D & D is an awesome game. All you need is your imagination. Build a character and have an adventure. It’s so easy that just about anybody can play it. Even those who can’t see can get in on the fun thanks to things like this cool D20 for the blind.

This 3D-printed D20 has the usual numbers, but they are also in braille so blind people can throw their own rolls and read them. Obviously it has to be a bit larger than your typical D20 so you can fit the braille dots on each side, which is why this thing looks like it would break your glass coffee table if thrown on top.

D & D is truly for everyone.

[via Geeks Are Sexy]

If you have spent any amount of time playing Dungeons & Dragons or any other fantasy role-playing game that involves dice, you know the D20. This 20-sided die is the one that you go to when shiz gets real and you have only a slight chance of killing the Demogorgon.

Normally this die is made of plastic just in case a nerd rages and throws it at the balls of another nerd during the game. I have seen this happen on a few occasions. I can only imagine the havoc this steel D20 would have made; someone would probably have not made it past 13-years-old in my crew.

Blacksmith Gil Ramierez’s video below shows the involved forging process for this steel D20 and it’s pretty awesome to see. Just don’t roll it on mom’s glass dinner table.

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Check out this crazy picture of somebody’s massive dice collection. While it’s very cool, it’s missing a few to complete the image. I mean what sort of sicko would post up a picture that has six-sided dice around all sides except for the top top? I think the original poster dr_lugh was just messing with the OCD types out there.

Also, I see some normal six sided dice in there that don’t really belong. Anything you can do with a normal six-sided die, you can do with those ones decorated with images, and they look much cooler. I always hated the triangular dice though; they never roll well. There are some really cool dice here, especially some of that giant red one in the top right corner.

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Tabletop RPG fans will immediately recognize this as a 20-sided die. But you probably won’t actually be rolling this thing the next time you play some D&D. Instead, this D20 can be used to store all your little stuff. In fact, it’s perfect for storing your game-playing dice.

It was designed by the folks at 3DCreationsPR, and is 3D printed in one of a number of different PLA or ABS materials. They offer a bunch of different colors, including some cool ones like glow-in-the-dark, or translucent red. You can also choose from Arabic or Roman numerals. It’s also cool that the lid doesn’t just sit on top – it actually screws on and off.

There are three sizes – a “giant” 6.2″ tall version, a smaller 3.6″ tall version, and an even smaller version that holds up to 7 dice. Its creators do mention that the points can be very sharp, so you’ll want to be careful about letting kids play with them. You can grab a D20 Storage Box for yourself over at Etsy for $20 to $70 depending on size.

Lather up and roll a critical hit for hygiene with this Gaming Dice Soap Set. Rub -a-dub-dub, you have an RPG in your tub! This is a gift that keeps on giving. That’s because once you use up the soaps, there are actual D&D dice inside each one.

This set of three individually wrapped soaps is strong enough for a geek, but made for a nerd. You get a d20, d10, and d8, all in a pleasant citrus scent. The d20 measures about 2″ across, while the d8 and d10 are about 2-1/2″ in diameter.

Everyone in your house is going to want these, so you better roll for initiative to see who gets to use them. The set will cost you $29.99(USD) from ThinkGeek.

Back in the day, we kept all our varied dice for playing D&D tossed inside one of those purple Crown Royal whiskey bags. We thought we were so cool, but that bag was as close as we got to adult beverages for many years. If you want something fancier than an old Crown Royal bag, this D20 Pouch is the ticket.

You can use it to carry all your fancy dice or your coins. The bag comes in red or black and is said to be made from leather of “armor quality” thickness. It can hold three complete sets of dice, and measures 4-inches across. Since they are handmade, each one is unique.

The bag is also waterproof so your fancy dice don’t get damp when that dude who always plays the female elf whilst rocking a puberty beard spills his Coke for the third week in a row. Get yours for $39.99(USD) at ThinkGeek.

Roll a critical hit for diabetes while you kill monsters with these edible candy tabletop gaming dice sets from Etsy shop SugarAndDiceCrafts. Each set includes one each of these seven dice: a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20 and a d100 percentage die.

