Dice with inclusions always get the "but are they balanced??" question! The thing is, unless they're casino grade dice, no dice are balanced! However, most dice are perfectly playable, particularly considering that most of us aren't rolling on a level surface free of imperfections anyway, which will also affect the rolls. I've also heard from dice makers that creating weighted dice is actually really difficult even when you're trying to! So, my answer is... they're random enough for me. Even when I say dice "roll badly" (e.g., the toadstool dice I mention in this video), that's coming from a playfully superstitious place rather than a place of "balance." It's not like they rolled ones over and over! They just averaged lower rolls, which is not indicative of a balance issue considering how the numbers are distributed on a standard d20.
oftentimes inclusions are made of the same type of material as the dice themselves, so aside from a bit of paint, they will weigh the same as the material that they are replacing anyway, and aren't much of a concern in general.
i have a set of dice base in the god quetzacoatl, the person who i ask to make it, cant find in that moment feather that conect with the concept but the same day an argentine parrot find his end in her garden so she use the feathers, the skys give the life of a bird to make posible the creation of my dices.
I was watching a video of Lou Wilson from Dimension 20 rolling 9 Nat 1’s in the course of a few campaign sessions. 😱 His fellow player offered to perform an exorcism on his dice! 😂
I need a Project Runway-style show that's just D&D players crafting new characters; choosing dice, assembling costumes, selecting spells, writing out backstories in notebooks, etc.
Me: "...and for our upcoming Spelljammer campaign, I made a cowboy. He grew up on a ranch on an asteroid, and his family raises space swine. I just feel... cowboys would do well in space. He's a fighter- gunslinger, naturally- but he will be taking one level in bard so he can help pilot the ship. Otherwise half our party would be just martial classes, which isn't too bright when your only means of space travel relies on spellcasting."
@@pLanetstarBerry they'll be modeling some homebrew from the new Good, Bad, & Ulthillid Kickstarter, 19 days left to pledge, link will be provided by our sponsors!
I know right? It felt so nice to just see someone be so passionate about something. It felt like just hanging out with a friend and cheering on their interests!
With the Pixel dice, they’re actually really helpful for vision impaired people. Because the app they connect to can add sound to the roll, including what number you rolled! So cool!!
Sounds like something I need to look into for my dad to join me... he's blind. I already bought glow in the dark sets for the lols and a few sets of solid metal spikey ones for myself!
@@durdleduc8520 I've seen talking dice out there but batteries are a thing and electronics don't react well to being shaken up usually. lol. Most dice have sunken dots though I'm not sure my dad's sensitivity is high enough to feel them so I'll just tell him what it is and be honest as always. ;)
I wasn’t scared when Ginny Di said: “I have so many dice that I don’t have any players that haven’t gotten a set” “Standard procedure” I thought However when you said that you forced your self to pick three from the Wild earth dice I was like “OH” If these are the cream of the crop you have hundreds of sets. Thousands of sets have run into your hoard.
I am so jealous that you already have Pixels dice. Because to the question who NEEDS them: "people who mostly play online but want to roll real dice" Since they are able to connect to Roll20 I would finally be able to roll real dice with all with all the comfort and "safety" for the dm that comes with normal online rolling.
I have Die Hard Dices that my mother bought for me on the last christmas because she saw me DMing “Curse of Strahd” for my school friends and she wanted to make me a nice gift She ordered adorable metallic “vampire” dices and also creepy metallic black ones. I love them so much and since then never used any other sets. Before this I only had plastic ones, they weren’t nearly as cool. One of my most favourite DnD things I own. Second place is my Tarokka cards I made on my own with some custom ones for my players that I designed for the same “Curse of Strahd” campaign :))
Die Hard Dice are my favorite (especially their metal ones), but they're totally the dice equivalent of drug dealers. If you add a comment to your order on how you'll use the dice or how you heard of them they include freebies. A *lot* of freebies. My first time I got 10 random plastic/polymer dice and a beautiful metal d20- as my free add-ons! I had bought two mid-price sets, so it wasn't a huge order either. Most recently I got another plain set and a gorgeous navy and gold metal dire d20 as my freebies. They know how to get me hooked, dammit! I blame that initial free metal dice for my later purchase of a whole metal set, so their strategy works :p
I love the enthusiasm, and the idea of taking an "accent die" to give some pop to your regular set. Those first two sets, from Bindrune Dice, especially the Chloe's Fancy set, are sublime.
Ginny is living everyone's dice goblin life. I have probably a dozen or so sets, that my family and I rotate through, but there's always that little goblin brain deep down that wants all the dice. shiny little clickety clackety dice.
"Wanna see my dice collection?" would be a killer pick up line to pull off xD Love your channel, discovered you recently and am enjoying your vids ^_^ gonna DM soon for the very first time, and your vids, together with the videos from Matthew Colville, help me so much!
Best of luck on your first DM. I also recommend checking out Dungeon Dudes. They have better insight than many of the other channels. I would listen to them as much as Ginny when it comes to 5e.
Sadly, due to age and the accompanying vision issues, I've gone from collecting beauties like these dice to going for solid colors with contrasting numbers. Readability is my benchmark. But I do like looking at pretty dice others collect! Thanks for sharing these!
Yeah, I definitely don't want to be squinting at my dice for a year mid-game trying to figure out what I rolled! That's why my dice are mostly simple white numbers on medium or dark backgrounds.
@@bigdream_dreambig I realized I had to get bigger/more readable dice when I noticed I was picking up my d20 regularly to see what I had rolled, and was worried about others thinking I was cheating. Of course, in retrospect the fact I usually rolled like garbage anyway would have made it obvious I wasn't.
@@hqueso I found lots of good options at DieHardDice -- enough that I still ended up with way more sets than I need! I generally stick to the basic polymer dice because I don't want to have to worry about what my play surface is -- and there's the added benefit that each set is typically $6-$10.
I have the same problem; I recently assembled a set of polyhedrals for actual play based on each size being a different color, so I also don’t have to be able to tell the 8s apart from the 10s at a fast glance. I’ve gone with the colors of the original 1976 dice; yellow 4s, pink 6s, green 8s, blue 12s, and white 20s (which double as 10s).
