The dice collection

It started with Chessex speckled loot

A photo of all of our dice, inside the lid of the D&D starter set box, along with the dice roller and mini dice, harrow deck of many things and our D&D toys Simon and Lotus, the giant fly and demodog, munching on pieces of paper in the middle.
It began with a green speckled dice, the only green dice available in the gaming store that my friend J1 took us to. We were playing L5R, Legend of the 5 Rings. I actually ended up giving a lot of those away, bit of a story behind that. Y'see, originally in playing L5R, that game only uses D10's, and so over the four year campaign, I ended up collecting a lot more of the same dice pattern, in order to collect enough 10 sided dice. This is how we came to create a two, three, five, and seven sided dice of that set, because we had SO many extra dice that weren't being used, that I used our family's table grinder to turn a number of those into the aformentioned dice. A little bit wonderful, and over time, when the rest of the dice collection came to be (also J1 gave each of us our L5R clan dice sets), I ended up deciding to give away the extra Chessex speckled loot dice (keeping one set for myself, and the modified dice) to a random person in the Goblin Dice Hoard facebook community (private group, just search for it), and happiness was had by all.

The dice collection grew and grew, after the L5R days, beginning with of all things, the teensy tiny dice for the harrow deck of many things. An accidental loss of a D4 there led to a second set of those, now with the miniature dice roller, and the chonk, of which we strangely also came to have two of. The first order hadn't arrived for 5 weeks, so I messaged the seller, offered to pay for a new one, giving them my story, and they said no, and just sent another! And then, the original DID show up after like 6 weeks, as well as the second. I once again messaged the seller offering to pay, but he waved it off and wished me a good day! So that was awesome. After those came the Chessex gemini black & pink, Chessex opaque grey and black (numbers recoloured to bright grey/white, to look more like a city grey), and blue starter set dice, prattled about in my song-a-day here (and the dice generally prattled about here and here). These three sets were actually purchased in August 2022, which is why more dice are featured in those videos, the hollow metal dragon d20, the Chessex speckled recon gold (aka my swarmkeeper dice), a set of Little Dragon Corp february serpentine (aka my sparkly dragon dice). Of course in that same area we have the cube, the homemade dice/cube of acheron, that we protected for the ant queen! Check out that cube link for a ton of awesome videos pertaining to it, also side pic.

It was soon after this that we decided to try hunting down one of the original D&D dice (that came with the box, tho I wouldn't turn down a GameScience if I stumbled across one, these had to be purchased seperately from the game). I wanted a nice, good, beat-up looking original dice, that looked like it had been rolled a thousand times. And so, I hunted around on the Goblin Dice Hoard Acquisition group, and asked around for it. Lo and behold, someone came to my aid, and found me the most heavily worn, most rolled-looking D8 that he could find (I wasn't picky on which dice, just worn looking). And not only that, with that Holmes dice he sent me a Moldvay and a Mentzer as well, to get my collection going for those, and to help me tell them apart! WOOOOOH! So that was all kinds of awesome. I had decided early on that I wanted to recolour the numbers on those, as they were about to begin a new life of rolling again. I decided to make the Holmes with yellow numbering, which looks INCREDIBLE, and eschew the idea that the original Holmes dice were all just numbered in black marker, again because it was beginning a new rolling life, but still used crayon to a) not have paint or marker seep into the microcracks in the plastic, and b) kinda give a nod towards the original dice still. The Moldvay we gave orange, not one of the original crayons (red, white, dark blue, yellow, green, and black), again as a nod to the current age rolling it will do, and the Mentzer we kept the same colour, just refreshed. Oh my goodness the original 3. It was also about this time that I began the Simon and Lotus dice-eating series, where Lotus attacked these dice in episode 4. And, as with all dice goblins, the collection carried on.

At this point, we obtained the Diceling beholder (aka: Khorgah, who's eye was replaced with that of a Nothic, carried through to here), and were now more focused on looking for specific individual cool dice, instead of entire sets. We had throughout all of this gotten random map generator dice, random weather dice, the HeroQuest dice, and a handful of others. Obligatory crystal dice (specifically looking for dice that looked homemade rather than cnc machined, mission accomplished, also green aventurine and purple agate), an orange dice, a brown dice, a DeeDee dice from One Shot Questers :D ! We also obtained a homemade resin dice representing the swamps, and a d4 in the shape of a healing potion bottle, bit of a story behind that. I really only wanted one, but it came in a set of 10, so the remainder were given to my gaming group before moving, spread the love :D
With our dice bag filling up (though recently replaced with the bag for the Hive tile game, giving us more space lol), we had just about run out of specific dice to hunt for. Most recently was obtained a translucent spindown dice (technically a spinup dice for my one-shot), and my beautiful wife's first dice set, Critical Kit dragon eye multicolour dice. And thus brings us to our set, so far, as of May 2023. The only things left on the to-get list are a liquid-core dice, and otherwise it's gotta be pretty cool (or just catch my eye I suppose lol) for us to get more. But we're dice goblins, so we'll see.

