Mardaddy | 19 Jun 2016 11:30 a.m. PST |
If you have a dicebag, what's it look like? Mine is rabbit skin with a bit of fur at the opening, bought at a Ren Faire in 1992. What is your oldest die (or dice?) Mine is a single 1983 smoky grey translucent d20, and I still use it in my RPG's. |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 19 Jun 2016 11:42 a.m. PST |
In moving, I came across a pair of average dice I bought from The Little Soldier in Wheaton MD, must have been about '75. Still in the bag. Now yellowed antiques. |
GildasFacit | 19 Jun 2016 12:00 p.m. PST |
The oldest I can be sure of is from a game that my Mother played with as a child, so about 85 years old. I do have a pair of bone dice that I found amongst my Grandfather's bits that may well be older but can't be sure. |
The Beast Rampant | 19 Jun 2016 12:31 p.m. PST |
-The ubiquitous and stately Crown Royal bag. -Those ugly little earth-tone polyhedrals that came with the fuchsia Basic D&D boxed set. Second runner up on dice is a translucent, multicolored set of Gamescience polyhedrals I got around 83'. I thought they were the coolest thing ever, and treated them like they were the crown jewels. |
Herkybird | 19 Jun 2016 12:33 p.m. PST |
My oldest dice are a pair of Decimal dice I used to use in Dungeons and Dragons games in the early '70s. They have been rolled so often they roll a long time as the corners are not too sharp anymore! |
Chris Wimbrow | 19 Jun 2016 12:45 p.m. PST |
Two sizes of Crown Royal pouches. The larger one is for storage, and the smaller for the "lucky" dice of the day. I'm not sure where I got my first die that didn't stay with the original game or just joined a mix of D&D standards. It must have been from the early 70s. It's solid yellow, a d20 with two each of 0 to 9. I painted the indentations with red paint for one set and black for the other. I have to make a note before using them every game for which they seem useful as to what are the eleven, twelve, and teens and what each zero means. It has seen most of its action as a substitute for Strat-O-Matic 1-20 chits/cards. |
Winston Smith | 19 Jun 2016 12:57 p.m. PST |
Cedar cigar box with brass hinges. Oldest D20 is from around 1980. |
Sigwald | 19 Jun 2016 1:24 p.m. PST |
Never had the ubiquitous royal crown bag but my oldest bag is of similar style made of black material. It contains a bunch of 16mm black d6s, a standard mix of black polyhedral dice and a white ceramic Norse rune of good luck which when observed by friends elicited much eye rolling and mutterings of "oh brother". Mind you I'm not superstitious but it can't hurt. |
Rich Bliss | 19 Jun 2016 2:13 p.m. PST |
My dice container is a plastic candy jar I bought on clearance in 1981. Oldest dice are probably some red and white 6 siders from my first copy of Risk c. 1974 |
myxemail | 19 Jun 2016 4:17 p.m. PST |
As with Bliss, my oldest dice are the red and white d6 from my copy of Risk, circa 1971, Mike |
Timbo W | 19 Jun 2016 5:23 p.m. PST |
Minifigs cardboard box, and a couple of d6s borrowed from my monopoly set in the early 70s probably. They're so worn I had to repaint the spots, so don't trust them to roll true anymore. |
Mserafin | 19 Jun 2016 5:53 p.m. PST |
I have a pair of averaging dice I bought in London when I was 16 (1975). They never fail me. |
Acharnement | 19 Jun 2016 8:46 p.m. PST |
Zippered mesh bag, clear plastic A4-size document boxes, and various other bags, mainly so I can see the contents, because I certainly can't remember them! The oldest dice that I can verify are a pair of d6's from Richthofen's War: 1974. Edges and corners are still intact but the surfaces are cracked all over. Eek! 42 years ago! Also have dice from other perhaps older Avalon Hill games but I can't confirm the date. |
Acharnement | 19 Jun 2016 8:46 p.m. PST |
Zippered mesh bag, clear plastic A4-size document boxes, and various other bags, mainly so I can see the contents, because I certainly can't remember them! The oldest dice that I can verify are a pair of d6's from Richthofen's War: 1974. Edges and corners are still intact but the surfaces are cracked all over. Eek! 42 years ago! Also have dice from other perhaps older Avalon Hill games but I can't confirm the date. |
Martin Rapier | 19 Jun 2016 11:09 p.m. PST |
No dice bag but my oldest D6 are from various ancient Avalon hill games. In the mix somewhere are the dice I used to play Battle, but I can't distinguish them. My oldest polyhedrals are a pair of red and black D10 iirc from Skytrex, which predate the pile of horrible polyhedrals from White Box D&D. |
advocate | 20 Jun 2016 5:59 a.m. PST |
A pair of percentile dice from about 1972-1974. |
Pontius | 27 Jun 2016 8:05 a.m. PST |
My dice live an Tupperware container. Oldest is a small D6 that probably came from my mother's pre-war Monopoly set. Oldest I can remember buying are a pair of D20s bought from Navwar in about 1980. Both are now nearly spherical but I'm sure they roll truer than more recent purchases. |
CriticalGeek | 10 Aug 2016 8:00 a.m. PST |
My oldest die is a very 90-degree-angle (think common board game dice) blue D6 with white pips. My friend and I both have one that we used to use when we really needed a good roll whilst playing Warhammer Fantasy or Mordheim. These two dice were hot and had attitude; so much so that we dubbed them, "The Holy Dice of Sigmar." *Sigh* Good times. . . |
Weasel | 12 Sep 2016 4:40 p.m. PST |
My dice bag is a hideous flower thing that looks like a grandma hippie knitted it. At home, we use a big jar though. Oldest dice are a pair of very worn and VERY pointy D10 that came with Powers&Perils. |
Elenderil | 08 Jan 2018 11:52 a.m. PST |
I store dice in a tray in a really useful box. I have percentage di from 1974 and some D6 that my grandparents got in a pre WW2 monopoly set. I don't use those as they are so badly made there is no chance of them being random. |
Panfilov | 24 Mar 2018 4:23 p.m. PST |
I have ("Somewhere") my original (1976) set of FRP dice' Mostly TSR? All very worn, no d20? Plus some Average Dice from 1979. |
Rudysnelson | 27 Mar 2018 3:34 p.m. PST |
My oldest dice is an average die from 1977. Solid with no cut in numbers. The numbers were printed on. Thus oil from your hand would rub the numbers off after a few years. In regards to dice bags, my wife owned a fabric store in our small town. She hand made a lot for me to sale at shows. They were unique because they did not have draw strings but had velcro sewed across the top. So the gamer never had any slip out. She made one for me out of chair fabric embroidered with my last name initial. I still have it. |
etotheipi | 05 Apr 2018 8:57 a.m. PST |
SWMBO just replaced the (ugh! velvet! ugh!) dice bags that came with a game with dice Easter hats. They work much better. Other than that, the classic (Crown Royal bag), a couple leather ones, some linen ones that we/the kids made when we were teaching them to sew. Oldest die … AD&D poly set from '79 or so. |
robert piepenbrink | 16 Apr 2018 1:24 p.m. PST |
I've got "skull" dice--various colors of D6's with painted-on skulls in lieu of 6's--which I recall as being early to mid-1970's. I'm sure some of the white D6's with black pips come from older AH board games, but I have no way of telling which ones. Dice bags go back a long way, and it was always cloth bags. These days, they sort by color and type--and, sometimes, period. (Well, you wouldn't expect me to roll fantasy D6's for a science fiction game, would you?) |