Dice with inclusions always get the "but are they balanced??" question! The thing is, unless they're casino grade dice, no dice are balanced! However, most dice are perfectly playable, particularly considering that most of us aren't rolling on a level surface free of imperfections anyway, which will also affect the rolls. I've also heard from dice makers that creating weighted dice is actually really difficult even when you're trying to! So, my answer is... they're random enough for me. Even when I say dice "roll badly" (e.g., the toadstool dice I mention in this video), that's coming from a playfully superstitious place rather than a place of "balance." It's not like they rolled ones over and over! They just averaged lower rolls, which is not indicative of a balance issue considering how the numbers are distributed on a standard d20.
oftentimes inclusions are made of the same type of material as the dice themselves, so aside from a bit of paint, they will weigh the same as the material that they are replacing anyway, and aren't much of a concern in general.
i have a set of dice base in the god quetzacoatl, the person who i ask to make it, cant find in that moment feather that conect with the concept but the same day an argentine parrot find his end in her garden so she use the feathers, the skys give the life of a bird to make posible the creation of my dices.
I was watching a video of Lou Wilson from Dimension 20 rolling 9 Nat 1’s in the course of a few campaign sessions. 😱 His fellow player offered to perform an exorcism on his dice! 😂
I need a Project Runway-style show that's just D&D players crafting new characters; choosing dice, assembling costumes, selecting spells, writing out backstories in notebooks, etc.
Me: "...and for our upcoming Spelljammer campaign, I made a cowboy. He grew up on a ranch on an asteroid, and his family raises space swine. I just feel... cowboys would do well in space. He's a fighter- gunslinger, naturally- but he will be taking one level in bard so he can help pilot the ship. Otherwise half our party would be just martial classes, which isn't too bright when your only means of space travel relies on spellcasting."
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With the Pixel dice, they’re actually really helpful for vision impaired people. Because the app they connect to can add sound to the roll, including what number you rolled! So cool!!
Sounds like something I need to look into for my dad to join me... he's blind. I already bought glow in the dark sets for the lols and a few sets of solid metal spikey ones for myself!
@@durdleduc8520 I've seen talking dice out there but batteries are a thing and electronics don't react well to being shaken up usually. lol. Most dice have sunken dots though I'm not sure my dad's sensitivity is high enough to feel them so I'll just tell him what it is and be honest as always. ;)
I know right? It felt so nice to just see someone be so passionate about something. It felt like just hanging out with a friend and cheering on their interests!
"Wanna see my dice collection?" would be a killer pick up line to pull off xD Love your channel, discovered you recently and am enjoying your vids ^_^ gonna DM soon for the very first time, and your vids, together with the videos from Matthew Colville, help me so much!
Best of luck on your first DM. I also recommend checking out Dungeon Dudes. They have better insight than many of the other channels. I would listen to them as much as Ginny when it comes to 5e.
This is a very impressive collection with some pretty dice. But you left out the most important part of describing dice - what flavour do you imagine they are?! 😄
I wasn’t scared when Ginny Di said: “I have so many dice that I don’t have any players that haven’t gotten a set” “Standard procedure” I thought However when you said that you forced your self to pick three from the Wild earth dice I was like “OH” If these are the cream of the crop you have hundreds of sets. Thousands of sets have run into your hoard.
I am so jealous that you already have Pixels dice. Because to the question who NEEDS them: "people who mostly play online but want to roll real dice" Since they are able to connect to Roll20 I would finally be able to roll real dice with all with all the comfort and "safety" for the dm that comes with normal online rolling.
The Koi fish dice would be perfect for a Samurai adventure. A noble warrior who would prefer to be meditating with his koi pond, but is forced to defend his land, or quest for something important for his Emperor.
Ginny is living everyone's dice goblin life. I have probably a dozen or so sets, that my family and I rotate through, but there's always that little goblin brain deep down that wants all the dice. shiny little clickety clackety dice.
I have Die Hard Dices that my mother bought for me on the last christmas because she saw me DMing “Curse of Strahd” for my school friends and she wanted to make me a nice gift She ordered adorable metallic “vampire” dices and also creepy metallic black ones. I love them so much and since then never used any other sets. Before this I only had plastic ones, they weren’t nearly as cool. One of my most favourite DnD things I own. Second place is my Tarokka cards I made on my own with some custom ones for my players that I designed for the same “Curse of Strahd” campaign :))
Die Hard Dice are my favorite (especially their metal ones), but they're totally the dice equivalent of drug dealers. If you add a comment to your order on how you'll use the dice or how you heard of them they include freebies. A *lot* of freebies. My first time I got 10 random plastic/polymer dice and a beautiful metal d20- as my free add-ons! I had bought two mid-price sets, so it wasn't a huge order either. Most recently I got another plain set and a gorgeous navy and gold metal dire d20 as my freebies. They know how to get me hooked, dammit! I blame that initial free metal dice for my later purchase of a whole metal set, so their strategy works :p
Sadly, due to age and the accompanying vision issues, I've gone from collecting beauties like these dice to going for solid colors with contrasting numbers. Readability is my benchmark. But I do like looking at pretty dice others collect! Thanks for sharing these!
