The dice collection

It started with Chessex Speckled Loot

A photo of all of our dice, spread out on a wooden table, along with the dice roller and mini dice, harrow deck of many things and our D&D toys Simon and Lotus, the giant fly and demodog, munching on pieces of paper to the side.
It began with a green speckled dice, the only green dice available in the gaming store that my friend J1 took us to. We were playing L5R, Legend of the 5 Rings. I actually ended up giving a lot of those away, bit of a story behind that. Y'see, originally in playing L5R, that game only uses D10's, and so over the four year campaign, I ended up collecting a lot more of the same dice pattern, in order to collect enough 10 sided dice. I also picked up a Chessex Rainbow Peridot D30 around this time, mainly because "oohh, cool, 'different' sided dice that's also green", which is apparently now quite rare. And the excess of those speckled loot dice is how we came to create a two, three, five, and seven sided dice of that set, because we had SO many extra dice that weren't being used, that I used our family's table grinder to turn a number of those into the aformentioned dice. A little bit wonderful, and over time, when the rest of the dice collection came to be (also J1 gave each of us our L5R clan dice sets), I ended up deciding to give away the extra Chessex speckled loot dice (keeping one set for myself, and the modified dice) to a random person in the Goblin Dice Hoard facebook community (private group, just search for it), and happiness was had by all.

The dice collection grew and grew, after the L5R days, beginning with of all things, the teensy tiny dice for the harrow deck of many things. An accidental loss of a D4 there led to a second set of those, now with the miniature dice roller, and the chonk, of which we strangely also came to have two of. The first order hadn't arrived for 5 weeks, so I messaged the seller, offered to pay for a new one, giving them my story, and they said no, and just sent another! And then, the original DID show up after like 6 weeks, as well as the second. I once again messaged the seller offering to pay, but he waved it off and wished me a good day! So that was awesome. After those came the Chessex gemini black & pink, Chessex opaque grey and black (numbers recoloured to bright grey/white, to look more like a city grey), and blue starter set dice, prattled about in my song-a-day here (and the dice generally prattled about here and here). These three sets were actually purchased in August 2022, which is why more dice are featured in those videos, the hollow metal dragon d20, the Chessex speckled recon gold (aka my swarmkeeper dice), a set of Little Dragon Corp february serpentine (aka my sparkly dragon dice), and a pearl yellow Koplow D20. Of course in that same area we have the cube, the homemade dice/cube of acheron, that we protected for the ant queen! Check out that cube link for a ton of awesome videos pertaining to it, also side pic.

It was soon after this that we decided to try hunting down one of the original D&D dice (that came with the box, tho I wouldn't turn down a GameScience if I stumbled across one, these had to be purchased seperately from the game). I wanted a nice, good, beat-up looking original dice, that looked like it had been rolled a thousand times. And so, I hunted around on the Goblin Dice Hoard Acquisition group, and asked around for it. Lo and behold, someone came to my aid, and found me the most heavily worn, most rolled-looking D8 that he could find (I wasn't picky on which dice, just worn looking). And not only that, with that Holmes dice he sent me a Moldvay and a Mentzer as well, to get my collection going for those, and to help me tell them apart! WOOOOOH! So that was all kinds of awesome. I had decided early on that I wanted to recolour the numbers on those, as they were about to begin a new life of rolling again. I decided to make the Holmes with yellow numbering, which looks INCREDIBLE, and eschew the idea that the original Holmes dice were all just numbered in black marker, again because it was beginning a new rolling life, but still used crayon to a) not have paint or marker seep into the microcracks in the plastic, and b) kinda give a nod towards the original dice still. The Moldvay we gave orange, not one of the original crayons (red, white, dark blue, yellow, green, and black), again as a nod to the current age rolling it will do, and the Mentzer we kept the same colour, just refreshed. Oh my goodness the original 3. It was also about this time that I began the Simon and Lotus dice-eating series, where Lotus attacked these dice in episode 4. And, as with all dice goblins, the collection carried on.

