Nai_Calus
May 31, 2008, 01:57 AM
Yeah remember when I said I had more on the way? I WASN'T KIDDING.
Though, what the fuck, they were mailed cheapass standard airmail from Canada on Wednesday and they got here today. Even express doesn't come that fast from Canada. O_o
So! Without further ado, I present the latest of my servants. :3 Most of these are either older, usually from defunct companies, or newer gamescience dice. There's exactly one of the modern painted+polished type. Rest are all either blank or inked by hand.
http://www.iankunx.net/bouncyd20s.jpg
Bouncy d20s. Yes. Bouncy d20s. Two irregular, one standard icosahedron. They came with little blank stickers you can put whatever on and then stick to them. I plan to leave them blank.
http://www.iankunx.net/purpled20s.jpg
Some older d20s, uninked, numbered 0-9 twice. The photograph didn't capture these very well, they're effing gorgeous IRL.
http://www.iankunx.net/brownd10s.jpg
These on the other hand DID photograph well and you can see both aspects of the colour - The opaque brown and the translucent cherry coke-ish colour. These are made of AWESOME and WINSAUCE.
http://www.iankunx.net/pinkd6s.jpg
Pair of pearlescent uninked d6s. It's a manly pink. :wacko:
http://www.iankunx.net/assorted.jpg
Most of these are Gamescience except the d30, think that one's by the Armory. d20 is numbered 0-9 and +0-+9. The d10 is indeed blank. It, like the bouncy d20s, has stickers so you can put whatever on it. Like the bouncy d20s, I plan to leave it blank.
http://www.iankunx.net/mostlyuglydice.jpg
A set of mostly ugly dice of the type you can use without fear of them being stolen by the end of the session. The d20 and and one of the d10s are the same type as the purple d20s earlier, though, so those one might have to watch. The large d20 is the one modern-style die of the batch, a largeish Crystal Caste Otherworld Purple d20.
http://www.iankunx.net/fullset.jpg
For those of you anal about ALL your dice matching, a solution. A full set of twelve Gamescience dice, consisting of 1d3, 1d4, 1d5, 1d6, 1d8, 2d10, 1d12, 1d14, 1d16, 1d20 and 1d24. These are freaking gorgeous IRL, BTW, and some of them have almost a prismatic effect.
http://www.iankunx.net/oddballs.jpg
The oddball sizes: d3, d5, d14, d16 and d24.
http://www.iankunx.net/normals.jpg
The normal sizes.
I really love the un-polished kind of dice, especially transparent/translucent ones. They really bring out the shape of the dice in a way that the polished to hell and back style doesn't. (And for those anal about such things, Gamescience dice are supposed to be pretty much the fairest polyhedrals you can get) Standard d12s bore me, unpolished d12s give me a new appreciation for the dodecahedron.
Man, my geeky urges are through the roof tonight.
Well, time to update the counts!
d3: 2
d4: 26
d5: 2
d6: 158
d7: 2
d8: 15
d10: 67
d12: 19
d14: 2
d16: 3
d20: 42 (!)
d24: 3
d30: 2
d50: 1
Current total: 344, up exactly 50.
Clearly I need more.
Though, what the fuck, they were mailed cheapass standard airmail from Canada on Wednesday and they got here today. Even express doesn't come that fast from Canada. O_o
So! Without further ado, I present the latest of my servants. :3 Most of these are either older, usually from defunct companies, or newer gamescience dice. There's exactly one of the modern painted+polished type. Rest are all either blank or inked by hand.
http://www.iankunx.net/bouncyd20s.jpg
Bouncy d20s. Yes. Bouncy d20s. Two irregular, one standard icosahedron. They came with little blank stickers you can put whatever on and then stick to them. I plan to leave them blank.
http://www.iankunx.net/purpled20s.jpg
Some older d20s, uninked, numbered 0-9 twice. The photograph didn't capture these very well, they're effing gorgeous IRL.
http://www.iankunx.net/brownd10s.jpg
These on the other hand DID photograph well and you can see both aspects of the colour - The opaque brown and the translucent cherry coke-ish colour. These are made of AWESOME and WINSAUCE.
http://www.iankunx.net/pinkd6s.jpg
Pair of pearlescent uninked d6s. It's a manly pink. :wacko:
http://www.iankunx.net/assorted.jpg
Most of these are Gamescience except the d30, think that one's by the Armory. d20 is numbered 0-9 and +0-+9. The d10 is indeed blank. It, like the bouncy d20s, has stickers so you can put whatever on it. Like the bouncy d20s, I plan to leave it blank.
http://www.iankunx.net/mostlyuglydice.jpg
A set of mostly ugly dice of the type you can use without fear of them being stolen by the end of the session. The d20 and and one of the d10s are the same type as the purple d20s earlier, though, so those one might have to watch. The large d20 is the one modern-style die of the batch, a largeish Crystal Caste Otherworld Purple d20.
http://www.iankunx.net/fullset.jpg
For those of you anal about ALL your dice matching, a solution. A full set of twelve Gamescience dice, consisting of 1d3, 1d4, 1d5, 1d6, 1d8, 2d10, 1d12, 1d14, 1d16, 1d20 and 1d24. These are freaking gorgeous IRL, BTW, and some of them have almost a prismatic effect.
http://www.iankunx.net/oddballs.jpg
The oddball sizes: d3, d5, d14, d16 and d24.
http://www.iankunx.net/normals.jpg
The normal sizes.
I really love the un-polished kind of dice, especially transparent/translucent ones. They really bring out the shape of the dice in a way that the polished to hell and back style doesn't. (And for those anal about such things, Gamescience dice are supposed to be pretty much the fairest polyhedrals you can get) Standard d12s bore me, unpolished d12s give me a new appreciation for the dodecahedron.
Man, my geeky urges are through the roof tonight.
Well, time to update the counts!
d3: 2
d4: 26
d5: 2
d6: 158
d7: 2
d8: 15
d10: 67
d12: 19
d14: 2
d16: 3
d20: 42 (!)
d24: 3
d30: 2
d50: 1
Current total: 344, up exactly 50.
Clearly I need more.