As a child I loved Mint Chocolate-Chip ice cream. Now it’s how I roll.
Name: Mint Chip 7-piece polyhedral dice set
Description: This set of sharp-edge resin dice are made with mint-green and dark brown resin with a thin clear outer layer. They use a simple Arial-ish font (I know dice, you wish you could be Helvetica) inked in medium brown. All edges and vertices are very sharp. The d10s have edged waists and the d4 is absolutely a caltrop if it finds it’s way to the floor. Keep that d4 locked up. The dice use underbars to indicate orientation on the 6 and 9 faces. The website marketing information also tells me the following:
– They are hand-poured mint green and chocolate brown ice-cream inspired resin, inked matte chocolate brown.
– Hand-poured craftsmanship makes each die one-of-a-kind!
– They are perfect for tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Pathfinder, Kids on Bikes, and more!
– *WARNING* The edges on these are sharp, especially the D4. This is not a toy. These dice are not meant for children or to be ingested. Please keep them away from pets, children, and mouths. Failure to do so could result in injury or death.
See, I told you the d4 was 95% weapon and 5% dice. Also, Kids on bikes? Didn’t kids use to actually go outside and ride bikes? Touch-grass and all that?
Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 21.5mm (Point->Point) 27.0mm
Where did they come from: Guardian Games in Portland, OR
How much did they cost: $ 70 and I’m happy to pay local shop prices
Material / color: Green and brown resin.
Quality: Very good. They don’t look clean but they’re not meant to.
Readability: Very bad to decent. The Green sides are very readable but the brown sides are nearly unreadable. Forget about the floor test. Brown on Brown doesn’t work.
Value: Good. They aren’t cheap but it’s worth the price to help a good local game store. One more purchase that Jeff Bezos didn’t wet his beak on.
Overall Rating: 8 / 10
Attempts needed to roll a natural 20: 23 rolls (a reasonably average number of rolls)
Ten d20 rolls: 4, 14, 2, 7, 15, 13, 14, 16, 20, 3 (10.7 avg) very average
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 16, 15, 13, 9, 8, 12 (73 total) A Diligent Half-Elf fighter from a forgotten Elven monastery who believes they’re a demi-god but hasn’t figured out who their father is yet. (again, very average)
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.
Casting Banishing Smite at 5th level after hitting with a long Sword:
The next time you hit a creature with a weapon attack before this spell ends, your weapon crackles with force, and the attack deals an extra 5d10 force damage to the target. Additionally, if this attack reduces the target to 50 hit points of fewer, you banish it. If the target is native to a different plane of existence than the one you’re on, the target disappears, returning to its home plane. If the target is native to the plane you’re on, the creature vanishes into a harmless demiplane. While there, the target is incapacitated. It remains there until the spell ends, at which point the target reappears in the space it left or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied.
A creature takes 10 slashing damage and 27 force damage.
(This is another excuse for using random tables and rolling dice)
Random Tables rolls:
Magic Skulls: – 57: Skull of the Sailor: It can float as long as it is touching you, it can effect up to 6 persons at once
Things that Demons/Devils ask for in their contracts: – 86: You must aid a devil by infiltrating a church, temple or holy place with his minions. This will utterly and permanently corrupt the very foundation of an otherwise righteous institution.
(I’m getting these random tables at: https://d100tables.com by the way
Final Thoughts: I had to travel to Oregon for a bike ride and when I’m near Portland I like to stop at a few game stores, Guardian Games being my favorite. They have a huge dice selection (maybe even more sets of dice than I do!!) but their dice fall into a few very common categories:
– Bargain bin u-pick dice.
– Cheap plastic dice sets (ie: Chessex)
– Simple metal dice sets
– Fancy metal dice sets
– Fancy sharp-edge resin dice sets from well known dice companies
– Gemstone dice sets (very few of these)
They usually don’t have anything that catches my eye (I’m into chonk d20s and oversize sets lately). I got to talking to the person behind the dice counter and they showed me a couple of sets that were similar to ones that I already had but in different colors. I kept eyeing this Mint Chip set because of the color scheme. As a kid I loved Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream It was my go-to flavor when I’d go to the local ice cream shop every thursday night with my dad. These dice immediately reminded me of that ice cream so I was drawn to them. What sold me on them was that they’re oversized, very sharp, and have a very readable font (on the green faces anyway). The only problems I see with them are that they’re very lightweight and the medium brown font disappears on the sides of the d20 that are mostly brown. I would have loved it if the mostly-brown sides were inked with a mint color but the amount of manual labor that would require for each set of dice is probably too much. I guess there’s nothing stopping me from re-inking some of the sides how I’d like them.
The big bold sharp shapes that they used for this set are fantastic. I wish more dice would release larger full sets like this. They really are much more fun that standard size sets (ie: sets based on an 18mm side/side d20). These dice stop really well when rolling them which is also a nice bonus.
My one-day Oregon trip netted me two sets of dice (There were also two sets of dice that I’d ordered online waiting in the mailbox when I got back home). Sometimes I just have to buy more dice to fill up these empty dice boxes I have at home.
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