You do always remember your first time…. buying sharp edge resin dice that is.
Name: Blood and Ice Sharp Edge Inclusion Dice
Description: This is a standard-size set of sharp edge resin dice. They are deep red and bright blue resin with blue-green holofoil inclusions suspended in the middle of the dice. The numbers use a nice serifed font that looks very much like a bold “Old Style 7”. The numbers are nice and wide / bold making these dice very easy to read. They’re inked in white. The 6 and 9 faces use underbars to indicate their orientation and the d10 and d% have edged waists. All points and edges are very sharp. These dice are available in a dozen other colorways. Most of them look about as nice as these do. I have a few other sets of these. I always forget how good they look
Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 20.7 mm (Point->Point) 26.2 mm
Where did they come from: Dark Elf Dice
How much did they cost: $35. (a bargain!)
Material / color: Red and blue resin with blue/green holofoil suspended inside.
Quality: Excellent
Readability: Fantastic. They can be easily read from 8 feet away on the rug.
Value: Great value.
Overall Rating: 10/10
Attempts needed to roll a natural 20: 9 rolls
Ten Fifty d20 rolls: 11, 10, 8, 6, 14, 5, 17, 2, 14, 3, 18, 11, 7, 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, 15, 11, 2, 11, 5, 8, 18, 2, 19, 7, 12, 11, 2, 19, 4, 3, 7, 17, 4, 7, 13, 7, 12, 17, 11, 20, 17, 19, 11, 16, 18, 2 ( avg)
Mean: 10.66 (Average)
Median: 11 (Middle number)
Mode: 11 (Most common roll)
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 11, 14, 12, 13, 14, 13 (77 total) A Miserable Gnome Monk from a very tiny province who likes to settle arguments with an arm wrestle
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.
Monk attacks
A 20th level monk making 2 attacks with a staff and then a flurry of blows:
1-handed staff strike (1d6 + Dex): 9
1-handed staff strike (1d6 + Dex): 10
Flurry of Blows (2 unarmed strikes, 2d12 + 2 x Dex): 9, 12, 5, 5
Total of 50 bludgeoning damage if all attacks hit, and you bet I’m going to try a few stunning strikes (under 5e rules)
(This is another great excuse for rolling dice)
Random Tables rolls:
Things that Demons / Devils ask for in their contracts: 04 – The demon requests a piece of the Player Character’s soul; not their entire soul, but just a piece of it. Permanently reduces the maximum HP of the Player Character by 20 and they have disadvantage on CHA checks when dealing with Paladins, Clerics, or general members of the Clergy.
Prisoners in jail cells: 27 – Donall – A Druid war criminal who tried to use a scroll of storm of vengeance to destroy the town or city that he is currently imprisoned in.
(I’m getting these random tables at: https://d100tables.com by the way
Final Thoughts: This was one of the first sets of “nice” dice that I bought (in mid 2021) and they still look gorgeous to me. The hue of the blue and the shine from the inclusions is just fantastic. The deep red and the blue are very nicely opposing each other. When you add a nice wide font to these they’re just that much better. I’m happy that they’re inked in white instead of the gold or silver that most dice makers seem to have way too much of.
Before buying these I didn’t know that sharp edge resin dice existed. I’d never owned or seen anyone play with any resin dice nicer than Chessex. I only had a giant bag of dice sets from the Chinese goods pipeline company named after a river in South America. These are a big step up from the rounded plastic blobs I started with. I’m still seriously impressed with the look and feel of these dice. They roll well, they still have the old pyramid d4, and the readability is top-tier.
If you still aren’t using a set of nice sharp-edge resin dice, do yourself a favor and get some. I have a ton of dice that are more expensive and fancier than these but these dice are so much better than their price suggests. If $35 is fancy dice in your mind, just treat yourself to one set of them and tell me that you don’t love them. My only mark against these dice is that they don’t come in a hundreds of different color schemes. This is the set that got me started with sharp-edge resin dice, and I haven’t looked back. I have probably 35+ sets of sharp-edge resin dice from Dark Elf and other sellers. Even Critical Role started selling sharp-edge resin dice for their latest Bells Hells character themed sets. (see post #008 “Highway to [Bells] Hell[s]” for a review of those dice.) In fact, I’ve reviewed 26 other sets of sharp-edge resin dice so far and we’re only up to 59 reviews, so 44% of my reviews have been sharp-edge resin dice thus far. Keep em coming!
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