Then get a set of Pixels. You have them blink a certain way with different colors of your choice and all that. I plan on my dice do like a police light spin when they hit 20s and a waterfall of dark red like blood on nails. The possibilities for light ups and colors are virtually endless. As for readability, you can have your phone announce the number for you.
Me and my pals who tend to just play random dungeon crawls we each make, we have a homebrew dice system that I would love to source from all these companies for all of us as gifts: -D20 for general use (combat, world interactions, and skill checks/use) -D2 for a success or fail checks -D8 for healing items -D12 for healing spells (if anyone plays a mage or something to that nature) -D6 x2 for damage calculation (number of dice and type varies if it’s a gauntlet of enemies or a boss)
this is a really fun video, I love how happy Ginny is. that being said, I respectfully disagree with you on one thing, because a 1kg dice made fully from copper is (to me) cooler than any electric dice.
I might be biased because I like being able to actually roll my dice, and the copper one would damage, like, 80% of surfaces it was rolled on 😂 so it's more of a shelf piece
@@GinnyDi imagine not playing on an industrial steel table... SMH... it's cool, I like metals and I make custom copper and recycled metal jewelry, so it really fits in with my style
The pixels are still the bigger flex, because at the moment you can't get them even if you backed the Kickstarter. I don't think even the developer dice have been made yet, so the only dice out in the world are the hand made prototypes and test samples. They are still cheaper per die than my Norse Foundry tungsten set.
@@GinnyDi forgot about that, but yeah. I still represent my players using Talisman board game pieces on paper maps I draw, while playing on a foldable table in the basement. you have the cool stuff, and I was bestowed a title by my players- "the makeshift king". but yeah, we can talk all day about the cool dice, I bought mine bulk second hand, and my players keep "borrowing" them...
I adore the Pixel dice and can't wait to get them! I'm a visually impaired player and with the connection to a phone I can see myself having a much easier time rolling these and then looking at the result on my phone instead of squinting at the table lol All of your dice are hella pretty though, people that make dice are truly gods and goddesses.
Handmade dices are gorgeous and it usually breaks my heart that they're too expensive and I can't support the artisans, but I feel lucky enough to have won a "design your dice" contest by Equinox Dice and they made me the set I designed (themed on my main character) 🥺🥺🥺 it's definitely my most treasured dice set 💕💕💕
Thank you so much for introducing me to die hard dice. I was lucky enough to get your Na'Krasha dice collection and loved the dice and company. After a good friend I used to play DnD with passed away I bought memorial dice for our group. Die hard reached out for details about the group number and my friends name. They sent us about 100$ of extra dice and even ordered our whole group custom bracelets with "our friend" and the name of my friend on them in Morse code. I absolutely love die hard dice and reccomend them to everyone that needs dice. Thanks again for making me aware of their existence. Best dice company ever!
Absolutely loved seeing some more of your collection Ginny! This is such an enthusiastic video and I love seeing what some of the different kinds you have collected are and what they make you think of or which of your characters you use them for. Thank you for sharing with us!
I can definitely recommend Die Hard Dice, they are amazing! I have a lot of their acrylic dice and 4 sets of metal dice from them and love them all. The free dice they send always match the aesthetic of the order as well without being too similar to the ones ordered. I don't know how they do it but much respect.
Great video. I'd love to see are larger showing of your dice collection. Not focusing on specific sets and why they're so neat but more the breadth of your collection. Top tier sets, second tier "almost" sets, dice trays, storage options, etc... Signed, a fellow dice goblin
I love the "clicky clacky math rocks! i have 2 giant bags!" that last part is not a joke. i probably have several hundred sets of dice since i started playing in 84. My wife did tell me "no more dice" though. its been rough!.....
Having tons of awesome and unique dice that enhance one's joy of playing D&D and other TTRPGs? Awesome. Having a solid copper d20 that doubles as a sling projectile? Priceless.
This is a very impressive collection with some pretty dice. But you left out the most important part of describing dice - what flavour do you imagine they are?! 😄
Patiently waiting for Pixel Dice. I know the wait will be worth it and since the dice are linked to an app and it knows what you rolled, its going to be great for the vision impaired and table top accessibility
10:34 my character Zoey is basically both of these aesthetics- I wonder if there's a dice set that's both very magical girl with those cute vibrant pinks as well as gothic occult witchy blacks. I think that countrast could look so cool :O
I would love to see the entirety of your dice collection over several videos. This was a breathtaking episode of your dice show and tell, but even the less exciting ones would be fun to see!
I agree. I kind of just want to see all your sets ginny even if it's just a single flyby type video showcasing all of them not really discussing why you like them. Keep up the show and tells too but I literally just want to know how many sets you have and what they all look like.
One of my favorite dice sets is called The Cat's Meow. It comes with four D6 that have fish bones on the 1-5 faces, and a cat face of different expressions on the 6 face. The number of D6s is perfect for rolling up attributes!
I haven't played an rpg for 35 years. I am subscribed for your music and your brilliant dice collection. Weird because I will never use any but I just love the creativity and flair these dice have. The ones with flowers and moss are just so cool.
I LOVE your dice collection! None of mine are that fancy, but one of my players has a birthday coming up, and I happened to find a dice set that looked like their character’s eyes.
Those copper d20s are so ridiculous and amazing. Also I think the light up dice would be cool if you could program them to turn red on crit fails and like blue or teal on nat 20s.
You can! That sad red pulse in the video is from rolling a 1 - and the rainbow is a natural 20! But you can customize all that. You could even customize every individual number, if you wanted!
@@thefollowingisatest4579 For visually impaired players, having customised colours and light patterns for each number could be a great accessibility feature, especially when couples with the ability to read the number on your phone screen as well.
After watching Rybonator’s video on the Pixel dice, my partner and I backed the ks for 1 d20 each. Can’t wait to get those once they release. Also, the dispel dice we got are AMAZING. Thanks for showing us your collection!!
