I have a simple black cloth bag I got from a place called Jillians in Boston they used it to hold tokens for the video games or the fake poker chips you could buy to play black jack; (not real money because gambling is not allowed in Boston.) I have had it for at least 10 years or so. I may need something new though dice are building up even as I give some away to my neice and newphew. There are some great ideas out there.
My original dice bag & dice were stolen from a game shop I was playing at so I bought a new set of dice and bag about 12 yrs ago.
It's just a large size plain brown leather dice bag with no markings and since I only use 3 sets of the same type of dice I'm fine.
I bought my dice when the 6's came 4 to a tube and the 10's were of diffrent colored instead of 10's,20's etc.
Crown Royal is seems to be the 'industry standard', and I still use them. (Actually have the 'original' one I started with , oh ### of years ago!) ;P As well as few long, skinny, dark blue velvety ones from who knows where that I use for various things. (Oddball dice, figures for that game session, etc.)
Back before Katrina I used to attend a convention on the coast every year with a group of guys who went by the name of 'KUDZU' (Stood for <something> Underground Dashiki Zealots Union) ;)
The unifying theme was that every year they would make a new batch of matching, outrageous, Dashikis, with different matching accessory each year. (Usually a Hat or headband)
One year the accessory was a dice bag, made from black material with LOTS of tiny green frogs on it. It was pretty large, and I use it to hold the old original Crown Royal bag-o-dice! (Yes, I am another who uses a dice bag, to hold a dice bag that holds dice!) ;P
Ah yes, Dragon Dice! I obviously didn't get as 'into it' as some others of you, (I couldn't afford to!) But I agree, there was a fun game hidden under there,... somewhere! And I still have my collection in a shoe box. Which is in one of my MANY still-packed gaming boxes! :)
I just recently ordered the Critical Hit/Fumble decks and thought I might as well get a dice bag in the process. So I ordered a red one with a dragon, along with the decks.
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I LOVE Dragon Dice. I have 6 tackleboxes full of Dragon Dice. I don't know if you knew this, but another company had picked up on the license and is making them again (or at least was at GenCon a couple years back)!{deep, rasping sigh}
Ah, yes. Dragon Dice. A nice idea, and there was obviously some tactical refinements to the game that ended up on the editing room floor. I've probably got as many of the little suckers as you do, dmchucky69, and I never quite got over the feeling that the game would end up being fun, if only I bought one ... more ... case of Magestorm, or whatever the current supplement was.Did you buy the "Cast of Fate" novel? Apparently, nobody at TSR told Allen Varney that his wordcount was going to be reduced by 15% to drill out the pages and make room for the die. According to James Ernest, Dragon Dice was one the nails in the TSR coffin. "They could have paved their parking lot in unsold Dragon Dice."
My friends and I, we ended up writing a territory-exploration game using Dragon Dice. Each terrain on a large board held a monster or two (or a dragon) and a selection of Magestorm treasure items, which you could use to buy mercenary "horde" armies. We called it "Esfah, a Fun Game to Play with Dragon Dice." (We were snotty, we were.)
We were on vacation in Flagstaff, Arizona when we decided to look for a gamestore in town several years back. We found the only gamestore in town and mentioned to the owner that we were collecting Dragon Dice. He laughed and told us that he had a cardboard box in the back full of Dragon Dice that he would sell us for 100 bucks. Well we took him up on his offer, went back to our hotel room, and my wife dumped the dice out on the bed. Turned out we got over 1000 dice out of that purchase, including Premiums. It's one of my fave gamestore memories (I really miss the thrill of going to gamestores, since I refuse to do the 4th Edition thing).
I remember that TSR did a VERY limited run of The Feral booster and trying to find Frost Wings boosters was all but impossible. But we used to check every gamestore we could find on vacation to find these booster packs. Bought a lot of Magestorm and we even picked up the Battle Box! Good times.
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I always find the Crown Royal bags cool. But I used to actually keep my dice in a Black BACARDI bag. It always stood out from all the purple CR bags at the table.
We are going to try to go to GenCon this year if both my wife and I can get a job soon (my wife just found out that she is getting laid off at the end of February and I have been unemployed since we moved to Arkansas). She loves going to the Chessex and Crystal Caste booths and buying a crapload of dice at each!