At this point, we obtained the Diceling beholder (aka: Khorgah, who's eye was replaced with that of a Nothic, carried through to here), and we're now more focused on looking for specific individual cool dice, instead of entire sets. We had throughout all of this gotten random map generator dice, random weather dice, the HeroQuest dice, and a handful of others. Obligatory crystal dice (specifically looking for dice that looked homemade rather than cnc machined, mission accomplished, also green aventurine and purple agate), an orange dice, a brown dice, a DeeDee dice from One Shot Questers :D ! We also obtained a homemade resin dice representing the swamps, and a d4 in the shape of a healing potion bottle, bit of a story behind that. I really only wanted one, but it came in a set of 10, so the remainder were given to my gaming group before moving, spread the love :D
With our dice bag filling up (though recently replaced with the bag for the Hive tile game, giving us more space lol), we had just about run out of specific dice to hunt for. Most recently was obtained a translucent spindown dice (technically a spinup dice for my one-shot), and my beautiful wife's first dice set, Critical Kit dragon eye multicolour dice. The only things left on the to-get list (at this time) are a liquid-core dice, and otherwise it's gotta be pretty cool (or just catch my eye I suppose lol) for us to get more. But we're dice goblins, so we'll see.
Edit: And then several months later, we obtained a dice with a D&D logo on it!!! Bit of a story behind this one. This has always kinda also been on my list o' dice to get. I'd started hunting around for D&D Funko Pop figures that came with a dice (yah I could have just bought a dice from them on EBay, but it's not the same), but never came across one in a store (buying a full Funko Pop online was just slightly over my price barrier). And then, randomly in Waterstones book store, in that display of little travel kits, we found a Dungeons & Dragons mini dice dungeon. Oh, I jumped on that pretty much instantaneously, and, me being me, got rid of the dice dungeon itself on the way home lol. Had to break it out of the mini dice dungeon, it was packaged in there for space without having done a single thing wrong Sad eye face
I'm also not the type of person to use a dice dungeon, I'll either remind the dice that it's a random number generator so act like one, or on the opposite end of the spectrum it can sit on the victory stand in honour and glory lol. But, with this package, we removed our D&D logo dice from its improper jailing, and finally had our incredibly cool logo dice in our collection, cool colour as well! And so, we were pleased once again.

--Oohhhhh, and the dice saga continues. On Sept. 20, 2023, I managed to find a copy of Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer issue 1!
Now, I'm not planning to collect the *entire* set, that's just not in my list o' goals here, but when the ads started showing up for this, I wanted just one piece of memorabilia. Like any of them would be cool, but it would really have to have dice as an issue gift. Like I'm planning on getting the OneDND/5.5e core rulebooks when they come out, so getting the full set of magasines isn't on my to-do list, but oooohhhhhhhh, getting the issue 1 dice. Like, I'm normally not a black-colour type person, but it can at least hearken back to the metal side of me, and it feels like dice that a barbarian might use when swingin' their big ol' axe. So my next axe-swinger (or sword-swinger, who swings it as brutally as an axe) now has their next set of dice :D.
Yah, I probably would have preferred a different colour, but again justifying this, when else will I ever get a set of black dice (aside from the gemini black/pink below, which have a completely different feel), for £1.99 yet, AND, it's the set of dice that come with Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer #1!!! Like I cannot stress that enough, that is SO cool that I found this, on probably the last day they'll be stocked in stores! There's a new issue every week, it was released on the 13th, I ran out and got it on the 20th... literally 7 days from release... so it probably would have been replaced with issue 2 tomorrow! WOOOOOOH, ISSUE 1 DICE!!!! Colour aside, I will gladly have these (also for my future barbarian) for that alone! NO complaints! AND, AND their very first roll was a 14, not too shabby! So we're happy. We have an unexpected new set of dice, from an iconic magasine issue, we have a colour that I always kinda wanted but didn't think I would ever pick up, and they are limited release! The storage tin for the dice is kinda cool, but since these dice will be staying in ye olde dice bag, I'll come up with something cool to do with this later, probably expect to see it on the AD&D page lol.
But yes, SO excited about this, strangely. Like I said, ever since seeing this come out, and then seeing posts about people not being able to find it and being sold out, I went out, on a rainy, windy day (walking the hour to save a few quid), and came back, only slightly damp from drizzle, and missed the heavy rain by like... 10 minutes! WOOOOOOOH, limited edition issue 1 dice set, NO complaints, ALL the awesome :D :D :D.
