Games Workshop's "POLYDICE". In the '70s, GW sold TSR's products in the UK, and this was their re-packaging of TSR's "low impact" polyhedral dice. In both the US and UK these dice were available separately or included in the Holmes Basic Set. (I found this picture last month but forgot to record the source so my apologies to the original poster).
Found the source using Google Images. 2008 DF post by harami:
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Those dice just look cool (and fragile).
ReplyDeleteLove the GW merch. Are the numbers on the dice pre-colored?
ReplyDeleteChase Neptune I've never seen a set that were not pre-inked.
ReplyDeleteAcaeum says that some Holmes sets, starting with the 4th edition in '78, included the crayon. The crayon wasn't included across the board until the '81 edition. Seems like a lot of wasted labor for someone to be coloring all those dice!
ReplyDeleteMine are deeply worn. A friend has a pristine bagged set like that.
ReplyDeleteThey were also included in the first edition of Gamma World; that's where I got my original copies of those dice.
ReplyDeleteD10s were a later invention. Back then they were all true Platonic solids. And the D20 was numbered 1-0, twice. Had to mark half the sides or throw a D6 with it to add 10 half the time. Our convention was 4-6 adds 10, but some folks did evens and odds, etc.
ReplyDeleteStill have mine!
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