I'm a compulsive collector when it comes to dice. I like to own tons of them, and they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I'm not a "serious" collector, in the sense that I would have thousands upon thousands of them and search for rare dice during months until I'd buy them on eBay or in auctions or whatever, but like most gamers, I imagine, I like to buy a box a shiny new polyhedrons once in a while, and when you've been gaming for some time well... the shiny candy tends to pile up and take over several jars, if you see what I mean.

Anyway. I got tons of dice, but I always find myself using the same two or three specific sets in my games. The main set I use is translucent and dark inky blue in tone (with a buttload of d10 in the same hue I use for my WoD games; I'll post a pic later in this thread). I just love their feel and color, mostly.

So, my question to you is: do you have a favorite dice set, or sets, that you use all the time? Why do you use them? Superstition, color, feel, emotional attachment to them?

Talk to me about your dice!

I'm shallow.  If it's got a good weight, nice colors, a good polish, then I'll use it regardless of sentiment.

Although I have this weird thing about keeping sets together.  I won't take a d20 from one set and throw it in with other dice.  I usually throw a couple of standard sets together, and then add some d6's (if it's D&D and I'm playing a spellcaster, which is most of the time for me).

I recently lost a d4 from one of my premium sets, though.  Kind of bugs me, since I know it has to be floating around my friend's house somewhere, but I'll probably never see it again.

My favorite set of dice?  Probably the nMage set, since I love the dark blue and the highlighted success numbers are practical.

I have a set of Pewter percentile dice known to some of my players as "the Tablewreckers".  They are rough-looking, and will beat the hell out of an oak table.  I use them only in times of dire need.  

They were sold through Gamescience, but I don't think they sell them anymore--Col. Lou said two Gen Cons ago that the percentile or tens dice (can't remember which) had been stolen out of his garage of something.

Edit: Here they are:

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My wife also picked out some dice for me when we were first married--I keep those in a special dice bag, apart from the others.  They're just a hodgepodge of Chessex varieties, but they're very special for me.

I need some cool new d6s--I had Traveller dice, but one of them cracked!

Quote from: Peregrin;366493My favorite set of dice?  Probably the nMage set, since I love the dark blue and the highlighted success numbers are practical.

You're talking about these guys, I presume?

Quote from: Benoist;366495You're talking about these guys, I presume?

Yep.  They're a good set of dice, IMO, and I like the small dicebag that comes with them.

A friend of mine bought me these glow-in-the-dark Cthulhu dice. They're not hugely practical, but they're still my favorite, being a gift and all.

Other than that, I have buckets of dice -- probably my favorite beyond these are the two dice I have left over from my D&D Basic Set when I was ten years old. They're old, blue, crumbling, and still have bits of white crayon on the numbers. Not much left of them, but lots of sentimental value.

Quote from: Zachary The First;366494Edit: Here they are:

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Ah, Zach. These guys gotta meet my Iron Heroes d20. Oh yeah. They'd make good partners to wreck a table. LOL

I've a set of Crystal Caste, "Brushed Steel" metal dice, full sized. They're my favorites. I've always wanted some quartz ones. I've also been hoping to find a good replacement set of glow in the dark dice. Koplow I think used to make some decent ones but my set disappeared.

I went thru a phase where I wanted a complete set d4 3d6 d8 d10 d100 d12 d20 in each of the rainbow ROYGBIV colours. A solid opaque with white numbers. It was harder to find them all than you'd think, especially orange and violet.

My favorite set of dice is my 6-dice set of Root-Beer brown translucent dice.  I bought this dice set in 1986 at my LFGS, the Last Grenadier in Burbank, CA.  This set is my personal set and no one else can use them.  I just liked the color name since it was unique compared to other Armory dice sets.  Years ago, I was given a Marlboro poker dice set with a black leather pouch.  My root beer dice are the only dice kept in that pouch now.


The picture is from Kevin Cook's collection.

That would be my Gamescience dice pictured here:

http://gamedevonline.net/

There's a few Chessex d6's in there, used for dice pools. I like the translucent colors though...

I've always had horrible luck with dice. So bad in fact that my group actually noticed and would tease me about how bad I rolled almost all the time. So, I bought gamescience dice and haven't looked back.

Quote from: Benoist;366491do you have a favorite dice set, or sets, that you use all the time? Why do you use them? Superstition, color, feel, emotional attachment to them?

These, for nostalgia reasons and emotional attachment. But I only use them for Basic D&D or Swords & Wizardry:



For Microlite 20 (which is not that different from the above ones) and other modern d20 variants I use a set of hand picked Chessex speckled dice, with the d20 being an original, violet-ish TORG die and the d10 being an original, brown-ish Shatterzone die.
When both games were out of the limelight, and at least the TORG box didn't even contain the original die anymore (in later printings it was replaced by a cheap, white d20), West End Games sold leftover dice at their booth at Gen Con. There were ca. 40 dice each in two glass jars. I bought all of them.
(And one of the others is a red-ish die that I believe comes from the regular Chessex colour range but I got it from being a subscriber to the French magazine, Backstab, which lends it a certain special-ness as well.)

I don't frequently dwell on dice.  I have a lot of them, and certainly had my favorites for the duration of a campaign.

But since we're talking about them, I did have a comment to make:  Since the advent of d20, my twenty siders are like some sort of cocaine with my group.  They keep walking off with them.  The other day, I had to check three spots just to find a damn d20.  I'm restocking this weekend.

Bastards.

I reach into the plastic ziplock and grab whatever dice I need at random. It doesn't matter what dice I roll. I don't replace my dice if I'm rolling bad, or blame them in any way, nor do I credit them when I'm rolling good. They're just randomizers, and they generate random numbers. I am just as happy generating those random numbers on a computer. They're a tool, and that's all. When my players do their little dice superstitions, I just roll my eyes. Whatever! Let's get on with the game!

That people actually have pictures of their dice blows my mind! Do you guys carry them around in your wallets? :O

-clash