So the videos of Lou Zocchi currently making their way around the internet are making me nostalgic for the terrible old dice that came with Blue Box D&D. In particular, I have "fond" memories of a blue d12 whose edges were so worn that it rarely actually came to a stop by itself, and certainly was incapable of producing random numbers.
However, Google is failing me; I'm unable to find pictures of these horrors.
Does anyone have pictures, or know where I could find any?
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So the videos of Lou Zocchi currently making their way around the internet are making me nostalgic for the terrible old dice that came with Blue Box D&D. In particular, I have "fond" memories of a blue d12 whose edges were so worn that it rarely actually came to a stop by itself, and certainly was incapable of producing random numbers.
However, Google is failing me; I'm unable to find pictures of these horrors.
Does anyone have pictures, or know where I could find any?
I still have those dice. They are horribly chiped and worn. Two of the tips on the d4 have broken off and now it's a d6. I'll see if I can dig them out and put a picture on photobucket.
Heh . . . one of the guys in my group just found a set of his ancient dice and has been using them on game night . . . these one's are painfully yellow.
Here are the two I have knocking around. They've certainly seen some use! I don't know what happened to the others...
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Here are the two I have knocking around. They've certainly seen some use! I don't know what happened to the others...
Good lord! The white-ish one looks like a rock with numbers on it! I left my dice over where I game so I'll have to wait til after thursday to get mine and take some pics. I'll also take a pic of my 'example' die, the one d20 that rolled 1s 3 times in a row then proceeded to roll nothing over an 8 for the next 10 rolls. I had to punish it and now I set it on a large Dragon Dice die above the others as an example. My dice seem to know not to fail me too badly now....
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Here are the two I have knocking around. They've certainly seen some use! I don't know what happened to the others...
What's weird is that those are the 2 that I still have as well. You can actually see the impact craters on the edges of the 20-sider.
I think these are from original boxed set and maybe even Gamma World, and or Top Secret as well. That's the only reason I could assume I have duplicates.
Well I would post the jpeg picture if I knew how. Can't get it to copy and paste. Any suggestions?
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I think these are from original boxed set and maybe even Gamma World, and or Top Secret as well. That's the only reason I could assume I have duplicates.
Well I would post the jpeg picture if I knew how. Can't get it to copy and paste. Any suggestions?
Post them on FlickR or some other photo-hosting site and link to it here. This site doesn't allow images posted in the body of the messages so as to keep it looking clean.
Here are the two I have knocking around. They've certainly seen some use! I don't know what happened to the others...
That's what I'm talking about! The d12 is in pretty decent shape, but the d20 ... wow.
Thanks!
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RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16
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Trivia note: that set of dice (yellow tetrahedron, orange cube, green octohedron, blue dodecahedron, pink and white (0 - 9 repeated) icosahedra) were originally marketed by a classroom supply company. They were intended to be rolled a few times, two or three days per school year.
The same company also sold randomizing spinners. In the late 1980's, veterans at TSR tried to convince us newbie freelancers that the early days of D&D were touch-and-go, that there had been a strong push among some designers to use spinners rather than dice.