Yeah, I definitely don't want to be squinting at my dice for a year mid-game trying to figure out what I rolled! That's why my dice are mostly simple white numbers on medium or dark backgrounds.
@@bigdream_dreambig I realized I had to get bigger/more readable dice when I noticed I was picking up my d20 regularly to see what I had rolled, and was worried about others thinking I was cheating. Of course, in retrospect the fact I usually rolled like garbage anyway would have made it obvious I wasn't.
@@hqueso I found lots of good options at DieHardDice -- enough that I still ended up with way more sets than I need! I generally stick to the basic polymer dice because I don't want to have to worry about what my play surface is -- and there's the added benefit that each set is typically $6-$10.
I have the same problem; I recently assembled a set of polyhedrals for actual play based on each size being a different color, so I also don’t have to be able to tell the 8s apart from the 10s at a fast glance. I’ve gone with the colors of the original 1976 dice; yellow 4s, pink 6s, green 8s, blue 12s, and white 20s (which double as 10s).
Then get a set of Pixels. You have them blink a certain way with different colors of your choice and all that. I plan on my dice do like a police light spin when they hit 20s and a waterfall of dark red like blood on nails. The possibilities for light ups and colors are virtually endless. As for readability, you can have your phone announce the number for you.
I agree that all of these are really neat. Thankfully for my wallet, though, I never fell into a dice addiction; I just don't get excited for them. Unfortunately for my wallet, I do it with minis instead.
I love the enthusiasm, and the idea of taking an "accent die" to give some pop to your regular set. Those first two sets, from Bindrune Dice, especially the Chloe's Fancy set, are sublime.
I haven't played an rpg for 35 years. I am subscribed for your music and your brilliant dice collection. Weird because I will never use any but I just love the creativity and flair these dice have. The ones with flowers and moss are just so cool.
guy that was in my group for years had a huge d20, and I'd wince every time he'd high toss it onto my (at the time) irreplaceable Tac-tiles dry erase tiles.
this is a really fun video, I love how happy Ginny is. that being said, I respectfully disagree with you on one thing, because a 1kg dice made fully from copper is (to me) cooler than any electric dice.
I might be biased because I like being able to actually roll my dice, and the copper one would damage, like, 80% of surfaces it was rolled on 😂 so it's more of a shelf piece
@@GinnyDi imagine not playing on an industrial steel table... SMH... it's cool, I like metals and I make custom copper and recycled metal jewelry, so it really fits in with my style
The pixels are still the bigger flex, because at the moment you can't get them even if you backed the Kickstarter. I don't think even the developer dice have been made yet, so the only dice out in the world are the hand made prototypes and test samples. They are still cheaper per die than my Norse Foundry tungsten set.
@@GinnyDi forgot about that, but yeah. I still represent my players using Talisman board game pieces on paper maps I draw, while playing on a foldable table in the basement. you have the cool stuff, and I was bestowed a title by my players- "the makeshift king". but yeah, we can talk all day about the cool dice, I bought mine bulk second hand, and my players keep "borrowing" them...
My dream dice product is a dice tray/set that digitally reads your rolls so you can use it when you play online. Or playing games like Baldur's Gate 3 or Solasta.
Loved the elevator pitch... it's like my daughters selling me on a party they want to throw or a sleepover they want to host... my older is all business ... my younger is all "showbiz"... love the donut dice.
As soon as you pulled out the pixels dice I screamed!! I backed that kickstarter so long ago and have been eagerly awaiting every singly update on when those bad boys are going into production! Of course they're unnecessary but omg are they cool!
I don't play d&d but I love all the amazing dice that I've started getting all the dice I love and we mod our regular board games to use them^^ aka any number over what the game normally uses we just repeat the numbers as 1-6
I adore the Pixel dice and can't wait to get them! I'm a visually impaired player and with the connection to a phone I can see myself having a much easier time rolling these and then looking at the result on my phone instead of squinting at the table lol All of your dice are hella pretty though, people that make dice are truly gods and goddesses.
Since you like the potion dice, you should check out Dice Hero dice - they have a unique set (in several color options) for each of the four core DnD classes. Of course, for some unique non-inclusion dice, Q-Workshop make some cool dice (though some of their sets can get TOO busy on each face) - I particularly like their metal Call of Cthulhu set. I also like several of the sets Bryce's Dice has Kickstarted (you mentioned hollow metal dice sets in another comment reply - the sets I have from Bryce are that).
Those pixel dice makes me want to make some sort of corruption system which lets players add a d20 to their rolls and just have that die sitting in front of the players crackling with energy. *Feel the lure of power just within your grasp, all you have to do is reach out and take it*
"This is only the second biggest flex in this video. Just wait!" Girl, like that Swarovski crystal d20 from Wizards of the Coast before that copper d20 wasn't!?
