Orange and yellow with glitter inside. These are a few of my favorite things…
Name: Magma Caster Magic Potion Dice Set
Description: A sharp edge resin dice in orange with liquid cores that contain yellow mica powder. They are inked in white in a semi-gothic font. All edges and vertices are sharp, the d10s have edged waists. Underbars are used on the 6 and 9 faces for identification. The d6 has a magic potion icon on the high face. The d4 is a prism instead of the traditional pyramid/caltrop shape. They are available in 6 different colors: 4 with clear resin (red, green, blue, or purple glitter inside), this orange/yellow set, and a set with gray resin/white glitter.
Size (d20): 22mm
Where did they come from: Dark Elf Dice (Kickstarter campaign)
How much did they cost: $30 which is a terrific price.
Material / color: Resin with liquid cores in Orange / yellow.
Quality: Pretty good. There are definitely bubbles both in the liquid cores (expected) and in the resin (very unexpected). The numbers are mostly clean and well painted but there are some spotty areas. Otherwise the dice are very pretty and without dings or scratches.
Readability: Very good. I just rolled the d20 on the rug near my desk and was able to read it from over 8 feet away. More than you’d ever need to read them at the table.
While we’re talking about readability, one of the players in my weekly in-person D&D group (Her barbarian and my monk are buddies in-game) has to pick up her d20 and put it right in front of her face to read every roll. She’s not a dice goblin at all and uses basic plastic starter dice – Not even Chessex level dice. I just want to give her a set of sharp-edge resin dice with nice big numbers on them so that she can read her rolls better. (Love you Emi! 😊) I have the same issue with dice that have tiny numbers.
Value: Fantastic. You’d be happy to find sharp edge resin dice for $30, much less liquid core sharp edge resin dice at that price. Jackpot!
Overall Rating: 8/10
Attempts needed to roll a natural 20: 37 rolls! Try not to roll any natural 20s on the way through the parking lot!!
Ten d20 rolls: 6, 11, 14, 7, 3, 11, 1, 5, 1, 14 (7.3 avg)
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 13, 14, 9, 16, 11, 8 (71 total) A Gloomy Dwarf Warlock from the mean uncobbled streets of the city who has a serious weapons fetish
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and Point Buy totals to: 69.
Random Tables rolls:
Library books: 39 – Cockatrice Soup for the Soul – This book is so commonplace, it’s a cliche that in every house where a woman of a certain age lives, there will be at least one heavily-read copy of this book with it’s sappy stories and cloyingly sweet words of wisdom. It is beyond worthless.
Zombie Gods (funny encounters): 99 – The players stumble upon a small village that worships a strange god called the “Zombie King”. He’s an imposing figure with rotting skin and tattered clothes, but he has a surprisingly jovial personality and loves telling jokes. He is always ready to reward those who please him with both material goods and his own personal protection against the zombie hordes.
Final Thoughts: When I saw the kickstarter campaign for a set of liquid core dice (which were a new thing at the time) from one of my favorite online dice retailers for only $30 I jumped on it immediately. I don’t care who you are or what level of dice you buy and use, that there is a heck of a bargain.
I just looked on the Dark Elf website and these dice are selling for $40 now, which is still a good value for money. Sharp edge resin dice go for $30 – $40 on their website which is probably the best deal outside of Amazon’s low quality drop-ship-from-china sets that never seem to be as good as the photos make them look. If I didn’t already have 21 sets of sharp edge resin dice in my collection I’d buy a few more sets of these liquid core dice as well as some other sets of sharp edge inclusion dice from Dark Elf. Every interaction I’ve had with their shop has been great and their prices are fantastic.
As said previously I’m not as much of a fan of the prism d4. It’s my 2nd or 3rd shape preference after the pyramid and possibly a different rectangular d4 shape that I just backed on a kickstarter from Flying Horseduck (review coming in a few months). I really like the font on this set, it’s just a bit gothic but not too sharp or angular. The numbers still have some curves but not on every digit (I’m talking about you ‘8’). I despise the “Dwarven” font that Misty Mountain uses on all(?) of their dice, which keeps me from shopping there. This font is in the same ballpark but not nearly as offensive as Misty Mountain’s. I think the slashed zeroes on the Dwarven font just ruin it for me.
As for the potion bottle on the high face of the d6 of this set: I’m not a fan. I hate pictures on d20s and hate them slightly less on other dice. I’d still rather see a six come up when I’m rolling a d6 than a potion bottle. I do appreciate that this potion bottle has a little more detail than other high face pictures I’ve seen on other dice. The last nit-pick I’ll give is that I’d prefer it if the glitter inside was finer so that the swirl effect was more like silt swirling in water instead of coffee grounds. Maybe that’s my fondness for fluid mechanics / fluid dynamics coming out though.
As your Dice Goblin Lawyer I’m advising you to buy a set of these dice and enjoy the glittery shit rolls that they give you.
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