# What do boardgamers collect? Dice! **URL:** \ **Category:** Boardgames\ **Created:** [19 May 2020 16:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070 "2020-05-19T16:57:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/steveb_uk/32/26030_2.png) [@SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/SteveB_uk)\ **Post date:** [19 May 2020 16:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/1 "2020-05-19T16:57:41Z")
So… I may have a dice problem. Not the sort where I have 200+ in the house, just that I consider them beautiful objects I’ll pay money for. My latest kickstarter update wasn’t for a game I backed, but instead for some handmade D4 dice (which okay, are technically a game too but I’m buying them for the dice). ( [ChamboulDé ! A new game with five D4 by Roger Meunier — Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2132900266/chamboulde-a-new-game-with-five-d4) ) And my favourite D6 is made out of frickin’ AMBER ![dice](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/d/dd9ece730dcee4dd5d452f967b220e8bb1a8e45f.jpeg) Anyone else got a dice problem? 🙂 Do you need the latest box of metal D20 sets? (Okay, I have one). Have boardgames meant that your D6 collection is now the size of a shoebox? ---
**Author:** ![JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/jgd/32/619_2.png) [@JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/JGD)\ **Post date:** [19 May 2020 17:02 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/2 "2020-05-19T17:02:18Z")
Well, my usual travelling dice are metal and stone. A few years ago, I spent time designing a bunch of custom d6s and getting them made by Chessex. Photos [here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/johndallman1961/albums/72157655529877031). ---
**Author:** ![SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/steveb_uk/32/26030_2.png) [@SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/SteveB_uk)\ **Post date:** [19 May 2020 17:06 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/3 "2020-05-19T17:06:03Z")
Awesome! Yeah, stone dice in particular are definitely going to hurt my wallet in future. You’ve reminded me that my “travelling dice” are a small box of 5 thuya wood D6s. Thuya wood smells amazing. I wrote a book on dice divination which they’re perfect for, so if I have any “pocket dice” it’s usually those. ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [19 May 2020 17:10 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/4 "2020-05-19T17:10:44Z")
Those are amazing. Are they standard size? ---
**Author:** ![JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/jgd/32/619_2.png) [@JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/JGD)\ **Post date:** [19 May 2020 17:39 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/5 "2020-05-19T17:39:41Z")
They’re mostly 16mm; the few larger ones are obvious. ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [19 May 2020 17:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/6 "2020-05-19T17:57:20Z")
Some of these came from a conversation in which I complained that “logo dice” always had the logo _replacing_ one of the numbers (and the USA uses the opposite convention from Europe). We ended up coming up with the idea of using the logo as a pip. ---
**Author:** ![Brattyjedi](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/brattyjedi/32/1618_2.png) [@Brattyjedi](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Brattyjedi)\ **Post date:** [19 May 2020 18:17 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/7 "2020-05-19T18:17:43Z")
I’ve got lots of dice. D6s in bright colors, full D&D matching sets in a variety of hues, random dice of all sizes in non-matched sets in an even greater variety of hues. Those are all just put away in various bags and pulled out when needed. I have a few that sit out on shelves in my game room more “on display” though. There’s a few sets of Rory Story Cubes. Then there’s an old set of poker dice, two D6 from Vegas with my husband’s name on them that his parents got him as a souvenir (they tried to find ones with my name, too, but no luck), and three D6 with the sixes replaced by icons representing stuff from songs by The Doubleclicks, a sibling geek folk duo I love. Should have three more of those soon after backing their Kickstarter for their next album recently. ![image](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/e/eb12afe643630173ef40e7936183d9b616c1189b.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![VictorViper](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/victorviper/32/1293_2.png) [@VictorViper](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/VictorViper)\ **Post date:** [19 May 2020 21:38 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/8 "2020-05-19T21:38:55Z")
My copy of **The Ultraviolet Grasslands** just showed up. Who needs readability or contrast? ![IMG_20200519_143651](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6576f7822d366ff41b1b86c3c049173901aee8e1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/steveb_uk/32/26030_2.png) [@SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/SteveB_uk)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2020 09:17 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/9 "2020-05-20T09:17:55Z")
Oh, the laurel wreath and fleur-de-lis ones are _amazing_! ---
**Author:** ![JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/jgd/32/619_2.png) [@JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/JGD)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2020 12:13 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/10 "2020-05-20T12:13:47Z")
Those are both parts of national sets, produced for a role-playing (GURPS WWII) campaign: The laurel wreath is in the Italy set, along with a white star on green, and the white cross on a red shield, the symbol of the House of Savoy, who united modern Italy. The fleur-de-lis is in the French set, along with the blue cockerel on white and the white Cross of Loraine on red. ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2020 12:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/11 "2020-05-20T12:57:20Z")