I love single d20s , as a dm I like to give them out as inspiration so people know they have inspiration and then they will give it back once used. I have some nice sparkly ones to give as inspiration ✨️
I saved and got the Wisteria dice set that you did with Die Hard Dice this year and they're beautiful! I love the way the oversized gold d20 feels to roll, it's so satisfying
6:21 if you DM sometimes - use them when the party need some help in a battle, that you don't want them to lose, but it would be illogical/feel cheap to give actual help in-game. Just roll terribly, to give them more chances to clutch
The Koi fish dice would be perfect for a Samurai adventure. A noble warrior who would prefer to be meditating with his koi pond, but is forced to defend his land, or quest for something important for his Emperor.
Fennek & Finch is great! They're based here in Portland and their dice are just gorgeous. I've got a set called sorbet, they look like little gummy candies and you can't convince me they wouldn't taste amazing
Oh that's very cool! There was a kickstarter a couple of years back for "ice-cream dice" that featured different "flavours" and they all looked delicious!
Should have commented this on your newer about dice, but I realized that I, too, am a dice dragon. I have an irrational need to collect dice when you really only need one set (maybe 2 so you have a backup!). Also, your Arya Stark cosplay is ON POINT! You look almost exactly like the actor in the shots you show.
I just got back into D&D as well as other TableTop games after stopping in 1999, but I was not prepared for the dice being such an amazing part of the fun and collecting them. There are SOOOO many different types, styles and varieties.
Books/modules, minis, and dice, the great trilogy of purchasing categories when I was gaming. Of course, there weren't as many terrain options as there are now, or maps, there wasn't much other merch, and nothing was online, but I'd still be obsessed beyond reason by those things if I could afford it. Awesome collection. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for all this information! It led to me getting dice from both Seersword and Die Hard for friends for the holidays. Die Hard said to tell you hi, and sent me an entire acrylic set for free with the metal D20s I ordered!
However much you get paid for your ads isn't enough. I love Ginny Di commercials. I generally skip ads on other channels but I'd legit watch a Ginny Di ad all by itself.
Practically anyone else: Wanna see my dice collection? Me: Uh....no, that's okay.... Ginny Di: Wanna see my dice collection? Me: Why not? If it's Ginny, it's probably gonna be lit! Me (ten minutes later): ...literally!
I agree that all of these are really neat. Thankfully for my wallet, though, I never fell into a dice addiction; I just don't get excited for them. Unfortunately for my wallet, I do it with minis instead.
as a bit of a dice collector my self a lot of these are really nice and some were tempting.. i stalk a lot around kickstarter to find some of the most unique sets around .. as a collector i do not have the vast numbers of dice but i do feel that i have various styles of dice that i felt are unique to me when i back them.. a few more that have been done and maybe we will share them with yah when we get them
As soon as you pulled out the pixels dice I screamed!! I backed that kickstarter so long ago and have been eagerly awaiting every singly update on when those bad boys are going into production! Of course they're unnecessary but omg are they cool!
I am a fan of Neytrix (an art UA-camr) who does a lot of gory pieces and she uses the exact same music Ginny did towards the end of the video when showing the most disturbing shit or create “something is very wrong here” vibe. At the end I was low key expecting something horrible to happen. Really fun 10/10.
the pixel dice is a super flex. i've been eagerly following that since it was just a project on hackaday and cannot wait for all of the production wrinkles to get ironed out.
My most precious dice are the ones from the original Basic D&D boxed set and then the Advanced D&D boxed set. I've only got 3 dice left from from them total, but I still use them in every game today.
@@euansmith3699 I tried filling in the markings on one of the dice when I first got them and hated it, so I didn't do the rest. I also don't have that die anymore. Mine are all unfilled and VERY used. Makes them a little hard to read now that I'm old! 🤣
Yes! Die Hard Dice appreciation!!!! I love this company, they always send lovely extras with your order. I have 6 of their metal d6s and they are the BEST.
As someone who recently bought a couple of things from Die Hard Dice, I’ve gotta say they really are a cool company! I bought an acrylic set in the same style as the one she showed, and a single metal D20 that’s part of the same Draconian embers series but in blue and purple, and they sent me a Dire D20 FOR FREE along with some really cool postcards! I’d never owned a metal die before, and now I have 2! I also just really love the shape of their acrylic sets, it’s not all of them but the way they kind of blunt the corners is really pleasing to me
I'm so happy to see the love for DieHard! My (entirely excessive but ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY) dice collection is almost exclusively from them because of that affordability aspect combined with oooh pretty! As a DM, I have 4 sets I use (two Isa sets, Prismatic Moonlight, and the set they made for Percy with Critical Role), and then I have a bag with 16 of their dire d20s (plus the Critical Role chonker) for all my heavy-DM-role-to-scare-players needs. I usually pick 2 d20s per session, loosely theming them after what I've planned. I do actually plan to not stop until I have every dire d20 offered by DieHard. Because reasons.
Some years ago I had that perfectly round D20. It was suppeosed to have weight inside that would make it always stop with a number on top and also not just roll like forever, but it ended up being stuck between two numbers more often than I - and even more our DM . appreciated, so it got banned from our table. I kept it around as a novelty item for a while, but later gifted it to a kid in the neighborhood who started playing RPG games and really liked it.
Ginny : "Who needs this?" My inner dice goblin : "We do! We need that more than food!!" Also, I have a whole bunch of Die Hard dice already. And several sets of Critical Role dice. And I am so jealous that you just randomly get sent dice. I'm really excited about the Dwarven Forge Kickstarter dice reliquaries that I think should very soon be sent out. Oh, and if you ever decide you need a curator for your dice, give me a call. I'm really cheap.