These sugary treats come in various colors and two dice sizes, regular for $15, and mini for $8 a set. You can use these to play your campaign and then eat them at the end of the night. Also, eat them whenever you roll a critical fail because they deserve it and you need vengeance. Hopefully, this works, and they don’t just melt in your hand. Of course, if they do, you could always melt yourself an Infinity Gauntlet around your hand to help with your roll. That would be badass.

My question is, why has a candy company not started mass producing these so I can buy them at the store? Willy Wonka’s game has really been slipping. Enough with the golden tickets already and get back to work rotting kids teeth you freak. Damn. Dentists are depending on you.

[via Boing Boing via Geekologie]

Here’s a critical hit to your sobriety. These Beer Dice from Artisan Dice are pretty much your typical tabletop gaming dice, except they contain compressed hops encased in crystal meth resin, and are also inlaid with brass numbers.

Pretty cool. Beautiful even. Elegant. As long as they don’t roll across the table like they’re drunk, then it’s all good. If they do, I guess you can use these to simulate a drunk character in your D & D game. These dice aren’t cheap though.

A single d20 will cost you $53, and a complete ten die polyhedral set (a d20, d12, d10, d%, d8, four d6’s, and a d4), will cost you $283. That’s pretty crazy, but then again they are beer dice. I wouldn’t even know how to make my own. Do I use Coors or Pabst Blue Ribbon? Or something classier? I have no idea. Do I just boil dice in beer on the stove? So many questions. I would just end up passed out, with beer and melted dice all over the floor. I think I’ll leave it to the experts.

[via Nerdist via Geekologie]

In games like Dungeons and Dragons, rolling a 1 is the worst news you can get. It means that you have critically failed at whatever task you are attempting. It often elicits the F word from the mouths of those rolling the die. Well, the good news is that these dice say it for you.

These Critical Failure D20 dice are made by Etsy seller MarsDice. The 25mm dice have ‘F*CK’ printed on one of their sides instead of a ‘1’. So now you don’t even have to open your mouth. These dice say it for all to see. They are available with a silver or gold finish, and cost $18 each. That price doesn’t really make sense because I had to use the swear jar like 100 times before I had $18. How does that convert to 1 single F word on a die?

My advice to nerds is not to look at rolling an F-bomb as a failure, but rather that you had a 1-in-20 chance of getting one. You know, always look on the bright side of life.

[via Geeks Are Sexy via Geekologie]

I’ve always been against using dice towers. I just never saw the point since I am perfectly capable of rolling the dice myself. But having said that, occasionally you roll really horribly and embarrass yourself. You have only yourself to blame. But I just realized that if you use a dice tower, you can blame it on the dice tower. So I may just start using one. This 3D-printed dice tower is one of the loveliest I have ever seen.

It’s called the Spiral Dice Tower from The3DForgeShop. It will look cool in your home and compliments your Dungeons and Dragons or other medieval-themed games. It lets you witness the dice tumbling down a twisty spiral staircase, and uses the plastic from a 1.5-liter soda bottle as the outer wall to prevent dice from spraying out everywhere.

I love the amount of detail in this thing. It even has a knight statue embedded on the wall, next to the exit.

It’s actually based on Thingiverse contributor Lau85’s design so you can make for one yourself if you have a 3D printer, or you can pay about $32, and get one pre-made. All dice towers should look this good.

[via Yanko Design via Mike Shouts]

If you’ve ever wondered how blind people play tabletop and RPG games, here’s your answer. Braille dice. A lack of sight doesn’t have to keep you from enjoying a good game of D & D. These cool dice were created by Jack Berberette as part of his Dots RPG project, which is all about making tabletop gaming more inclusive to the blind.

You can find the 3-D printing shapefiles for free HERE, or you can purchase finished dice several colors and sides from his Shapeways shop. Dice collectors will want to get their hands on these too. They come in all of the dice varieties that you need to play your games: D6, D10, D20 and everything in-between.

