Your original die

[Quasqueton]

Several months ago, I bought my [then] 3-year-old son his first d20. He promptly lost it in out family van. I found it a week later when I looked thoroughly for it, and I just put it up for later.

Now my son is 4 years old. This week, when he went with me to the game store, he asked to get a die. I let him pick out another d20. While I looked around the store, he rolled it several times on the floor. He called out the number he got each time. We bought the die and took it home. He is taking good care not to loose it this time. He has sat in our den rolling the die across the floor (6 plus-foot rolls), calling out the number each time. I haven't explained to him the importance of the 20 and 1 yet, so they are all just numbers still.

I still have my very first d20 that I got in a Basic D&D game box (1980). It is chocolate brown, with yellow numbers (that I colored in myself with the crayon that came in the box). It is heavily worn (no corners), and I don't use it anymore. But if I lost it, I think I'd cry. I also have the original d8 (light blue with yellow numbers).

Do you have/remember your first die?

Quasqueton

 

[diaglo]

Do you have/remember your first die?

my sister's dog ate them.

i recovered most of them.

as they were the only set our group used.

i still have the d6. but don't use it.

 

[Numion]

I haven't explained to him the importance of the 20 and 1 yet, so they are all just numbers still.

Damn. You should've recorded his first nat 20

 

[Enkhidu]

I gave them to a friend of mine, who still has them and uses them on occasion. This thread has given me the itch to get them back, and I might try to trade to get them again.

After over twenty years, they still roll decently.

 

[der_kluge]

I'd be surprised if most people here don't still have their original set.

I have the original set from the red boxed set, with the white crayon markings. Mine is orange, and statistically rolls 20s more than any d20 I've ever owned. I even tested it against other dice once.

I have the entire set, as far as I know. Later I bought the blue boxed set, and there were several things opened, so we stuff a bunch of stuff into the one box, and bought it. I figured out years later that I'd ended up acquiring half of a map to Dragonlance this way. And another set of dice. That 20 is blue, and rolls for crap. I still have most of both of those sets.

 

[Crothian]

I still have my first set I got with e Basic set, I don't use them anymore because they are not in the best of shape a few of them have canine teeth marks in them.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

My box set didn't have dice, it just had stupid little counters you had to cut out and throw in a jar.

Out of the first set of dice I bought, all but the d20 have vanished. I do still have the spooky dimension-hopping d10 twins. They were chocolate brown, one with red inking, the other with white. One day my best friend and I were rolling an opposed check, and both dice bounced off the table and disappeared. 10 minutes of searching turned up neither die.

Months later, another die rolled off the table. As we crawled around on the ground looking, we each *simultaneously* found one of the missing d10s. They were mum about their prolonged absence -- one can only assume the terrible things that happened to them while plane-hopping.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I've got my first set, from 4-5 years ago. Got 'em to play LegoWars. Still have them.

 

[Space Coyote]

I first got a basic D&D set around 1985. It came with a set of simple blue dice. I still have the d20 that came with that set. Over the years, it has become rather "rounded", a lot of the numbers have worn off and it is referred to as the "ball die". When rolled, it tends to keep rolling around on the slight slope.

 

[Zappo]

Mine got stolen in Tunisy, along with a whole bunch of Basic D&D stuff, while we were having lunch in a remote restaurant. I hope that at least the thief became a gamer (either that, or that he got eaten by a camel).