Another winner from a Kickstarter campaign. What a surprising place to find great dice!
Name: Victory Renaisance #1
Description: This is a set of 7 sharp-edge wooden TTRPG dice. The dice are described as: “Pearlescent mica blended into a green base, expressing a vitality and life force”. The dice are made of mica-tinted resin holding together little bits of colored wood. The wood is purple, green. blue, pink, and brown. The font is a custom font which has some elements of Passenger Display Regular (the thin top / bottom of the 8, and thin torso of the 2) but without the ball serifs. The bottom of the 9 / top of the 6 are very short thin lines and there are slight serifs on the top of the 7 and bottom of the 1. The font is reasonable but the thin lines on some digits makes readability suffer. The numbers are carved out and the font is inked in white. The 6 and 9 faces use very small dots to indicate their orientation. The d10s have edged waists. The d4 die is a large version of the Crystal / Barrel shape which works well for this set. The dice came in very cheap faux-leather covered cardboard cases with magnet lids and soft foam inserts with cutouts for the dice to fit very loosely.
Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 20.31 mm (Point->Point) 25.07 mm
Where did they come from: Kickstarter Campaign (run by: XIU)
How much did they cost: 390 HK$ (about $49)
Material / color: Resin and wood, green, purple, pink, brown, blue
Quality: Very good
Readability: very good
Value: Excellent
Overall Rating: 9/10
Attempts needed to roll a natural (20): 9
One Hundred d20 rolls: 19, 3, 2, 18, 13, 16, 18, 2, 8, 7, 20, 17, 20, 17, 14, 20, 15, 16, 17, 16, 4, 9, 16, 17, 9, 7, 10, 7, 2, 17, 5, 12, 4, 8, 9, 17, 3, 14, 11, 7, 8, 15, 10, 15, 16, 8, 19, 19, 20, 11, 15, 2, 17, 5, 6, 12, 6, 12, 12, 20, 7, 17, 15, 17, 14, 19, 9, 12, 10, 15, 10, 10, 1, 13, 8, 20, 19, 18, 12, 5, 3, 16, 9, 20, 1, 12, 11, 5, 14, 11, 17, 17, 19, 8, 11, 5, 7, 15, 15, 18
Mean: 11.99
Median: 12
Mode: 17
Chi-square: 20.000 **
Result: Balanced
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 13, 10, 11, 14, 14, 11 (73 total) An Insensitive Elf Cleric from a drought-stricken farm who is posing as someone else
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.
A 20th level Cleric (not of the Life domain) healing spells cast at 9th level (assuming maxed WIS) for an adventuring party of 6 PCs:
Cure Wounds (9d8 + 5): 37 + 5 = 42 hp
Healing Word (9d4 + 5): 25 + 5 = 30 hp
Prayer of Healing ((9d8 +5) * 6): (47 + 5) * 6 = 312 hp
Aura of Vitality (((2d6) * 10): 76 hp (I rolled 10 x 2d6 separately)
Mass Healing Word ((7d4 + 5) * 6): (17 + 5) * 6 = 132 hp
Mass Cure Wounds ((7d8 + 5) * 6): (30 + 5) * 6 = 210 hp
Heal (100) = 100 hp (it’s a fixed # of HP restored)
Regenerate (4d8 + 15 + 10/min for an hour): (19 + 15) + 600 = 634 hp (theoretically)
Power Word Heal (all of your hit points): all of your hp
Mass Heal (700 hp): 700 hp
pretty good numbers for healing. For a cleric in the Life domain, the dice rolls are set aside upon reaching level 17 and the maximum possible number on each die is used instead, so in the order above, the healing would give: 77, 41, 462, 120, 198, 366, 100, 647, all of your hp, 700 hit points while also healing the Cleric casting these 9th level spells for 22 hp each time the spell is cast. If you gotta heal everyone in the party, accept no substitutes.
Random Table Rolls:
Rumors: 68 – Several disappearances were noticed after a strange shit left port the other night. Just talk, no one important is missing.
Book Titles: 8 – Teran’s Great Voyage
(I’m in-between random table generators at the moment so I’m scrounging for tables wherever I can, mostly in books)
Final Thoughts: This is the second set of wooden mash-up dice I received from the Kickstarter campaign that I backed from XIU. There were 4 or 5 different wood combinations and this one has dark green mica resin holding together several different types of wood bits that are then carved into the 6 classic TTRPG dice shapes plus the barrel d4 shape. I’m coming around on the barrel d4. It’s still not my favorite, but it’s maybe in second place now.
I really like the dark green resin with the mica, that was a great choice as it doesn’t overstep the different wood colors and textures the way a brightly colored resin would. The variety of different wood colors / textures are the real heroes of this set of dice. Look at those blues/greens/purples/browns/reds, and PINKS! The textures aren’t as interesting as the wooden set I reviewed in post 135 “New Life”, but the colors are fantastic.
When I look closely I see a few small flaws here and there like seams where wood meets resin or chips in the wood, or issues with the inking of the numbers. They have a great Art Deco vibe to them when you look at them on the table. They feel nice (albeit light) when you roll them and they make a nice wood-on-wood knocking sound when they bounce off of the sides of my wooden dice tray. They’d be a 10/10 if it weren’t for the little flaws that come from combining several different types of wood with resin and carving dice out of them. As always, I’d love it if they were about 10%-15% larger.
I don’t know if the people to ran the kickstarter are selling this on their website or if they’re gone forever now that the campaign is complete. If you like wooden dice and you already have the other set that I reviewed in post 135, I’d try pick up a set of these.
** 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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