--Oohhhhh, and the dice saga continues. On Sept. 20, 2023, I managed to find a copy of Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer issue 1!
Now, I'm not planning to collect the *entire* set, that's just not in my list o' goals here, but when the ads started showing up for this, I wanted just one piece of memorabilia. Like any of them would be cool, but it would really have to have dice as an issue gift. Like I'm planning on getting the OneDND/5.5e core rulebooks when they come out, so getting the full set of magasines isn't on my to-do list, but oooohhhhhhhh, getting the issue 1 dice. Like, I'm normally not a black-colour type person, but it can at least hearken back to the metal side of me, and it feels like dice that a barbarian might use when swingin' their big ol' axe. So my next axe-swinger (or sword-swinger, who swings it as brutally as an axe) now has their next set of dice :D.
Yah, I probably would have preferred a different colour, but again justifying this, when else will I ever get a set of black dice (aside from the gemini black/pink above, which have a completely different feel), for £1.99 yet, AND, it's the set of dice that come with Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer #1!!! Like I cannot stress that enough, that is SO cool that I found this, on probably the last day they'll be stocked in stores! There's a new issue every week, it was released on the 13th, I ran out and got it on the 20th... literally 7 days from release... so it probably would have been replaced with issue 2 tomorrow! WOOOOOOH, ISSUE 1 DICE!!!! Colour aside, I will gladly have these (also for my future barbarian) for that alone! NO complaints! AND, AND their very first roll was a 14, not too shabby! So we're happy. We have an unexpected new set of dice, from an iconic magasine issue, we have a colour that I always kinda wanted but didn't think I would ever pick up, and they are limited release! The storage tin for the dice is kinda cool, but since these dice will be staying in ye olde dice bag, I'll come up with something cool to do with this later, probably expect to see it on the AD&D page lol.
But yes, SO excited about this, strangely. Like I said, ever since seeing this come out, and then seeing posts about people not being able to find it and being sold out, I went out, on a rainy, windy day (walking the hour to save a few quid), and came back, only slightly damp from drizzle, and missed the heavy rain by like... 10 minutes! WOOOOOOOH, limited edition issue 1 dice set, NO complaints, ALL the awesome :D :D :D. What will come next?

