I'm aware of the following colors:

red
orange
yellow
green
light blue
navy blue

I'm interested in the single color sets moreso than the multi sets. Although did TSR produce multi sets of the exact same material as the early sets?

red
orange
yellow
green
light blue
navy blue

Now were all of these available with basic or expert sets? I've seen light blue and yellow. The acaeum has an image of red with the dragon dice from 1981 which appears to be the same material.

Cattledog wrote:
Now were all of these available with basic or expert sets? I've seen light blue and yellow. The acaeum has an image of red with the dragon dice from 1981 which appears to be the same material.

When I bought my Metzer basic and expert sets back in the 80's, both came with a light blue d20, d12, d10, d8, d6, d4 and in one instance an extra red d10 and in the other an extra dark blue d10.  

None of the bagged sets I've come across recently have had more than one d10 and the illustration on the back of the Basic and Expert sets only show 6 dice.  This would imply my memory is faulty but I still have my original dice and I have no idea where the extra two would have come from.

In more recent times I recieved a bagged set of green dice (with a green crayon?!?!) in a Moldvay basic set, a bagged mixed set of light blue, yellow and orange dice in a Metzer basic set, a loose set of red dice in another Metzer basic set.  All of these boxed sets had been opened previously so I have no idea if the dice were original to the set.

Yep, I love these dice too though I can't resist opening them, coloring them in and using them I've seen various color combos sealed in the bags, even ones where the D6 is a small with with black pips rather than the one with molded numerals.

In the Moldvay/Cook Basic/Expert sets, I remember a set of olive green dice and a set of light brown dice. Both were fairly 'ugly' colors, though I remember them fondly.

Two places to look, Cattledog:

1)  Inside of old boxed sets...a lot of times the old dice are included.

2)  Second hand stores like St. Vincent DePaul.  Often, junk and secondhand stores will have a bin for old dice and odd bits that come through their stores.  Look in those bins of old dice.  Often, the old low impact dice turn up there.

Mark  

deimos3428 wrote:This is the configuration I remember as well for the Mentzer sets.  Maybe it's a Canadian thing?

I've only lived in Canada for the last seven years.  Prior to that I lived in the US and bought the sets I mentioned in Williamsport (at Walden Books in the Lycoming Valley Mall specifically).

Cattledog wrote:Well I won these for a reasonable price... Are those brown dice the color being referred to earlier in the thread?


bag o' dice

I'll dig my out in a bit, but they look about right (the dice got smaller from those that came with the early Basic sets)



ShaneG.