Quote from: Benoist;548923Yeah, I meant that using them to draw attention to the game was probably part of the idea, sure.

Yeah, I know; just yanking your chain a little.  

I think they're gimmicky, but not really that big a deal.  (Certainly not a deal-breaker, even though I wouldn't bother buying them, I'd just run the game and generate those numbers with the dice I already have.)

In any case, if part of the idea is to draw attention, they're certainly doing that.  And if I were Joe Goodman, the last thing I'd want to do is cool any controversy; more talk about the game is more publicity.

Quote from: danbuter;54887640 fucking dollars?!

Hey, it comes with a dice bag.  

I had a d5 for a while, but I don't remember where it went.  Surprisingly, it really did land on all the sides pretty well.  I didn't run any tests to see if it was truly random or not, but I assume Colonel Zocci has taken care of that for me.

Quote from: Philotomy Jurament;548977And if I were Joe Goodman, the last thing I'd want to do is cool any controversy; more talk about the game is more publicity.

The only thing worse that being talked about, is not being talked about.

Quote from: Benoist;548833I received my dice and inked them to complete the glow in the dark set. Lo and behold:



Just waiting on a sharp-edged d30 at this point.

Dude ... nice inking job.

//H

Welcome to theRPGsite, Harley!

Quote from: Harley Stroh;549288Dude ... nice inking job.

//H

Thanks! The d24 was a bitch.

Quote from: RPGPundit;549457Welcome to theRPGsite, Harley!

Thanks, Pundit. Nice place you have.

//H

Quote from: Harley Stroh;549288Dude ... nice inking job.

//H

+1. Care to share your inking technique Benoist?

Quote from: Stainless;550327+1. Care to share your inking technique Benoist?

An 05 or 08 usually does the trick.

I am using Staedtler pigment liners to ink my dice. 0.1 tip most of the time, and sometimes 0.3, for large numbers. It takes some time, because it's not just a matter of going through the number's crevice once but repeatedly to have the ink flow "right", if you will. Sometimes the dice don't have very good markings and the pen can slip, I then just use a wet kleenex to clean up the mess on the die's face before it dries and repeat the process.

The pens, and the d30 I received since the last shot in the thread was taken:

I have this odd urge to buy a d24, take it to game night, wait until everyone has a few and switch it out for the d20 and then troll the shit out of my players when someone tries to tell me they rolled a 22.

A bunch of dice ready for DDC.

A few observations on inking the dice:

1) The transparent dice were all "inked" with crayon. At first, I tried to do some sort of near-complementary colour thing: so yellow crayon on the blue d16, pink crayon on the green d14. In the end though, straight white was the best option for legibility. Notice the difference between the amber percentiles, one set with white crayon (easy to read), the other with dark blue (tough to read)

The pre-inked game science dice usually have dark numbers and at first I followed that in crayoning in my clear dice, the result was unfortunate - the background noise from other die-sides made it impossible to read the number I rolled. So I scraped out all the black crayon with a needle and redid it in white pen with much much better results.

2) The solid purple and transparent clear dice were all inked with a Mitsubishi Signo Pigment Ink UM-153 Broad White pen. The broad tip was too wide to fill in the numbers and spilled over the edge of the valleys (dunno what you call the indentations). Through trial and error, the best method was
* wearing latex gloves as the ink can stick to fingerprints
* do half the die and let it dry
* do the other half and let dry
* slightly dampen a paper towel with 99% alchohol and gently rub off the excess around the indentations.

The result was far better than I had hoped. Previous tries with Sharpie paint pens were failures and I wrecked a couple good dice.

3) The other opaque dice were inked with a Y&C Permawriter II (03) pen. The 03 size ended up being best and the Y&C ink stuck after a single swipe and hasn't faded. I found other permanent pens weren't so permanent when it came to the gamescience dice.  

Of the three methods, the Y&C dark pen inking was by far the fastest, and I can do a d20 in a couple of minutes with a steady hand. The white pen was the longest to do and needed some gear and several steps. But this was fun to do and yielded the coolest results. The crayon was almost as long as the white ink, looks good, but made a mess of my carpet.

Thanks for the observations LG. Excellent!

Love the pumpkin dice. I have a set of those. You may have convinced me to get a set of opaque lime green dice too.

Quote from: FASERIP;543705Those d7s are pieces of shit, obviously not fair dice at all.

Is it obvious?

I once rolled a d7 seven thousand times and recorded the results. Really. The results were that it was essentially fair. The only two results that were somewhat out of line were one of the sides and one of the edges, if you follow me, suggesting that it was a fluke rather than something in the construction of the die itself (otherwise, both of the flat sides should be unfair if one of them is).

Quote from: Fifth Element;555975Is it obvious?

I once rolled a d7 seven thousand times and recorded the results. Really. The results were that it was essentially fair. The only two results that were somewhat out of line were one of the sides and one of the edges, if you follow me, suggesting that it was a fluke rather than something in the construction of the die itself (otherwise, both of the flat sides should be unfair if one of them is).

...or the one that you tried was warped in some way.

Obtain four more of these dice,perform the same test, and get back to us with the results.