bombardgames.com/the-history-of-polyhed ... ard-games/
link in the article to Jon Peterson's video on polyhedral dice.

In this last price surge (could be COVID related but who the heck knows), dice have skyrocketed. I mean, the rare pieces (like woodies) have as well but dice are not that rare IMO and they are selling 10x or more what they were selling even 5 years ago. Indeed, it would seem reasonable to buy a Holmes set, take the dice out and toss the rest, sell them, and still make a profit. Loco if you ask me.

Then, again, these are   times.

Héctor.

Thanks for the responses and insight. And thanks seodude for the link. Good article and it has other links as well to additional information. This is helpful as I look at these boxed sets on eBay. Not sure if I want to pay $300 for a bagged set of Holmes dice….  But maybe.

Hello Jon. Your website is one of the links I found in that article. Interestingly, I’m currently reading your book, “Game Wizards.” I’m early into it but find it very interesting and informative.

I apologize if my post was snippy - I mailed your site last September to ask that my pictures be removed, and got no response. I mailed again today after I saw this thread (having long forgotten about it), but as you're already going to remove the pictures, you can disregard that note. I appreciate you removing them!

Regarding Tractics, I was referring to the 1971 Guidon (black box) edition, which did not ship with dice. I'm not aware that either the brown (1975) or white (post 1976) box TSR editions of Tractics shipped with dice - nor that any of those boxes shipped in shrink - but I could easily be wrong about some late 1970s printing of white box Tractics. By that point though, it wouldn't be shipping with a Bristol d20 inside, anyway. [Edit: now that I glance at the components list on one of my post-1978 Tractics white boxes, I do indeed see a d20 listed - learn something new every day!]

I don't recall what I said about d20s in that 2014 video; the research that led to my "Identifying 1970s dice" blog post/video etc. was done circa 2019. But as far as I can tell from a glance at PatW back in 2012 (I'm looking at pg318), I was pretty clear that originally "the authors of Tractics could not include a twenty-sided die in the first run of their game", and then that Guidon "hoped to complement [Tractics] by selling these fashionable new twenty-sided dice a la carte."

seodude wrote in Of Dice and Men:Honestly I thought it would be a benefit to you & readers by using your pics & posting links to your site and video so if they wanted in depth info they could get it straight from the expert.

In the mash-up culture that is the Internet, these finer distinction are hard to draw, but basically I feel like there's a difference between simply linking to my video/blog on the one hand ("here's a resource on polyhedra history") and reposting the pictures, outside of their original context, to tell your own story on the other hand. It was kind of a hassle to figure out a lot of the stuff in my 2019 dice review, including finding the dice examples I wanted to photograph, and while of course people are welcome to build on my research, I frankly see that post more as paraphrasing/replacing it -- and in the case of a phrase like "Tractics, a tank war game, includes a d20 in its 1971 release, most likely a BWS d20", introducing distortions. Which is not to say you aren't welcome to write whatever you'd like -- I would just prefer my pictures not be used as illustrations for your own story.

WTF are these dice so valuable?


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H.

seodude wrote in Of Dice and Men:Again no worries.  I wont make the mistake of recommending your site or videos again

Boggles the mind to see content creators chafe at the idea of respecting other people’s content.

Speaking about dice:


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...i remember it used to go for approx 100 bucks some time ago...