I loved these dice when they were gunmetal gray, now they come in gold?
Name: Flower Tree Metal Dice
Description: This is a set of sharp-edge metal polyhedral dice made of (probably) Zinc and colored gold. They have the same orchid-ish flower designs of the 12d6 dice I reviewed in post 034: The Last Rose of Summer. I really liked the look / feel of those d6 sets so I thought I’d get the same dice in gold. (In my head I say the word “gold” how Mike Meyers says “guuuuulllld” in his bad / exaggerated Dutch accent for the movie: Goldmember). I’ve seen this exact set of dice in at least 4 other color combinations. This set is just as sharp / detailed as the gunmetal grey d6s I reviewed earlier. They have the same exact flower designs wrapping around the sides of all dice except the stems / vines are darker green and the flowers are bright red on this set. The dice have a font that looks similar to Times New Roman but with ball serifs on the bottom of the 3 and 5 (but not the top of the 2). The 1 and 4 have serifs but not the 7. (I don’t understand the font choices dice makers go with on some of these dice sets…) The font is inked in black. The 6 and 9 faces use underscores to indicate orientation. For some reason the 6 on the d6 has an underscore… so that you don’t mistakenly think you rolled a 9 on a die with 6 sides I guess? The d10s have edged waists and all dice have very sharp points. The d4 would pierce the sole of most shoes if you stepped on it.
Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 19.75 mm (Point->Point) 24.05 mm
Where did they come from: Dark Elf Dice (bought at Guardian Games in Portland OR.)
How much did they cost: $45
Material / color: Metal (Zinc) with gold faces and red/green flowers with black numbers
Quality: Very good. Very crisp lines and inking with some tiny scuffs that are hard to notice without magnification.
Readability: Excellent. They pass the “8 feet away on the rug” readability test.
Value: Fantastic. These are very nice dice for the price.
Overall Rating: 8/10
Attempts needed to roll a natural 20: 15 rolls
Ten d20 rolls: 16, 10, 15, 8, 11, 18, 3, 4, 3, 15 (10.3 avg)
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 6, 17, 12, 16, 12, 11 (74 total) A Pretty chill Half-Elf wizard from the wetlands who secretly became an adventurer to impress a love interest.
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.
Casting Disintegrate at 9th level:
A thin green ray springs from your pointing finger to a target that you can see within range. The target can be a creature, an object, or a creation of magical force, such as the wall created by wall of force. A creature targeted by this spell must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 10d6 + 40 force damage. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, it is disintegrated. A disintegrated creature and everything it is wearing and carrying, except magic items, are reduced to a pile of fine gray dust. The creature can be restored to life only by means of a true resurrection or a wish spell. This spell automatically disintegrates a Large or smaller nonmagical object or a creation of magical force. If the target is a Huge or larger object or creation of force, this spell disintegrates a 10-foot-cube portion of it. A magic item is unaffected by this spell.At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the damage increases by 3d6 for each slot level above 6th.
A creature takes 101 force damage on a failed Dexterity save and 0 damage on a success.
(This is another excuse for rolling dice)
Random Tables rolls:
Legendary Locations of Eberron : 12 – The Tower of the Twelve: An ancient magical tower located in the Dragonsreach Mountains, it was constructed by a powerful arch-mage and is now home to twelve powerful elemental beings. Rumored to possess unimaginable magical power, adventurers brave enough to venture inside may be able to unlock its secrets.
Non / Low magical plot twists: 31 – Most of your lucky breaks turn out to be engineered by someone working behind the scenes. (ex: guards fell asleep, a door just happened to be unlocked, guards were distracted just long enough for you to sneak past, etc)
(I’m getting these random tables at: https://d100tables.com by the way
Final Thoughts: I already have 12d6 in this same design but gunmetal grey instead of gold and I liked those enough that I bought this set based on looks alone. They’re very sharp, very clean and have a nice flower design running across faces. I like designs on metal dice that run across the faces for the most part. I have a few sets of those metal cracked lightning style dice with the cracks marks going all over the entire die, spanning the faces. The red/green/gold color scheme on these dice with black ink looks great and is very visible even in dim light.
The dice are pretty clean / well made but when I was taking the pictures for this review I noticed that there are a lot of tiny pock marks on the faces. They’re nearly impossible to notice if you aren’t looking for them or using some kind of magnification to inspect the dice. It is a very slight annoyance that they came this way and knocked my review from a 9 down to an 8 when I noticed it. Eventually over time these dice will get some wear and tear from bumping into each other in their carrying case or being rolled in the dice tray though, so who cares, right? Given all of the other dice I’ve been buying lately I don’t suspect that this set will get a lot of use any time soon. This will probably be one of those sets that I pull out if I’m trying to capture a theme or stick with a certain style of dice, like when I bring only gold/silver/bronze dice to a game for instance.
These look very fancy with the flowers on them but they’re just relatively cheap Chinese dice like so many other sets that I’ve bought… and will continue buying. They’re nice to look at and very sharp, so they stop on a dime when you roll them. The rolls I made above were bang-on average so I suspect that they’re balanced enough that I won’t think about how balanced they are, which is good. I’d recommend buying these if you wan to treat yourself to some faux-fancy math rocks at a reasonable price. Do me a favor though: buy them at the smaller retailers (Dark Elf / your LGS) and avoid the rain forest billionaire’s online mega-mart. Thanks! I owe you one.
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