RPGaDay 2024: Day 25

25. Desirable dice

It is my desire to see binary six-sided dice become more widely available and in a greater variety of colors, styles, and materials. By "binary dice," I mean those that have an equal number of sides marked "1" or "0"—and I strongly prefer the six-sided variety (either 16 mm or 12 mm).

I have 20 binary dice in opaque white with black inking, but I have never found them in actual stores, and they are not always easy to find online. I just conducted a search on a popular retail site and the closest result I found was a set of cowrie shells "for use as binary dice." We can do better.

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RPGaDay 2024: Day 08

8. An accessory you appreciate

I feel very appreciative of cushioned dice trays. They reduce the noise of dice-rolling and (mostly) keep dice from flying everywhere. They are well worth the investment and can be used for many types of games.

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RPGaDay 2023: Day 09

9. Favourite DICE

I am not inclined to write a treatise on my favorite dice, so I'll just list some of them:

• Fudge dice (six-sided dice marked +, +, 0, 0, -, -)
• binary dice (six-sided dice marked 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
• d12 (twelve-sided die marked 1-12)
• d7 (crazy die marked 1-7)
• d3 (specifically, the six-sided die marked I, I, II, II, III, III)
• d6 in translucent red (casino or otherwise)
• black dice with white and/or red numerals in general
• glow-in-the-dark dice in general

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All the Dice

I was pleased to support the latest Kickstarter project by Impact Miniatures (being that it fulfills my dream of having all the dice: d3, d4, d5, d6, d7, d8, d9, d10/d%, d11, d12, d13, d14, d15, d16, d17, d18, d19, d20, d22, d24, d26, d28, d30, a.k.a. the "One of Everything" reward level), but there is one catch to this wealth of randomizers: keeping them properly sorted. Keeping six different dice sorted can be challenging to a novice, 14 Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG dice can get confusing even to an experienced player, but 24 dice can vex anyone. A dice organizer for this many dice would be time-consuming to make, take up too much table space, and require fastidious attention to ensure that each die was in its proper place. Instead, I opted to make them easier to sort by re-inking the highest number on each die. I used a red Micron pen, which works well enough, but I think I will try using a sable brush and some paint to do a more thorough job.

Does it work? Yes it does and quite nicely, too.

NB: I chose not to ink the d3 and d10/d% dice because a.) both of the d3 dice are obvious and b.) the high numbers on d10/d% dice can vary depending on how they are used.