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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.

TalHex
May 31, 2008, 10:40 AM
*wishes now that he had bought some dice at the con

Nitro Vordex
May 31, 2008, 10:43 AM
I feel like I need something to collect now. ;_;

*looks for his Sonic games*

astuarlen
May 31, 2008, 10:53 AM
The crisp-edged ones, especially the d6s, look very slick and clean. Amberesque dice are pretty awesome. It would be cool if they could embed a mosquito inside each. :E

Sord
May 31, 2008, 04:33 PM
http://www.iankunx.net/purpled20s.jpg
http://www.iankunx.net/brownd10s.jpg
http://www.iankunx.net/fullset.jpg

those would have to be my favs

Kylie
May 31, 2008, 04:35 PM
Those look delicious.

astuarlen
May 31, 2008, 04:37 PM
Don't try to eat those; they're a choking hazard!

Sord
May 31, 2008, 04:47 PM
you have an awesome display desk by the way :wacko:

Nai_Calus
May 31, 2008, 05:47 PM
Why thank you. :wacko:

Sord
May 31, 2008, 07:46 PM
I want to sit in a completely unadorned roomed and play D&D at a lone table with chairs, then use the bouncy dice and just chuck them at the walls as hard as possible.

Nai_Calus
May 31, 2008, 08:01 PM
Hahaha. XD

You'd get a critical failure and have one bounce into your eyesocket.

Sord
May 31, 2008, 08:05 PM
so do I get a crit if it bounces into the opponents eye socket?

Tact
May 31, 2008, 08:16 PM
Sord, you're not the only person who wants to go into an empty room and throw an oddly-shaped bouncing object as hard as possible. :wacko:

Sord
May 31, 2008, 08:19 PM
just for kicks, lets make the inside of the room icosahedron in shape, just for more bouncing angles and the irony of bouncing d20s in it :wacko:

Nai_Calus
May 31, 2008, 09:47 PM
*claps Sord on the back*

I like this man's ideas.

HUnewearl_Meira
Jun 1, 2008, 04:51 PM
http://www.iankunx.net/brownd10s.jpg


SWEET MOTHER OF SHIVA! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE SANKARA STONES?!

Nai_Calus
Jun 2, 2008, 01:39 PM
Meira: :disapprove:

In other news, I'm now waiting on a chainmail d8. Fuck yeah.

Sord
Jun 2, 2008, 08:49 PM
Meira: :disapprove:

In other news, I'm now waiting on a chainmail d8. Fuck yeah.

I actaully laughed pretty hard at it

Sord
Jun 2, 2008, 09:15 PM
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z121/feisord/Iancoulddoit.jpg