Hi Kevin and all,
Taking advantage of the invitation to ask questions, on another website I saw a user ask about dice he had as a child. He remembers them as coming in the packaging as seen on your page http://www.dicecollector.com/THE_DICE_THEME_MAYFAIR_GAMES.html in the gemstones boxes, the ones that unfold. He remembers them as having 6 dice. I remember the same because I had two sets of six until they were stolen. I had some shared colours but none of the dice of the same type had the same colour as each other. Looking at a lot of images online I have seen the blister pack gemstones in the exact colours I had, even down to the pink and smoky and the yellow inked with black when everything else was white ink. Came to hate that black ink on the yellow. Even the pink dice had white ink.
The trouble being, all those gemstones sets show only five dice each, but I had two sets of six, these were the only clear dice I had, one set was a Christmas gift from parents, one I got myself for friends. Those sets don't show d6s but I had d6s. They were expensive enough. The other dice I had were from D&D box sets or a few other RPGs, all solid colours.
The blister pack shows inked and tumbled dice which is matches my dice, even the numbering is the same with bars not dots under the 6 and 9.
The more compicated boxes, which if it isn't the type of box I had is extremely similar to the box I had, show uninked, untumbled dice, in colours that aren't the same (not the green anyway) and the d4 in those boxes have the corners chopped off but mine weren't, mine were like the blister packs, rounded and all the way.
Also, I never got a storage bag but those advertise a storage bag.
Someone gave a link to boardgamegeek and that shows the GEMSTONES game as being released in 1987. Either Boardgamegeek is wrong or I had something else because I was living in Australia when I got the dice and I had left Australia well before 1987.
It was our local toyshop that sold RPG stuff. These weren't mail order items or from a specialist RPG store since we didn't have any around. There was nowhere to buy individual polyhedral dice, let alone clear polyhedral dice. I remember seeing the fancy packets stacked on a shelf near the Traveller little black books.
Does anyone here remember these? Do you have dates of production and the included fold out rules Kevin? Seeing the post has brought up some memories and now I'm wondering why two people remember sets of six and all the photos show sets of five with different production styles of dice in different packets.
Taking advantage of the invitation to ask questions, on another website I saw a user ask about dice he had as a child. He remembers them as coming in the packaging as seen on your page http://www.dicecollector.com/THE_DICE_THEME_MAYFAIR_GAMES.html in the gemstones boxes, the ones that unfold. He remembers them as having 6 dice. I remember the same because I had two sets of six until they were stolen. I had some shared colours but none of the dice of the same type had the same colour as each other. Looking at a lot of images online I have seen the blister pack gemstones in the exact colours I had, even down to the pink and smoky and the yellow inked with black when everything else was white ink. Came to hate that black ink on the yellow. Even the pink dice had white ink.
The trouble being, all those gemstones sets show only five dice each, but I had two sets of six, these were the only clear dice I had, one set was a Christmas gift from parents, one I got myself for friends. Those sets don't show d6s but I had d6s. They were expensive enough. The other dice I had were from D&D box sets or a few other RPGs, all solid colours.
The blister pack shows inked and tumbled dice which is matches my dice, even the numbering is the same with bars not dots under the 6 and 9.
The more compicated boxes, which if it isn't the type of box I had is extremely similar to the box I had, show uninked, untumbled dice, in colours that aren't the same (not the green anyway) and the d4 in those boxes have the corners chopped off but mine weren't, mine were like the blister packs, rounded and all the way.
Also, I never got a storage bag but those advertise a storage bag.
Someone gave a link to boardgamegeek and that shows the GEMSTONES game as being released in 1987. Either Boardgamegeek is wrong or I had something else because I was living in Australia when I got the dice and I had left Australia well before 1987.
It was our local toyshop that sold RPG stuff. These weren't mail order items or from a specialist RPG store since we didn't have any around. There was nowhere to buy individual polyhedral dice, let alone clear polyhedral dice. I remember seeing the fancy packets stacked on a shelf near the Traveller little black books.
Does anyone here remember these? Do you have dates of production and the included fold out rules Kevin? Seeing the post has brought up some memories and now I'm wondering why two people remember sets of six and all the photos show sets of five with different production styles of dice in different packets.
