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10 Sided Dice

The Origin of the d10

The oldest reference to a d10 that we have been able to track down is a 1906 US patent. Though the d10 is a part of the standard today, there was no d10 in the original Dungeons & Dragons dice set back in 1974. The d10 was first introduced to the gaming industry (with a claim of being freshly invented) at GenCon in 1980.

D&D and the d10 

Today, d10s are used extensively in games like Dungeons & Dragons. Primarily, they are used to determine the damage of certain weapons and spells. A d10 can also be used in conjunction with another ten-sided die to make what is known as a percentile role. Percentile rolls allow players to roll within a range of 1 - 100. 

10d10 Dice Sets - Ten-Sided Dice

10d10 dice sets contain, as expected, 10 ten-sided dice. These sets do not contain any percentile dice. 

10d10 dice sets became big in the 90s with the introduction of White Wolf's World of Darkness series, this including Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Changeling, Wraith, and Aberrant. All World of Darkness games use large dice pools of ten-sided dice. As these games grew in popularity, dice manufacturers began producing sets of nothing but 10 ten-sided dice. Today, these sets continue to remain popular. 

A set of 10d10 is appropriate for just about any World of Darkness or L5R game. You'll rarely need more than ten dice, but when playing particularly high-powered sessions or in the presence of superior min-maxing, you can encounter situations in which you might need a couple more. In these situations, you can swipe a few dice from your neighbor or simply roll a die or two a second time. Of course, the avid player and dice connoisseur's solution is to buy multiple 10d10 dice sets. That way, you will always have the necessary amount of dice no matter how amazingly powerful you become. 

Then you can be the guy that everyone else is swiping dice from. 

 

12 Sided Dice

The d12 is a platonic solid officially known as the dodecahedron. Twelve-sided dice are used in a myriad of role-playing games, though they rarely take a prominent position. 

The oldest twelve-sided dice were Egyptian and dated to the Ptolemaic Period around 150 BC. 

 

12d6 Dice Sets

While the world of RPGs thrives on many different types of dice, the six-sided die remains at the core of many different role-playing games. Since dice manufacturers started specializing in gaming dice, they have been making 12d6 dice sets, giving gamers an easy way to acquire large dice pools of this high-use die. The 12d6 set contains 16mm dice, the standard dice size for the majority of plastic dice. 

It's worth noting that it's traditional for 12d6 dice sets to use pips rather than written numbers. The pips on these dice are the dots you'll commonly see on dice used for mass market board games like Monopoly. The dice within 12d6 dice sets are slightly different from those in a 36d6 set. 13d6 dice sets contain smaller, 12mm dice. 

12d6 dice sets are commonly used in games like Shadowrun and Champions, along with any other RPGs. In games that use large quantities of d6 dice, it is possible for well-optimized characters to make use of more than a dozen in a single roll! The traditional solution to this problem is, of course, another 12d6 dice set! Two is as many as most will need for the majority of games, though there are some situations where you may want even more. Of course, you can always just reroll a few dice or borrow some from your neighbor (in this case, the person sitting next to you at the table. The guy next door is probably going to be confused if you ring the bell asking for a half cup of d6s). 

 

20 Sided Dice

The d20 is a platonic solid known as the icosahedron. The d20 is the most popular and iconic die in the D&D dice set. In fact, it is often used as the symbol of role-playing games in general. After the d6, it is the second most popular die sold. Though D&D requires only one d20 to be rolled at any given time, many RPG players prefer to have a wide selection of d20 on hand for different characters, different situations, advantage/disadvantage rolls, and more. 

The Oldest Twenty-Sided Die

The oldest d20 on record is from Egypt and dated to 300 BC. An ancient roman twenty-sided die dated to 100 AC sold at auction for nearly $18,000 in 2003. Despite the longevity of human understanding regarding platonic solids, the d20 was officially patented by the Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company in 1950. The first d20s ever released for D&D were numbered 0 - 9 twice. 🤷‍♂️

Shopping for d20 Dice at Awesome Dice

Whether you need to replace a cursed die/lost die or simply want a separate d20 for each individual character, Awesome Dice has got you covered! We offer a no-questions-asked, satisfaction guarantee on all purchases, including individual dice purchases.

36D6 Dice Sets

 

For some games, you just need a lot of dice. Thus, enter the 36d6 dice set! The huge number of d6 dice present in the 36d6 dice set is often the answer to games like Champions and Shadowrun, as well as many other war games and miniature games. Like a set of 12d6 dice, the dice within a 36d6 dice set uses pips rather than written numbers. Unlike the 12d6 dice set, however, 36d6 dice are 12mm rather than the traditional 16mm. Though a difference of 4mm doesn't sound like a huge change, it makes a substantial difference in something that is already so small. These dice truly appear quite a bit smaller than the standard die. Nevertheless, they are no more difficult to read and their smaller size means you can fit more of them in your dice tray. Perfect for the satisfaction of rolling a devastatingly large amount of dice all at once! 

 

4 Sided Dice

The d4 is a platonic solid known as a tetrahedron. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a caltrop due to its standard, viciously pointy shape, but can also be referred to as a pyramid die. 