And then came a pile of random generator dice, kinda completing my set of those so to speak. From the original room generation and weather dice, we added NPC attitude, class, and species (the reroll on the species dice modified to be Thri-Kreen), trap, monster, and treasure dice, and my wife got me a set of Aruohha metal dice for my birthday! At this point, we were starting to get close to the "goal" (said the dice goblin) of having at least 12 dice of every shape of dice (numbered), mainly because the highest rolls in D&D generally go up to 12 dice (like 12d6 Sunburst for example). And we were getting close. We needed 2 d4's, 2 d8's, and 4 d12's, I picked up some random dollar-a-dice (or pound-a-dice in England, not to be confused with pound-of-dice lol, something I plan to pick up for my shop), the birthday dice showed up, and then my rubber arm was twisted by a shop in England to get a set of Mystery Dice Goblin dice (Slush-puppy purple)... and that left us with a single d12 being needed. A single d12.
In addition to that 12-of-each-dice requirement, there were several secondary requirements for my dice set to feel complete (said the dice goblin lol). I needed a liquid core dice, as mentioned, a blacksmith-forged dice, an opaque pink, opaque purple, and a clear translucent dice of some sort. Also, here's an updated pic of the full dice bag as it's grown, though still containing both Simon and Lotus, one of the chonk dice, AND the miniature dice tower, which could travel with the other chonk and beholder diceling if the bag gets too full.

And so... several months went by... until I broke down lol. We went shopping. We went through both Etsy and The Dice Shop Online, and we hunted for these niche missing requirements. The Dice Shop provided us with our opaques, giving us a nice pink d20, our FINAL D12, which also filled my need to have a nice plain purple dice (of which purple felt more like a fighter's great axe than switching the pink and purple around, and also I wanted a full pink d20), and a translucent orange d4. On Etsy, we found Elder Sign Ironwork, a UK-based blacksmith which felt nice, which provided us with an awesome set of hand-forged d6 dice, and Danieluky, which provided us with our liquid core dice, oh so sparkly :D.
And thus, with a pink sparkle arriving on April 2 2024, our dice set (said the dice goblins) was temporarily complete! We had our odd-shaped dice (a potion shaped d4), we had our liquid filled dice, we had our hand-forged dice, we've got our opaque purple (which is also pretty pastel, covering both points nicely), pink, green, brown, and orange dice (strangely requirements as time went by), our city coloured grey dice, our translucent dice, our dungeon generator dice, our unexpectedly needed random mystery dice, limited edition dice, Holmes dice (the Mentzer and Moldvay were unexpected surprises), hollow dice, a dice with a D&D logo on it, sharp-corner resin dice (of which we now have two, thanks to our sparkly liquid-filled dice), a d5 dice (handmade long ago), and our chonk (also unexpectedly two, three if you count the diceling).
Ok, NOW something will have to be particularly spectacular, unusual, or otherwise catch our eyes for us to get it. Or be gifted to us. Or just look cool. One way or the other, all of the niches that had up until now been required... are obtained. I'm REALLY happy that I got those blacksmith dice, those are just so cool, and... yeah, time to roll some of these around in my hands for a while.
Now... what will make us hoard more lol.

Now, not quite new dice, but something directly related to it! I've finally fumbled my way back to Hobbycraft for the second time ever, and this time picked up a sheet of felt, that I had been planning to use to turn the lid of my d&d box (most convenient link that shows it, I guess) into a dice tray! I've vaguely planned to get a folding dice tray that can clip into a binder, but since this box is more or less planned to travel with me to every campaign session, I couldn't give up on turning the lid into a dice tray, even if I eventually get a smaller one (and the binder one had better be extra small and portable, if or when I get one, I like portability). But otherwise in general, we have turned the D&D box lid into a dice tray!

And then we had "the dice that made us hoard more!" It was two things, kinda back to back. The first, a white whale that I've wanted for a while... Chessex Vortex Dandelion Surprised face . Someone was advertising D20's of this for sale on Facebook, I leapt at one, and to my surprise, they sent a D10 and D6 for it as well!!!! I don't know if I'm going to seek an entire set of this out of print wonder, but I am SO happy to a) have a dice labelled as a dandelion, and b) green and yellow are among my favourite colours, certainly my favourite nature colours. I mean these dice are just gorgeous, and I am so happy to have finally obtained not just one, but some!
