Dice woes

[BiggusGeekus]

I picked up 2 twenty siders and 2 four siders at my FLGS yesterday.

Problems:

1) You kids these days have your d4s with the numbers at the top of the die instead of the bottom. LUXURY! When I was a boy we had none of that. So now when I roll my d4s in bulk I can't just zoom over all the dice at one elevation. I have to look up and down to get the result. My old d4s are obsolete.

2) I have some older dice that, frankly, suck. I bought some of those see through plastic dice that look great until you have to read the numbers. I also have some really old light blue plastic dice I got from the oD&D boxed sets. I will never use these dice ever again. What should I do with them? I can't thow them away, can I?

 

[Crothian]

I have a large jar filled with dice. It's the dice cemetary. It's what happens to dice who do not please me. It also looks pretty cool and is a great conversation piece. Many people think it's art becous of the multi colors and odd shapes.

I noticed the same thing with d4's a little while ago myself. It was wierd and felt wrong. But I got used to it. The see through plastic dice are great, I call them my DM's dice. Who needs a screen whwn no one can read the numbers anyway?

 

[Enkhidu]

I picked up 2 twenty siders and 2 four siders at my FLGS yesterday.

Problems:

1) You kids these days have your d4s with the numbers at the top of the die instead of the bottom. LUXURY! When I was a boy we had none of that. So now when I roll my d4s in bulk I can't just zoom over all the dice at one elevation. I have to look up and down to get the result. My old d4s are obsolete.

2) I have some older dice that, frankly, suck. I bought some of those see through plastic dice that look great until you have to read the numbers. I also have some really old light blue plastic dice I got from the oD&D boxed sets. I will never use these dice ever again. What should I do with them? I can't thow them away, can I?

Say, those clear plastic dice - how old are they?

The reason I ask is because a friend of mine recently had his dice bag (and lots of other gaming materials) stolen about a year ago, and he's looking to replace the dice for nostalgia value. If the descriptions match, I'd take them off your hands.

 

[laiyna]

I buy atleast 10 to 20 dice each month, and that makes after more then 15 years a shipload of dice. Still I never give them away or throw them away. They are my treasure horde as an honest RPG Dragon kin does.....


Laiyna

 

[Balsamic Dragon]

I feel like the Martha Stewart of gaming...

Don't throw those dice away! Ten ways to use old dice:

1. Place in a large vase to hold flower stems in place!
2. Using a pin drill, puncture dice to make fashionable jewelry!
3. Sew a small pillow and fill with old dice to make a beanbag toy for pets!
4. Glue dice around the edge of a frame to hold a photo of your gaming group!
5. Attach dice to magnets and hang up your favorite character portrait on the fridge!
6. Replace d6s in kids board games with d20s to make gameplay faster!
7. Mix old plastic dice with crayons to for candle-making projects!
8. Collect old dice from all of your friends and make a beaded curtin!
9. Donate old dice and gaming books to a library so that kids who can't afford dice can game!

and lastly,...

10. Spread old pointy d4s as caltrops to keep out intruders!

Balsamic Dragon

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Re: Re: Dice woes

Say, those clear plastic dice - how old are they?

The reason I ask is because a friend of mine recently had his dice bag (and lots of other gaming materials) stolen about a year ago, and he's looking to replace the dice for nostalgia value. If the descriptions match, I'd take them off your hands.

I'd guess I had them in high school, so circa 1987. They are yellow and some of them are crayoned in. My dice were stolen when I was about 15 and I bough some new ones. Shortly thereafter I stopped playing D&D and moved to Shadowrun which uses d6s. My dice collection is woefully small.

Although, I like the idea of old dice in a jar as an object d'art.

 

[Kugar]

One of the judges at the Open glued dice to scrabble tiles.
With only one set it has dubious uses, but if you have a lot of 6s 8s, 10s, 12s, or 20s (yeah right who has extra 20s) they make nice numbered, colored, cheap miniatures.

Kugar

 

[Wolfspider]

6. Replace d6s in kids board games with d20s to make gameplay faster!

I actually did this with my seven-year old daughter recently when we were playing Chutes and Ladders. She loves my crazy dice. I can't wait to teach her how to play RPGs.

 

[hong]

One of the judges at the Open glued dice to scrabble tiles.
With only one set it has dubious uses, but if you have a lot of 6s 8s, 10s, 12s, or 20s (yeah right who has extra 20s) they make nice numbered, colored, cheap miniatures.

"The gelatinous dodecahedron hits! You take 12 points of damage, and make a Fort save!"

"Crap, I am never giving you my old dice again."