All right, you asked for it\*: the guided tour of Roger’s dice box. It is indeed a classic Rolykit. (There’s another model with a squared-off base and more capacity; if I ever see one going cheap I’ll probably buy it.) ![IMG_20200520_133809](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8e3a963e1cb15d4b5a22e6b5a1e95b5d09a25a98.jpeg) Row 1: generic gem dice, some of them sparkly. Row 2: more of John’s custom-printed dice (including the pirate dice, probably my favourite in terms of how they came out looking); orange Schlock Mercenary custom dice; overflow of gem dice. Row 3: poker dice; the red-and-blue d6 set I got when I was running GURPS Torg; metal dice (some hard to read but they all look lovely); d6s from Salute, I think, but I have no idea where the red and orange ones have got to. ![IMG_20200520_133651](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/8/848b1d53471bc8ec176a77726d6bc88400227d39.jpeg) Row 4: spherical dice (there’s an octagonal cavity with a ball bearing, but they roll quite a long way); smaller d6s. Row 5: “element” dice. Row 6: colour-changing dice (put them in the freezer and they go darker blue, then warm up in the hand). ![IMG_20200520_133655](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d2df3d1ac38971b9859b73bf072961b3e17f7bf5.jpeg) Row 7: generic d6; FFG Star Wars dice; FUDGE dice (bought from Steffan in person at a GenCon in the 1980s-1990s). Row 8: miniature dice; pencil-top rubbers that have proxied many, many starships; John’s larger custom dice for a space campaign. Row 9: more element dice. Row 10: SJGames Cthulhu d6; swirl dice that I bought mostly because they looked good. ![IMG_20200520_133702](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fe6a80f66f6583351dfa68e93bd275d8790cbe8e.jpeg) Row 11: barrel dice (the d12 and d20 roll practically forever, and they’re not as easy to read as they might be, but they’re a really neat idea) Row 12: the generic and miscellaneous, including some original Moldvay-Cook Basic/Expert D&D dice (yellow and pale blue). ![IMG_20200520_133708](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/0/015f12795236f820a8ab89fe8d078669723af6cd.jpeg) Overflow; dice I use quite often. More of John’s custom prints (all right, they are for a WW2 game, but we didn’t fancy swastika dice even so); and the Battletech/Vampire mixed bag. Because I was playing Battletech with a chap who was a ferocious time optimiser, so he liked tagging moved units with d10s so that you could immediately read off the target modifiers, and rolling multiple to-hit d6s of different colours at the same time; which meant that when I recently joined a Vampire game I already had a lot of d10s. ![IMG_20200520_133716](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/3/38a5ebf5160dc0a2a64e8c677a04c2b809dc3290.jpeg) More overflow. Weather and mood dice, and skew dice (the white on blue set is perfect for _Doctor Who_). ![IMG_20200520_133719](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/1/19a9fb768d460e097c1c3e843d1563c61ab1745a.jpeg) It is apparently a requirement that you have an [All Rolled Up](https://allrolledup.co.uk/) if you are a roleplayer in the UK. To be fair, they’re really very nice. I don’t like most of their fabrics, but if you get custom fabric printed they’ll make them up for you… anyway, a Chessex poly set, some small d6s, and some d6-as-d12 which are my go-to dice simply because they roll comfortably. ![IMG_20200520_133723](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5584e6449e21167ae09990d6909eb344fc206180.jpeg) Oops. The decade dice which don’t really have a place to live yet. ![IMG_20200520_134015](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1a7c4d220cd7d9b7aec8110eb347f7c730cf1f0e.jpeg) \* you didn’t ask for it. ---
**Author:** ![Boydesian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/boydesian/32/1053_2.png) [@Boydesian](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Boydesian)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2020 13:06 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/12 "2020-05-20T13:06:27Z")
I really like the dice with the linear hashmarks in the first photo (middle of the far right row). Where did you get them? ---
**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2020 13:24 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/13 "2020-05-20T13:24:39Z")
> [@Boydesian](#): > > the dice with the linear hashmarks in the first photo (middle of the far right row) Those are “Ako Dice I”, which I backed on KS (the part-spherical ones in the same tray are Ako Dice II). They are now available via [https://www.ako-dice.com/](https://www.ako-dice.com/) . ---
**Author:** ![RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rossm/32/1021_2.png) [@RossM](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RossM)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2020 13:28 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/14 "2020-05-20T13:28:13Z")
I have to go now, the UK police are hammering on the door. Something to do with not having a dice tray. I’m sure it will be f ---
**Author:** ![COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/comaestro/32/1030_2.png) [@COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/COMaestro)\ **Post date:** [20 May 2020 16:17 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/what-do-boardgamers-collect-dice/1070/15 "2020-05-20T16:17:30Z")
Calling it. @RogerBW’s house is actually constructed of dice, he’s just not fessing up to it.