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Message: <blockquote data-quote="filthgrinder" data-source="post: 5322808" data-attributes="member: 64984">When talking about the two dice sets in questions, there is one important thing to remember, WotC isn't a dice company. It's not a product that is really in their wheel house, they don't manufacture or sell a ton of these. Most likely they don't even want to sell you dice. They want to focus on selling books and the RPG content. That's their core business.However, the core business requires the use of dice. So, it behooves them to make them available, and offer the product. For instance, they don't want to go, "looking for dice? Check out ABC company and their selection of dice" They print that notice in all their books. ABC company then goes out and make their own competing fantasy RPG, and they splash it all over their webpage and de-emphasize their dice products. Thats not good for WotC. Also, WotC offers these products through their various retail chains. You can go into a Barnes and Noble or a Borders and see the WotC dice. This is important because not every area has a FLGS or not everyone may know it. If you just ran out and bought a PHB and wanted to play, you might go "oh, I can get dice as well!" as opposed to looking at the book and going "where am I going to get a 20 sided die?"Most likely this product is a loss leader for them. It's something they "have" to do, but it's not in their core business and they probably don't want to move into the dice manufacturing business. One solution would be to license the brand out for someone who does manufacture dice and have them do something really nice with the product. Then again, they are probably hamstrung by Hasbro who goes, "We have a board game division, we can make dice" and they are pumped out right along side the monopoly dice.Anyways, the morale of the story is, you can get better cheaper dice elsewhere, so please do.</blockquote>

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