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Thread: Got any Dice Questions?
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2010-09-11, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Do you have any antique dice?
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2010-09-12, 10:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-10-02, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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September 2010 Highlights
If you are not interested in new or rare dice that were inventoried this month ... Please ignore this post
Click on the the D120 by Shapeways Artist SirisC (above) for highlights of dice added in September 2010
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2010-10-02, 07:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
That die looks like a pain to read. Is it easier then it looks?
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2010-10-02, 08:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Yes ... it is easy to read
Here is My D120 made several years ago .. it significantly larger than the Shapeways one
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2010-10-02, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Hey, Mr. Cook, have you ever made a die?
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2010-10-03, 07:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yes ... many .. CLICK HERE
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2010-10-16, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hey Kevin, do you know if Chessex ever made speckled six-sided d3s? Their website lists opaque ones, but I think the one I have might be a manufacturing error - It's neither polished or painted, and it came out of one of the Pound O' Dice bags the FLGS got in a little while back. It's orange/white speckled, 16mm, rounded corners, with numbers, and has 1-3 twice with the same numbers opposite each other and turned 90 degrees to the other side.
I actually only noticed that it's a d3 today when I was moving dice around and it suddenly occurred to me that a round-corner Chessex d6 should normally have pips instead of numbers, and that's when I noticed inspecting it again that it's a d3. I'd previously just been happy to have come across a non-tumbled one so I'd never really given it closer thought than 'oh cool a raw one'. I'd take a picture but this thing is nearly impossible to read and wouldn't photograph well.
It's kind of puzzling me.
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2010-10-16, 07:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Kevin_Cook; 2010-12-03 at 11:45 AM.
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2010-10-16, 08:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Would certainly explain why it got pulled for the seconds pile so early, before it got finished at all. The numbering(and number pattern) looks like the opaque six-sided d3s I've found pictures of, which do use rounded corners, so I guess they just wound up using the wrong plastic mix to mold it, or the wrong mold.
Not that I'm complaining. I have a fondness for error things, so 'raw six-sided d3 accidentally made in the wrong colour' wins a couple of awesome points. XD;
The real question is, when I get around to re-building my spreadsheet for counting how many I have of each type, whether to count it as a d6 or a d3. :PLast edited by Nai_Calus; 2010-10-16 at 08:42 PM.
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2010-10-17, 03:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-12-03, 11:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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October 2010 Highlights
Yea .. I know I am late .. this is the October update .. and we are now in December ... November SHOULD be right behind this one
If you are not interested in new or rare dice that were inventoried this month ... Please ignore this post
Click on the the Windows D6 by Shapeways Artist Friz (above) for highlights of dice added in October 2010
BTW .. if anyone can show me proof of the name of the shape of this die ... I will send you a special die
The designer calls it a ISOHEDRAL TRAPEZOIDAL HEXAHEDRON ... and YES .. this is a fair die
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2010-12-03, 12:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: October 2010 Highlights
What's wrong with this name?
"Isohedral" means that every face has the same shape (for example, this is not isohedral); "Trapezoidal" indicates that each face has the shape of a trapezoid (namely a figure with four sides and one pair of parallel sides); "Hexahedron" simply means that it is a polyhedron with six faces.
More than a name it simply is a description of the dice itself.
By this description we could call the d4 as an Isohedral Triangular Tetrahedron.
EDIT: very interesting die, by the way. Creative, too: I just noticed on your site that the number of holes in the "window" that make up every face of the die, is the outcome of the die... Very creative.Last edited by Cicciograna; 2010-12-03 at 12:35 PM.
