I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.
Name: Andromeda Luxe
Description: A set of sharp edge resin in clear resin with a bit of black resin at the “bottom” of each die to simulate the void of space. There is a small blueish plastic orb in the center and glitter surrounding it. The goal is to make it look like a planet with stars in space. There are also concentric circles around the orb to simulate planetary rings. The numbers are carved and painted white. The set uses a very simple font that looks a little bit like Arial but with no flag on the one. I can’t find it in my online font-finder. There are underbars used to indicate orientation on the 6 and 9 faces. The d10s have edged waists and all edges and vertices are very sharp. All of the stuff in the die (glitter, rings, orb) make the dice look very busy and crowded. They did come in a very nice box with foam cutouts for each die and gorgeous artwork of a skeleton on the cover.
Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 19.6 mm (Point->Point) 24.1 mm
Where did they come from: Everything Dice. (I love their dice)
How much did they cost: $98
Material / color: Clear and black resin with glitter and orb inclusions
Quality: Excellent. These are beautifully made dice, as is to be expected from Everything Dice. No scratches, dings, or other defects.
Readability: Decent to Very Good. When they’re on the table in front of you, there is some difficulty reading the dice when the black side isn’t at the bottom. The white number blends in with the clear resin at certain viewing angles. That said, they passed the 5′ away rug test and were 50-50 on the 8′ away rug test.
Value: Decent. They’re fantastic quality but $100 is a lot of money to pay for a set of sharp edge resin dice. That’s up into the gemstone dice price range. I think the overall look of the set would need to be better for these to be a good value.
Overall Rating: 7/10
Attempts needed to roll a natural 20: 4 rolls
Ten d20 rolls: 11, 19, 10, 14, 12, 10, 7, 15, 19, 5 (12.2 avg)
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 17, 11, 15, 17, 10, 13 (83 total!) A Lazy Halfling Fighter from the Forest Of Faces who can’t silence the voices
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.
Random Tables rolls:
Eldritch Horrors: 39 – The Dread God – This being is the deity of the Seventh Circle of Hell, where even demons and devils dare not tread, where all is so far removed from what is known as life that even the merest touch of the least of its denizens will siphon off the vitality of mortals, fiends, and celestials alike in moments. The Dread God is the most powerful of this realm. It is not evil, as we understand it. Good and evil are not concepts that have meaning to it. It does not seek wanton destruction, or chaos, or peace, or war, or domination. It merely hungers for energy. The fact that taking this energy from Upper Circle beings also kills them is not a notion that even registers for it and those it rules, for they do not understand that Upper Circle beings are even alive. They are vessels of energy to them, no different to them than drinking water from a paper cup then throwing it away is to mortals. Mortals do not mourn for the paper cup, the Dread mourn not for those they consume. Those that discover this being, and worship and bind themselves to it, will eventually discover means to siphon life and send it to the Dread. These worshippers are, of course, considered evil by their peers.
Zero HP Injuries: 50 -You suffer from immense guilt until you make amends with someone you wronged.
(I’m getting these random tables at: https://d100tables.com by the way
Final Thoughts: I bought this set from a Kickstarter campaign and I really thought I’d like them more than I do. The craftspersonship is fantastic and the presentation of the box is wonderful. Why haven’t I used this set at the table then? Because I don’t like the look of them ultimately. I really don’t care for big flake glitter that these have. I prefer fine silt-like glitter if anything. These dice look to cluttered with the little planet orb, the rings, and the confetti-size glitter packed in there. I’m also bothered that there was not more care in picking which side the black resin ended up on. Other sets of dice that I’ve seen doing this usually pick the lowest number on the die for the dark face. As one of the pictures in the above gallery shows, the dark side doesn’t fall on the high or low face with any regularity. For a set of dice where the entire aesthetic is tied up in presenting an image of a planet in space surrounded by rings and stars, you’d think that you want to give this viewpoint to the user when they roll a high roll, no?
Ultimately I’m going to give these dice away rather than keep them in their little box at home and never pull them out at the table. I hope someone else with a less discerning eye can be happy to have them rather than me just remembering that I have them and then moving on to other dice that I actually want to look at when I roll them. No shade to Everything Dice, they make some amazing looking dice, but they also make some that aren’t amazing. (The Shattered Teeth dice that they partnered with Critical Role on recently for example.) I do love the dice from review 012: Blue Sky Mine which I bought from Everything Dice, as well as my favorite set of dice from Everything Dice that I haven’t reviewed yet. I should have skipped this set when I backed the Kickstarter campaign. Lesson hopefully learned?
Update: I gave this set to my local game store for one of their customer raffles. I hope they have a happy new owner.
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