Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Does he mean proprietary dice or Zocchi dice? Those are freely available to anyone who wants to make them, I believe, and with DCC on the market as long as they have been, there's a good variety of them on the market now.Because special dice need someone to manufacture them (unless you're going with clumsy workarounds like "1-2 are blank, 3-4 is an advantage, 5 is a success, and 6 is an advantage AND a success"), and are usually quite expensive (due to small series) and subject to often being out of stock (like Star Wars RPG dice are at the moment). If your goal is to make the game "aggresively open" and presumably easily available as an alternative to D&D, you don't want to require specialized tools to play it.