He and Gary Gygax* created Dungeons & Dragons and in their honor I'd like to once and for all expose myself for the geek I truly am.
These are my dice.
Swirly pink, sparkly magenta, iridescent purple, tiny glittery ones that I think would make fabulous earrings, even a spherical die with a weight inside to make it work. I've only ever used a few of them while gaming but have collected the others simply because they're pretty.
That rattle in my handbag? Now you know.
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I wish I knew what happened to my dice. I had a pretty good collection, myself
I second what Rustmeister said.
Where is your D100?
sigboy - I totally need one!
Sigboy-
What you're too cool to roll 2xD10???
Geeks!
Yep. Spent many an hour with D&D.
I still occasionally role an 'attitude check' (2D6). Frightens my subordinates. )
I recently found some of my dice..... which is truly amazing, considering they've been through 3 intercontinental moves since I played much......
D&D. A refuge for the kid with too much imagination for Cody Wyoming. Along with Lord of the Rings and Empire of the East (Fred Saberhagen), they helped make me who I am now. Whatever that is.
Mike
Hey, I recognize some of those dice - some of the opalescent set are in the glove box, and some of the glittery set are on the dresser, and there's always at least one d10 in my purse, right next to the multitool and the maglite...
RIP Dave & Gary, and thank you for the good times you gave us all, even when our DM's declared "rocks fall, everyone dies!"
As a fellow gamer of mine said "1d4 minutes of silence for our homies who went below -10"
all the courners wore off my dice many years ago. the 20 sided is nearly round.
"His name may be unfamiliar to you but generations of gamers owe many hours of [unemployment] to him"
Cardboard counter gamers rule, RPGers drool!
Shootin' Buddy
I used to have the three-booklet set (this would have been about 1982), and actually tried to run a game or two. I preferred RuneQuest, though, and I still have my Second Edition rulebook.
I still have a few cardboard-counter wargames too, but I prefer miniatures. I'm painting up some Crimean War plastics (bought dirt cheap at a convention) as fictitious armies for my sons for Christmas.
Ever see Gygax's cameo on Futurama? "Hi, it's a *rolls dice* pleasure to meet you!"
this is from when Gary died.
http://xkcd.com/393/
I still have mine in the same bag I've had them in for the last 20 years.
I have my whole set at my parent's house. All 2nd Ed.
We should have a blogger D&D party, LOL
At some point I gave up on bags and got a couple of those clear plastic fishing lure holders. I have a problem. I haven't played in years and I still want to buy dice...
Lee, I used the Crown Royal bags for dice, back then. Now, they only hold my chess pieces. Now there's a game what never goes out of style~!
Hey now, I still proudly carry my dice in a crown royal bag. I had to drink that whole damn bottle to get that bag, LOL.
Breda, hit any convention where tabletop RPGs have a presence. There's gonna be SOMEONE selling dice jewelry.
I know there was one last year at Dragon*Con. A friend of mine got some very nice earrings there :)
These are my favorite sets of dice, available in bone, hematite, or brushed steel, and giant copper or steel d20 as well:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/745a/
And a d20 necklace too!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/jewelry/7ae3/
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