Well lets see though my vision is clouded in the smokey room my eyes never miss the site of a CR bag. My opinion is they are a staple for a gamer, sort of an iniciate into gaming. As a lowly delivery boy I used one as my change purse, til it gathered holes and I was forced to get a new one(another bottle down the gullet).
Not to mention the royal colors of the king's bag (hello the CR bag) of purple and gold makes it like you are bringing Royal goods to a gaming session.
MY VOTE IS STAPLE
p.s. can someone pour me another shot I have smoke in my eye?!?
Staple
I owned 2 in my early gaming days (20+ years ago)and still get a little sentimental about them now.
Now I own, 1 Adventurer's Guild Retail Play dice duffel bag (con games), 1 nice regular one with some great dragon art that I got at Gencon, a Cthulhu Dice Goblin from dicegoblins.com (fancy bag), and my wife has made my daughter and herself a couple of nice foldout bags with inside compartments that look like normal bags when folded up.
....and yes, thats a lot of dice bags but I have a heck of a lot more dice than they can hold, we're talkin' a candy jar of d6s and another 2 of mixed, not counting specials wich I keep seperate.
SO, yeah...I'm a little out there.. ;)
I acquired my "purple & gold" quite by chance... When I was but a budding gamer ( I was around 13) and I had only been playing a year or two, my "girlfriend" gave me the same Crown Royal bag I still use today. I thought I was being cool because no other gamers in my area at the time had one. When I went to my first Dragon Con and saw other people carried them too I was a little disappointed at first... I wasn't so unique after all :(
But then I accepted my status as a die hard dork and I have sported my CRDB proudly ever since...
That's so weird that I just came across this thread... my girlfriend and I were just talking about this same subject... I haven't converted her into a gamer yet, but I'm starting to get through! (She was looking up dice online while I was off playing D&D at a friend's house... soon she will join us... mwah ha ha ha ha!!!)
Without a doubt the purple bag is a staple.
That being said my fave dice bad has to be this one:
That being said, I just use a plastic sewing kit to hold all my dice.
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Without a doubt the purple bag is a staple.
That being said my fave dice bad has to be this one:
That being said, I just use a plastic sewing kit to hold all my dice.
You sir, are quite sick! I want a kangaroo scrotum!
FH (Marsupial Maimer)
I used a handwoven coin bag I picked up in New Mexico for years before I aquired my first CR bag. Right now it holds my "First String" dice, while my bulk dice are kept in a wooden chest my girlfriend bought me.
Vote for Staple!
Without a doubt the purple bag is a staple.
That being said my fave dice bad has to be this one:
That being said, I just use a plastic sewing kit to hold all my dice.
That's a cool idea for a dice bag...a bag with balls!!!
That Crown Royal thing seems to be an U.S. thing. Crown Royal is seldom seen over here. I can´t remember seeing one recently, and I´m into whisky very much. But I won´t consider anything from America if I look for whisky anyway. I´d rather have a scottish single malt (got several).
I once had an old tobacco bag I used for my dice, but I left it at a convention, with the original crappy D&D dice from the basic and expert set in it. Thats probably been 15+ years ago, but I still bemoan the loss.
Stefan
My dice bag:
Dwarven Steel dice in a small, black leather bag. The black leather bag is held in a larger chainmail dice bag. The chainmail dice bag is, finally, held in a Crown Royale bag.
There IS a rationale to this. I don't want the nice steel dice damaged by the chainmail, hence the leather. I don't want the chainmail eating up my new bookshelf, where I keep the bag, hence the soft Crown Royale bag.
All this to say that I vote for Crown Royale Bag = Gaming Staple. But not an EXCLUSIVE staple, anyhow. :)
Staple, but...
Is it a bad thing if I have been using the same bag since 1980? It doesn't smell or anything.
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Without a doubt the purple bag is a staple.
That being said my fave dice bad has to be this one:
That being said, I just use a plastic sewing kit to hold all my dice.
My favorite thing is the website said a kangaroo bag would be a great wedding or Valentine's Day gift.
"Other wives get flowers, or candy. What do I get?" I can see this going over big.
Heraldry? Logo? Emblem?
I also just realized, I have a few Crown Royal bags I use as props for my games. One is filled with some large foreign coins (dinar from UAE) and another is ful of glass beads. Everytime, during a game, that PC/NPC interaction deals with a bag of coins or gems, I throw one of the bags down on the table.
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I suppose when we were too young to drink, Crown Royal bags could be seen as some sort of status symbol and subtle way to show how "rebellious" you were. Of course, nowadays a gamer might have to show up with a dice bag made from puppy skin in order to create any kind of a stir. I never saw the Bacardi bags, but black with silver embroidery probably looked cool.
Puppy skin dice bags? GENIUS!
I am a little hung over at work today because of this thread.
I spoke to a gamer friend (who doesn't frequent these boards) on the phone last night and told him that I had bought a bottle of Crown Royal. Without missing a beat he replied,
"Crown Royal? whaddija do? buy it for the bag?"without missing a beat!
it was priceless. based on that exchange I have to say "STAPLE".
That's great, LOL!!
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There IS a rationale to this. I don't want the nice steel dice damaged by the chainmail, hence the leather. I don't want the chainmail eating up my new bookshelf, where I keep the bag, hence the soft Crown Royale bag.
...why don't you just use the leather bag by itself? I'm just sayin'...
On the topic of the post, none of the people in my group use CR dice bags, despite the fact that we are all over 21. In fact... none of us use dice bags at all. Since only myself and one other person actually OWN dice, we just bring our big ol' dice box with us when we game and share the wealth with the other players. I have seen quite a few CR dice bags in the past, however, and I would certainly say that they're a staple.
Fatespinner,
Gotta have the chainmail bag in there somewhere. For my wedding (since my closest friends are all gamers), I gave my groomsmen all chainmail dice bags--and got one for myself. Call me sentimental. ;)
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There IS a rationale to this. I don't want the nice steel dice damaged by the chainmail, hence the leather. I don't want the chainmail eating up my new bookshelf, where I keep the bag, hence the soft Crown Royale bag....why don't you just use the leather bag by itself? I'm just sayin'...
On the topic of the post, none of the people in my group use CR dice bags, despite the fact that we are all over 21. In fact... none of us use dice bags at all. Since only myself and one other person actually OWN dice, we just bring our big ol' dice box with us when we game and share the wealth with the other players. I have seen quite a few CR dice bags in the past, however, and I would certainly say that they're a staple.