Tinker Gnome
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Ahhhh, Ok. I kept imagining dice that you could mold with your hands. 
The old D-10 Dice...
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Thanks Foster, thats a great source. I'm not crazy about the color (white) but hey, there the original. I'll be ordering 2 packs I think.
BTW, I still have a purple, orange, and blue. Had a yellow that was always are D20, but that die along with God knows how many others were eaten by our Golden Retriever when dice flew off the table. If she didn't swallow them they'd be so chewed up they'd be useless. I think I still have one infact.
I think the big difference was the weight. They rolled along time, which I liked. I can't stand it when I throw a new dice down today and it just about plops.
Has anyone seen these old dice come up used on e-bay or elseware?
BTW, I still have a purple, orange, and blue. Had a yellow that was always are D20, but that die along with God knows how many others were eaten by our Golden Retriever when dice flew off the table. If she didn't swallow them they'd be so chewed up they'd be useless. I think I still have one infact.
I think the big difference was the weight. They rolled along time, which I liked. I can't stand it when I throw a new dice down today and it just about plops.
Has anyone seen these old dice come up used on e-bay or elseware?
TSR dice were always in the colors shown above (yellow d4, orange d6, green d8, blue d12, white d20) unless you got a separate set of percentile dice (which included a white d20 and a hot pink d20), so if you had dice in other colors you must not have gotten them from TSR (I don't know who else manufactured polyhedral dice in those days -- by the time I started playing in the 80s dice like these were already a relic of the past -- we had top-shaped d10s and d20s numbered 1-20).
Before I discovered that Noble Knight had these, I spent a long time searching for them (in fact I think my very first post at dragonsfoot was asking if anyone knew where I could get a set of dice like these) without any luck. Sets have probably been offered on ebay, but I wasn't willing to search through every listing for "dice" or "polyhedral dice" of "D&D dice" or whatever, and other searches I tried (like "old school dice" and "1970s TSR dice" and "old D&D dice") never came up with what I wanted. If anyone has sets like this for sale on ebay now they almost certainly bought them from Noble Knight and are trying to turn them around for a profit.
Before I discovered that Noble Knight had these, I spent a long time searching for them (in fact I think my very first post at dragonsfoot was asking if anyone knew where I could get a set of dice like these) without any luck. Sets have probably been offered on ebay, but I wasn't willing to search through every listing for "dice" or "polyhedral dice" of "D&D dice" or whatever, and other searches I tried (like "old school dice" and "1970s TSR dice" and "old D&D dice") never came up with what I wanted. If anyone has sets like this for sale on ebay now they almost certainly bought them from Noble Knight and are trying to turn them around for a profit.
Inconsequenti-AL
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Our DM picked one of those out of someones dicebox and used it for half a session before anyone noticed. We thought he was just whining when he said he couldn't roll over 10. 
There's quite a few of them round my neck of the woods. Both the nearby FLGS's still sell them.
There's quite a few of them round my neck of the woods. Both the nearby FLGS's still sell them.
Foster, I'm almost positive these dice were not TSR. I think they were sold individually, from a GREAT hobby shop called 1701 in Orlando FL (though I'm sure they were sold nationally). I found the quality of these dice to be higher then TSRs (infact, my friends who had the TSR sets were always trying to steal mine.. some did...one little b...strd left his pathetic cheeseball painted wooden dice (I have no idea were he got these) and took some of my good ones (and then left town) and that was years after they stopped making them. That idiot was worse then the dog).
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By the time I got into the hobby, the TSR dice were all blue, & the d20 was numbered to 20. The only other option (at least that my FLGS carried) were the Gamescience "unbiased but ugly". My two d20s from those sets were numbered 0 to 9 & +0 to +9.
(I can't remember whether the d20 that came with LA Essentials was numbered to 20 or not.)
I recently acquired two hard-plastic, pre-inked, polished, & "too biased for Lou but good enough for anyone else" 20-siders numbered 0 to 9 twice. All the numbers are inked the same color, so they're effectively only 20-sided d10s.
I like the platonic 20-sider better than the "true 10". My true-10s are jealous 'cause I don't use them anymore. & I played a lot of Warhammer FRP, Rolemaster, & Hârnmaster, so I have a lot of them.
(I can't remember whether the d20 that came with LA Essentials was numbered to 20 or not.)
I recently acquired two hard-plastic, pre-inked, polished, & "too biased for Lou but good enough for anyone else" 20-siders numbered 0 to 9 twice. All the numbers are inked the same color, so they're effectively only 20-sided d10s.
I like the platonic 20-sider better than the "true 10". My true-10s are jealous 'cause I don't use them anymore. & I played a lot of Warhammer FRP, Rolemaster, & Hârnmaster, so I have a lot of them.
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