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i still use the first set if dice i bought 32 years ago...armory dark blue...love them. if you want the old school feel, try Gamescience dice....they have the okd school feel with tge sharp edges...thet come inked and non inked...i have a set of them also...nice dice....a bif pricey compared to regular chessex or koplow dice but nice nonetheless
I still use my set of hard-edged, multicolored, transparent crystal dice I bought in 1983.
Yellow d20, blue d12, green d10, orange d8, red d6, and clear d4.
The numbers were unpainted, so most gamers used a white crayon to fill in the numbers.
They're still my favorite dice... except if you step on one while barefoot.
That's really cool, though.
I prefer the round edged dice, but then I started gaming in the late 90s.
I buy Chessex dice almost exclusively now, but I still have a few of the old razor edged dice. Most of my original set is gone, but I bought a set with the d5, d3, d14, and d24 in it just for the novelty a few years back. I don't use them often as the numbers aren't painted and my old eyes have a hard time reading them. But I might buy a painted set just for nostalgia's sake.
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Great thread!
I am a Full-Blown, Grade A, No Apologies, Dice Geek!!! so I love talking about dice :)
My first set of dice was indeed the old, color in the numbers variety. They came in my then brand new D&D game box back around 1979 (actually, TSR was experiencing a dice shortage due to the game's massive but unexpected popularity, so my box came with sheets of numbered cutout cardstock chits to use instead of dice, along with a coupon for ordering the dice directly from TSR once they got them back in stock)
I still have most of the dice that came in my copy of the Tom Moldvay D&D Basic Set from 1983, although they're pretty badly chewed up now. (They were made of low-quality softish plastic.)
But two weirdish dice I still like and still use are a pair of tiny opaque plastic d20s numbered 0-9 twice that came in a box set with a game from the early '80s called Psi World. I think they're 12mm in size. Like most polyhedral dice in those days, they're unpainted, so I colored one set of 0-9 in black and the other in red.
[EDIT: Hey! The PDF is available from DriveThru—linked! Whodathunkit?!]
The game wasn't very good, but the art was pretty decent and mostly by Bill Willingham.
I have lost too many dice :( But that was part of playing as an disorganized teenager.
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I can honestly say that in the 30 years I've been gaming I've actually lost less than a dozen dice. Now I've bought and traded or given away sets to friends, but seldom lost any. I'm almost obsessive about my dice and have two "super sets", one a small wooden chest made up of complete, matching sets and a large glass candy jar made up of incomplete and individual dice that aren't part of any sets that I've acquired over the years, many from friends who were getting out of the game. The most recent estimate of how many dice I have is roughly 500 individual dice.
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I still have 5 of the original set of six dice I bought when I started playing D&D back in 1981/1982. Sadly, the d10 was lost in an RV on a trip from Southern CA to Northern CA a few years later... They are solid black (I had to color in the numbers) and the d20 is numbered 0-9 twice.
Now, I keep the dice that I use regularly in a cigar box made of real cherry wood (older dice are kept in plastic tubs).
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A Bill Willingham and Dice related story
I loved playing Villains and Vigilantes in the early 80's - and the artwork was what first drew me to the boxed set of the rules (but the dice that came in the box I believe were made out of sugar, or the powder that is in Pixie Stixs, I swear after rolling them a few times they just started to disintegrate on their own).
So one of my regular players (I was always the GM for our D&D and V&V games back then) had dated Bill Willingham a few years before she moved to California. While we were playing one Saturday she tells me that he is coming to Los Angeles for business and that they are going to hang out for a day or two. I ask her if she wants to bring him to my house and my wife will make lasagna for dinner.
That's how I got to meet Bill Willingham, and he signed my V&V modules as well as a few comics of his I had collected. He was a very friendly person, and told me the first hand story of his experience with the Palace of the Silver Princess module (B3). It was a great night.
Awesome! Bill Willingham was one of my favorite of the old school D&D artists and we also played a fair amount of Villains and Vigilantes (and Bill Willingham and Jeff Dee's art was what first attracted me as well)
Willingham re-used the vilain team "The Destroyers," which were first included in Villains and Vigilantes, in his independent comic book series Elementals from the mid-80s.
I picked up a graphic novel compilation of the first six issues of Elementals at a used book store back in the early '90s, mainly because I recognized Willigham as the artist. (I hadn't encountered that series before.) Reading it then, I remember wondering where I'd seen the Destroyers before...