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.

 

[JohnnyZemo]

I like the idea. I wish B&G would stop including giant metal coins in all their products. They are 100% useless and just make everything more expensive.

 

[Meech17]

When I look at the site from my phone (The page is blocked on my work computer) I see the price as $225 for the set, marked down from $270, which would be $37/ea, down from $45/ea.

I don't know.. I don't have a particularly visceral reaction to this. I know that there was some slightly heated discussion around the term "Whale" in another thread recently, but B&G has always been Whale Bait, no? I'm not surprised these are expensive. I'm sure there's someone out there who really really REALLY loves White Plume Mountain, or whatever, and would like to have a cute little dice box to commemorate it.. But I can't imagine there's a ton of those people.

They're also cute book shelf decorations. Something you can put up behind you to show off on your Zoom calls how much of a nerd you are. That's one thing the real modules aren't very good for, as the slim booklets don't really have much of a shelf presence.

 

[Ibrandul]

I know that there was some slightly heated discussion around the term "Whale" in another thread recently, but B&G has always been Whale Bait, no?

I’ve been known to pay Mike Schley directly for digital battle map images from WotC books and then order them printed on huge vinyl sheets (“banner signs”) from Vistaprint. That’s not cheap either, but it really enhances the play experience, so it’s worth it to me.

B&G’s campaign boxes, some of which include that sort of thing (albeit on paper rather than vinyl), appeal to me. They’re designed to have utility on the table as well as collectible value. I’ve never purchased one, but if the stars aligned and I was about to start running an official WotC campaign for which a B&G box was available, I would probably spring for it.

They don’t all contain the same mix of stuff, but between the world maps, battle maps, the adventure content itself, all the handouts and props, etc.—yeah, it’s whalebait but really good whalebait.

This dice product has negligible session-enhancing potential, thus negligible appeal for me.

 

[sevenbastard]

Vecna Lives!

The dice in this set better be printed with a railroad motif.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

Nostalgia is expensive.

And, to quote Judge John Hodgman: "Nostalgia is our most toxic impulse."

 

[Li Shenron]

I really can't understand why there's such a big market for these kinds of things.

It's just a consequence of changes in wealth distribution in the target countries. Disposable money of the upper class has increased, so more or less all industries see opportunities in luxury or high-end items, from 40$/oz 'gourmet' salt to several car manufacturers discontinuing low-end models to focus mostly on cars above 40k.

 

[Meech17]

B&G’s campaign boxes, some of which include that sort of thing (albeit on paper rather than vinyl), appeal to me. They’re designed to have utility on the table as well as collectible value. I’ve never purchased one, but if the stars aligned and I was about to start running an official WotC campaign for which a B&G box was available, I would probably spring for it.

They don’t all contain the same mix of stuff, but between the world maps, battle maps, the adventure content itself, all the handouts and props, etc.—yeah, it’s whalebait but really good whalebait.

I’ve been known to pay Mike Schley directly for digital battle map images from WotC books and then order them printed on huge vinyl sheets (“banner signs”) from Vistaprint. That’s not cheap either, but it really enhances the play experience, so it’s worth it to me.

This dice product has negligible session-enhancing potential, thus negligible appeal for me.

I think the campaign boxes are very cool.. I like the idea of them.. But the fact that they cost as much as a car payment just puts them so far out of reach.

 

[Remathilis]

37 USD for a very plain-looking dice set? What a rip-off. I really can't understand why there's such a big market for these kinds of things.

Save your money and purchase books/PDFs. Support real creators.

This reminds me of the MTG 30-year anniversary fiasco.

This is Beadle & Grimm; they make licensed products for whales. $300 box sets for $60 modules. This is top-line stuff for people who have too much disposable income. See also: WizKid's entire line of premium minis and collectables.

There is no moral imperative here anymore than there is one against luxury hotels, five-star restaurants, or Italian sportscars. Unless you're making a generalized statement about wealth inequality, then I'm right there with you.

 

[Ramaster]

It's just a consequence of changes in wealth distribution in the target countries. Disposable money of the upper class has increased, so more or less all industries see opportunities in luxury or high-end items, from 40$/oz 'gourmet' salt to several car manufacturers discontinuing low-end models to focus mostly on cars above 40k.

This is a very interesting take indeed.

 

[Umbran]

This is not for me but saying it's "37 usd" just for dice it's very disingenuous.

The word, "disingenuous," includes an assertion that people know better, but are purposely pretending not to - in other words, lying. Please don't do that.

You're clearly paying for the production value, the included artwork, the coin and the fact that it's a collectable.

The product is called a "Collector's dice set". Not a Collectors art set, or collector's coin set. So, the focus is on the dice. If you are paying for production value, the dice should, perforce, be high production value. But they aren't.

Don't tell folks they are lying when they express disappointment at this.