Collection started around 2014, and ongoing

It began with a green speckled dice, the only green dice available in the gaming store that my friend J1 took us to. We were playing L5R, Legend of the 5 Rings. I actually ended up giving a lot of those away, bit of a story behind that. Y'see, originally in playing L5R, that game only uses D10's, and so over the four year campaign, I ended up collecting a lot more of the same dice pattern, in order to collect enough 10 sided dice. This is how we came to create a two, three, five, and seven sided dice of that set, because we had SO many extra dice that weren't being used, that I used our family's table grinder to turn a number of those into the aformentioned dice. A little bit wonderful, and over time, when the rest of the dice collection came to be (also J1 gave each of us our L5R clan dice sets), I ended up deciding to give away the extra Chessex speckled loot dice (keeping one set for myself, and the modified dice) to a random person in the Goblin Dice Hoard facebook community (private group, just search for it), and happiness was had by all.
The dice collection grew and grew, after the L5R days, beginning with of all things, the teensy tiny dice for the harrow deck of many things. An accidental loss of a D4 there led to a second set of those, now with the miniature dice roller, and the chonk, of which we strangely also came to have two of. The first order hadn't arrived for 5 weeks, so I messaged the seller, offered to pay for a new one, giving them my story, and they said no, and just sent another! And then, the original DID show up after like 6 weeks, as well as the second. I once again messaged the seller offering to pay, but he waved it off and wished me a good day! So that was awesome. After those came the Chessex gemini black & pink, Chessex opaque grey and black (numbers recoloured to bright grey/white, to look more like a city grey), and blue starter set dice, prattled about in my song-a-day here (and the dice generally prattled about here and here). These three sets were actually purchased in August 2022, which is why more dice are featured in those videos, the hollow metal dragon d20, the Chessex speckled recon gold (aka my swarmkeeper dice), a set of Little Dragon Corp february serpentine (aka my sparkly dragon dice). Of course in that same area we have the cube, the homemade dice/cube of acheron, that we protected for the ant queen! Check out that cube link for a ton of awesome videos pertaining to it, also side pic.
It was soon after this that we decided to try hunting down one of the original D&D dice (that came with the box, tho I wouldn't turn down a GameScience if I stumbled across one, these had to be purchased seperately from the game). I wanted a nice, good, beat-up looking original dice, that looked like it had been rolled a thousand times. And so, I hunted around on the Goblin Dice Hoard Acquisition group, and asked around for it. Lo and behold, someone came to my aid, and found me the most heavily worn, most rolled-looking D8 that he could find (I wasn't picky on which dice, just worn looking). And not only that, with that Holmes dice he sent me a Moldvay and a Mentzer as well, to get my collection going for those, and to help me tell them apart! WOOOOOH! So that was all kinds of awesome. I had decided early on that I wanted to recolour the numbers on those, as they were about to begin a new life of rolling again. I decided to make the Holmes with yellow numbering, which looks INCREDIBLE, and eschew the idea that the original Holmes dice were all just numbered in black marker, again because it was beginning a new rolling life, but still used crayon to a) not have paint or marker seep into the microcracks in the plastic, and b) kinda give a nod towards the original dice still. The Moldvay we gave orange, not one of the original crayons (red, white, dark blue, yellow, green, and black), again as a nod to the current age rolling it will do, and the Mentzer we kept the same colour, just refreshed. Oh my goodness the original 3. It was also about this time that I began the Simon and Lotus dice-eating series, where Lotus attacked these dice in episode 4. And, as with all dice goblins, the collection carried on.
At this point, we obtained the Diceling beholder (aka: Khorgah, who's eye was replaced with that of a Nothic, carried through to here), and were now more focused on looking for specific individual cool dice, instead of entire sets. We had throughout all of this gotten random map generator dice, random weather dice, the HeroQuest dice, and a handful of others. Obligatory crystal dice (specifically looking for dice that looked homemade rather than cnc machined, mission accomplished, also green aventurine and purple agate), an orange dice, a brown dice, a DeeDee dice from One Shot Questers :D ! We also obtained a homemade resin dice representing the swamps, and a d4 in the shape of a healing potion bottle, bit of a story behind that. I really only wanted one, but it came in a set of 10, so the remainder were given to my gaming group before moving, spread the love :D With our dice bag filling up (though recently replaced with the bag for the Hive tile game, giving us more space lol), we had just about run out of specific dice to hunt for. Most recently was obtained a translucent spindown dice (technically a spinup dice for my one-shot), and my beautiful wife's first dice set, Critical Kit dragon eye multicolour dice. And thus brings us to our set, so far, as of May 2023. The only things left on the to-get list are a liquid-core dice, and otherwise it's gotta be pretty cool (or just catch my eye I suppose lol) for us to get more. But we're dice goblins, so we'll see.
--Oohhhhh, and the dice saga continues. On Sept. 20, 2023, I managed to find a copy of Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer issue 1! Now, I'm not planning to collect the entire set, that's just not in my list o' goals here, but when the ads started showing up for this, I wanted just one piece of memorabilia. Like any of them would be cool, but it would really have to have dice as an issue gift. Like I'm planning on getting the OneDND/5.5e core rulebooks when they come out, so getting the full set of magasines isn't on my to-do list, but oooohhhhhhhh, getting the issue 1 dice. Like, I'm normally not a black-colour type person, but it can at least hearken back to the metal side of me, and it feels like dice that a barbarian might use when swingin' their big ol' axe. So my next axe-swinger (or sword-swinger, who swings it as brutally as an axe) now has their next set of dice :D. Yah, I probably would have preferred a different colour, but again justifying this, when else will I ever get a set of black dice (aside from the gemini black/pink above, which have a completely different feel), for £1.99 yet, AND, it's the set of dice that come with Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer #1!!! Like I cannot stress that enough, that is SO cool that I found this, on probably the last day they'll be stocked in stores! There's a new issue every week, it was released on the 13th, I ran out and got it on the 20th... literally 7 days from release... so it probably would have been replaced with issue 2 tomorrow! WOOOOOOH, ISSUE 1 DICE!!!! Colour aside, I will gladly have these (also for my future barbarian) for that alone! NO complaints! AND, AND their very first roll was a 14, not too shabby! So we're happy. We have an unexpected new set of dice, from an iconic magasine issue, we have a colour that I always kinda wanted but didn't think I would ever pick up, and they are limited release! The storage tin for the dice is kinda cool, but since these dice will be staying in ye olde dice bag, I'll come up with something cool to do with this later, probably expect to see it on the AD&D page lol. But yes, SO excited about this, strangely. Like I said, ever since seeing this come out, and then seeing posts about people not being able to find it and being sold out, I went out, on a rainy, windy day (walking the hour to save a few quid), and came back, only slightly damp from drizzle, and missed the heavy rain by like... 10 minutes! WOOOOOOOH, limited edition issue 1 dice set, NO complaints, ALL the awesome :D :D :D. What will come next?
Collection started around 2014, and ongoing