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**MagickalMemories**

My favorite die is a d36. It's the most unusual die I've ever seen.
It is made of glass, with a very thin flat(ish) ring around it. On each side of the ring, there are 18 flat circular spots. It is NOT numbered 1 - 36. The numbering seems relatively random.
It's been forever since I've dug it out but, IIRC, the highest # on it is 100.

A buddy of mine found it in a wall as a teen ager, when his family was redoing their (very old) house. His dad thought it was one of his and bitched at him for managing to get his dice in the walls. lol

When he got out of gaming he gave it to me, because I always thought it was cool. I've had it for over 18 years, now.

Eric

**Midnightdeathblade**

I crush my dice into powder and snort away! But really I forget my dice like every time I go to my FLGS so I now have like 8 sets.

**FearPeteySodes**

Midnightdeathblade wrote:I crush my dice into powder and snort away! But really I forget my dice like every time I go to my FLGS so I now have like 8 sets.

Wow that sounds dangerous, you must be feeling......lucky?

Heeeeyoooooooo.

**Grenat**

Wargamers and tabletop RPG players have mostly more dice than blood in their veins. That's it.

**chaoslooksgood**

Does anyone know where I could some dice with a chaos symbol as the 1? For delivery to england

**MagickalMemories**

You can have them made.
Chessex does a great job at decent prices. They can use an image you provide (within reason).
I had some made for a buddy of mine that use a very intricate chaos symbol for the 6, but they also have dice available that let you replace the 1.

Eric

**chaoslooksgood**

Cheers will check tomorrow

**Gavin Thorne**

My grandfather collected dice, the collection of which I inherited. He had some pretty cool dice, but none of the shapes used for modern gaming other than the proliferous d6. There were casino dice from around the world, glass d6's, round d6's, sets of Poker Dice - essentially Yahtzee with 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A faces.

I even found a set of tiny, carved ivory dice in a felt-lined wooden box. Grandma said he won them in a game while visiting Egypt.

**MikZor**

Gavin Thorne wrote:My grandfather collected dice, the collection of which I inherited. He had some pretty cool dice, but none of the shapes used for modern gaming other than the proliferous d6. There were casino dice from around the world, glass d6's, round d6's, sets of Poker Dice - essentially Yahtzee with 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A faces.

I even found a set of tiny, carved ivory dice in a felt-lined wooden box. Grandma said he won them in a game while visiting Egypt.

Very cool story

I can just imagine, how tense it would have become as he bet his set of ivory dice, so here's a tiny bit of what went through my mind as i read it:
The streets fell silent as the box hit the table with a thud, all heads turned as the shadows loomed. Taking in the suspense he removed his hand from the box, assuring his bet was honest, the mans mouth mouth opened and two words escaped his thin lips. "It's on".

Seriously though, your grandpa sounds like the indiana jones of dice, finding aztec gold dice and running from a boulder

**LumenPraebeo**

kronk wrote:
Howard A Treesong wrote:Wife is keen on dice, we went to a wargames show last year and this once guy had a huge bin full of them and you could fill one of those big disposable drinks cups with dice for about £3. She dived straight in.

They have the "scoop o dice" at Chessex booth at GenCon each year. The price has been going up each time, too. I did it back in 2002 and have plenty of random dice now.

I have also purchased theme dice for my Black Templars, matched sets for each new D&D character I've played with, and so on.

Crown Royal bags are perfect for dice bags, too. But you should only put one army or D&D character's dice in a given bag. To do otherwise is to taunt the dice gods. Only a fool does that.

Also, when playing D&D, never touch another man's dice. If a die lands in your area, use a pencil or book to push it back to the other person. Never just grab it.

I fully believe that every player of any game should be forced to read this dice article and sign a form stating that they will follow the rules found within.

It's just that important.

OR I can give the guy who hands me such a document the finger and play with someone who doesn't annoy the

out of me.

**MagickalMemories**

Well, at least he won't have to worry about you touching his dice then, I guess. Huh?

: )

Eric

**Beer_&_Bolters**

Im kinda in the market for some new dice too. Im looking for ones that are made from more exotic materials though; like glass, stone, bone, ivory (though i wonder if its possible to even get those anymore), hell, ive heard you can get dice made from meteorites. Anyone know of a manufacturer that might deal with those kinds of materials?

**FearPeteySodes**

Beer_&_Bolters wrote:Im kinda in the market for some new dice too. Im looking for ones that are made from more exotic materials though; like glass, stone, bone, ivory (though i wonder if its possible to even get those anymore), hell, ive heard you can get dice made from meteorites. Anyone know of a manufacturer that might deal with those kinds of materials?

That sounds very expensive. I don't need to eat though i guess so i would be interested in something like this as well.

**ZatGuy**

My FLGS has a wall of Chessex dice and some other brand that is similar, along with a few other random types of dice. Every time I go there I'm tempted to buy a new set of dice and I think I'd still be tempted if I didn't play any games involving dice. Kept my self to 1 GW set and two Chessex sets.

**chaoslooksgood**

next time I go to my lgs im gunna finally buy the lovely posh dice in the leather bag

**Mad4Minis**

kronk wrote:
Crown Royal bags are perfect for dice bags, too. But you should only put one army or D&D character's dice in a given bag. To do otherwise is to taunt the dice gods. Only a fool does that.

