RPG people: HELP!

[bertha katzenengel]

AuntJen suggested I get a set of semi-precious stone dice as a gift for my nephew who plays D&D.

My question: what kind of dice? I am assuming not the usual 1-6 dot dice.

Help?

Thanks

[GirlinContempt]

1. D&D?

20 sided

[GirlinContempt]

2. Here, check this site out

http://www.purcifuls-toys.com/poldicforrol.html

You can usually find tubes or sets of all different kinds for RPGs

This ones nice:
http://www.purcifuls-toys.com/stonpoldicfo.html

or something like this:
http://www.purcifuls-toys.com/semstonpoldi.html

They usually aren't expensive, they start at around $5, though I've had sets as expensive as $40, they can go up to $80-100 depending on the materials

[bertha katzenengel]

3. great site -- thank you! eom

[GirlinContempt]

4. This ones even better:

http://www.rpgshop.com/default.php?cPath=_30_275&

You're welcome :)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. definitely a 20 sided

[bertha katzenengel]

6. thanks, Vash

What about these sets I'm seeing called "Dwarven?"

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. That I couldn't help you out with.

My apologies. :blush:

[GirlinContempt]

8. It just means they're nerds

and like to pretend mythical Dwarves made them

(I think it's actually just a brand)

[ghostsofgiants]

9. You mean to tell me...

That last night I got rejected by a D&D nerd? I didn't cry myself to sleep quite hard enough last night. :P

[GirlinContempt]

10. HAHAHAHA

You love my nerdyness

[ghostsofgiants]

11. ...

Maybe so...But it's unrequited... :cry:

[RoyGBiv]

12. Dwarven Stone

In the mythology of the D&D multiverse, based in part on Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Dwarves are a race highly skilled as stonecutters. So, in the mythology of a D&D player, Dwarven stone dice are of a higher quality. In reality the term is a trademark for a type of dice that, if genuine stone, are hand-carved and decorated with dwarven runes. You can also find "Dwarven steel" dice, and I'm not quite sure how that works.

The cheaper dice are made of acrylic or sometimes lumps of polished glass.

You can also get Elven stone dice. These are made the same as the Dwarven stone, but they have Elven script.

[GirlinContempt]

13. None of the ones I've seen

have any kind of special script or runes, they're just stone.

On a side-note, MAN did TSR's LOTR ripoff suck

[RoyGBiv]

14. Well ... they should.

They *should* have runes, and the two sets I bought once upon a time do. Back when I was playing PnP games and first came across and lusted after a set of Dwarven stone amethyst dice, it was one of the advertising gimicks they used. Of course, those runes look suspiciously like 1, 2, 3 ... IOW, they're really just artsy numbers.

As for TSR, I gave up on them some time ago. The company seems to have lost sight of what made them once gaming gods.

Of course, the original LOTR ripoff was pretty good ... it just didn't carry the LOTR name. :-)

[GirlinContempt]

15. Thats what I mean, the one TSR did in like, the 80s

I didn't really like it. I thought ICE's was better, personally.

3rd ed was my breaking point with D&D