They look pretty sci-fi to me. One thing’s for sure, you won’t be able to fool your blind friends anymore by telling them they rolled a different number. You’re terrible for doing that by the way. Now they are going to wonder why their game is getting so much better, and it was all your fault. Jack really did a good job on these. They are very easy for blind gamers to use, and with a bit of learning the rest of us can figure it out too.

[via Boing Boing via Geekologie]

You know the old saying “roll your dice, move your mice?” Well what if that went something like “roll your ducks, move your mice?” I don’t think that rolls off the tongue quite so easily. Still, if you get these D20 dice, that’s exactly what you’ll be rolling.. tiny little ducks.

Each one of these see-through Lucky Duck D20 dice has a miniature rubber ducky inside. Aren’t they adorable? If Ernie from Sesame Street played Dungeons and Dragons, these are definitely the dice he would roll. I just wouldn’t recommend taking them into the bathtub, as I’m pretty sure these rubber duckies won’t float.

You can grab these whimsical D20 dice from The Keilas for $17.95 each. Thanks to tech and sci-fi expert Dave Taylor for tipping me off to these.

When we die, some of us want to be cremated, while others want to be buried, and a select few people want their body parts to be used for medical science. But I’m not sure many people would raise their hands and say “yeah, please turn my bones into dice so someone can play D&D with them.”

Thanks to the guys at Artisan Dice, some long-lost souls have met exactly that fate with their macabre Memento Mori dice. Yes, these D20s are made from real human bones. Each one got its start as a human being whose skeleton was at some point used at a medical university. Apparently, these skeletons have a shelf life, and eventually aren’t usable anymore, so they get turned into other stuff like dice. Kids, stop playing with the bones so much, and maybe we won’t have to turn them into dice.

Each one is handmade and inlaid with numbers crafted from sterling silver, then set into a special Reliquary gaming case. While you won’t ever know who died so you can have your die, you will get the satisfaction of knowing that someone gave their life so you can roll their bones.

Looking for the perfect coffee mug to let your coworkers know you’re down to do a little tabletop campaigning on your lunch break? Well, now you’re in luck, thanks to this Dungeons & Dragons D12 coffee mug available from Firebox. Now roll to see if I should add a little Baileys to this coffee.

The officially-licensed mug (it has the Dungeons & Dragons logo on one side) costs $18 and holds approximately 16-ounces of your favorite beverage. Or your least favorite beverage if you really want to punish yourself in the morning. That does make you weird though.

Coffee: you have to drink it out of something, and, speaking from personal experience, your bare hands just aren’t the best option. Use a mug. Now I know what you’re thinking, ‘But why? I have a perfectly good boot by the door,’ and that is just some sound logic that I can’t even begin to argue with.

There’s nothing worse than a mimic chest. You think you’re about to score some sweet loot, but nope, you just get attacked instead. Now I have to roll to see how many teeth the cleric in my party has to remove from my rear.

Designed to look like an unassuming treasure chest from the outside (that’s how they get you!), this is the $39 Mimic Chest Dice Storage Box crafted and sold by Etsy shop ConjurerCoShop. The toothy box can hold up to four sets of polyhedral dice and includes a lock and key so nobody can roll your dice behind your back.

As far as dice storage boxes go, this is a really nice one and I think it would certainly add to a Dungeons and Dragons gaming experience. For reference, my current dice storage box is a quart-size Ziploc bag. Does it also have my lunch in it? Yes, yes it does.

What do you carry your gaming dice around in? I use a Ziploc bag, but now my dice smell like a tuna salad sandwich because reducing, reusing, and recycling is one of my passions. But maybe you’re fancy, maybe you require one of these dagger, axe, or crossbow dice storage boxes from Etsy shop GamePLA. That’s cool, but I do plan on using my rogue character to steal it after your adventuring party sets up camp one night.

Available in a variety of colors and finishes, the 3D-printed boxes range in price from $34 to $40 depending on options and hold a complete set of seven tabletop gaming dice. Obviously, they make the perfect dice carrier to let the rest of your tabletop gaming group know that you came to play, NOT play around.