Secondly and ordered coincidentally shortly after, and after reading Frozen Sick, a free module on DND Beyond set in Critical Role's Tal'Dorei setting. In reading that it mentioned keeping track of how much time has gone by during a day. Now, as I've earlier above obtained a spindown dice to keep track of days, it only made sense to get a second one to keep track of hours! And so, I set out to find a D24 spindown dice (thank you The Dice Shop Online), which is also my only dice that will 100% not roll "fairly", as the sides are of course, different shapes. Also spindown. But none of that matters because you're an hour-counter, and of my available options, translucent amber because you look like the morning light when the adventurers generally wake up! And so when it is needed, we have our hour-counter :D

Then, in our (present) white whale hunting expedition, we have... Chessex Speckled Invaders. I dunno... I somehow fell in love with this... *bizarre* set, which the literal owner and founder of Chessex dice said was one of the worst colours they ever created lol (pdf and link, but you must be a member of Goblin Dice Hoard on FaceBook for the link). And good ol' goblin me had to look, and little ol' underdog me who cares for the uncared for went and fell in love with it, and wanted just one of them to give them some love and compassion. And so on the Goblin Dice Hoard Acquisition group (sister group), ask and ye shall receive! While not a full set again, and in honesty I was just looking for a single any-number dice, the seller sent me three of them (since I sent a tip with the purchase to thank them), and so we have our beloved handful of Chessex Speckled Invaders dice. Don't worry lil friends, I gotchu ❤️
Lastly, exactly one d6, because Critical Role happened to mention an attack that did 20d6 damage, and I had exactly 19 of those, after having relegated the above Mystery Dice Goblin Slush-puppy purple dice back to their own bag, to be the official "spare table dice" for if a player forgets to bring their dice. I had originally hoped to stumble across a stray one on the ground, but well into the age of digital gaming, the chances of finding a dice laying on the sidewalk somewhere continues to get less and less likely. And so, discount hardware store dice, c'mere you required number filler! We only kept one of them though, since I didn't want to flood the bag with lots of that style, and we hit our 20d6 mark. Now... now the set feels complete. Said the dice goblins.
Oh, we had to, Critical Role was having a sale on Vox Machina dice, and that was the series that got me into the Harrow Deck of Many Things et al (thank you Grog). I had to, I HAD to, if there was ever a 'logo' dice that I needed past the D&D symbol, it was a Vox Machina symbol. So while that hardware store d6 may not have in the end been needed, eh, can't hurt to have one spare. Said the dice goblin.

What will be next to join the hoard?
Collection started around 2014, and ongoing

It began with a green speckled dice, the only green dice available in the gaming store that my friend J1 took us to. We were playing L5R, Legend of the 5 Rings. I actually ended up giving a lot of those away, bit of a story behind that. Y'see, originally in playing L5R, that game only uses D10's, and so over the four year campaign, I ended up collecting a lot more of the same dice pattern, in order to collect enough 10 sided dice. I also picked up a Chessex Rainbow Peridot D30 around this time, mainly because "oohh, cool, 'different' sided dice that's also green", which is apparently now quite rare. And the excess of those speckled loot dice is how we came to create a two, three, five, and seven sided dice of that set, because we had SO many extra dice that weren't being used, that I used our family's table grinder to turn a number of those into the aformentioned dice. A little bit wonderful, and over time, when the rest of the dice collection came to be (also J1 gave each of us our L5R clan dice sets), I ended up deciding to give away the extra Chessex speckled loot dice (keeping one set for myself, and the modified dice) to a random person in the Goblin Dice Hoard facebook community (private group, just search for it), and happiness was had by all.
The dice collection grew and grew, after the L5R days, beginning with of all things, the teensy tiny dice for the harrow deck of many things. An accidental loss of a D4 there led to a second set of those, now with the miniature dice roller, and the chonk, of which we strangely also came to have two of. The first order hadn't arrived for 5 weeks, so I messaged the seller, offered to pay for a new one, giving them my story, and they said no, and just sent another! And then, the original DID show up after like 6 weeks, as well as the second. I once again messaged the seller offering to pay, but he waved it off and wished me a good day! So that was awesome. After those came the Chessex gemini black & pink, Chessex opaque grey and black (numbers recoloured to bright grey/white, to look more like a city grey), and blue starter set dice, prattled about in my song-a-day here (and the dice generally prattled about here and here). These three sets were actually purchased in August 2022, which is why more dice are featured in those videos, the hollow metal dragon d20, the Chessex speckled recon gold (aka my swarmkeeper dice), a set of Little Dragon Corp february serpentine (aka my sparkly dragon dice), and a pearl yellow Koplow D20. Of course in that same area we have the cube, the homemade dice/cube of acheron, that we protected for the ant queen! Check out that cube link for a ton of awesome videos pertaining to it, also side pic.
