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<blockquote data-quote="Samuel Leming" data-source="post: 1866289" data-attributes="member: 16462">I re-inked my old six-sided dice today.&nbsp; All the ink had been worn from the pips.&nbsp; This was the third time I've done this.I purchased these dice from a little crafts store called Leisure Time Hobbies.&nbsp; I'd played D&amp;D three or four times and decided it was time to buy my own dice.&nbsp; LTH had just received the first edition AD&amp;D Monster Manual.&nbsp; The Players Handbook hadn't come out yet and they didn't know when they'd get it.I bought a set of standard polyhedrals(this was before ten-siders were common) and a dozen white half-inch six-sided craft dice of the type they used to sell by the tray-load for use in homemade boardgames.&nbsp; I also picked up that Monster Manual <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My polyhedrals started to crack a few years later and no longer rolled true.&nbsp; They failed the chi-square test&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp; so I replaced them with shiney &quot;high impact&quot; dice.&nbsp; These dice, my dog-eared yellowing Monster Manual and 90% of my gaming stuff was lost in a fire a few years later(late eighties), but I still have five of those old six-sided craft dice.&nbsp; Every D&amp;D character I ever played, except for the first two, were rolled using these faithful old cubes.&nbsp; My current polyhedral dice are a set of clear blue sparklies I received as a gift in 1990.&nbsp; I treasure those also, but in a different way.Sam</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Samuel Leming, post: 1866289, member: 16462"] I re-inked my old six-sided dice today. All the ink had been worn from the pips. This was the third time I've done this. I purchased these dice from a little crafts store called Leisure Time Hobbies. I'd played D&D three or four times and decided it was time to buy my own dice. LTH had just received the first edition AD&D Monster Manual. The Players Handbook hadn't come out yet and they didn't know when they'd get it. I bought a set of standard polyhedrals(this was before ten-siders were common) and a dozen white half-inch six-sided craft dice of the type they used to sell by the tray-load for use in homemade boardgames. I also picked up that Monster Manual :) My polyhedrals started to crack a few years later and no longer rolled true. They failed the chi-square test :( so I replaced them with shiney "high impact" dice. These dice, my dog-eared yellowing Monster Manual and 90% of my gaming stuff was lost in a fire a few years later(late eighties), but I still have five of those old six-sided craft dice. Every D&D character I ever played, except for the first two, were rolled using these faithful old cubes. My current polyhedral dice are a set of clear blue sparklies I received as a gift in 1990. I treasure those also, but in a different way. Sam [/QUOTE]

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