Dicember Day 30: Cobalt Cosmos
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sorcyressDicember Day 30
Dice 51: Cobalt Cosmos
(Obtained 2022 03 from Foam Brain Games)
What if dice...but FROM SPACE?!!
This is a question that has been asked many (many!) times by many different dicemakers. What if you had dice that looked like a galaxy? What if you had dice full of stars? What if you had a full 14 piece set of dice to represent major astronomical bodies within our tiny solar system? (this is not something I own yet, but it is On The List.)
What if you had dice inspired by aliens and area 51, and also what if they were made of cool heavy metal and meant to invoke golden age science fiction and shining spaceships and otherplanetary cities?
That's the question Foam Brain Games asked --and quite nicely answered!-- with their Dice 51 kickstarter.
These dice have a wonderfully peculiar shape to them, especially the d6 and d12. For the d12, I find it a little irritating --shaping the faces as kites instead of pentagons makes it more difficult to quickly visually distinguish from the d10-- but I *love* the space-station-shaped d6 with its long cylinder body.
I'm not much for metal dice in general, but I'm very glad to have picked up a few sets of these when they went up on kickstarter. Not only are the colours just so good, but these really do feel like display pieces, even more than some of my favourite sparkly plastics. Dice...in...SPAAAAACE!
~Sor
MOOP!
Dice 51: Cobalt Cosmos
(Obtained 2022 03 from Foam Brain Games)
What if dice...but FROM SPACE?!!
This is a question that has been asked many (many!) times by many different dicemakers. What if you had dice that looked like a galaxy? What if you had dice full of stars? What if you had a full 14 piece set of dice to represent major astronomical bodies within our tiny solar system? (this is not something I own yet, but it is On The List.)
What if you had dice inspired by aliens and area 51, and also what if they were made of cool heavy metal and meant to invoke golden age science fiction and shining spaceships and otherplanetary cities?
That's the question Foam Brain Games asked --and quite nicely answered!-- with their Dice 51 kickstarter.
These dice have a wonderfully peculiar shape to them, especially the d6 and d12. For the d12, I find it a little irritating --shaping the faces as kites instead of pentagons makes it more difficult to quickly visually distinguish from the d10-- but I *love* the space-station-shaped d6 with its long cylinder body.
I'm not much for metal dice in general, but I'm very glad to have picked up a few sets of these when they went up on kickstarter. Not only are the colours just so good, but these really do feel like display pieces, even more than some of my favourite sparkly plastics. Dice...in...SPAAAAACE!
~Sor
MOOP!