Picked up a set recently and found that it had, not one, but two sealed bags of dice. Anyone seen this before? I believe this is a fourth printing set. Thanks.
The bag with the five dice I have seen but its the two additional dice bagged separately that I have not read or seen documented before. I was also surprised that these are all still sealed.
Neat find. TSR sold the white/pink set separately as "Percentile Dice". They are very rare to find still in the plastic. I believe they also included them in Top Secret box set, although I'm not sure if those were in plastic or loose. I have one of the pink ones from a TS set.
Rob isn't kidding about these being 'not durable' we quickly wore all of ours down to non-sided spheres. Keep them with honor in the bag to show the unwary but roll with some cheap modern babys.
Those are among the first widely distributed set of polyhedron dice for D&D. Yellow d4, green d8, blue d12, etc.
ReplyDeleteHowever they are not very durable.
The bag with the five dice I have seen but its the two additional dice bagged separately that I have not read or seen documented before. I was also surprised that these are all still sealed.
ReplyDeleteNeat find. TSR sold the white/pink set separately as "Percentile Dice". They are very rare to find still in the plastic. I believe they also included them in Top Secret box set, although I'm not sure if those were in plastic or loose. I have one of the pink ones from a TS set.
ReplyDeleteIn this post there's a shot from a 1977/1978 TSR catalog that lists the "Percentile Dice" dice for sale - for just $0.89. http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2012/04/veteran-of-dice-wars.html
ReplyDeleteExcellent and thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteWill Tijerina May I use your photo in a blog post about these dice?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Zach it would be an honor.
ReplyDeleteRob isn't kidding about these being 'not durable' we quickly wore all of ours down to non-sided spheres. Keep them with honor in the bag to show the unwary but roll with some cheap modern babys.
ReplyDeleteJason Zavoda My thoughts exactly. Those bags stay sealed.
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