Dungeons & Dragons Games Colorful And Fancy Multi Sided Dice

Dungeons & Dragons - The fantasy role playing game that's been around for 30+ years and still going strong. I was introduced to this game way back in the early 80's in my mid teens. My friends had discovered this game that allowed for a single person to become a story teller (The Dungeon Master) and a group of friends who were able to assume fantasy characters and effectively 'role-play' them in a setting either from a certain series of 'modules' or from something original created by the DM.

I initially had a look through the books and read a little, yet the first aspect that intrigued me was the dice! I have played games before with 6 sided dice (Yahtzee or Monopoly anyone?) but this was a set of four, six, eight, ten, twelve and twenty sided dice (polyhedral shape based dice). I soon also found out that certain scenarios would require a percentage change of an action being performed, which was established by using 2 ten sided dice. One for the tens, the other for the ones.

#Notes: Dungeons & Dragons is also known via common shortened forms, such as DnD, D&D and FRPG (Fantasy Role Playing Game)

Firstly, it marks for a unique and interesting aspect of the game. To my expereince, I know that these dice are used in many other games, usually role play games similar to D&D, especially in the early 1980's when there was an explosion of other table top RPG's to try and capitalize on D&D growing fandom.

There are weapons and other objects as well as circumstances or events that are determined in the game 'by the roll of the dice'.

For instance, a person playing the character of a thief usually will attempt to stealthily use a dagger for causing damage, if a hit is successful, the amount of damage is determined by the roll of a D4, the four-sided die. Other characters using different weapon have their damage determined by other dice, eg, D6 for a mace, D8 for a sword, etc.

Secondly, over a short period of time I purchased a set of these unique dice, and eventually all of my friends playing had acquired a different colors and slightly different styles. Yet they were all the same shape and still a set of seven.

Another aspect of the game and this is also how the dice become a rather good tool was to determine certain outcomes of characters performing different actions. Since this type of game is combination theater and story-telling, in the comfort of your (or a friends) home, the Dungeon master would sometimes be presented with an outcome that was unable to be determined by story telling, therefore using 2 x D10's, he or she would be able to determine a percentage chance of an event happening or not.

This became helpful if a person playing a character attempted something that was not quite covered by the 'rules' (or house rules either)

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Below is a wonderful range of Polyhedral dice and bags to store your dice in, available to purchase which are great to show off these dice to your friends. Many other Role Playing Games use these dice as well, so it is not exclusive to just Dungeons & Dragons. Enjoy