Dicember Day 17: Googley Eye Dice!
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sorcyressDicember Day 17
Googley Eye Dice
(Obtained 2022 01, made by the Evergreen Burrow)
EvergreenBurrow is perhaps most famous for its duck d20 --another rare instance of me receiving dice as a gift--, which was one of the first instances I ever saw of dice with *inclusions*, with little toys or trinkets or decorations embedded inside the resin.
This seems as good a time in the project as any to say "I do not give a flying fuck about balance". Lots of people get extremely worked up about the balance of the dice, are they fair, blah blah blah. I do not care. I don't think that any of these little small-run manufacturers are going to be making dice that are intentionally unbalanced (hard!), I know that inclusions are usually the exact same density as the surrounding material (or their own density is negligible for some of the lighter ones, and I know that a properly *numbered* die circulates the numbers, so that even if a die was weighted to roll a lot of 20s, it will also roll a lot of 2s.
So the fact that EvergreenBurrow makes really cool inclusions dice is something that I can just enjoy for the sheer delight of the matter, and these are one of the best possible inclusions. Because they're googly eyes. Carefully inserted so that they _still google_. Forget those modern liquid core dice I keep seeing (okay, maybe don't, those are rad), these are the future of dice!
Released as an April-Fools-But-For-Realsies kickstarter in 2021, the googley eye dice just consistently make me smile. It's such a hilarious idea for a set of dice! And such an enjoyable thing to roll.
~Sor
MOOP!
Googley Eye Dice
(Obtained 2022 01, made by the Evergreen Burrow)
EvergreenBurrow is perhaps most famous for its duck d20 --another rare instance of me receiving dice as a gift--, which was one of the first instances I ever saw of dice with *inclusions*, with little toys or trinkets or decorations embedded inside the resin.
This seems as good a time in the project as any to say "I do not give a flying fuck about balance". Lots of people get extremely worked up about the balance of the dice, are they fair, blah blah blah. I do not care. I don't think that any of these little small-run manufacturers are going to be making dice that are intentionally unbalanced (hard!), I know that inclusions are usually the exact same density as the surrounding material (or their own density is negligible for some of the lighter ones, and I know that a properly *numbered* die circulates the numbers, so that even if a die was weighted to roll a lot of 20s, it will also roll a lot of 2s.
So the fact that EvergreenBurrow makes really cool inclusions dice is something that I can just enjoy for the sheer delight of the matter, and these are one of the best possible inclusions. Because they're googly eyes. Carefully inserted so that they _still google_. Forget those modern liquid core dice I keep seeing (okay, maybe don't, those are rad), these are the future of dice!
Released as an April-Fools-But-For-Realsies kickstarter in 2021, the googley eye dice just consistently make me smile. It's such a hilarious idea for a set of dice! And such an enjoyable thing to roll.
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2022-12-18 02:00 pm (UTC)(Side note: my phone autocorrected to "Cosmic Hottie" so now that needs to be a genre. Still with the horror though.)
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on 2022-12-19 02:33 pm (UTC)