How Dice Are Made
Most gamers are content to hunt up the coolest looking dice sets around and use them to slay dragons without worrying about the process that goes into the manufacture of the dice. But for the more curious gamers out there we thought it’d be nice to go over exactly how dice are made. It’s worth noting before we go into detail that there are different manufacturing processes for different kinds of dice. Even within the world of standard mass-produced plastic dice there are variations. We’re focusing here on your standard D&D dice, which covers just about any gaming dice. We’ll also...
Gamescience Dice
GameScience was one of the very first RPG dice manufacturing companies way back at the birth of the industry when Dungeons & Dragons was first created. GameScience dice are also known as precision dice, and are specifically manufactured to ensure that each side of the die is the same size as the other sides, in an effort to ensure that the dice roll true. This is precision dice effect is achieved by avoiding any sanding or polishing processes (which cause the rounding on the edges of normal RPG dice).As a result GameScience precision dice have their signature sharp edges. There...
20th Level Sucks: a 3.0 Adventure Failure Story
Recently I was talking with someone about how my recent first level characters suck and about my problems with high level D&D games. I promised him I’d post a follow-up about why I hated very high level D&D games so much, so here it is! Once Upon a Time in 3.0… I was working at FFG when D&D 3.0 hit and FFG hopped on the bandwagon to make some quick bucks off the unstoppable d20 money train. After dipping their toes in the water with some adventures, FFG leapt in with both feet, publishing a line of hardcover books and eventually getting...
Google Statistics on the Edition Wars: D&D & Pathfinder
With the 5th edition D&D Next playtest going on, the D&D Edition Wars are about to have yet another competitor in the mix. In the recent past it's been reported that Pathfinder is outselling D&D in the hobby market, and possibly other channels as well. But in the fight for sales the only competition Pathfinder has is 4e; however, D&D 3.5 remains beloved in the hearts of a huge number of gamers. We thought it would be interesting to try to dig up some statistics on the popularity of all editions of Dungeons and Dragons -- and Pathfinder -- rather...
Wordpress Dice Roller
Here at Awesome Dice there’s really only one thing that we do: provide dice for people (in exchange for digital money, of course). But no matter how many dice you have, or how awesome those dice are, sometimes you find yourself without your dice and with the need to roll dice. Happily Awesome Dice is now here for that too! Awesome Dice has just released our free WordPress dice roller widgets. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, you can install any one of our 3 dice roller widgets (depending on the game that you want to be able to...