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Post by captainjapan on Sept 28, 2020 18:51:33 GMT -6
I don't know if many people would be excited to see this, but I just ordered 10 old school d10's. These are almost never in stock (the white ones I mean). If they were Gamescience, they'd be perfect.I had some black ones from a previous purchase, so now I get to make percentile rolls. yayy! I've already colored three of them in half&half, with Sharpie, for rolling 1-20. Quick tip, if you screw up: marking over Sharpie with a dry-erase marker will remove it.
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Post by tdenmark on Sept 29, 2020 1:22:50 GMT -6
I'm pretty fond of these and use them in a lot of different games. For some reason more satisfying than rolling the regular d10.
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Post by Finarvyn on Sept 29, 2020 4:43:21 GMT -6
Out of curiosity, what makes them "old school?" The fact that they come uninked? Are they the soft plastic like the ones from the 70's? My 70's dice did come inked but I had to continually refresh with a sharpie.
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Post by dicebro on Sept 29, 2020 6:22:57 GMT -6
Out of curiosity, what makes them "old school?" The fact that they come uninked? Are they the soft plastic like the ones from the 70's? My 70's dice did come inked but I had to continually refresh with a sharpie. Because they are Platonic solids. The other d10s aren’t. There is something ancient and mystical about the 5 platonic forms. Probably the most “old school” thing about the game, heh. |
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Post by Finarvyn on Sept 29, 2020 9:32:23 GMT -6
Okay, that makes sense. Another d20 marked 0-9 twice. I thought there might be something else that made them special, but yeah those are cool. I have some d12's marked 1-4 three times and I like them better than the pointy d4's.  |
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Post by mgtremaine on Sept 29, 2020 12:30:41 GMT -6
Pointy d4 have many uses, self defense perhaps? Or more often in big games by 1 or 2 am I'm so tired I stay awake spinning the d4 like a top.
-Mike
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Post by stonetoflesh on Sept 29, 2020 19:52:37 GMT -6
If they were Gamescience, they'd be perfect.
Gamescience has a decent selection of 0-9 d20s, but not white... Their "0-9+" d20s are pretty nice too. |
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Post by captainjapan on Sept 29, 2020 21:19:41 GMT -6
If they were Gamescience, they'd be perfect.
Gamescience has a decent selection of 0-9 d20s, but not white... Their "0-9+" d20s are pretty nice too. I was eyeing those, for sure. There's even an option ($1.50 extra) to have half the numbers inked one color and half - another color. But, I must say, I liked coloring them myself. I wanted to post a picture of mine, but I lost the ability to imbed images, for some reason. That's why I have the stock photo. Can someone give me a recommendation for a new, quick and dirty image host? I was using imgbb.com to embed, because it's web-based and it's free. I don't know why it doesn't work, anymore. |
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Post by Piper on Sept 29, 2020 22:00:55 GMT -6
Can someone give me a recommendation for a new, quick and dirty image host? I was using imgbb.com to embed, because it's web-based and it's free. I don't know why it doesn't work, anymore. I'm using Imgur and have embedded imgur hosted photos here. Example below ...  |
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Post by dicebro on Oct 5, 2020 8:50:41 GMT -6
Where can I get a copy of “Annotations of D&D” ?
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Post by Piper on Oct 5, 2020 22:08:37 GMT -6
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Post by captainjapan on Nov 9, 2020 10:48:50 GMT -6
 So, I ws out for a walk to see the leaves change color. On the way home, I stopped inside a Dollar Tree store (I like to look at the little toys and party favors). I found something I've never seen in a dollar store, before. The cashier said, "These are cute. What are they for?" "Dungeons & Dragons", I replied. "I don't know about that", she said, "I'd have to ask the grandkids." |
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Post by asaki on Nov 9, 2020 14:26:57 GMT -6
I bought a few 0-9 d20s a while back. They're precision edge, but not Gamescience...I think "Diamond" was the name of the brand? Anyway, I thought they would be cool, but I never actually use them  I need to fix that.
The cashier said, "These are cute. What are they for?" "Dungeons & Dragons", I replied. "I don't know about that", she said, "I'd have to ask the grandkids." I think this is my new sig. |
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Post by coffee on Nov 10, 2020 8:15:53 GMT -6
I'll have to stop at my local Dollar Tree and see if they have these! These would be great loaner dice for a newbie or someone who has forgotten their dice!
