sporadicdicedndtaco

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Hey nerds! Take a minute and read this if you agree that creativity is one of the pillars of D&D. If these changes go through, the corporations will be able to crush all those independent creators who push the game into new realms of weird and awesome. This world is all about freedom, is it not?

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Cleaning up my tags

I've gone through and edited my post tags to remove the term "goblin".

While most of us in the TTRPG and Dice Collecting circles know the term from D&D, and a few others in the mythology circles as one of many small mischievous creatures, it has also been used to the harm of the Jewish community. To make the TTRPG and Dice Collecting communities as inclusive as possible, I'll be limiting my use of the term to limit the harm.

I'd also like to apologize to anyone to whom I may have unintentionally hurt with my past tags. I'll be doing my best to avoid this in the future.

Please let me know if I missed a tag, or if my edits didn't take.

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Infinite Black just announced their newest Elder Dice Kickstarter. You can sign up to get a sneak peak at one of the new symbols, and email updates about the new campaign.

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

in the wake of yet another black person being murdered by police, here’s a list of relevant fundraisers and organizations that could use your support right now. 

this is specifically a call to action for fellow white people. if you’re white and you’re in any way able to, donate.

George Floyd’s memorial fund

Minnesota Freedom Fund: “We value a society that values its people, their freedom and recognizes their contribution to the greater good. A society that does not condition pretrial freedom on class or identity, that has ended mass incarceration, and that invests in restorative and transformative justice.��

Black Visions Collective, an org that strives to “shape a political home for Black people across Minnesota. We aim to center our work in healing and transformative justice principles, intentionally develop our organizations core DNA to ensure sustainability, and develop Minnesota’s emerging Black leadership to lead powerful campaigns.”

Reclaim the Block, which “organizes Minneapolis community and city council members to move money from the police department into other areas of the city’s budget that truly promote community health and safety. We believe health, safety and resiliency exist without police of any kind. We organize around policies that strengthen community-led safety initiatives and reduce reliance on police departments.”

Black Lives Matter National

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Infinite Black is holding a dice giveaway with a Grand Prize worth $500!

The giveaway features prizes such as all three original Elder Dice sets in a Doom Edition slipcase (Black with Red), and the Grand Prize is one of each Elder Dice set ever released.

http://www.elderdice.com/giveaway?kid=18Z6HV

The giveaway only requires an email to sign up, and winners will be drawn June 4th.

Please note: one entry is for the original Elder Dice in the Doom Edition slipcase. To be eligible for other prizes, you'll need more entries. These entries are obtained by sharing your link.

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

So I’m not sure how closely people on here follow dice drama, but there has been no end of discourse over the Dispel Dice kickstarter since before it even started running. There’s a lot to it, but the one we’re gonna talk about right now is the way Dispel’s designs have turned up on Wish for purchase long before their anticipated ship date of November 2020. People have ordered them and they’ve arrived gorgeous as the pictures, but I had refrained until now for ethical reasons.

A representative from the factory just came forward on Facebook to tell their side of the story–Dispel themselves have been completely silent on the whole matter, by the way.

tl;dr: According to the representative, Dispel came to this factory asking for quality previously unknown to commercial dice-making, basically handmade-level quality. The factory put a ton of time, resources, and effort into R&D to achieve these standards, thinking it a reasonable investment as Dispel had made all sorts of claims as to the amount of product they’d be ordering, and sent a couple of orders (50 and 600 sets respectively) to Dispel. Dispel placed a further order for 2100 sets. Dispel’s owner then asked to tour their factory (a fairly common request for dice companies), but covertly took pictures of the process, and then became very hard to get ahold of. They refused the 2100 set order saying it was unauthorized, and then the factory got word that Dispel was in the process of setting up their own production, using the pictures they’d taken of their machines and process.

Notably, this means we have zero pictures of product from the actual factory that will be fulfilling the kickstarter. That bodes poorly, imo.

Realizing there would be no more orders coming from Dispel, and with COVD-19 halting all production, they decided to sell off the 2100 to recoup their costs. That said, after seeing there was demand for this kind of thing, the factory representative then said in the thread that they were looking at developing more designs and would continue to produce their own dice, which I am very excited about! If anything good came of this, it’s that a new dice company has emerged to sell extremely interesting new product 😀 They’ve been selling on Wish under the name Ice Dice (pictured above), but I don’t know if they’ll be keeping that name.

I’ve ordered the three sets, feeling much more comfortable doing so, and will be posting them when they come in! And naturally, if Dispel decides to comment, I’ll update this–but radio silence so far.

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

This blog does not participate in any kind of April Fools pranks/jump scares/ Jokes

My blog will be surprise free April 1st!!!!!

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Koplow Games - Bone Dice d6 (DungeonCrate March Box)

Sorry for the lackluster post today. My dice collection is currently undergoing reorganization. A lot of my dice were obtained from Chessex's "Pound of Dice" bags, so they're very mixed up.

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Infinite Black Elder Dice - Astral Elder Sign

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

The purple and green set was playing off the colors of Mardi Gras, and acted as a reference to the play from the story. It is a better looking set in that the gold numbering stands out better.

Infinite Black Elder Dice - The Yellow Sign

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Infinite Black Elder Dice - The Yellow Sign

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Chessex Lab Dice - Gemini Mint Green and White / Orange

Note: The information slip included with this set did not specify any special effects with the resin. It's not photoluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) in any way. It could be a Blacklight Reactive set, or a color test set.

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Chessex Lab Dice - Luminary Nebula Spring / White

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Infinite Black Elder Dice - The Eye of Chaos with Doom Edition d2 Coin (The Colors Out of Space Kickstarter Exclusive)

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Infinite Black Elder Dice - The Seal of Yog-Sothoth with Doom Edition d2 Coin (The Colors Out of Space Kickstarter Exclusive)

[sporadicdicedndtaco]

Infinite Black Elder Dice - The Star of Azathoth with Doom Edition d2 Coin (The Colors Out of Space Kickstarter Exclusive)