J-H
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I've recently completed two campaigns with my boys, and decided to get them an appropriately colored D20 for each campaign we finish going forward. It's not expensive or bulky, but should be a fun reminder. What does everyone else do (if anything)? Please include pictures if you have them.
For the 12 Herculean Quests (Kickstarter forthcoming), I picked this one:
Labors of Hercules = Greek Mythology ~> Greek history ~> Marble was the best I could come up with. It's at least a color I haven't seen many places, so fairly distinctive.
Everything with an animal theme was a set of 7 and most of them looked hard to read. If I have to pick up a dice or squint at it to tell what the number is, no thanks. Not even if it's pretty.
For Castle Dracula (Castlevania in 5e)
I tried to find some sort of "vampire dice" but only came up with either full sets of 7 or this really ornate and hard to read metal thing. In the end, I went with a simple color scheme for the Lord of Shadows and Blood and his dark castle. They already had a bunch of red dice, so again, something distinctive and with good contrast for readability.
I ordered both from Dice Emporium. Shipping was probably more than the dice themselves for a small order - I'm surprised they don't qualify for Media Mail when single minis from Miniature Market does, but it's still pretty trivial.
Assuming they both keep playing D&D, I feel like 50 years from now they will still be able to look at these dice and say "That's from when our Dad ran _____ campaign for us!" That makes me happy. I plan to keep doing it.
For the 12 Herculean Quests (Kickstarter forthcoming), I picked this one:
Labors of Hercules = Greek Mythology ~> Greek history ~> Marble was the best I could come up with. It's at least a color I haven't seen many places, so fairly distinctive.
Everything with an animal theme was a set of 7 and most of them looked hard to read. If I have to pick up a dice or squint at it to tell what the number is, no thanks. Not even if it's pretty.
For Castle Dracula (Castlevania in 5e)
I tried to find some sort of "vampire dice" but only came up with either full sets of 7 or this really ornate and hard to read metal thing. In the end, I went with a simple color scheme for the Lord of Shadows and Blood and his dark castle. They already had a bunch of red dice, so again, something distinctive and with good contrast for readability.
I ordered both from Dice Emporium. Shipping was probably more than the dice themselves for a small order - I'm surprised they don't qualify for Media Mail when single minis from Miniature Market does, but it's still pretty trivial.
Assuming they both keep playing D&D, I feel like 50 years from now they will still be able to look at these dice and say "That's from when our Dad ran _____ campaign for us!" That makes me happy. I plan to keep doing it.








