WTB Yellow d4

[Finarvyn]

Not just any yellow d4, but one from the old sets from the 1970's.

I have several sets of the original dice -- the soft plastic ones with yellow d4, orange d6, green d8, blue d12, and white d20 -- and somehow have misplaced one of the d4's in my collection.

I guess I am hoping that someone out there has a partial set and so maybe is willing to part with just the d4. Anyone in this situation?

[Finarvyn]

Last night I told my son (he's in his 20's now) about my post about the yellow d4.

He nodded and asked, "so if someone else missing, say, their blue 12-sider sees your ad and asks to buy yours would you sell?"

I insisted that I didn't want to part with any originals, but was just trying to complete that one set.

"There's your answer," he told me. "No one else will sell, either."

I hadn't looked at it that way. I hate the next generation, always lecturing to their fathers.

[mgtremaine]

No lol button guess you a like. You might have rejoined with "that's enough from you young man now get down there and look under the cabinets again for me." ;p

-Mike

[waysoftheearth]

Which specific yellow d4 are you looking for Finarvyn?

playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2020/02/identifying-dice-of-1970s.html

[Finarvyn]

I would be happy with one of a couple sets, which all seem very similar to me.

--> Creative Publications Dice (1972)

--> Holmes Basic Dice (1977)

I think my sets are more like the "Holmes Basic" ones, but I bought my sets from TSR and not part of the Holmes set. Also, my d6's are distinctly orange (some seem to call it red) and not at all like the pink ones, so I assume mine are more like the 1977 dice on Jon's page. It's interesting to see the two sets side-by-side, however, on Jon's page since I have at least one d12 that looks more like the 1972 color than the 1977 one.

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EDIT: In an interesting twist, my son came over to play D&D today and he brought a yellow d4 for me. Not one of those soft plastic ones from the 1970's, but instead a hard plastic one from much more recent manufacture. He said he found it in a dice jar he had gotten from me and maybe it was the one I was looking for. I had to tell him that sadly I had a whole bunch of those (probably Chessex) from when I was buying replica dice combinations. I thanked him and kept the die anyway.

[waysoftheearth]

I have a bag of loose dice from the 70s or early 80s. It looks like I have enough for about two-and-a-half of these basic/Holmes sets, but only two yellow d4s. One of these has a manufacturing imperfection so that one of its edges is not neatly straight.

I was sure I also had a complete set of these sealed in (what I assumed was) the original clear plastic bag, but I can't locate it right now. Then I still have a couple of shrink-wrapped basic sets which probably have dice in them (don't recall exactly which prints they are) but I'm not gonna bust them out right now.

Short story is: if I can find the bagged set somewhere, I can probably spare you one of the others Fin. Let me hunt around a bit...

[Finarvyn]

Well, I hate to break up one of your sets just to complete one of mine. I have a couple sets I bought years ago from Noble Knight that are still in bags and complete. It's not like I don't have any of the old dice.