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Dice Coins are a completely new take on dice. They work just as well as regular gaming dice but allow amazing artwork to be displayed on each one. They can also be used as stat counters and markers.

Designed to military challenge coin standards.
Made from solid brass.
Each coins weighs over 2 ounces.
Coins are 2 inches (50.8 mm) in diameter.
Epoxy coating protects the artwork.
Plastic protective sleeve comes with each coin.
Just as accurate as regular gaming dice.
Dice Coins come in d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20

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The common side of the coin has a knob molded into the metal. Players use one or two hands to spin the coin like a top. Once the coin is spinning at full speed (which just takes a second), the player puts their finger at the bottom of the coin and stops it.

The result is the number displayed in the first visible sector to the left of the player's finger. A sector is considered visible if you can completely see both of the sector lines surrounding the number. It is that simple.

Dice Coins is currently on kickstarter and you can see a video of the coins in action and learn more about their accuracy and other details. The link is below. Thank you for reading the post.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1719872687/dice-coins

I feel like I saw this art. Wasn't it from a failed metal token fantasy battle game? Kinda like the old Clout.

It's nice but if I need to roll dice....id just use dice. It's cheap and stops confusion should your finger stop it in the middle. Plus if I need to roll a lot of numbers dice win.

Yes, you definitely have good points. Dice have been around a long time because they work really well.

I just think it would be cool to present a fun alternative. And these work really well.

Regarding the artwork...yes I used this artwork for my kickstarter project Ultra Coins. The project was successful. However, I do not intend to "reuse" the artwork. I think that would be cheap. In my kickstarter, I disclosed that I used this artwork for another project and that I was only using it for the prototype dice coins. The artwork is the major expense of the project so the kickstarter is primarily to fund the new artwork. I laid all of that out because the last thing I would want to do would be deceptive.

Anyway, thank you very much for reading the post. We will see how the project goes.

Another suggestion: d10 coins for Call of Cthulhlu, which uses a percentile system. One coin would be an Elder Sign, and another a coin of Innsmouth Gold.

Gimic.

The artwork could possibly be used as a clue a to were to stop the disc. With some practice is could be possible to cheat.

Multiple dice become a problem,yes you can roll a sequence but that would get old fast.

They weigh a bit.

As a gaming gimic the discs are fine, used something like once a session for an important d20 roll. But I wouldnt use them for general play.

If you're playing against flies, they could see the artwork spin, but if you watch the video, you stop the disk before it slows down. Or at least should pummel anyone who takes more than a second to wait for the disk to slow down.

Speaking of which, the home page *does* need a pic of the disk spinning. Not everyone watches the video.

Yeah, I'd like to see examples of "rolling" multiple dice. Percentile dice are commonly rolled together. The disks would be cheating less than rolling two d10's for percentile dice.

ced1106 wrote:
If you're playing against flies, they could see the artwork spin, but if you watch the video, you stop the disk before it slows down. Or at least should pummel anyone who takes more than a second to wait for the disk to slow down.

A weighted top will keep up a fast pin for a while. Waiting for the disk to slow is not practical, judging the artwork might be.

If the d20 disk is used for very special dice rolls, such as following the declaration of what could be a awesomely heroic feat, then it becomes a highlight, and the gm could even overlook attempts to fudge the fast spinning disk as part of the game.
As a regular d20, I just wouldn't allow it i my sessions, its a distraction for common play, an impracticality and would slow the game down. Rolling dice means picking them up and carefully tipping them on the surface. A disk needs to be spun individually, but it needs to be placed on the table, twisted at the same time, and then later stopped. It's almost as much of a hassle as having the dice roll onto the floor each time, and we know we don't like that.

Reading the disk is also ambiguous, finger could shift on the numbers, especially if it is close to a line. Also a finger is not a straight measuring tool, it has a rounded end, in most cases. So the line could be obscured from on angle but visible from another if it is very close to the curve of the tip of the finger. This will lead to gamesmanship if the roll can be clearly seen from spacing line to spacing line only if the roll is high enough.

All in all no good for normal use but ok for a gimic to add a highlight for special case rolls. A bit like how a lot of players use a giant d6 to roll for a volcano cannon to emphasise how important that roll is compared to other to hit rolls..

Watch the video and read the KS home page.

You spin the disk and (almost immediately) stop it with your finger. You don't actually wait for it to slow down. You then read the next WHOLE NUMBER to the left of your finger.

ced1106 wrote:
Watch the video and read the KS home page.

You spin the disk and (almost immediately) stop it with your finger. You don't actually wait for it to slow down. You then read the next WHOLE NUMBER to the left of your finger.

I saw the video and checked on the KS page before I posted.

You spin the disk - you might not spin it very fast.
You stop the disk - a little hesitation is hard to argue against.
Yo might try to stop it based on the flashes of the moving image. You might even get good at it.
You might move your finger.
You might choose whether the number to the left is actually whole or not, with the ambiguity of the curve of the sides of your finger to help.

Lots of ways to influence this for gamesmanship.

It is ok as a GM reward for a trickshot move d20, purposely allowing the player to try and fudge the roll if they can.

Spinners are nothing new, but normally they had a number of sides and they ere ligh so they sowed reasonably quickly and stopped on a side. The spinner d8 was very popular in Victorian boardgame design.