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My wife knits so I have a large selection of dice bags. Check out my collection here. :)
I currently have two crown royal bags, four dragon dice bags, and 2 D&D bags that came with the "premium" dice set just before 4e came out.. you know.. the green dice..
I had thought about "upgrading" to an art box, or tackle box, or even one of those clear boxes you can find at home depot or lowes..
My wife knits so I have a large selection of dice bags. Check out my collection here. :)
Those look really nice.
Is it just me or do they have a chainmail look to them?
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My wife knits so I have a large selection of dice bags. Check out my collection here. :)Those look really nice.
Is it just me or do they have a chainmail look to them?
The Blacadder and Amethyst bags do.
This thread has inspired me to press-gang my GF into knitting me a dice bag for my birthday...something Lovecraftian might be nice.
Call me a traditionalist. Crown Royal. :)
Call me a traditionalist. Crown Royal. :)
Same here, he he.
[Conan]The dicebag I use is the cured scrotum of an internet troll.... but it only holds 1d4.[/Conan]
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Those look really nice.
Is it just me or do they have a chainmail look to them?
They do indeed look deceptively chainmail like, but they're real soft and durable. It really make collecting dice more enjoyable. :)
We've been sort of hunting around for a way to sell a few, but nothing's panned out so far.
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We've been sort of hunting around for a way to sell a few, but nothing's panned out so far.
May I suggest Etsy?
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Those look really nice.
Is it just me or do they have a chainmail look to them?They do indeed look deceptively chainmail like, but they're real soft and durable. It really make collecting dice more enjoyable. :)
We've been sort of hunting around for a way to sell a few, but nothing's panned out so far.
They are very cool, I want one. Though, living in Australia, postage would be a killer.
Does your wife have a pattern??
I actually used a Deck Box, designed for CCG's because my dice bags kept falling apart. It's worked out pretty well, I can even fit a painted mini in it and know it'll be relatively safe from my back pack being sloshed around. I've been meaning to pick up a nice new dice bag though, the box isn't very formal.
At home I use a couple clear plastic storage boxes with dividers for the "house dice", as in the dice people use who are either new or forgot theirs.
small, brown, felt bag with drawstrings. no problems since i only have 2 sets of dice. i can't remember where i got it, but i've had it for over 20 years.
Crown Royal bag that I have had forever, my dad gave it to me for dice. At the time i didn't even know what it was from. I just thought the purple was pretty.
How do your dice roll for you, out of that bag? I always the thought the unwritten rule was you had to empty the Crown first - the old fashioned way - before you could use the bag. Otherwise, your dice were cursed. Always fun when a Crown bag needs replacing!! Is it bad to say we have 3 of these bags floating around our group?
Crown Royal bag that I have had forever, my dad gave it to me for dice. At the time i didn't even know what it was from. I just thought the purple was pretty.How do your dice roll for you, out of that bag? I always the thought the unwritten rule was you had to empty the Crown first - the old fashioned way - before you could use the bag. Otherwise, your dice were cursed. Always fun when a Crown bag needs replacing!! Is it bad to say we have 3 of these bags floating around our group?
I hope that's not all alone, cause when I use CR bags, I use the ones from the 1/2 gallons.... I'd be dead.
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I currently have four :
1) for the bad guys, monsters, etc.. (Blue Denim , self made)
2) for the current NPC or PC I'm playing(thin fabric with warrior design)
3) for the playre who forgot his dice thre's ALWAYS one (red velvet, self made)
4) for a backup to th first three. (silver, from perfume bottle donated to the cause by the wife)
Currently I`m using a fuzzy blue & pink change purse for my dice bag...it`s so girly *lol*. I only have my set of dice & two d8s that one of my friends I game with gave me right now, so I don`t need that much storage...yet :P
I`m planning on making one; found a easy pattern online & have some ideas on how to customize it :)
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I use a beautiful stained wooden cigar box. Held 25 of some of the finest cigars I have smoked!
And the only odor left behind was that of Spanish Cedar...
For "traveling" though, I have various cloth and velvet bags (including the prerequisite Crown Royal Bag)...