Yeh, just bought a solid metal D100 for one of my players playing a wild magic Sorcerer, I set up a custom table for them and I'm so excited for the first time it goes off :]
I swear, after seeing this, I realize I have a growing dice addiction and it cannot be sated! About a thousand dice sets on all my online carts, lol. It's too bad I don't have enough money to buy all of them, and I mean EVERY SINGLE one. And this makes me sooo jelly 🥺
I love dice so much! One half my collection was stolen once and I was so sad because they were a lot of my originals but since I’ve definitely rebuilt bigger and better
thanks for the dice inspiration ☺️ i plan to get into dice making and these are all sets i want to make for myself. thanks for showing off your coolest shit! i love to see it
And I thought I had a lot of dice. lol I have tons of glow-in-the-dark dice...because of course I do, I'm obsessed with glow-in-the-dark things. I even have a dice roller that lights up inside when you shake the dice so they come out glowing! I've also got a ton of dice sets from Poly Hero Dice. They have a bunch of different class dice sets, where the dice are unusual shapes related to the class the set it based on. They currently have Warrior, Wizard, Rogue and Cleric. I want them to create a Bard set now. And I've spent the most money on Kraken dice. Their dice own me, lol. We got a set of koi dice from there, too. I like their dice, as they have sets with four d6s, two d20s for advantage and disadvantage, and a larger d20 and a smaller d20. I am also obsessed with tiny dice. Got a ton of those (check out the halfling dice bag on Amazon!). Oh, and dice have become jewelry now, too. I got a d20 cage that is perfect to fit my normal-sized d20s, and I can just switch them out to match whatever outfit I'm wearing! Nothing like wearing your hobby, lol. I may have to check some of those places out, some of those dice you showed off were amazing. Tiny dice terrariums indeed!
Seeing this pop up and going aww, so pretty and then seeing the pixel dice and knowing I am STILL waiting for mine to come in. The Kickstarter is long over due.
Since you like the potion dice, you should check out Dice Hero dice - they have a unique set (in several color options) for each of the four core DnD classes. Of course, for some unique non-inclusion dice, Q-Workshop make some cool dice (though some of their sets can get TOO busy on each face) - I particularly like their metal Call of Cthulhu set. I also like several of the sets Bryce's Dice has Kickstarted (you mentioned hollow metal dice sets in another comment reply - the sets I have from Bryce are that).
My favourite set of dice are a hollow metal set that was gifted to me for Christmas: they have dragons on each face for most of them (I'm a dragon fanatic), & a central dragon on the ones with too many faces to do a dragon on each face. Mine are copper coloured. I haven't used them, yet, for a game so I don't actually know how well they roll, but damn, they are cool AF dice.
I have a hollow metal set with spiders for my spider-themed character and they have a cool purple hue. I enjoyed using mine, they feel good, even though they are quite light, and I found mine rolled quite well.
Awesome dice. I have a cold iron d6 for if I'm ever gaming with fey. Also metal d4s in case I run out of caltrops. And pink dice with angry Cthulhu faces for the 1s, great for Demon Hunters.
I have a pretty good selection of dice too. There are red ones, yellow ones, blue ones, and even a few black ones. The best thing about them is that I can easily stuff my whole collection into a pocket. 😁
Dice with inclusions always get the "but are they balanced??" question! The thing is, unless they're casino grade dice, no dice are balanced! However, most dice are perfectly playable, particularly considering that most of us aren't rolling on a level surface free of imperfections anyway, which will also affect the rolls. I've also heard from dice makers that creating weighted dice is actually really difficult even when you're trying to!
So, my answer is... they're random enough for me. Even when I say dice "roll badly" (e.g., the toadstool dice I mention in this video), that's coming from a playfully superstitious place rather than a place of "balance." It's not like they rolled ones over and over! They just averaged lower rolls, which is not indicative of a balance issue considering how the numbers are distributed on a standard d20.
oftentimes inclusions are made of the same type of material as the dice themselves, so aside from a bit of paint, they will weigh the same as the material that they are replacing anyway, and aren't much of a concern in general.
Some dice just don't want to behave. They're fickle little math rocks. 😅
i have a set of dice base in the god quetzacoatl, the person who i ask to make it, cant find in that moment feather that conect with the concept but the same day an argentine parrot find his end in her garden so she use the feathers, the skys give the life of a bird to make posible the creation of my dices.
I was watching a video of Lou Wilson from Dimension 20 rolling 9 Nat 1’s in the course of a few campaign sessions. 😱
His fellow player offered to perform an exorcism on his dice! 😂
And you can mitigate the entire issue with a decent dice tower anyway - if "balance" is *that* important to you ...
I need a Project Runway-style show that's just D&D players crafting new characters; choosing dice, assembling costumes, selecting spells, writing out backstories in notebooks, etc.
Yes. I would be all over that.
I NEED THIS NOW OMG
That would be a great YT channel. Especially with D&D creators.
Me: "...and for our upcoming Spelljammer campaign, I made a cowboy. He grew up on a ranch on an asteroid, and his family raises space swine. I just feel... cowboys would do well in space. He's a fighter- gunslinger, naturally- but he will be taking one level in bard so he can help pilot the ship. Otherwise half our party would be just martial classes, which isn't too bright when your only means of space travel relies on spellcasting."
@@pLanetstarBerry they'll be modeling some homebrew from the new Good, Bad, & Ulthillid Kickstarter, 19 days left to pledge, link will be provided by our sponsors!
"oh there can't be THAT many dice-"
ginny: i've donated a few hundred dice...
"HUNDRED?!?"
Currently I have about 150 or so of varying sets, and I've lost or given away probably an equal amount, but that's over 40 years of gaming.
i purchase dice (as a DM) by the pound. a pound generally has about 20 complete 7-dice sets in it. ive bought a few pounds over the years.
Plot twist: Laura Bailey received those dice......SOMEHOW.
Ginny's joy talking about her dice and showing them is so conagius! This video made me so happy!
"It's like having a tiny little terrarium in every die." = THAT is where I lost it & could no longer keep a straight face.
I know right? It felt so nice to just see someone be so passionate about something. It felt like just hanging out with a friend and cheering on their interests!
Rational brain: "This is so unnecessary"
Loot Goblin brain: "I NEED IT!!!"
har har - plastic gems go click clack.
With the Pixel dice, they’re actually really helpful for vision impaired people. Because the app they connect to can add sound to the roll, including what number you rolled! So cool!!
Sounds like something I need to look into for my dad to join me... he's blind. I already bought glow in the dark sets for the lols and a few sets of solid metal spikey ones for myself!
