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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kronovan" data-source="post: 9731297" data-attributes="member: 6775134">I have mixed feelings about them...When I'm aware they're part of a TTRPG, I check into how easy they are to substitute with standard dice. Before buying Star Trek Adventures, I checked into the Challenge Dice and wanted to be certain they could be easily substituded, which they can. I wasn't so cautious with FFG Star Wars and regretted it, because while its non-standard dice can be replaced with standard, it's clunky to do so.As a Canadian customer, IME non-standard dice seem to dry up too quickly from distribution channels and consequently disappear from LGS shelves.  My players and I like the Challenge Dice in Star Trek Adventures and I consider myself fortunate to have been able to get 4 sets of them, as I was late to the system. It required me ordering them from a store located on the other side of my country. Modihpius has removed CD for STA 2nd ed, and I've wondered if supply issues was part of that decision.I didn't care for FFG SW in the end, not because the system wasn't playable, but because as GM I didn't like the way in which some of the non-standard dice threw player agency in my face. I bought a starter box (included the dice) and a set of the dice, but my players were reluctant to get their own. I sold my EotE books and the dice about a year after purchase and haven't regretted it. I've bought 2 sets of Zochy dice for DCC. Those dice have since disappeared from LGS shelves in my city, but I can still buy them online from a few CDN retailers at a reasonable price. With recent decisions by Goodman Games though, I'm in not so keen on buying more.</blockquote>

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