# What do boardgamers collect? Dice!

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**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")

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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.

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