Looking for some funky dice

[Malebolgia]

Hey,

I want to do a simple dungeon crawling game with my kids within the next year or so. To make it more accessible to them I want to have special dice with symbols instead of numbers. So a bit like Heroquest. But I don't want to use the Heroquest system as I want it to be slightly different. But dice with weapons and shields and blanks would be awesome.
So what options are there?

I have seen Heroscape, but like Heroquest they use printed dice. And I dislike printed dice...there is also the Dungeons & Dragons board game with some excellent dice but those are horribly expensive if you want them (and I once bought this game for 10 euros and gave it away...).

Do you guys have other options for etched dice for a dungeon crawler, which are available at a good price?

Thanks for helping out!

[Malamute]

Have you thought of having dice custom made to your own specification?

EM4 in the UK do them:

http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Custom_Dice.html

I have used the service its quick and easy.

[gnomehome]

IIRC the old Battlemasters game (Ridderstrijd) had engraved dice (skulls and shields). Maybe these can be found on Ebay

[Malebolgia]

Have you thought of having dice custom made to your own specification?

EM4 in the UK do them:

http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Custom_Dice.html

I have used the service its quick and easy.

Yes, I have used them several times now...but engraved dice with multiple faces are quite expensive (I think 5+ euros per dice IIRC). But they are on my list of options if nothing pans out.

IIRC the old Battlemasters game (Ridderstrijd) had engraved dice (skulls and shields). Maybe these can be found on Ebay

Thanks! I checked them out, but I don't really like the distribution of symbols (3 skulls, 1 shield, 2 blanks)

But in my search I found these:



These look perfect...but of course they are OOP. DOH!

[Drunkendwarf]

Not sure what dice  in your previous post ( I cant see the picture) but EM4 sells the Gladiatorius dice seperately. The different colours of dice have different numbers of shields or swords (the white dice are the weakest; the red one the strongest). The attacker need to throw more swords than the defender throw shields.



http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/Gladiators.html

edit: the dice above don't have blank sides (I think)

From the Conan game:

Not sure if they are already available but the look a lot like the dice from the D&D boardgame (if I have the correct one in mind).

D&D dice:


I don't no where but I have the old D&D game.

DJ

[Malebolgia]

Thanks man! Really helpful. I will surely check out those Conan dice and if you are willing to sell those D&D dice I am very interested.
And I have just found the AEG Tomb Dice for a good price (16 euros for 30 OOP dice), so that will give a good basis for my dungeon crawler game.

[Sbloom141]

I think I have a set of those D&D board game dice. If I find them, you can have them.

[Malebolgia]

Fantastic! Thanks man!

[Elbows]

It's also quite easy to generate your own dice using stickers, etc.  There are "indented D6" dice which you can create stickers for.  I made some custom dice for Furt's excellent Blood on the Sands gladiator game.

I use a stateside company called Gamecrafter.  You basically design up a small sheet of stickers (each image is separate and then they send you printed sheets) and buy some dice...stick 'em on and you're done.

[Malebolgia]

Good you bring these up! I tried this myself in the past, but it failed miserably. I ordered the dice (which are lovely!) and then label stickers which I could print. But unfortunately after printing the ink rubs off in no time. So after I added the stickers to the dice, a lot of ink was already gone. I wasn't impressed and stopped the project right away.
I had thought about using a dedicated printing facility like Gamecrafter or printplaygames.com but was curious about the quality. And according to you the quality is good? Check

[Ahistorian]

The Hobbit ludo-style boardgame has some nice dice.

[Elbows]

Mal,

Here is a picture of the dice I made for Furt's game.  Made/ordered from Gamecrafter.  I think I actually ordered the indented dice elsewhere to get more colour variation?



I created some basic icons and then tried to match some Chessex D6 dice with the indented D6's.  Since the stickers are quite cheap I made sure to have a handful of spares for each one (in case I fudged it).  The quality has thus far been great - haven't had any issues.  Obviously in 10 years time they made harden, crack or flake off?  But so far, so good.

[Sbloom141]

I found a set of the D&D dice, PM me your address and I'll post them your way. There's the coloured ones shown above and some black ones with different icons which I assume are for spells on them.