I haven’t seen a better looking set of liquid center dice than these beauties
Name: Magenta Reef liquid core dice set
Description: This is a standard shape set of seven sharp edge translucent blue resin dice with liquid centers containing deep red / magenta mica powder. The font is the same as the chonk in review #110 “Fine Time” The only thing close that I could find were: Texturina and Cloister Black. Neither is really that close other than being Gothic fonts with a couple of similar elements. The font is inked in gold. The d4 has it’s vertices shaved off flat. The d10s have been elongated and have edged waists. The 6 and 9 faces use underbars to indicate their orientation.
Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 20.49 mm (Point->Point) 25.16 mm
Where did they come from: Viridian Dice
How much did they cost: $35
Material / color: Transluscent blue resin with liquid centers containing “red wine sand” (mica powder) with gold ink for the numbers
Quality: Very good
Readability: Excellent!
Value: Excellent!
Overall Rating: 9/10
Attempts needed to roll a natural 20: 53 rolls!
One Hundred d20 rolls: 13, 17, 13, 2, 15, 15, 6, 8, 17, 11, 12, 9, 7, 18, 1, 19, 2, 16, 17, 5, 10, 11, 6, 4, 5, 8, 14, 6, 6, 15, 10, 16, 8, 4, 12, 11, 6, 10, 18, 1, 18, 12, 17, 2, 1, 15, 3, 5, 10, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 20, 19, 15, 18, 5, 1, 4, 2, 15, 18, 10, 16, 14, 8, 13, 7, 5, 13, 9, 13, 15, 7, 9, 14, 15, 3, 20, 11, 14, 16, 17, 13, 15, 12, 5, 14, 19, 16, 12, 1, 12, 4, 6, 6, 15, 1
Mean: 10.36
Median: 11
Mode: 15
Chi-square: 14.40 **
Result: Balanced
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 13, 9, 11, 17, 14, 9 (73 total) An Emotional Halfling Wizard from the Northern Icelands who was beaten and imprisoned for their religious beliefs
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.
A 20th level wizard casting prismatic spray at 6 hill giants (CR5) The Wizard wears the Robe of the Archmagi which adds +2 to it’s spell saves so the Wizard’s spell save DC is: 21
Giant #1: Violet ray: save: 3 – 1 = 2 FAIL! Blinded.
Giant #2: Orange ray: save: 16 – 1 = 15 FAIL! 29 acid damage
Giant #3: Indigo ray: save: 1 – 1 = 0 FAIL! Restrained
Giant #4: Blue ray: save: 7 – 1 = 6 FAIL! 46 cold damage
Giant #5: Yellow ray: save: 4 – 1 = 3 FAIL! 39 lightning damage
Giant #6: Green ray: save: 13 – 1 = 12 FAIL! 41 poison damage
Giant #6: Yellow ray: save: 20 SUCCESS! 34 / 2 = 17 lightning damage
(Giant #6 was struck by two rays)
All 6 giants are still not even down to half of their HP yet. The spell did a total of 172 damage
Random Tables rolls:
Assassins, Thieves, and Criminals: – 23 Horrin the Shadow actually two dwarves (Bulin and Burin) who take it in turns to sit on one another’s shoulders as a disguise. Have been linked to a number of high profile public assassinations, but never caught, as the moment the target is dead a cloud forms over the crime scene which enables them to drop their disguise and split up.
Diseases: – 53 Golden Tumor The tumor starts as a small gold tumor then advances to the rest of the body. Once the disease has ran its course the subjects body is completely made of gold. Bet you didn’t known where gold coins came from.
(I’m getting these random tables at:https://d100tables.com by the way
Final Thoughts: I bought this set of dice from Viridian Dice. They’re a small online shop operating out of Syracuse, New York. They started out 3D printing D&D condition rings and now sell a lot of dice as well as other TTRPG accessories. I’ve bought probably 8-10 sets of dice from them, either from their website or through their Etsy shop. I’ve never had an issue with the buying process or with the quality of the dice I’ve received from Viridian.
Their dice prices are almost suspiciously low. Their sharp edge resin sets are cheaper than stalwarts like Dark Elf Dice, they have some real deals on chonk d20s and liquid core sets, and their stone sets are a good bit cheaper than Easy Roller Dice. This makes me wonder if Viridian’s dice are lower quality or if Viridian is just operating on thinner margins. As I said, I’ve had zero issues with the quality of the dice I’ve bought from Viridian so I’m going to guess that they’re selling the same dice from the same Chinese factories for a little bit cheaper than other online sellers. On top of this, Viridian also sells several LGBTQIA+ themed products which tells me that they’re part of the community and/or allies. How is that for a few reasons why I’ll continue buying dice from them.
This lovely set of liquid center dice caught my eye mainly because of the nice watery blue resin paired with the deep magenta mica powder inside. The powder in the dice swirls around and sparkles as the dice come to a stop when you roll them and this effect looks just gorgeous. This is exactly the type of powder that should be inside of liquid center dice. Very fine and silty with some sparkle. I’d take sets of dice like these all day long in different colorways.
This set mostly uses the standard shapes with two small exceptions: First, the d10 / d% are a little bit stretched out but not too exaggerated. They’re just a tiny bit longer while thinner at the waists. Second, the d4 has it’s vertices shaved off / flattened. Maybe that’s to save someone’s feet if they happen to step on one of these d4s. I kind of like this look and it’s now possible to balance the d4 on one of its flattened vertices.
The font they use is decent. It’s a font that I see on several sets of Viridian dice. It’s kind of gothic with some very minor serifs. Nothing obnoxious or too safe. It’s easy enough to read so no complaints there. The liquid centers are nice and large for the size of the dice that they’re in as well. One thing I don’t like about liquid center dice is when they have small centers which increases the probability of the little liquid core being off-center inside the die. No one wants that.
So summing that up… Gorgeous blue and deep magenta color scheme. The gold ink used for the font actually pairs well with both the light blue and the deep magenta. The font is decent bordering on fancy. The mica powder in the center of the dice is perfect in every way, the shapes of the dice are even better than a basic set of sharp edge resin dice, and the 100 roll test indicates that the d20 is probably well balanced. These dice are an absolute steal for only $35.
These are my new favorite liquid center dice. They’re gorgeous but they don’t quite have the pop of a 10/10 set like a few of the recently reviewed sets do. I’d give these a 9.5/10 if I handed out half points in my review scale…. and oh how I wish I could get a chonk d20 in this style. Don’t sleep on these dice, or Viridian for that matter!
** Chi-square is a calculation used to test whether your data is as expected. The basic idea behind the test is to compare the observed values (the results of my 100 roll test) to the expected values. (what you would see if a d20 landed on each number with the exact same frequency) and compare the two to determine whether a die is balanced in this case.
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