They’re pink, shiny, have a faux texture and a nice font. Works for me!
Name: Rosefire Fury
Description: This is a set of 7 sharp edge resin dice that are covered with a glittery metallic-looking paint/wrap/treatment that is bright and shiny pink. The numbers are cut grooves and inked black. The font is very hard to track down and identify. It’s slightly gothic with sharp terminals. There’s very minimal serifs but only on a few numbers. It’s in the same neighborhood as Uncial. These neighborhoods are filled with very uncommon fonts like Virile, Amarante, and P22 Escher. I feel like there’s a simple font that I’m missing that’s very close to the font used on these dice but after looking through a few hundred fonts, I couldn’t find it. The d10s have edged waists. The d4, d6, d8, and d10 dice have their corners (vertices) shaved flat. Dots are used to indicate orientation of the 6 and 9 faces. The dice came in a small plastic box that snaps together. Minimal packaging, less waste. I like it!
Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 20.98 mm (Point->Point) 25.87 mm
Where did they come from: Guardian Games, Portland, OR
How much did they cost: $15.95
Material / color: Resin, Shiny textured pink with black numbers
Quality: Very Good
Readability: Excellent
Value: Excellent
Overall Rating: 9/10
Attempts needed to roll a natural 20: ONE!
One Hundred d20 rolls: 17, 13, 17,5, 10, 6, 19, 18, 19, 4, 13, 17, 4, 12, 15, 98, 17, 2, 17, 13, 1, 15, 15, 10, 16, 11, 19, 6, 18, 3, 12, 2, 16, 3, 7, 5, 14, 2, 8, 4, 13, 3, 11, 14, 8, 15, 19, 6, 1, 1, 4, 3, 17, 20, 12, 8, 15, 8, 10, 17, 12, 15, 16, 6, 11, 14, 9, 11, 9, 20, 4, 11, 14, 17, 12, 2, 16, 12, 11, 9, 10, 4, 13, 10, 12, 3, 8, 16, 17, 6, 18, 16, 6, 6, 2, 16, 18, 1, 9, 13, 19
Mean: 11.703
Median: 12
Mode: 17
Chi-square: 14.00**
Result: Balanced
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 13, 12, 14, 5, 11, 12 (66 total) A funny Half-Orc Barbarian from Black Oak who always wanted to learn magic but struggled with it
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.
A Half-Orc (Savage attack) with 17 levels in Barbarian (Path of the Giant subclass for Demiurgic Colossus / Elemental Cleaver) and 3 levels in fighter (Champion subclass to crit on 19 or 20). Boosted Strength to 29 with a Belt of Storm Giant strength, She took the Great Weapon Master feat. She’s making 10 attacks (reckless) with her Flame Tongue Great Axe just to see how much damage she can deal to three Adult Red Dragons (AC 19, 256 HP)
Attack 1: 10 + 15 – 5 = 20 HIT 1d12 + 1d12 + 2d6 + 2d6 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 58 dmg
Attack 2: 19 CRIT! (1d12 + 3d12 + 1d12 + 2d6 + 2d6) x 2 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 131 dmg
Attack 3: 14 + 15 – 5 = 24 HIT 1d12 + 1d12 + 2d6 + 2d6 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 49 dmg
Attack 4: 20 CRIT! (1d12 + 3d12 + 1d12 + 2d6 + 2d6) x 2 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 125 dmg
(first dragon dead)
Attack 5: 16 + 15 – 5 = 26 HIT 1d12 + 1d12 + 2d6 + 2d6 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 59 dmg
Attack 6: 12 + 15 – 5 = 22 HIT 1d12 + 1d12 + 2d6 + 2d6 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 53 dmg
Attack 7: 17 + 15 – 5 = 27 HIT 1d12 + 1d12 + 2d6 + 2d6 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 58 dmg
Attack 8: 7 + 15 – 5 = 17 MISS!