The dagger and axe both have sheaths to hold the dice in place during transport, while the crossbow model’s bolt actually does the job. That’s a clever design. And you know how I feel about clever designs: I get angry at myself I didn’t come up with them first. Same goes for inventing Star Wars and Amazon.

The brainchild of maker Greg Daville, this is an LED icosahedron crafted using a total of 2,400 LEDs, all placed individually by hand. Wow! I’m not sure if I would have had the patience for that, but I definitely don’t have the know-how to build an LED D20.

The panels of the oversized die can be programmed with different animations, and Greg mentions that in the future he may add wireless capabilities to sync the D20’s patterns and animations with other devices in the room. I smell an LED dance party soon!

So you’re not actually supposed to roll it, but I imagine you could use a random number generator to simulate a roll. That would be cool. Me? I don’t even have a D20, so whenever we play tabletop games at my house we have to roll three regular six-sided dice and flip a coin (heads is one, tails is two) to add up to 20. I think it goes without saying people don’t like playing games at my house.

Check out Greg’s blog for an in-depth read about the build, and if you’re interested in making on yourself Greg has made all the files available on Github here.

[via hackaday]

Cup Noodles: without them, I probably would have starved to death in college. Those and $1 frozen store-brand personal pizzas saved my life. Not my grades though. No… not my grades. YAHTZEE: Cup Noodles is a special edition of Yahtzee that comes in a Cup Noodles stylized cup and features dice printed with its common ingredients, including carrots, corn, lime, shrimp, beef, and chicken. Personally, my favorite flavor is Hot & Spicy with Shrimp.

Despite the above photo, the set does NOT include any actual noodles. A shame, I know. Available on Amazon (affiliate link), playing a game will likely last longer than it takes me to eat a real Cup Noodles, my current record of which, at least according to people who witnessed it, was “disgustingly fast.” The key is slurping.

Will I be disqualified for putting all the dice in my mouth after I don’t roll what I want? My wife is nodding her head, yes, making it easy for me to decide who is and isn’t invited to game night this week. So, is there a rule set for one-player Yahtzee?

[via The Awesomer]

I know what you’re thinking, and I couldn’t agree more – how has it taken so long for someone to make a SPAM-themed dice game? Well, in better late than never news, The OP has just released $17 Yahtzee SPAM, a spiced ham-inspired version of the classic dice-rolling game. And just when you thought playing Yahtzee couldn’t be more appetizing!

The game’s dice include images of popular SPAM cuisine, including SPAM musubi, SPAM sushi rolls, SPAM ramen, SPAM kabobs, SPAM fries, and a classic grilled cheese & SPAM, along with the classic numbers. Is anybody else’s mouth-watering? I think my dentist must have given me too much Novocaine because SPAM-themed Yahtzee just isn’t doing it for me.

So, yeah, it’s Yahtzee with pictures of SPAM dishes on the dice. I’m not sure what else to tell you, except if you aren’t shaking the dice around in your mouth before a roll, you aren’t trying hard enough to get kicked out of game night. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic! Good lord — and even if we weren’t!” I imagine my hosts yelling at me before asking me to leave and never come back.

[via Thrillist]

Kopi Luwak coffee is made from beans that have passed through the digestive system of the Asian palm civet and been pooped out, where they’re collected to make the world’s most expensive coffee. And now you can own dice made with the beans that once briefly passed through a small mammal’s butt! What a time to be alive and a tabletop gamer!

Kopi Luwak Civet Poop Dice are handcrafted by Artisan Dice, and each features real kopi luwak coffee beans that have been collected from the fecal matter of civets. Of course, they’ve been thoroughly cleaned first because nobody wants to roll crappy dice.

A single D20 will set you back $54, or you can get a complete 10-piece polyhedral set for $237. So they’re not the cheapest dice, but neither is the coffee. And can you really put a price on dice that were once poop? I would argue not, and I would be 100% correct.