Zenopus wrote:My best friend has these sets, and I will always remember the dice colors in his sets: one set was "light mud brown", the other "pea soup green".
stumbling tiger wrote: Basic Set dice came in all kinds of loud colors while the Expert dice all matched.
stumbling tiger wrote:Well, this thread has finally got me to dig out my B/X dice and photograph them, though I'm not sure at this point what I'm trying to prove. Maybe we can have a competition: Who's got the grottiest dice? Moldvay Basic:[ Image ] Look at the edge and corner wear on that d6! I believe I feel a little queasy.And from my Expert set. Now these are not as bad: not only were they bought a year later than the Basic Set, but by this point I had supplemented the Basic set with some Gamescience dice. [ Image ]
grodog wrote:Zach: are the green ones in my first post the pea-soup green that you're looking for?
sauromatian wrote in Dice from Moldvay Basic or Expert:I have a die fitting that description (yellow). The grade of plastic is very '70s, like the back of the '77 Character Sheets Pad. I also have :-a D12 with a hole melted into it, like someone wanted to test the plastic with a soldering iron. -a D8 with the heavy wear typical of '70s dice, but the letter A instead of 1.-a D20 (0-9 twice) a little smaller than TSR percentiles, uninked but with one set of numbers colored by the original owner.& a whole bunch of dice like the above, of uncertain vintage but sorted together because of the heavy wear.
Zenopus wrote in Dice from Moldvay Basic or Expert:Sauro, do you know anything else about that d8 with the letter A instead of 1? I received a query from a fellow who has a Holmes Basic Set from 1980 with dice like this - at least d4, d8 and d20 (0-9 twice, one of the 1s is a "A"), and was wondering where they came from. Googling didn't turn anything up except for your post here. Could they be from Armory?
Zenopus wrote in Dice from Moldvay Basic or Expert:These are the same as the brown dice I remember from my friend's Expert Set. The swirls are faint.[ Image ]This is from a 1st print of the set, posted by TheMilford in a thread over at Tome of Treasures. He used to post here as well but haven't seen him in a while.Tome of Treasures :: View topic - Expert Set TRUE 1st Print.
grodog wrote in Dice from Moldvay Basic or Expert:grodog wrote:I have a set that were mixed colors, as well as a set that were all orange. Will dig around to see what others may be amongst my now-unused-dice bag.OK, here are a few pics from my older dice:1) this one shows the mixed colors set I had, and I'm nearly positive that it came with the Moldvay/Marsh Basic or Cook Expert sets; IIRC the d12 was the same pea-green color as the d4 adn d20. I'm pretty sure that the two blue dice to the right were DragonDice percentage dice (but it's possible that the set was one d10 was blue and one green, perhaps---come to think of it, the green d10 definitely wasn't in my that Moldvay dice set: perhaps it came from Star Frontiers or Gangbusters):[ Image ]2) More older dice (plus one jawa): the orange dice were from an early DragonDice set; the pink/white worn d20s were #'d 0-9 twice and came with my Top Secret set (there were 2 of those medium brown dice too, at one point, so perhaps they came with TS?). The mottled brown-ish is 0-9 twice, too, but much newer. The blue d4 solitare above the orange dice is the only one I have left from my original 1977 Holmes Basic dice, while the solid d8 next to it, and the jewel d4/d6 to the top right are newer sets bought along way.[ Image ]3) this one shows some of the light blue dice, with three different variations on the blue colors: the very light-blue d100s (same as in the first pic above) vs .the medium blue dice that almost match but are darker (clustered in the middle foreground; it's possible that these are just less-worn and are in fact the same color as the d100s) vs. the d4 and d8 to the right, which are a different hue of blue, a little more of a light cornflower blue or so.[ Image ]
grodog wrote:I have a set that were mixed colors, as well as a set that were all orange. Will dig around to see what others may be amongst my now-unused-dice bag.
grodog wrote: the pink/white worn d20s were #'d 0-9 twice and came with my Top Secret set (there were 2 of those medium brown dice too, at one point, so perhaps they came with TS?).
