More stuff from a rather large lot I recently purchased.
Old Azzed Dice... all are used, but seem good to me.

OK, anyone know some good stuff about these dice?
Should I sell them?
Make a trade for a Minty 1st Print Woodie, plus a brand new towncar to drive the Woodie Home in?  
Just use them like they were meant to be used, because they aint worth listing?

Nice to see you faro

I think you should keep them to complete boxes missing dice. I have several set of dice like this (or Gamescience for Chaosium box sets) to be able to complete some of my incomplete boxes.
Hum I need a yellow D4 and green D8

I have a d20 that looks exactly like this one. Blue, numbered 0-9 twice, once in black, once in red. I thought it was hand-colored, but now I see it must have been pre-inked. I don't remember what it came with. It's harder plastic than the old TSR dice. Is this from Gamescience?

I doubt it was pre-colored.  Hand coloring was the norm with that era of high impact dice.

The D20 in the picture is diffentiated from the others in being high impact.  The orange D8 and the yellow D12 might also be high impact (although the yellow D12 is inordinately large for a high impact of that type).

The early sets of dice with the Holmes Basic Set were low impact...as can be seen in the picture.  All of them have damaged corners, which happened with relatively brief useage.  (In fact, the near pristine edges on a few of them indicate that they were hardly rolled at all.  Low impact D20's would be battered almost round in a short time.)

It would be interesting to know what the 1970-71 dice were like.  High impact polyhedral dice appeared in my area around 1978-79.

FormCritic wrote:All of them have damaged corners, which happened with relatively brief useage.  (In fact, the near pristine edges on a few of them indicate that they were hardly rolled at all.  Low impact D20's would be battered almost round in a short time.)

Running late, but I'll need to (re-)post a photo of some of Bledsaw & Owen's original d20s some time. Never had any of ours end up quite so round as those and it's not as though we held back... A good sign, indeed.

FormCritic wrote:It would be interesting to know what the 1970-71 dice were like.  High impact polyhedral dice appeared in my area around 1978-79.

Needing more original baggies of Zocchi dice with their guarantee dates to determine how far and how quickly those spread!

I'm still unable to tell for sure which dice Dave Arneson was referring to in his recollections since he believed that was back into the 1960s in London and I need to double-check whether the stated Japanese percentile dice were available here at that time. The remainder of the story 'bout store location, etc., tallies more than not, along with his comment regarding "little boxes" of 20-sided dice since the box (original? not certain) these came in holds 10 dice perfectly.
I suspect Dave was also in agreement with Don Featherstone's comment (February 1972) that 20-sided dice "added to the mysterious and puzzling atmosphere".

I'll have to borrow a photo for now:



These were only ever sold in red and black pairs as far as I know, right back to October 1970, so the green die rather throws the cat amongst the pigeons.

It's possible the uncolored dice are an early sample since the original owner had been playing earlier but was also involved in the startup of one UK gaming company in 1971. Impossible to tell for sure at present, unfortunately.
The uncolored dice also appear to be made of a compound that's fractionally less hard (unscientifically tested!) and are more roughly broken off - along one edge, rather than at a vertex per the Zocchi dice a long time later. The colored dice are not colored in crayon, even if they're showing their worst faces in the photo.
They're slightly smaller than most d20s and the number sequence is different - very helpfully matching that shown in the UK adverts a few years later!

Anyone else seen these? Would be interested to know the context, if so, since they were made for quite a few years.

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