That part is awesome
@@RogueWraith909 i feel like someone out there must have made Braille dice by now. happy playing!!
@@durdleduc8520 I've seen talking dice out there but batteries are a thing and electronics don't react well to being shaken up usually. lol. Most dice have sunken dots though I'm not sure my dad's sensitivity is high enough to feel them so I'll just tell him what it is and be honest as always. ;)
Me, "So how big is your dice bag?"
Ginny, "Bag? No, no, no... I have a dice ROOM!"
I wasn’t scared when Ginny Di said: “I have so many dice that I don’t have any players that haven’t gotten a set”
“Standard procedure” I thought
However when you said that you forced your self to pick three from the Wild earth dice I was like “OH”
If these are the cream of the crop you have hundreds of sets. Thousands of sets have run into your hoard.
Ginny's dragon hoard is just millions of shiny click clacks.
I am so jealous that you already have Pixels dice. Because to the question who NEEDS them: "people who mostly play online but want to roll real dice"
Since they are able to connect to Roll20 I would finally be able to roll real dice with all with all the comfort and "safety" for the dm that comes with normal online rolling.
This also works with Foundry VTT. ;)
@@Zandaarl Yes i know i use stuff like that but its not the same as physical dice ;)
Yes! I pledged for them and still can't wait to fiiiinally get my set. I play so much online, I need them.
Turns out, staring at sparkly math rocks is pretty soothing.
My new favorite term: “Sparkly Math Rocks” 👍😁
@@queenannsrevenge100 Good name for a band.
Cat videos for D and D nerds❤️( that aren't actually cat videos)
You have to copyright "sparkly math rocks" yesterday!
I have Die Hard Dices that my mother bought for me on the last christmas because she saw me DMing “Curse of Strahd” for my school friends and she wanted to make me a nice gift
She ordered adorable metallic “vampire” dices and also creepy metallic black ones. I love them so much and since then never used any other sets. Before this I only had plastic ones, they weren’t nearly as cool.
One of my most favourite DnD things I own. Second place is my Tarokka cards I made on my own with some custom ones for my players that I designed for the same “Curse of Strahd” campaign :))
Die Hard Dice are my favorite (especially their metal ones), but they're totally the dice equivalent of drug dealers. If you add a comment to your order on how you'll use the dice or how you heard of them they include freebies. A *lot* of freebies. My first time I got 10 random plastic/polymer dice and a beautiful metal d20- as my free add-ons! I had bought two mid-price sets, so it wasn't a huge order either. Most recently I got another plain set and a gorgeous navy and gold metal dire d20 as my freebies. They know how to get me hooked, dammit! I blame that initial free metal dice for my later purchase of a whole metal set, so their strategy works :p
I love the enthusiasm, and the idea of taking an "accent die" to give some pop to your regular set. Those first two sets, from Bindrune Dice, especially the Chloe's Fancy set, are sublime.
Ginny is living everyone's dice goblin life. I have probably a dozen or so sets, that my family and I rotate through, but there's always that little goblin brain deep down that wants all the dice. shiny little clickety clackety dice.
Backed the Pixel dice kickstarter and I am just so excited for when they finally get shipped out. Seeing them in this video got me super hyped again!
"Wanna see my dice collection?" would be a killer pick up line to pull off xD
Love your channel, discovered you recently and am enjoying your vids ^_^ gonna DM soon for the very first time, and your vids, together with the videos from Matthew Colville, help me so much!
I wish I could pull off that pick up line.
Beats post card stamps , rubber band and binders by 10x at least 😂
Best of luck on your first DM. I also recommend checking out Dungeon Dudes. They have better insight than many of the other channels. I would listen to them as much as Ginny when it comes to 5e.
Good luck. Don't forget to have fun, it's contagious.
Sadly, due to age and the accompanying vision issues, I've gone from collecting beauties like these dice to going for solid colors with contrasting numbers. Readability is my benchmark. But I do like looking at pretty dice others collect! Thanks for sharing these!
Yeah, I definitely don't want to be squinting at my dice for a year mid-game trying to figure out what I rolled! That's why my dice are mostly simple white numbers on medium or dark backgrounds.
@@bigdream_dreambig I realized I had to get bigger/more readable dice when I noticed I was picking up my d20 regularly to see what I had rolled, and was worried about others thinking I was cheating. Of course, in retrospect the fact I usually rolled like garbage anyway would have made it obvious I wasn't.
@@hqueso I found lots of good options at DieHardDice -- enough that I still ended up with way more sets than I need! I generally stick to the basic polymer dice because I don't want to have to worry about what my play surface is -- and there's the added benefit that each set is typically $6-$10.
I have the same problem; I recently assembled a set of polyhedrals for actual play based on each size being a different color, so I also don’t have to be able to tell the 8s apart from the 10s at a fast glance. I’ve gone with the colors of the original 1976 dice; yellow 4s, pink 6s, green 8s, blue 12s, and white 20s (which double as 10s).
Then get a set of Pixels. You have them blink a certain way with different colors of your choice and all that. I plan on my dice do like a police light spin when they hit 20s and a waterfall of dark red like blood on nails. The possibilities for light ups and colors are virtually endless.
As for readability, you can have your phone announce the number for you.
Tours of dice collections is one thing I don't tire of easily. You can learn a lot about someone from their dice.
I like using various D20's while DMing because it helps me keep creatures roles organized. Dice tours are just so satisfying.
I second this
Me and my pals who tend to just play random dungeon crawls we each make, we have a homebrew dice system that I would love to source from all these companies for all of us as gifts:
-D20 for general use (combat, world interactions, and skill checks/use)
-D2 for a success or fail checks
-D8 for healing items
-D12 for healing spells (if anyone plays a mage or something to that nature)
-D6 x2 for damage calculation (number of dice and type varies if it’s a gauntlet of enemies or a boss)
this is a really fun video, I love how happy Ginny is. that being said, I respectfully disagree with you on one thing, because a 1kg dice made fully from copper is (to me) cooler than any electric dice.