It was soon after this that we decided to try hunting down one of the original D&D dice (that came with the box, tho I wouldn't turn down a GameScience if I stumbled across one, these had to be purchased seperately from the game). I wanted a nice, good, beat-up looking original dice, that looked like it had been rolled a thousand times. And so, I hunted around on the Goblin Dice Hoard Acquisition group, and asked around for it. Lo and behold, someone came to my aid, and found me the most heavily worn, most rolled-looking D8 that he could find (I wasn't picky on which dice, just worn looking). And not only that, with that Holmes dice he sent me a Moldvay and a Mentzer as well, to get my collection going for those, and to help me tell them apart! WOOOOOH! So that was all kinds of awesome. I had decided early on that I wanted to recolour the numbers on those, as they were about to begin a new life of rolling again. I decided to make the Holmes with yellow numbering, which looks INCREDIBLE, and eschew the idea that the original Holmes dice were all just numbered in black marker, again because it was beginning a new rolling life, but still used crayon to a) not have paint or marker seep into the microcracks in the plastic, and b) kinda give a nod towards the original dice still. The Moldvay we gave orange, not one of the original crayons (red, white, dark blue, yellow, green, and black), again as a nod to the current age rolling it will do, and the Mentzer we kept the same colour, just refreshed. Oh my goodness the original 3. It was also about this time that I began the Simon and Lotus dice-eating series, where Lotus attacked these dice in episode 4. And, as with all dice goblins, the collection carried on.
At this point, we obtained the Diceling beholder (aka: Khorgah, who's eye was replaced with that of a Nothic, carried through to here), and we're now more focused on looking for specific individual cool dice, instead of entire sets. We had throughout all of this gotten random map generator dice, random weather dice, the HeroQuest dice, and a handful of others. Obligatory crystal dice (specifically looking for dice that looked homemade rather than cnc machined, mission accomplished, also green aventurine and purple agate), an orange dice, a brown dice, a DeeDee dice from One Shot Questers :D ! We also obtained a homemade resin dice representing the swamps, and a d4 in the shape of a healing potion bottle, bit of a story behind that. I really only wanted one, but it came in a set of 10, so the remainder were given to my gaming group before moving, spread the love :D With our dice bag filling up (though recently replaced with the bag for the Hive tile game, giving us more space lol), we had just about run out of specific dice to hunt for. Most recently was obtained a translucent spindown dice (technically a spinup dice for my one-shot), and my beautiful wife's first dice set, Critical Kit dragon eye multicolour dice. The only things left on the to-get list (at this time) are a liquid-core dice, and otherwise it's gotta be pretty cool (or just catch my eye I suppose lol) for us to get more. But we're dice goblins, so we'll see. Edit: And then several months later, we obtained a dice with a D&D logo on it!!! Bit of a story behind this one. This has always kinda also been on my list o' dice to get. I'd started hunting around for D&D Funko Pop figures that came with a dice (yah I could have just bought a dice from them on EBay, but it's not the same), but never came across one in a store (buying a full Funko Pop online was just slightly over my price barrier). And then, randomly in Waterstones book store, in that display of little travel kits, we found a Dungeons & Dragons mini dice dungeon. Oh, I jumped on that pretty much instantaneously, and, me being me, got rid of the dice dungeon itself on the way home lol. Had to break it out of the mini dice dungeon, it was packaged in there for space without having done a single thing wrong I'm also not the type of person to use a dice dungeon, I'll either remind the dice that it's a random number generator so act like one, or on the opposite end of the spectrum it can sit on the victory stand in honour and glory lol. But, with this package, we removed our D&D logo dice from its improper jailing, and finally had our incredibly cool logo dice in our collection, cool colour as well! And so, we were pleased once again.
