RPG Evolution: Last Minute Dice Gifts for Gamers (2025)

It's not too late!
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Know a tabletop gamer who loves dice? Of course you do! But did you buy them a gift? Here's some ideas. Please Note: If you're reading this now the timeline is likely tight, so your best bet is to ship it when you can and then blame Amazon for the delay.

Polyhedral Christmas Dice ($8)​

These dice likely have very limited use, but if you've got a holiday game, they're perfect.

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Critical/Fumble Coin ($10)​

I used to make fun of these coins (do we REALLY need a crit/fumble coin?) until I started using one as a reminder my players to use Heroic Inspiration. The weight of this sucker ensures they NEVER forget they have it.

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Puppy Dice Trays ($10)​

Dice trays can be anything, so why not make dog lovers happy with a pair of puppy-shaped dice trays?

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Polyhedral Metal Sword Dice ($16)​

For the fighters and paladins in your life (or maybe the warlocks who love their pact weapons), this metal set has the look and feel of bladed weapons.

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Polyhedral Metal Bard Dice ($20)​

These musical-themed dice don't just have a lyre-style motif, they also jingle when you roll them. If you ever wanted your bard to be more annoying--I mean musical!--this is one way to do it!

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Six-Sided Red Dragonscale Dice ($20)​

Six six-sideds with red dragon scales and slashes for pips? What DM doesn't dream of rolling these babies for their dragon's breath weapon? Just note that even wyrmlings breathe seven dice of damage; a small price to pay when you start tallying up the damage.

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Polyhedral Glitter Cat Dice ($23)​

If you know someone who loves cats and dice, or cats that love dice (my Loki has his own set he regularly flings around the room), this set will commemorate the chaos.

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Polyehdral Bronze Dragon Dice ($23)​

If you've got metallic dragons, you need metallic dragon dice, natch.

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Bronze Dice Spinners ($29)​

Are you sick of having dice roll and then bounce off the table? These handsome spinners solve that problem by getting ride of dice altogether.
 
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doctorhook said:
Some of these dice look very cool, but I’m also starting to think I’m the only one who prefers ultra-readable dice: big numbers, high contrast, no embellishments
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Nah, there's a significant chunk of players who feel the same way. Especially readable dice are out there as a thing, but they aren't as fun to look at in a gallery or maybe even to gift. ("Hey, I got you easy to read dice" is less fun than "these dice have LEDs inside them.")
 

I'd like to add sculptured dice towers to this list. There are many different molds/prints available and most of them are quite affordable. I received a 3d-printed dice tower as a Yule gift over the weekend. It presents as a ruined tower. Very cool. I plan to paint it after the holidays (Santa is sending a large-ish number of Army Painter paints).
 

I will say those “dragon scale” dice are neat, something I hadn’t seen before. I don’t care about the texture, but the slashes bleeding over the edges (rather than pips) is a pretty cool look. I’d have to train my brain to read those dice on sight though—most of us have a lifetime of practice recognizing pips, these look like they could be visually deceiving at times.
 


doctorhook said:
Some of these dice look very cool, but I’m also starting to think I’m the only one who prefers ultra-readable dice: big numbers, high contrast, no embellishments
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You'd be surprised how many players I get in my games now who just come to show off their dice, and have far more sets than they can possibly use. I'm the same though, I'll take legible numbers any day.
 

The scaly d6's look neat. Although nowadays I only settle for d6's tall at least 19mm and above (but maybe below 30mm) with the other shapes to scale, for ease of reading and carrying in bulk in nylon mesh pen cases and quickly finding when one falls under the table...
 

doctorhook said:
Some of these dice look very cool, but I’m also starting to think I’m the only one who prefers ultra-readable dice: big numbers, high contrast, no embellishments
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There's one brand, I forget the name, who seems to use O characters instead of 0 on their dice, and it just irks me whenever I see it. They're pretty popular too, judging by how frequently I see it.
 

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