I might be biased because I like being able to actually roll my dice, and the copper one would damage, like, 80% of surfaces it was rolled on 😂 so it's more of a shelf piece
@@GinnyDi imagine not playing on an industrial steel table... SMH...
it's cool, I like metals and I make custom copper and recycled metal jewelry, so it really fits in with my style
The pixels are still the bigger flex, because at the moment you can't get them even if you backed the Kickstarter. I don't think even the developer dice have been made yet, so the only dice out in the world are the hand made prototypes and test samples. They are still cheaper per die than my Norse Foundry tungsten set.
Why would I play on an industrial steel table when I have a gorgeous Wyrmwood wenge modular gaming table? 😇
@@GinnyDi forgot about that, but yeah. I still represent my players using Talisman board game pieces on paper maps I draw, while playing on a foldable table in the basement. you have the cool stuff, and I was bestowed a title by my players- "the makeshift king".
but yeah, we can talk all day about the cool dice, I bought mine bulk second hand, and my players keep "borrowing" them...
I adore the Pixel dice and can't wait to get them! I'm a visually impaired player and with the connection to a phone I can see myself having a much easier time rolling these and then looking at the result on my phone instead of squinting at the table lol
All of your dice are hella pretty though, people that make dice are truly gods and goddesses.
Handmade dices are gorgeous and it usually breaks my heart that they're too expensive and I can't support the artisans, but I feel lucky enough to have won a "design your dice" contest by Equinox Dice and they made me the set I designed (themed on my main character) 🥺🥺🥺 it's definitely my most treasured dice set 💕💕💕
Thank you so much for introducing me to die hard dice. I was lucky enough to get your Na'Krasha dice collection and loved the dice and company. After a good friend I used to play DnD with passed away I bought memorial dice for our group. Die hard reached out for details about the group number and my friends name. They sent us about 100$ of extra dice and even ordered our whole group custom bracelets with "our friend" and the name of my friend on them in Morse code. I absolutely love die hard dice and reccomend them to everyone that needs dice. Thanks again for making me aware of their existence. Best dice company ever!
“Math Gems”. I love it. In an often dark world you are a ray of sunshine (and I think sunshine is delightfully snarky). Keep up the great work!
Absolutely loved seeing some more of your collection Ginny! This is such an enthusiastic video and I love seeing what some of the different kinds you have collected are and what they make you think of or which of your characters you use them for. Thank you for sharing with us!
I can definitely recommend Die Hard Dice, they are amazing! I have a lot of their acrylic dice and 4 sets of metal dice from them and love them all. The free dice they send always match the aesthetic of the order as well without being too similar to the ones ordered. I don't know how they do it but much respect.
Great video. I'd love to see are larger showing of your dice collection. Not focusing on specific sets and why they're so neat but more the breadth of your collection. Top tier sets, second tier "almost" sets, dice trays, storage options, etc... Signed, a fellow dice goblin
I love the "clicky clacky math rocks! i have 2 giant bags!" that last part is not a joke. i probably have several hundred sets of dice since i started playing in 84. My wife did tell me "no more dice" though. its been rough!.....
Having tons of awesome and unique dice that enhance one's joy of playing D&D and other TTRPGs? Awesome. Having a solid copper d20 that doubles as a sling projectile? Priceless.
This is a very impressive collection with some pretty dice. But you left out the most important part of describing dice - what flavour do you imagine they are?! 😄
“Imagine”
Alas, earwax.
When she said the one set looked tasty, I thought, "But don't they all?" But, I have a problem. ;)
This has awaken my Dice Goblin side... Love the Die Hard Chonk. I have a purple one.
In another video i heard someone say "Dice Goblin" always has a bad conotation so he prefers Dice Hoarder or Dice Dragon 🙂
@@keinPlan86m Dunno why... one of the characters I made for a Pathfinder campaign was a Goblin Ranger... they're all cute and green and stuff! Lol.
@@keinPlan86m I prefer Dice Dragon. 😆
This is really the happiest a UA-cam video has made me since the dawn of time. Ginny's enthusiasm is so contagious!
Patiently waiting for Pixel Dice.
I know the wait will be worth it and since the dice are linked to an app and it knows what you rolled, its going to be great for the vision impaired and table top accessibility
I've just bought my first dice set today!
Congrats! I hope they suit you well. :)
may they roll well and give successful death saving throws! :-)
May they roll well enough that you do not need to worry about rolling death saving thrown
welcome to the math rocks goblin club!
It's been a year, has your dice collection grown?
10:34 my character Zoey is basically both of these aesthetics- I wonder if there's a dice set that's both very magical girl with those cute vibrant pinks as well as gothic occult witchy blacks. I think that countrast could look so cool :O
I would love to see the entirety of your dice collection over several videos. This was a breathtaking episode of your dice show and tell, but even the less exciting ones would be fun to see!
I agree. I kind of just want to see all your sets ginny even if it's just a single flyby type video showcasing all of them not really discussing why you like them. Keep up the show and tells too but I literally just want to know how many sets you have and what they all look like.
That's not ridiculous, that's a super overwhelmingly impressive and awesome collection! Seeing all these pretty dice is just pure joy. 😄
One of my favorite dice sets is called The Cat's Meow. It comes with four D6 that have fish bones on the 1-5 faces, and a cat face of different expressions on the 6 face. The number of D6s is perfect for rolling up attributes!
*CUTE!*
I haven't played an rpg for 35 years. I am subscribed for your music and your brilliant dice collection. Weird because I will never use any but I just love the creativity and flair these dice have. The ones with flowers and moss are just so cool.
I LOVE your dice collection! None of mine are that fancy, but one of my players has a birthday coming up, and I happened to find a dice set that looked like their character’s eyes.
I actually broke into a grin when I saw this video in my subscription feed! I loved the last dice videos so much and I just love dice in general.
this amount of genuine joy and excitement is contagious.
Thank you so much for backing and showing our potions Ginny!! We are heartwhelmed by see our dice in your collection! ^^
Those copper d20s are so ridiculous and amazing. Also I think the light up dice would be cool if you could program them to turn red on crit fails and like blue or teal on nat 20s.