--Oohhhhh, and the dice saga continues. On Sept. 20, 2023, I managed to find a copy of Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer issue 1! Now, I'm not planning to collect the entire set, that's just not in my list o' goals here, but when the ads started showing up for this, I wanted just one piece of memorabilia. Like any of them would be cool, but it would really have to have dice as an issue gift. Like I'm planning on getting the OneDND/5.5e core rulebooks when they come out, so getting the full set of magasines isn't on my to-do list, but oooohhhhhhhh, getting the issue 1 dice. Like, I'm normally not a black-colour type person, but it can at least hearken back to the metal side of me, and it feels like dice that a barbarian might use when swingin' their big ol' axe. So my next axe-swinger (or sword-swinger, who swings it as brutally as an axe) now has their next set of dice :D. Yah, I probably would have preferred a different colour, but again justifying this, when else will I ever get a set of black dice (aside from the gemini black/pink below, which have a completely different feel), for £1.99 yet, AND, it's the set of dice that come with Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer #1!!! Like I cannot stress that enough, that is SO cool that I found this, on probably the last day they'll be stocked in stores! There's a new issue every week, it was released on the 13th, I ran out and got it on the 20th... literally 7 days from release... so it probably would have been replaced with issue 2 tomorrow! WOOOOOOH, ISSUE 1 DICE!!!! Colour aside, I will gladly have these (also for my future barbarian) for that alone! NO complaints! AND, AND their very first roll was a 14, not too shabby! So we're happy. We have an unexpected new set of dice, from an iconic magasine issue, we have a colour that I always kinda wanted but didn't think I would ever pick up, and they are limited release! The storage tin for the dice is kinda cool, but since these dice will be staying in ye olde dice bag, I'll come up with something cool to do with this later, probably expect to see it on the AD&D page lol. But yes, SO excited about this, strangely. Like I said, ever since seeing this come out, and then seeing posts about people not being able to find it and being sold out, I went out, on a rainy, windy day (walking the hour to save a few quid), and came back, only slightly damp from drizzle, and missed the heavy rain by like... 10 minutes! WOOOOOOOH, limited edition issue 1 dice set, NO complaints, ALL the awesome :D :D :D. And then came a pile of random generator dice, kinda completing my set of those so to speak. From the original room generation and weather dice, we added NPC attitude, class, and species (the reroll on the species dice modified to be Thri-Kreen), trap, monster, and treasure dice, and my wife got me a set of Aruohha metal dice for my birthday! At this point, we were starting to get close to the "goal" (said the dice goblin) of having at least 12 dice of every shape of dice (numbered), mainly because the highest rolls in D&D generally go up to 12 dice (like 12d6 Sunburst for example). And we were getting close. We needed 2 d4's, 2 d8's, and 4 d12's, I picked up some random dollar-a-dice (or pound-a-dice in England, not to be confused with pound-of-dice lol, something I plan to pick up for my shop), the birthday dice showed up, and then my rubber arm was twisted by a shop in England to get a set of Mystery Dice Goblin dice (Slush-puppy purple)... and that left us with a single d12 being needed. A single d12. In addition to that 12-of-each-dice requirement, there were several secondary requirements for my dice set to feel complete (said the dice goblin lol). I needed a liquid core dice, as mentioned, a blacksmith-forged dice, an opaque pink, opaque purple, and a clear translucent dice of some sort. Also, here's an updated pic of the full dice bag as it's grown, though still containing both Simon and Lotus, one of the chonk dice, AND the miniature dice tower, which could travel with the other chonk and beholder diceling if the bag gets too full.
And so... several months went by... until I broke down lol. We went shopping. We went through both Etsy and The Dice Shop Online, and we hunted for these niche missing requirements. The Dice Shop provided us with our opaques, giving us a nice pink d20, our FINAL D12, which also filled my need to have a nice plain purple dice (of which purple felt more like a fighter's great axe than switching the pink and purple around, and also I wanted a full pink d20), and a translucent orange d4. On Etsy, we found Elder Sign Ironwork, a UK-based blacksmith which felt nice, which provided us with an awesome set of hand-forged d6 dice, and Danieluky, which provided us with our liquid core dice, oh so sparkly :D. And thus, with a pink sparkle arriving on April 2 2024, our dice set (said the dice goblins) was temporarily complete! We had our odd-shaped dice (a potion shaped d4), we had our liquid filled dice, we had our hand-forged dice, we've got our opaque purple (which is also pretty pastel, covering both points nicely), pink, green, brown, and orange dice (strangely requirements as time went by), our city coloured grey dice, our translucent dice, our dungeon generator dice, our unexpectedly needed random mystery dice, limited edition dice, Holmes dice (the Mentzer and Moldvay were unexpected surprises), hollow dice, a dice with a D&D logo on it, sharp-corner resin dice (of which we now have two, thanks to our sparkly liquid-filled dice), a d5 dice (handmade long ago), and our chonk (also unexpectedly two, three if you count the diceling). Ok, NOW something will have to be particularly spectacular, unusual, or otherwise catch our eyes for us to get it. Or be gifted to us. Or just look cool. One way or the other, all of the niches that had up until now been required... are obtained. I'm REALLY happy that I got those blacksmith dice, those are just so cool, and... yeah, time to roll some of these around in my hands for a while. Now... what will make us hoard more lol.
