple of Elemental Evil, Ravenloft, and White Plume Mountain. Each set comes in a box designed to look like th original adventure module, along with collectible coins and art.

The sets include Ravenloft, Tomb of Horrors, Vecna Lives!, White Plume Mountain, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks.

Each has a felt-lined box, a standard dice set along with an oversized d20, two collectible coins, and four cards featuring artwork and information from the adventure.

The full set of 6 dice sets will set you back $178--but you will be able to buy them separately at a later date. The site says that the $178 bundle includes a $45 saving, so presumably the full price of $223 means that the individual sets will sell for around $37 each.

 

[TiQuinn]

OK, but they are not selling the dice only, are they?

I feel like you would buy a car just for the wheels and then complain the wheels are too expensive...

And yeah, collectable is a marketing term that is used to raise the value of something due to forced scarcity... What's your point?

My point is that claiming collectible status doesn’t make it so, and your car analogy is nonsensical. If I want a car, I want a useable car. If I’m buying dice, I want dice - not a coin, not artwork. Third, the artwork is repurposed. Offering these things as part of a package that then allows them to overcharge warrants my response.

Look, if you see the value, knock yourself out. I’m not here calling you foolish, so don’t call others disingenuous because they think it’s overpriced.

 

[KYRON45]

With all of the other venues to get dice from, this product is the sum of its parts.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Nostalgia is expensive.

It could be worse I have bought far less for far more.

 

[Dante Ravenkin]

Why are Beadle and Grimm's dice so expensive? Am I missing something? Not only these dice sets, but I just found their "Epic Class Dice Sets" and they're... $85 CAD for 16 dice. Like... what? That's more than I paid for Q-Workshop dice I had to import from Poland with shipping and duties! Who are these for?

 

[Mannahnin]

My point is that claiming collectible status doesn’t make it so, and your car analogy is nonsensical. If I want a car, I want a useable car. If I’m buying dice, I want dice - not a coin, not artwork. Third, the artwork is repurposed. Offering these things as part of a package that then allows them to overcharge warrants my response.

Look, if you see the value, knock yourself out. I’m not here calling you foolish, so don’t call others disingenuous because they think it’s overpriced.

It's not "37 USD for a very plain-looking dice set", though. It's simply not. And "overcharge" is always relative to the consumer's interest. (Or someone else selling the exact same product, which no one is, as far as I'm aware).

If you just want dice, it's clearly not the product for you. It's not like they're preventing Chessex from selling you a standard set of dice for $5.81 on Amazon, or $2.87 on Gamersroll, just from what Google is showing right now.

I'm not interested either, but it seems silly for me to get annoyed because they're pitching a collectible product which doesn't interest me.

 

[Mannahnin]

Why are Beadle and Grimm's dice so expensive? Am I missing something? Not only these dice sets, but I just found their "Epic Class Dice Sets" and they're... $85 CAD for 16 dice. Like... what? That's more than I paid for Q-Workshop dice I had to import from Poland with shipping and duties! Who are these for?

People who like them and have disposable cash they feel like burning, it seems like. Here's a review:

 

[TiQuinn]

It's not "$37 for a set of dice", though. It's simply not. And "overcharge" is always relative to the consumer's interest.

I disagree. Feel free to buy it then but I’ll continue to say it’s overpriced.

 

[Meech17]

I also think it's too expensive, but I can at least acknowledge that it's not "Just a set of dice"

Scoffing at the idea of it being a "Collectable" just because it's a marketing term, and no rare, doesn't make it un-true. It's a knick-knack. You'd buy this because you really like the old adventures, or perhaps even the aesthetics of the old adventures, and you want a way to show off that appreciation. You can place these on a shelf to show off to all of your friends. To make a back drop for your office. Like Funko Pops, or those mounted dragon head statuettes.

Honestly I expect these to be bought up by D&Dtubers as set dressing.

With that said.. It's still whale bait. You could spend your $37 on supplies to make handouts and props for your Ravenloft game that would be way cooler than anything included here.

 

[Mannahnin]

I also think it's too expensive, but I can at least acknowledge that it's not "Just a set of dice"

Scoffing at the idea of it being a "Collectable" just because it's a marketing term, and no rare, doesn't make it un-true. It's a knick-knack. You'd buy this because you really like the old adventures, or perhaps even the aesthetics of the old adventures, and you want a way to show off that appreciation. You can place these on a shelf to show off to all of your friends. To make a back drop for your office. Like Funko Pops, or those mounted dragon head statuettes.

Honestly I expect these to be bought up by D&Dtubers as set dressing.

With that said.. It's still whale bait. You could spend your $37 on supplies to make handouts and props for your Ravenloft game that would be way cooler than anything included here.

100%.

As long as we live in a world with Funko Pops and Hummel Figurines, I can't get too worked up about this sort of thing. I've known guys who had WALLS full of Funko Pop "collectibles".

 

[Afroconan]

My point is that claiming collectible status doesn’t make it so, and your car analogy is nonsensical. If I want a car, I want a useable car. If I’m buying dice, I want dice - not a coin, not artwork. Third, the artwork is repurposed. Offering these things as part of a package that then allows them to overcharge warrants my response.

Look, if you see the value, knock yourself out. I’m not here calling you foolish, so don’t call others disingenuous because they think it’s overpriced.

Claiming it's collectible makes it so. People will buy it for the purpose of collecting them.

And my car analogy is exactly the same. The word "usable" in your answer is doing a ton of work right there. Aren't the dice usable? If you buy a car for the wheels, the wheels work as well, you just don't need the car... That's why instead you buy wheels, just the same as you'd buy just the dice.

They are not overcharging for anything. Because nobody else is selling the same product. And that's my point and why I call statement like yours disingenuous. If they were selling only the dice for 37 usd then you'd be right. But that's not what they are selling so you are just plain wrong.

And for that matter. I personally don't see the value so I won't buy them, but what I'm not doing is getting mad and claiming its "just dice" when they are not.

Also I wouldn't call someone foolish for buying it, but I would call out someone as disingenuous for claiming the product is "just dice".