(Assuming we'll ever play in person again...)
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Post by captainjapan on Nov 10, 2020 9:29:13 GMT -6
I'll have to stop at my local Dollar Tree and see if they have these! These would be great loaner dice for a newbie or someone who has forgotten their dice! (Assuming we'll ever play in person again...) I actually had a thought about giving the "gift of imagination", at the toy drive, this year. These dice are about the same weight and legibility as koplow or chessex. And, they cost less, now, than when they came out in the seventies. I have some pint-sized mailing tubes and looseleaf graph paper at work. I could, maybe, put together some 'starter' rpg's to give away. The only question is which OGL rules to stuff inside. The rules would have to be slim to fit inside with the rest (maybe some pencils incl.?) I'd wanna run them off in color to make them eyecatching. Just a thought. You can never start planning too early. |
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Post by asaki on Nov 10, 2020 14:44:31 GMT -6
The only question is which OGL rules to stuff inside. The rules would have to be slim to fit inside with the rest (maybe some pencils incl.?) I'd wanna run them off in color to make them eyecatching. Here you go: www.feastoflegends.com/ |
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Post by flightcommander on Nov 18, 2020 1:01:54 GMT -6
Wow, I had to download that PDF because ... well, I wanted to make sure it was real.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Nov 18, 2020 13:58:19 GMT -6
Wow, I had to download that PDF because ... well, I wanted to make sure it was real. Terrifyingly real, yes |
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Post by captainjapan on Mar 17, 2023 9:21:47 GMT -6
 Update: The dice in the OP were my only option for purchasing the "marked 0-9 twice" style in a modern, high impact, material. Also, I was only interested in opaque white so that I could color them for d20 usage. I was happy to receive them. They were nominally what I requested. But, they were very lop-sided dice. Koplow, the manufacturer, tumbled these to such a degree that they stopped being symmetrical. I don't own Gamescience dice (wish I did, but not in the limited colors that are left or at the current, high, import price). So, I was very excited to see Chessex do a white, 0-9 twice, die. I purchased from this link:
It's the only place that I saw carrying the Chessex variety. You'll know the Chessex dice, because they use periods instead of underlines to differentiate 6's and 9's. Get them while they last ![]() |
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Post by Finarvyn on Mar 17, 2023 12:29:42 GMT -6
These look great. My only complaint (same issue with my replica Threshhold Diceworks dice) is that they are inked TOO well. If I try to use red sharpie on the numbers I can't see the sharpie and I don't have hand-eye-coordination such that I can ink those tiny numbers with red paint. I know that some folks shade the entire face of 10 of the 20 sides, but I never did that and so it seems sort of alien to me.  |
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Post by geoffrey on Mar 17, 2023 16:36:12 GMT -6
My solution that my 10-year-old brain came up with all by its lonesome back in 1980:
"Hey, my red 20-sider [which, like all my dice, was uninked] is numbered 0-9 twice..."
First I used a 6-sided high-low die. Then I took a sharpie and put three little black dots (one dot in each corner of the triangle) on half of the sides. Worked well enough.
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Post by chicagowiz on Mar 17, 2023 17:33:56 GMT -6
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Post by Finarvyn on Mar 18, 2023 9:23:51 GMT -6
First I used a 6-sided high-low die. Then I took a sharpie and put three little black dots (one dot in each corner of the triangle) on half of the sides. Worked well enough. I've done the low-high d6, although one DM refused to let me do it at his table claiming that the rules (somehow) only allowed for real d20's and no option for the control die method. Strange. I'll have to ponder the black dot method. An interesting alternative that I had never considered, although if I did it I might go with red dots instead. |
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Post by geoffrey on Mar 18, 2023 13:11:05 GMT -6
First I used a 6-sided high-low die. Then I took a sharpie and put three little black dots (one dot in each corner of the triangle) on half of the sides. Worked well enough. I've done the low-high d6, although one DM refused to let me do it at his table claiming that the rules (somehow) only allowed for real d20's and no option for the control die method. Strange. I'll have to ponder the black dot method. An interesting alternative that I had never considered, although if I did it I might go with red dots instead. The color of the little dots matters not, so long as the dots stand out from the die. Your proposed red dots would not have worked with my first 20-sider because it was...red! |
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