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2010-12-03, 12:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-12-03, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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November 2010 Highlights
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Click on the "Chained D6" by Shapeways Artist Stop4Stuff (above) for highlights of dice added in November 2010
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2010-12-03, 01:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-12-03, 01:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: October 2010 Highlights
Sort of
As I recall .. from back in the dim misties ... back when I received my math minor ... each shape has a proper mathematical name ... for instance
1 Frequency Snub Cuboctahedral Geodesic Sphere
or
Rhombitruncated Icosidodecahedron
The reason I am asking is ... I always try to give the accurate shape name when I post it to the SHAPES PAGELast edited by Kevin_Cook; 2010-12-03 at 01:27 PM.
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2010-12-04, 02:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Got any Dice Questions?
Kevin, thanks for this thread, it's been a really fascinating read.
Do you have any fractional dice? I have a green d10 numbered {1/10,2/10,3/10,...,10/10} but no knowledge of its origin. Also, if you don't have one I'd be happy to send it your way.
Also, in regards to:
Hoplite, I know of one d12-based system, Pokethulhu.
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2010-12-04, 06:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-01-02, 06:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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December 2010 Highlights
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Usually it is a struggle to choose a 'die of the month' ... this month .. it was easy ...
Click on the "Frameless d4" by Shapeways Artist Mctrivia (above) for highlights of dice added in December 2010
Last edited by Kevin_Cook; 2011-01-02 at 06:39 PM.
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2011-01-08, 03:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Do you have a listing of dice that are normal in every respect but have a single number replaced with an image? I know I've seen some on your site in various places. I love looking through your pictures but I'm stuck at home right now with a 56k connection. Loading up that many images at once is painful.
I suppose my real questions would be "Do you have any of these?" and "If so, can you tell me anything about them (series, etc)?" I could find nothing after a cursory Google search.
I received these in my first Chessex Pound-O-Dice last year. This is a lower resolution but higher quality shot than what was up previously. Redneck engineering FTW! Canvas dice bag + flashlight + cell camera works just fine. It's a vertical sword overlaid on a sun symbol.
I received these in my next Pound-O-Dice today. I believe they're felines of some form but I can also see these being Transformers or something like that. Disregard the other dice, I was recording my purchase for posterity.
Both are thumbnails. Click for a bigger picture.Last edited by Kaulesh; 2011-01-08 at 09:22 PM.
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2011-01-08, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Speaking of a die with one number replaced by a symbol, is there a name for this style of die?
As an example, I had these made a couple of years ago for a gaming convention (the other die sides have regular numbers on them):
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2011-01-10, 10:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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I believe that the dice that you are asking about are
Mechwarrior Faction dice by WizKids
As to having a theme for dice with a single side replaced with a symbol ... that would be titanic in size ... as I would guess that I have 20000 or so dice like this
I have never heard of a name for that type of die
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2011-01-10, 12:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-02-05, 07:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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January 2011 Highglights
If you are not interested in new or rare dice that were inventoried this month ... Please ignore this post
I need YOUR HELP identifying some dice this month ... please see the first section of the hightlights
Click on the "Powers of 2 die" by Shapeways Artist Mctrivia (above) for highlights of dice added in January 2011
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2011-02-05, 07:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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So my question is thus: How many dice have you added in the 3.5 years since you first posted this thread?
Feels weird to type 3.5 and not mean an editionLast edited by BobVosh; 2011-02-05 at 07:57 AM.
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2011-02-05, 10:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-02-06, 12:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Interesting. You started collecting in 1977 and yet in the last 3ish years you got a 50% increase to your collection. Is it because there are a lot more dice types, or you can just afford more?
Have you considered using glue on them to make a super die, and then using that to beat an elephant to death with it?Originally Posted by Alabenson
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2011-02-06, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-02-14, 04:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Just got a book about dice games for Valentine, yay.
Some professor invented 21 games with a D4, D10, D12, D20 and combinations thereof. There's also some info on the origin (bones?) and mythology of dice and several websites are mentioned
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He has over 6000 dice (an amateur compared to you but more than I have ) and some antiques are shown (with naked ladies no less)
Do you know of any other people who wrote games for dice other dan a D6 ?