Attack 9: 19 CRIT! (1d12 + 3d12 + 1d12 + 2d6 + 2d6) x 2 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 119 dmg
(second dragon dead)
Attack 10: 16 + 15 – 5 = 26 HIT 1d12 + 1d12 + 2d6 + 2d6 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 53 dmg
I feel like the crits should be racking up more damage with all of the silliness I packed into this made up build to try to maximize damage. With all of this nonsense I calculate the maximum possible damage of a single attack using this build is: (12 + 36 + 12 + 12 + 12) x 2 + 10 + 9 + 4 = 191 dmg. I would need more magic items to increase that. With 3 attacks in one round, that’d feel great to do close to 200 calculated damage on one turn. Of course you’re talking about a 20th level character which is approaching godlike power.
Random Tables rolls:
Tavern, Inn, or Club name: 30 – The Elegant Damsel
Divine Blessings: 17 – Blessing of Restoration. You can cast cure wounds at 5th level, or cast greater restoration. After using this blessing to cast one of these spells, you cannot cast either until you have taken a short rest in a temple dedicated to the god that granted this blessing.
(I was getting these random tables at:https://d100tables.com but the domain is now gone. I’m inbetween random table generators at the moment so I’m scrounging for tables wherever I can)
Final Thoughts: I’d seen these dice online for a while and had them in a browser tab waiting on a decision whether to buy them or not. They look really nice but they’re resin dice that just look like metal dice so I knew that they’d be lighter than I’d like them to be which gave me pause. Do I like them enough to use them or will they just sit in my dice box wishing for a chance at freedom and getting called up to the table.
While I was pondering that, I was travelling through Portland and stopped at my favorite game store: Guardian Games. I looked through their fancy dice case and nothing really caught my fancy (they need better lighting in that case honestly, the nice dice are hard to see). I went and looked at their huge carousel of lower-cost resin/plastic dice and found these among the mix. They’re sharp edge, have the shiny faux metal finish that looks a little bit like shiny granite… they’re bright pink… the font is very readable. They’re not expensive at all. So I bought them. Every time I’m at the small local game stores that I like I try to find an excuse to buy something to do my little part in keeping them in business (and so should you).
So, the dice…. I love a set of pink dice. I think I just love bright colorful dice in general but bright pink is a happy color for dice in my mind. These are sharp edged dice (which is pretty much mandatory for my goblin brain), they also have the vertices shaved off on the d4/d6/d8/d10/d% dice which is something I’ve rarely ever seen. I don’t mind the look of it and the flat corners/points allow them to balance on their vertices on a flat surface. It’s not easy to get the d4 to balance (being upside down essentially) and it was very hard to get the d6 to balance on it’s edge owing to the amount of mass spread out well past the center of mass. It’s a neat trick though.
They roll… okay. They’re quite light so they don’t have the intertia that I like in a die roll and they flop around a little bit in the tray, going backwards at the end of a roll at times. It’s nothing that affects their numerical balance (fairness) so that’s fine. They just don’t have that <thonk> sound and feel that I love in a nice dense metal die.
Easy to look at, easy to read, easy to afford. Faux textured faces and a stylish font that isn’t terrible to look at or hard to comprehend, and they passed the 100-roll “fairness” test with flying colors. I definitely recommend these dice to anyone whose even remotely interested in them. You get a lot of plusses in this set of dice for your $16 (no sales tax in Oregon either!) Pick up a set if you can find them. They probably even come in other colors. <wink wink>.
** I’ve added a new value to the reviews called “Chi-square” which is a calculation of the difference between of the number of times each value was rolled in the d20 roll test compared to the number of times each value would be rolled in a perfectly equal roll test. (perfectly equal means every value comes up the same number of times, or [total number of rolls / number of sides on the die]) Chi-square gives a sense of how far away from the statistical average the results of the d20 roll test were. It’s not a perfect measure of a die’s balance and fairness but it’s a good step in that direction. More information about die fairness / balance roll testing can be found here: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/70802/how-can-i-test-whether-a-die-is-fair
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