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There you go, Dice from my 1st print Expert Set.

ShaneG.

Excellent, thanks. They seem like a nice chocalately brown. At this point I've got a pair of blue sets, a brown set, and a yellow set. Therefore I need red, green, and white.

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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.  

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The presence of a d10 dates the dice to slightly later in the early era than the Holmes basic set.

Early gamers were able to use a d20 as a d10.

Hell, early gamers were also able to roll a d20 twice in order to get a d100 result.

The presence or lack of two d20's in a box can date the set to late or early in the 78-81 era.  A d10 usually means post-1980.

I have always assumed that the presence of chits in place of dice indicates 1977 or earlier.

One of my younger gamers recently questioned the use of a d20 as a d10...he was suspicious that the odds were different somehow.

It looks like the original dice are in the bag, although mixed with several other non-original.

Mike

I think it's a 2nd printing, not 1st, as the seller claims that the release date is 1978...)

It should be a 2nd print, the box has the 1001 code.

Mike

this is a good thread...

Needs more pictures!

is there anyway to post permalinks for some of these auctions?

I'd love to see what you're all talking about.

I'll try to post some of my vintage dice soon.