A standard, triangular d4 will have three numbers on each of its four faces. Most d4s will display a number near each corner. The result of your roll is therefore the number seated at the topmost corner. Older d4s, including the first d4s ever made for D&D, had their numbers centered along each edge of a die face. On these d4s, the result of any given roll was seated along the bottom of the die rather than at the top. 

The d4 is among the oldest dice ever discovered in an archeological dig. The Royal Game of Ur used d4s. One such d4 was discovered in an ancient dig site and dated to be over 5,000 years old. 

 

6 Sided Dice

Six Sided Dice

The d6 is a platonic solid known as, you guessed it, a cube. The six-sided die is the most common type of die used in the world of gaming. They are used in everything from casinos to board games to role-playing games. In fact, several different RPGs use nothing but six-sided dice. 

Within the TTRPG industry, the d6 is a part of three different dice sets and, as such, has three similar yet different forms. Firstly, the d6 is a part of the standard D&D dice set. Each die face contains a single number. Second is the 12d6 dice set. Each die face displays pips (small dots) rather than written numbers. Lastly is the 36d6 dice set. Like the 12d6 dice set, the dice in a 36d6 dice set use pips. Unlike the 12d6 dice set, however, dice in a 36d6 dice set are smaller than standard (12mm instead of the usual 16mm). 

Casino-grade d6 must be manufactured with incredibly precise tolerances. This is done to ensure that each die is as perfect as possible, ensuing no dice has an imbalanced roll. The dice we use for RPGs are made using the traditional plastic injection molding and tumbling process, making the rolls produced less truly random. However, they are considered "balanced enough." In fact, it can take thousands of rolls before the difference becomes statistically significant. In other words, close enough for gaming purposes. 

The oldest cubical dice discovered are about 4,000 years old and were found in Egyptian tombs. Six-sided dice have been found in ancient Chinese excavations and in thousand-year-old Viking burial mounds. 

 

7-Dice Sets - RPG Dice

The standard RPG 7-dice set includes all of the standard die, specifically the following:

  • 4-sided die (d4) 
  • 6-sided die (d6) 
  • 8-sided die (d8) 
  • 10-sided die (d10) 
  • 10-sided percentile die (d%)
  • 12-sided die (d12) 
  • 20-sided die (d20) 

These RPG dice are the staple of the tabletop gaming world. The 7-dice set contains all varieties of dice necessary for games like D&D, Pathfinder, Earthdawn, Call of Cthulhu, and more. However, each set contains only one of each die. Many players prefer to have several. That way, when your wizard is launching three darts of Magic Missile at a target, you can roll 3d4 at once rather than rolling a single d4 three separate times. 

There are several solutions for building up these larger dice pools. You could purchase packs of d6s or d10s or you could purchase multiples of each die individually. But by for the most common solution is purchasing multiple different 7-dice sets. People acquire different sets for different characters, campaigns, and occasions; for larger dice pools; and simply because the new one looks so cool or the old one rolled too low too often. 

Then there's always the killer Pound o' Dice solution: just get yourself a mass of different dice in a chaotic variety of colors and fonts to fit all the gaming occasions where a handful of sets just isn't satisfying enough. 

Of course, here at Awesome Dice our preferred solution is all of the above. As a team of dice goblins, we generally believe no one person can ever have enough shiny math rocks. 

8 Sided Dice

Eight-sided dice are a platonic solid known as an octahedron. They are most commonly used as a part of any role-playing game that makes use of a standard 7-dice set, this including games like D&D, Pathfinder, Earthdawn, and Call of Cthulhu. 

The oldest d8 we've been able to track down dates back to 1888 where it was used as a poker die. 

 

Accessories

Items to help you roll, store, or carry your dice. We've got a variety of dice accessories to choose from that will help ensure your dice stay sharp for years to come!

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Black Dice

I don't know how true it is, but I could swear to you that I once read one of our many U.S. presidents (I cannot recall which) discovered that nobody paid any attention to the formal greetings customarily issued at the start of large meetings and events. So each time someone approached him, he'd extend his hand for a handshake and tell the individual before him the most absurd thing he could thing of, which was to say he had killed his grandmother the night prior. Nobody noticed and the day continued on in this way until finally, shaking the president's hand in turn, one man replied in jest, "well, she must have had it coming!" 

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Blue Dice

Awesome Dice carries a wide variety of blue dice for all your gaming needs. Our polyhedral dice are designed for TTRPGs. Though we use our six-sided dice for casting Frostbite as opposed to shooting craps, you're certainly welcome to use them either way. 

We have blue dice in:

  • 7-Dice sets (D&D, Pathfinder, Earthdawn, Call of Cthulhu, and many RPGs)
  • 10d10 sets (World of Darkness, including Vampire & Changeling)
  • 12d6 sets (Shadowrun, etc.)
  • 36d6 sets (Shadowrun, Champions, etc.)

Note that any dice with a substantial amount of blue are categorized as blue dice. Thus, many premium dice sets that combine two or more colors will qualify as blue even though there's another color or two in the party. 

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