Psshhhht. I have a crown bag about 1/2 full of all kinds, shapes, and colors of dice. Thats right, all in the same bag. To be fair they drank the bottle of Crown, so they are good to mingle.

**CPTPromotable**

My best dice are a set of pink with black dots. Why the best? I saw this same block of dice in my LGS for about 3-4 years(13-17 ish) and noone ever bought them. What manly gamer-man would game with pink dice?

The dice knew this, and over the years they subtly called to me, promising me luck beyond measure if I made them mine. I finally relented, annd they have served me well ever since.

They are also the only dice I can give to somebody else that still roll well for me afterwards(well, without a good wash first. Yup, I wash my dice after letting people borrow them. My one superstitous quirk).

**Obsidian Raven**

CPTPromotable wrote:Yup, I wash my dice after letting people borrow them. My one superstitous quirk).

HAha, if we are going to speak of superstitious quirks, i have a long list of my own and several from my VtM playgroup

**MagickalMemories**

CPTPromotable wrote:They are also the only dice I can give to somebody else that still roll well for me afterwards(well, without a good wash first. Yup, I wash my dice after letting people borrow them. My one superstitous quirk).

Oh, Lord! You admitted the "S" word.
Prepare for TFG's to come out of the woodwork now, to ridicule your "ignorance."
Of course, I won't have to read it. The worst are already on my ignore list.

Eric

**MightyGodzilla**

chaoslooksgood wrote:MightyGodzilla, dice stores online sell scatter dice, if thats what you are talking about, I may have misunderstood

ScatterDice, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I needs me some of the size that'll fit in the 36 dice box. Got any links anyone. I browsed the Chessex site, but didn't find any (maybe I'm looking in the wrong spot). I would love to find a place/company that sold them singly so I could stock my boxes.

**Portugal Jones**

LumenPraebeo wrote:
kronk wrote:
Howard A Treesong wrote:Wife is keen on dice, we went to a wargames show last year and this once guy had a huge bin full of them and you could fill one of those big disposable drinks cups with dice for about £3. She dived straight in.

They have the "scoop o dice" at Chessex booth at GenCon each year. The price has been going up each time, too. I did it back in 2002 and have plenty of random dice now.

I have also purchased theme dice for my Black Templars, matched sets for each new D&D character I've played with, and so on.

Crown Royal bags are perfect for dice bags, too. But you should only put one army or D&D character's dice in a given bag. To do otherwise is to taunt the dice gods. Only a fool does that.

Also, when playing D&D, never touch another man's dice. If a die lands in your area, use a pencil or book to push it back to the other person. Never just grab it.

I fully believe that every player of any game should be forced to read this dice article and sign a form stating that they will follow the rules found within.

It's just that important.

OR I can give the guy who hands me such a document the finger and play with someone who doesn't annoy the out of me.

And they say satire is dead. Swift himself probably would've gotten a chuckle out of that article. Of course, I would pity the poor fool who takes his rolling so 'serious business' that he'd take that article seriously.

**kronk**

Lumen obviously didn't get the joke and decided to make a personal attack.

Mad4Minis wrote:
kronk wrote:
Crown Royal bags are perfect for dice bags, too. But you should only put one army or D&D character's dice in a given bag. To do otherwise is to taunt the dice gods. Only a fool does that.

Psshhhht. I have a crown bag about 1/2 full of all kinds, shapes, and colors of dice. Thats right, all in the same bag. To be fair they drank the bottle of Crown, so they are good to mingle.

Well, by giving the dice the bottle of crown, you made an offering to the Dice Gods. Obviously, they accepted your offer. This is good. You are clear and may bring said bag of dice to the gaming table, wise sir.

**chaoslooksgood**

MightyGodzilla wrote:
chaoslooksgood wrote:MightyGodzilla, dice stores online sell scatter dice, if thats what you are talking about, I may have misunderstood

ScatterDice, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I needs me some of the size that'll fit in the 36 dice box. Got any links anyone. I browsed the Chessex site, but didn't find any (maybe I'm looking in the wrong spot). I would love to find a place/company that sold them singly so I could stock my boxes.

http://www.thediceshoponline.com/dice-search/scatter I think these are slightly larger than those in the dice cubes though

**cricketofdeth**

Yeah, I've got a buddy who always got the custom made Chessx dice. They look quite nice.
I just color match my dice to the army.
So far the little GW cube O dice rolls best for me though.

**Kimzi Caky**

Ohh, I thought I was just weird for liking dice. Every time I see any I just feel a sudden need to buy them... Suddenly!

**MightyGodzilla**

chaoslooksgood wrote:
MightyGodzilla wrote:
chaoslooksgood wrote:MightyGodzilla, dice stores online sell scatter dice, if thats what you are talking about, I may have misunderstood

ScatterDice, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I needs me some of the size that'll fit in the 36 dice box. Got any links anyone. I browsed the Chessex site, but didn't find any (maybe I'm looking in the wrong spot). I would love to find a place/company that sold them singly so I could stock my boxes.

http://www.thediceshoponline.com/dice-search/scatter I think these are slightly larger than those in the dice cubes though

thanks for the link. Unfortunately those are the bigger dice. I was hoping for some 12mm dice to go into the 36 count dicebox. No biggie. I'll either buy a GW box and move the scatter over or just use big scatters. I just thought someone would carry them singly.