You can! That sad red pulse in the video is from rolling a 1 - and the rainbow is a natural 20! But you can customize all that. You could even customize every individual number, if you wanted!
@@GinnyDi whaaaaat? That is so unnecessary but also I want it so bad
@@thefollowingisatest4579 Would the phone playing 🎶Are you ready for this!?!🎶 on a nat 20 be necessary or unnecessary? Asking for a friend.
@@thatHARVguy if it doesnt what are you even doing, right?
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For visually impaired players, having customised colours and light patterns for each number could be a great accessibility feature, especially when couples with the ability to read the number on your phone screen as well.
After watching Rybonator’s video on the Pixel dice, my partner and I backed the ks for 1 d20 each. Can’t wait to get those once they release. Also, the dispel dice we got are AMAZING. Thanks for showing us your collection!!
I love single d20s , as a dm I like to give them out as inspiration so people know they have inspiration and then they will give it back once used. I have some nice sparkly ones to give as inspiration ✨️
I love your channel. You remind me of my daughter and you are a total Dice Goblin. Thanks for keeping the Story Alive.
I saved and got the Wisteria dice set that you did with Die Hard Dice this year and they're beautiful! I love the way the oversized gold d20 feels to roll, it's so satisfying
6:21 if you DM sometimes - use them when the party need some help in a battle, that you don't want them to lose, but it would be illogical/feel cheap to give actual help in-game. Just roll terribly, to give them more chances to clutch
The Koi fish dice would be perfect for a Samurai adventure. A noble warrior who would prefer to be meditating with his koi pond, but is forced to defend his land, or quest for something important for his Emperor.
Fennek & Finch is great! They're based here in Portland and their dice are just gorgeous. I've got a set called sorbet, they look like little gummy candies and you can't convince me they wouldn't taste amazing
Oh that's very cool! There was a kickstarter a couple of years back for "ice-cream dice" that featured different "flavours" and they all looked delicious!
Should have commented this on your newer about dice, but I realized that I, too, am a dice dragon. I have an irrational need to collect dice when you really only need one set (maybe 2 so you have a backup!). Also, your Arya Stark cosplay is ON POINT! You look almost exactly like the actor in the shots you show.
Die Hard Dice is by far my favorite place to get dice. Not only are their dice beautiful, but they have the absolute best customer service.
I just love when dice collectors talk about their dice. I could watch videos like this a day.
I just got back into D&D as well as other TableTop games after stopping in 1999, but I was not prepared for the dice being such an amazing part of the fun and collecting them. There are SOOOO many different types, styles and varieties.
Books/modules, minis, and dice, the great trilogy of purchasing categories when I was gaming. Of course, there weren't as many terrain options as there are now, or maps, there wasn't much other merch, and nothing was online, but I'd still be obsessed beyond reason by those things if I could afford it. Awesome collection. Thanks for sharing!
When someone asks what I want for the holidays, I’m just gonna send them this video and tell them any of these dice would be perfect.
Thanks for all this information! It led to me getting dice from both Seersword and Die Hard for friends for the holidays. Die Hard said to tell you hi, and sent me an entire acrylic set for free with the metal D20s I ordered!
9:42
Who?
ME! ME! ME!
I desperately need to be able to go into a DnD game and be like, "ah, gdi, I forgot to charge my dice."
However much you get paid for your ads isn't enough. I love Ginny Di commercials. I generally skip ads on other channels but I'd legit watch a Ginny Di ad all by itself.
Practically anyone else: Wanna see my dice collection?
Me: Uh....no, that's okay....
Ginny Di: Wanna see my dice collection?
Me: Why not? If it's Ginny, it's probably gonna be lit!
Me (ten minutes later): ...literally!
I seriously love worldanvil. I've been "writing" (world building) for a couple years now with it. love it
Hey I have a set of handmade dice from Green Leaf Geek too. The person who runs the company and makes the dice is absolutely lovely too.
I agree that all of these are really neat. Thankfully for my wallet, though, I never fell into a dice addiction; I just don't get excited for them.
Unfortunately for my wallet, I do it with minis instead.
as a bit of a dice collector my self a lot of these are really nice and some were tempting.. i stalk a lot around kickstarter to find some of the most unique sets around .. as a collector i do not have the vast numbers of dice but i do feel that i have various styles of dice that i felt are unique to me when i back them.. a few more that have been done and maybe we will share them with yah when we get them
As soon as you pulled out the pixels dice I screamed!! I backed that kickstarter so long ago and have been eagerly awaiting every singly update on when those bad boys are going into production! Of course they're unnecessary but omg are they cool!
Seeing you happily review these dice has made my day. I'm so glad I found your channel
Love to see the enthusiasm about Dice, it really is an amazing artform
I am a fan of Neytrix (an art UA-camr) who does a lot of gory pieces and she uses the exact same music Ginny did towards the end of the video when showing the most disturbing shit or create “something is very wrong here” vibe. At the end I was low key expecting something horrible to happen. Really fun 10/10.
the pixel dice is a super flex. i've been eagerly following that since it was just a project on hackaday and cannot wait for all of the production wrinkles to get ironed out.
You are my favourite dice goblin Ginny! What a wonderful video.
My most precious dice are the ones from the original Basic D&D boxed set and then the Advanced D&D boxed set. I've only got 3 dice left from from them total, but I still use them in every game today.
Do you have a crayon to colour in the numbers, for extra Grognard Cred? 😍
@@euansmith3699 I tried filling in the markings on one of the dice when I first got them and hated it, so I didn't do the rest. I also don't have that die anymore. Mine are all unfilled and VERY used. Makes them a little hard to read now that I'm old! 🤣
@@laggybum3218 I got the Red Box D&D Set for my introduction to the game. I couldn't work out what the crayon was for. 😆
I was not emotionally prepared for multiple Ginny’s in a single shot ❤ love it (I know it’s not a big deal but I found it fun)
Yes! Die Hard Dice appreciation!!!! I love this company, they always send lovely extras with your order. I have 6 of their metal d6s and they are the BEST.