Me and my pals who tend to just play random dungeon crawls we each make, we have a homebrew dice system that I would love to source from all these companies for all of us as gifts: -D20 for general use (combat, world interactions, and skill checks/use) -D2 for a success or fail checks -D8 for healing items -D12 for healing spells (if anyone plays a mage or something to that nature) -D6 x2 for damage calculation (number of dice and type varies if it’s a gauntlet of enemies or a boss)
Original Chessex Chaos dice forever. Not the new arrow of chaos dice that yes have that decal on the 1 face but then regular pips for the rest but the ones that have the shapes for the other faces. 2 slashes for 2. 3 triangles on 3 etc
Oh, I am the dice goblin for whom you mother warned. I do have a number of dice sets, but my real favorite are the D20s. If I were a dragon they would be my hoard. I have this furry dice bag with eyes and teeth that we named Mr. Flurp. I have so many dice, that if I were to swing him around, I could cause 1D4 damage. You are so my weakness right now.
You might already be familiar with them and just not love any of them enough to include in your favored sets video - but I'm a big fan of Gate Keeper Games dice. I'm eagerly waiting to see what I'll get from their second Mystery Dice Kickstarter!
Absolutely loved seeing some more of your collection Ginny! This is such an enthusiastic video and I love seeing what some of the different kinds you have collected are and what they make you think of or which of your characters you use them for. Thank you for sharing with us!
Damn ^^ you built your dice heaven. Love to see it. The Pixel Dice does make me a bit salty though (not at you ofc) literally my first kickstarter pledge EVER and I STILL don't have them three years later, more than two years after they were supposed to be done. They looked ready to be produced and shipped ages ago too.... much sad... But I love your videos Ginny, either helpful or truly entertaining - every video a banger XD
Handmade dices are gorgeous and it usually breaks my heart that they're too expensive and I can't support the artisans, but I feel lucky enough to have won a "design your dice" contest by Equinox Dice and they made me the set I designed (themed on my main character) 🥺🥺🥺 it's definitely my most treasured dice set 💕💕💕
I love the "clicky clacky math rocks! i have 2 giant bags!" that last part is not a joke. i probably have several hundred sets of dice since i started playing in 84. My wife did tell me "no more dice" though. its been rough!.....
I get most of my click-clack math rocks from Mint and Mustard, and I love them so much! My partner keeps getting me them and I am running out of space in my dice bag >.
Great video. I'd love to see are larger showing of your dice collection. Not focusing on specific sets and why they're so neat but more the breadth of your collection. Top tier sets, second tier "almost" sets, dice trays, storage options, etc... Signed, a fellow dice goblin
You're missing all the odd ball D#s. D1-22, 24, 30, 36, 48, 50, 100, 120 And then you've got skew dice, and sicherman, Go First, and there are tons of non-transitive sets - although they just tend to be D6s with different numbers.
Patiently waiting for Pixel Dice. I know the wait will be worth it and since the dice are linked to an app and it knows what you rolled, its going to be great for the vision impaired and table top accessibility
Those copper d20s are so ridiculous and amazing. Also I think the light up dice would be cool if you could program them to turn red on crit fails and like blue or teal on nat 20s.
You can! That sad red pulse in the video is from rolling a 1 - and the rainbow is a natural 20! But you can customize all that. You could even customize every individual number, if you wanted!
@@thefollowingisatest4579 For visually impaired players, having customised colours and light patterns for each number could be a great accessibility feature, especially when couples with the ability to read the number on your phone screen as well.
Oh my gosh how do you have the Pixel dice already! I backed the Kickstarter and have been droolong over their progress updates (full of engineering goodness)! So psyched for them to be released!
Those Pixel dice are actually a lot more useful than you think. They're useless to you sure, but for my friend who is blind those dice are gonna be a game changer for her when they're finally released because the app speaks out what you roll, so she won't need someone telling her what she rolled anymore.
Practically anyone else: Wanna see my dice collection? Me: Uh....no, that's okay.... Ginny Di: Wanna see my dice collection? Me: Why not? If it's Ginny, it's probably gonna be lit! Me (ten minutes later): ...literally!
I LOVE your dice collection! None of mine are that fancy, but one of my players has a birthday coming up, and I happened to find a dice set that looked like their character’s eyes.
The pixels are really useful for those who play VTTs since they can connect to Beyond, Roll20, and Foundry so when you roll them, they roll virtual dice too. Perfect for me because I hate the game like feeling of just clicking a button and prefer physical dice rolls
Ginny have you seen the enchanted vault dice set on kickstarter? They're some of the most gorgeous dice I've seen so far. The kickstarter is closed now though.
I can definitely recommend Die Hard Dice, they are amazing! I have a lot of their acrylic dice and 4 sets of metal dice from them and love them all. The free dice they send always match the aesthetic of the order as well without being too similar to the ones ordered. I don't know how they do it but much respect.
I don't know why and it's on a completely different topic but you mentioning that you like dice with inclusions in them made me immediately thing of a book series that you might find interesting if you don't already know of it. Stephen R. Donaldson's Mordant’s Need series. The first book, The Mirror of Her Dreams, specifically. What can I say? My random brain is random.
