Marcellus
Joined: Mar 20, 2010
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Sep 06, 2012 - 22:10 |
 
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I would also be interested in set or two . . . |
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duckysnu
Joined: Oct 03, 2012
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Oct 03, 2012 - 11:30 |
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I'm in for at least 2 sets |
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the_Sage
Joined: Jan 13, 2011
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Oct 16, 2012 - 11:22 |
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Hooray for the front page dice!
(pic links to Kalimar's blog) |
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Christer
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Ah, they finally arrived 
These three dice Kalimar posted is three of a total run of 12 dice made in a prototype run. SunDevil took on the project and got in touch with me about this. Whatball, sorted out cleaner versions of the images for each side of the die (for those of you who don't know, Whatball made the image on the front page and is the designer of the dice).
After some scouting work by SunDevil, he found a company who claimed they could make the dice (you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find someone able to do multiple colours on a single side). I personally covered the $100 cost for the prototype run of 12 dice ($8 per die, plus shipping). SunDevil took care of the international shipping cost to me, Whatball and Kalimar (thank you SunDevil!).
The current status is that we are waiting for the remaining shipment to get to the destination (for some reason, Whatball's dice are the slowest despite being closest to the sender address).
Once this has shown up, we are in contact with the manufacturer about colour details (the prototype dice use custom colours which would end up increasing the cost significantly in a full run).
Once the colour thing is dealt with, the plan is to set up a kickstarter project to fund the manufacturing of these dice. The kickstarter thing is simply because we need to raise around $8000 to reach a price point that is reasonable. Our ballpark price here for a set of three dice is on the order of $20 to $25, shipped. Note that this is not entirely final at this time due to the remaining decision on colours.
Anyway, we are continuing the work on this, and hope to have something further to announce soon (as in within a couple of weeks).
To finish off this long post, I'll give you an additional image of the dice:
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Electric_Wizard
Joined: Oct 09, 2010
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Oct 16, 2012 - 12:08 |
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They're beautiful (And I still want some  ).
I'm just curious, are the symbols "printed" on or are they carved in and then "filled" with colour? Hope you get what I mean... Because I can't figure it out through the pictures. |
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Cribbleobblepie
Joined: Dec 15, 2006
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Oct 16, 2012 - 12:11 |
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I'll back a set on Kickstarer for sure! |
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numbersix
Joined: Jun 04, 2012
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Oct 16, 2012 - 12:14 |
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Wow really nice! They seem 'carved in' to me... and I'd like to have a set, too |
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noobie2k7
Joined: Sep 28, 2012
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Oct 16, 2012 - 12:19 |
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I have very little money to myself these days but i'd be willing to back you some dolla on kickstarter |
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Igvy
Joined: Apr 29, 2007
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Oct 16, 2012 - 12:40 |
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I don't play tabletop, but these dice are hot.
Is there a way to tell the pushes apart? (I don't mean the image, more the position on the dice, including the direction of the arrow)
Then I could just use them as awesome looking d6. |
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Garion
Joined: Aug 19, 2009
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Oct 16, 2012 - 12:43 |
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Kickstarter FTW great dice. They are reeaalll sexy. |
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mister__joshua
Joined: Jun 20, 2007
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@Igvy
One push is pointing at the skulls chin, the other isn't, so you could distinguish that way. Depends on your game I suppose. It'd be annoying for ludo, but I play Shadowrun and with dice pools and target numbers so only 1s, 5s and 6s matter. Ideal! |
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polemarch
Joined: Mar 20, 2009
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Oct 16, 2012 - 12:54 |
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do they roll lots of triple skulls? |
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Christer
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Quick answers:
1. The design is etched into the die, and is slightly sunk in. You can see a hint of this in the POW icon in my image. The image also shows a slight hint of the slightly rough surface produced by the etching process. Look closely at the skull in the pow/skull facing forward in the image. This roughness is not a compression artifact. You'll also notice it on the push arrow pointing up. The depression is not exactly "filled in", but painted. The layer of paint is not thick enough to build back the depression from the etching.
2. The arrows are identical, and I seem to remember that they both point towards the skull side (although I don't have the dice in front of me atm and I'd have to verify this if it's important). You could, however, separate the two simply by looking if it points towards the bottom of the skull side, or the top.
3. The layout of the dice is compliant with traditional D6es, with Pow=6, Skull=1, etc. Curiously, standard Blood Bowl block dice are not using this layout. Instead they oppose pow to push/pow and oppose skull with both down.
4. To get these manufactured, we will need people to pledge a total of somewhere around 400 sets of dice, or the equivalent amount of money. We may add limited non-dice-related parts to the kickstarter project to improve the probability of successful funding. This is, as you may imagine, also uncertain at this point (and I am open for ideas if you have them). |
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Christer
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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| polemarch wrote: | | do they roll lots of triple skulls? |
My first roll was skull, skull, both down. You decide |
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eldritchfox
Joined: Mar 24, 2011
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Oct 16, 2012 - 13:12 |
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I'd certainly pledge on kickstarter for 2 sets. |
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