Did you get chits with your basic set?
Either way, you can celebrate 40 years of Holmes Basic with one of these t-shirts.
https://teespring.com/holmes-basic
Based on the five color dice in the Holmes sets that came with dice.
https://teespring.com/blue-book-basic-d-and-d
Including the characters from the example combat text.
https://teespring.com/holmes-basic
Nice.
ReplyDeleteGot my own "Holmes" t-shirt design notion brewing...
This will be great for my brother the mathematician.
ReplyDeleteChris Holmes Would send you a discount code to get it at cost, but G+ is lacking direct messages. If you DM me on twitter @michaelcalleia will send it.
ReplyDeleteIsn't one missing? The decahedron, I think.
ReplyDeleteDerek Dees Nope. The Holmes set came with five die. D10 were not available yet. The d20 was numbered 0-9 twice, once with black numbers and again in red.
ReplyDeleteA d20 could be used as a 20, 10 or percentile.
...Black and red...? Don't think I've heard of that before. Mine was all black ink.
ReplyDeleteMichael Calleia That I did not recall, but my first set was an open box deal. I always assumed it was just missing one.
ReplyDeleteJon Wilson I could be wrong on the black and red. That’s what I’ve seen in photos, perhaps a post purchase modification.
ReplyDeleteThat could be... Some folks would re-ink one set of numbers to differentiate, others would roll a control die.
ReplyDelete...Well, I say 'ink' but often it was crayola crayon...
ReplyDeleteI recall Dad's 20 sider being white with red painted faces for the tens and up. I saw my first dechedron at North Texas four years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe books specifically suggest you to ink it in red on 10 of the faces but it came all white with black numbers.
ReplyDeleteMichael Calleia You can get public domain geometric shape images and do this same idea with the dice and colors. Just a thought.
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