Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Dice inventory

I'm just doing this for my own benefit. Everyone else please feel free to ignore this post. For some reason, some of my sets are missing a few dice. This is after I started my playing furlough, so I'm not sure why I'm missing anything. They're probably up in my office room somewhere and fell off the desk or something. Anyway...

First, non-sets.

  • Big baseball sized d20
  • Golf ball sized d20
  • Four d30s
  • 4 regular white pipped d6s
  • NC Game Day pirate d6
  • Strange metal octagonal pipe d6
  • "Dark Lord ivory d20
  • Black d10 with red numbers
Sets
  • Clear with white numbers (missing 10s d10)
  • Frosted clear with white numbers
  • Blue and purple "glitter" set with gold numbers
  • Purple and green swirl set with gold numbers
  • Copper and green swirl with white numbers
  • Black and red swirl with gold numbers
  • Basic ivory color with black letters (missing d6)
  • Decorative (elven-like runes) red on black
  • Decorative (rings) brown on ivory
  • Decorate (webs and skulls) brown on amber
  • Decorative (snake scales) dark green on dark yellow
I keep thinking that I want more dice, and I like the Q-workshop ones; I think that they're really pretty. But I really have way more than I need. Even if I discount the ones that are mising a piece, I have... nine other complete dice sets already? That's a lot. Eleven if I make do with the ones that are missing something.

Just ordered the Strange Aeons dice set, along with a batch of piratey metal coins to add to my counters, so "Decorative yellow on olive green should probably be added to the list too. At this point I'm less about the theme of the adventure path that the dice are made for and more about the color combinations; does it offer something different? I have no problem imaging that a perusal of the Q Workshop store online would give me at least half a dozen more sets that I'd like to have, but at some point I need to accept that I simply don't need any of them anymore.

UPDATE: I've got enough small bags to do some better sorting now. I took my clear with white letters set, which was missing one of the d10s, and the ivory with black letters set, which was missing the d6, and stuck it in a very small bag along with a random d8 and d6 that I also had, as well as a strange novelty metal d6 that isn't square but rather a hexagonal rod. Those are now isolated in a small bag.

The other complete Chessex sets I have include a frosted clear with white numerals, a black and red swirl with gold numberals, a copper and green swirl with white numerals, a glitter-infused purple with gold numbers, and a purple and dark green swirl with gold numerals. All five of these dice sets are fully complete.

I also have five complete Q Workshop dice sets; a runic one that's black with red numbers, brown on ivory with ring-like designs, brown on amber with skulls and webs, green on goldenrod with lizard-scale designs, and yellow on green with vaguely Lovecraftian designs. All ten of these are in a single smaller bag, although not as small as the one mentioned above. Both of these smaller bags do into my larger dice bag, along with a few other random dice, including a golf-ball sized d20, four d30s, my unique bone-colored d20 that I used to use almost exclusively, and four regular d6s with pips like you'd find in any other non-RPG game.

Twelve sets of dice, albeit two of them are missing a piece, but I can either sub in a non-matching piece or do without in the case of the missing d10. What do I conclude from this? I need several more sets of dice and a much larger bag, of course! I'm a bit over the Chessex style dice. They are the first I got because they're the cheapest. I had seven of them. I've bought the five decorative Q Workshop sets in the time since the last time I played, which is funny and ironic. I don't have any metal dice sets, though! Sigh. 

My favorite "dice bag" is a fully leather, decent sized bag; even the drawstrings are leather. However, I don't keep dice in it. The bag came with a set of metal fantasy coins; I keep those, plus more fantasy coins that I've bought since in there. I'd actually like to buy probably another two sets of fantasy coins. When I do, I'll have probably 350 or so metal fantasy coins, which is about 15 times more than I need, but I love the heft of a leather bag filled with metal coins. 

My wife made my original dice bag, and I love it. However, she didn't really ask me about proportions, and I now find it a little stubby; it's wide, but not very deep. As I'm kind of running out of room in it sometimes, especially when it's stuffed with two other small bags of dice, I'd love if I could convince her to remake it, but make it about 4 inches taller this time. It's made of a black cloth that has a snake-skin like texture, with a lining that has pirate skulls on it, and there's a skull and crossbones patch on the front. 

I've browsed a lot of alternatives on Amazon because I don't think she'll get to it for months, but I'm hesitating just a bit on pulling the trigger on some really nice leather pouches, some of which are built as belt pouches, so that they have a very different construction. I dunno yet. Still trying to decide what to do. I've also targeted a good fifteen additional dice sets that I'd like to get.

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