As someone who recently bought a couple of things from Die Hard Dice, I’ve gotta say they really are a cool company! I bought an acrylic set in the same style as the one she showed, and a single metal D20 that’s part of the same Draconian embers series but in blue and purple, and they sent me a Dire D20 FOR FREE along with some really cool postcards! I’d never owned a metal die before, and now I have 2! I also just really love the shape of their acrylic sets, it’s not all of them but the way they kind of blunt the corners is really pleasing to me
They're so cool, idk how they manage to send extra dice and handwritten notes with EVERY order but from what I've heard, they do!! Pretty incredible!
The potion dice are my favorite! Health and mana and rejuvination! Sweet collection
I love your glee and joy, it makes me so happy
I'm so happy to see the love for DieHard! My (entirely excessive but ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY) dice collection is almost exclusively from them because of that affordability aspect combined with oooh pretty! As a DM, I have 4 sets I use (two Isa sets, Prismatic Moonlight, and the set they made for Percy with Critical Role), and then I have a bag with 16 of their dire d20s (plus the Critical Role chonker) for all my heavy-DM-role-to-scare-players needs. I usually pick 2 d20s per session, loosely theming them after what I've planned.
I do actually plan to not stop until I have every dire d20 offered by DieHard. Because reasons.
Such a wholesome video. Dice love is a passion that transcends!
Some years ago I had that perfectly round D20. It was suppeosed to have weight inside that would make it always stop with a number on top and also not just roll like forever, but it ended up being stuck between two numbers more often than I - and even more our DM . appreciated, so it got banned from our table. I kept it around as a novelty item for a while, but later gifted it to a kid in the neighborhood who started playing RPG games and really liked it.
This video literally made me feel happier. I hate dice addiction, I love it
Ginny : "Who needs this?"
My inner dice goblin : "We do! We need that more than food!!"
Also, I have a whole bunch of Die Hard dice already. And several sets of Critical Role dice. And I am so jealous that you just randomly get sent dice.
I'm really excited about the Dwarven Forge Kickstarter dice reliquaries that I think should very soon be sent out.
Oh, and if you ever decide you need a curator for your dice, give me a call. I'm really cheap.
Yeh, just bought a solid metal D100 for one of my players playing a wild magic Sorcerer, I set up a custom table for them and I'm so excited for the first time it goes off :]
I swear, after seeing this, I realize I have a growing dice addiction and it cannot be sated! About a thousand dice sets on all my online carts, lol. It's too bad I don't have enough money to buy all of them, and I mean EVERY SINGLE one. And this makes me sooo jelly 🥺
I love dice so much! One half my collection was stolen once and I was so sad because they were a lot of my originals but since I’ve definitely rebuilt bigger and better
The last con I was at, before the Dark Times, had a stall selling gummy dice. No idea how well they’d roll, but they were delicious.
If it rolls a 1 it gets eaten?
thanks for the dice inspiration ☺️ i plan to get into dice making and these are all sets i want to make for myself. thanks for showing off your coolest shit! i love to see it
My husband just got his pixel dice and they are sooo fun!!! He joined the kickstarter too!
And I thought I had a lot of dice. lol I have tons of glow-in-the-dark dice...because of course I do, I'm obsessed with glow-in-the-dark things. I even have a dice roller that lights up inside when you shake the dice so they come out glowing! I've also got a ton of dice sets from Poly Hero Dice. They have a bunch of different class dice sets, where the dice are unusual shapes related to the class the set it based on. They currently have Warrior, Wizard, Rogue and Cleric. I want them to create a Bard set now. And I've spent the most money on Kraken dice. Their dice own me, lol. We got a set of koi dice from there, too. I like their dice, as they have sets with four d6s, two d20s for advantage and disadvantage, and a larger d20 and a smaller d20. I am also obsessed with tiny dice. Got a ton of those (check out the halfling dice bag on Amazon!).
Oh, and dice have become jewelry now, too. I got a d20 cage that is perfect to fit my normal-sized d20s, and I can just switch them out to match whatever outfit I'm wearing! Nothing like wearing your hobby, lol.
I may have to check some of those places out, some of those dice you showed off were amazing. Tiny dice terrariums indeed!
A D4 that doesn't do permanent damage when stepped on sounds pretty awesome actually.
Seeing this pop up and going aww, so pretty and then seeing the pixel dice and knowing I am STILL waiting for mine to come in. The Kickstarter is long over due.
Such a cute collection! Now I'm going through Die Hard Dice and making difficult choices on which sets to get! :D
Since you like the potion dice, you should check out Dice Hero dice - they have a unique set (in several color options) for each of the four core DnD classes. Of course, for some unique non-inclusion dice, Q-Workshop make some cool dice (though some of their sets can get TOO busy on each face) - I particularly like their metal Call of Cthulhu set. I also like several of the sets Bryce's Dice has Kickstarted (you mentioned hollow metal dice sets in another comment reply - the sets I have from Bryce are that).
My favourite set of dice are a hollow metal set that was gifted to me for Christmas: they have dragons on each face for most of them (I'm a dragon fanatic), & a central dragon on the ones with too many faces to do a dragon on each face. Mine are copper coloured. I haven't used them, yet, for a game so I don't actually know how well they roll, but damn, they are cool AF dice.
I have a hollow metal set with spiders for my spider-themed character and they have a cool purple hue. I enjoyed using mine, they feel good, even though they are quite light, and I found mine rolled quite well.
8:56 I mean they're unnecessary, buuut... If i had those dice i would use them constantly, i love that concept so damn much they're so awesome!
as a dice goblin, I love this video!! Thank you for making my day Ginny :)
Awesome dice.
I have a cold iron d6 for if I'm ever gaming with fey. Also metal d4s in case I run out of caltrops. And pink dice with angry Cthulhu faces for the 1s, great for Demon Hunters.
I absolutely love the mushroom dice! They're so adorable
I have a pretty good selection of dice too. There are red ones, yellow ones, blue ones, and even a few black ones. The best thing about them is that I can easily stuff my whole collection into a pocket. 😁
I love the potion bottle dice, the light up dice, and the space dice