Now, not quite new dice, but something directly related to it! I've finally fumbled my way back to Hobbycraft for the second time ever, and this time picked up a sheet of felt, that I had been planning to use to turn the lid of my d&d box (most convenient link that shows it, I guess) into a dice tray! I've vaguely planned to get a folding dice tray that can clip into a binder, but since this box is more or less planned to travel with me to every campaign session, I couldn't give up on turning the lid into a dice tray, even if I eventually get a smaller one (and the binder one had better be extra small and portable, if or when I get one, I like portability). But otherwise in general, we have turned the D&D box lid into a dice tray!
And then we had "the dice that made us hoard more!" It was two things, kinda back to back. The first, a white whale that I've wanted for a while... Chessex Vortex Dandelion . Someone was advertising D20's of this for sale on Facebook, I leapt at one, and to my surprise, they sent a D10 and D6 for it as well!!!! I don't know if I'm going to seek an entire set of this out of print wonder, but I am SO happy to a) have a dice labelled as a dandelion, and b) green and yellow are among my favourite colours, certainly my favourite nature colours. I mean these dice are just gorgeous, and I am so happy to have finally obtained not just one, but some! Secondly and ordered coincidentally shortly after, and after reading Frozen Sick, a free module on DND Beyond set in Critical Role's Tal'Dorei setting. In reading that it mentioned keeping track of how much time has gone by during a day. Now, as I've earlier above obtained a spindown dice to keep track of days, it only made sense to get a second one to keep track of hours! And so, I set out to find a D24 spindown dice (thank you The Dice Shop Online), which is also my only dice that will 100% not roll "fairly", as the sides are of course, different shapes. Also spindown. But none of that matters because you're an hour-counter, and of my available options, translucent amber because you look like the morning light when the adventurers generally wake up! And so when it is needed, we have our hour-counter :D Then, in our (present) white whale hunting expedition, we have... Chessex Speckled Invaders. I dunno... I somehow fell in love with this... bizarre set, which the literal owner and founder of Chessex dice said was one of the worst colours they ever created lol (pdf and link, but you must be a member of Goblin Dice Hoard on FaceBook for the link). And good ol' goblin me had to look, and little ol' underdog me who cares for the uncared for went and fell in love with it, and wanted just one of them to give them some love and compassion. And so on the Goblin Dice Hoard Acquisition group (sister group), ask and ye shall receive! While not a full set again, and in honesty I was just looking for a single any-number dice, the seller sent me three of them (since I sent a tip with the purchase to thank them), and so we have our beloved handful of Chessex Speckled Invaders dice. Don't worry lil friends, I gotchu ❤️ Lastly, exactly one d6, because Critical Role happened to mention an attack that did 20d6 damage, and I had exactly 19 of those, after having relegated the above Mystery Dice Goblin Slush-puppy purple dice back to their own bag, to be the official "spare table dice" for if a player forgets to bring their dice. I had originally hoped to stumble across a stray one on the ground, but well into the age of digital gaming, the chances of finding a dice laying on the sidewalk somewhere continues to get less and less likely. And so, discount hardware store dice, c'mere you required number filler! We only kept one of them though, since I didn't want to flood the bag with lots of that style, and we hit our 20d6 mark. Now... now the set feels complete. Said the dice goblins. Oh, we had to, Critical Role was having a sale on Vox Machina dice, and that was the series that got me into the Harrow Deck of Many Things et al (thank you Grog). I had to, I HAD to, if there was ever a 'logo' dice that I needed past the D&D symbol, it was a Vox Machina symbol. So while that hardware store d6 may not have in the end been needed, eh, can't hurt to have one spare. Said the dice goblin.
What will be next to join the hoard?
Collection started around 2014, and ongoing