-That One Digitalelf Fellow-
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We've made one of our dice bags available for purchase if anyone's interested? You can find the details on my blog: Random Generation.
Cheers!
I use the bag that came with the special edition of Ruins of Myth Drannor computer game for my player set of dice. The sticker has fallen off and it always comes open but I still like it.
Better yet, I use Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans Bag for my DM set.
Ziplock Freezer Bag (one gallon size).
I want a dice bag like this.
I have a plaid red cotton or wool sachet, that has a red chord sewn in to close it.
My primary dice bag is a hand-made crocheted dice bag in Indianapolis Colts blue-and-white that my wife made for me. My old Crown Royal bag now carries miniatures. I have a secondary bag just for my WoD d10s, which is a small black bag that came with a set of dice.
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I thought the crown royal bag was just my players. Wow.
Since forever, I've been using the bag that ponchos come in, it's a mesh style bag.
When I started dating my wife, she liked dice so much, she purchased THREE 'pound-o-dice'. We use a lychee jelly container to hold them all, and the group has taken to calling it "The Dice bucket"
My wife will spontaneously started sewing a new dice bag at the table while gaming (I have no idea where she gets the material, or where she hides it) and gives her old one out to my players, who treasure the damn things; they keep their 'favorite dice' in it, and then that goes into their crown royal bag.
I also played with a guy who used an ammo can for his dice.
On a random note, thinking back, my players have always had crown royal bags for dice bags, and we've been playing since we were 15 or so. How did they get those back then?
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MY dice go in a chainmail dice bag, like so.
I also always bring my pound-o-dice for people who need them and the times when I need to roll a lot at once, and those are kept in a Crown Royale bag.
Well my personal dice are in a chainmail bag I got as a birthday gift from a friend a few years back, I have a plastic box of some sort to keep random "community dice" in, and I have a bunch of d6s for Shadowrun, Champions, etc in a Pocket from a pair of pants. The pants are interesting in that the pocket came off during a game of D&D as the pants basically were shredded during some horseplay on a smoke break. I ended up pantsless.... Luckily I had worn a pair of mesh shorts underneath or it could have been embarrassing. The pocket however ripped off perfectly and it just became a dice bag. What can you expect I was like 17 at the time.
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I use a Spiderman tin lunchbox we thought we were ordering two and got two cases... its big enough to fit the crit hit/miss deck and plenty of pencils/pens/markers as well as dice
I use a Spiderman tin lunchbox we thought we were ordering two and got two cases... its big enough to fit the crit hit/miss deck and plenty of pencils/pens/markers as well as dice
Two cases? How many were there to a case?
I thought the crown royal bag was just my players. Wow.
Nah, every group I've ever played with since 1989 has had at least one joker with a CR bag. I had one at one point, and probably still do, but I don't use it anymore. Currently, I use a big brown leather beltpouch which I've had for about 15 years, and was the first thing I ever bought at the Renaissance Festival in Crownsville, MD. The leather drawstring is a bit worn (yes, I know it's called a thong, but how would people react if I said my leather thong was worn?), and might need replacing in a year or two.
It depends.
If I'm going into the great unknown of a new campaign or if I'm playing some character who rolls alot of dice at once then I use a canvas drawstring bag to hold all the little wonderful numbers.
If I'm playing something that doesn't need alot of dice I usually use one of those small "snack size" ziplock bags and just carry 1-2 of each type that I'll need.
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Arise thread.
(Now that that bit of necromancy is accomplished.)
I used to use a Crown Royal bag (still have it, it's just not being used for anything at the moment.)
I now keep my dice in one of these Classic RPG Map Dice bag
I used to use a dice bag that I hand-sewed myself nearly 20 years ago that's made out a piece of blue broadcloth. I used some rawhide shoelaces for the drawstring.
I still have that bag, and use it for my "backup dice".
About five years ago, my then-9-year-old gave me a new dice bag for Christmas. She had examined my old dice bag, and hand-sewed a very similar bag out of gray broadcloth. She also drew a dragon on red felt, cut it out, and hand-sewed that onto the side of the bag. For a drawstring, she used a shoelace from a pair of sneakers she'd outgrown.
Honestly, I think I have the best dice bag in the universe.