103: Kaleidoscope

If I’m choosing between colorful and bland dice, I would choose colorful every time

Name: City Pop Rocks

Description: This is a set of transluscent Sharp-Edge resin dice from Everything Dice. Each die in the set is a different shade of resin ranging from dark blue to yellowish-orange. They all have colorful holofoil inclusions in them but it is hard to tell what color the holofoil is with 7 different shades of resin to look through. The dice use the standard font that the most dice from Everything Dice uses which is a mixture of elements from different typefaces including (to my eyes): Gill Sans, Rubik, Montserrat, Garamond and Fira among others. Very clean lines on the font but I can’t find any single font that matches this style. The numbers are inked in white and the 6 and 9 faces use underbars to indicate their orientation as the dice gods intended. The dice came in the standard Everything Dice illustrated cardboard box with foam inside to keep them safe. Everything Dice have several different designs for their dice boxes and this is the first one that I’ve gotten a duplicate of.

Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 20.97mm (Point->Point) 25.57mm

Where did they come from: Everything Dice

How much did they cost: $69 after Black Friday discount

Material / color: Resin, tinted in a rainbow of colors with holofoil inside and numbers inked in white

Quality: Excellent. Very clean and well polished.

Readability: Ranging from just “good” to “very good” depending on the color of the resin. Darker tinted resins contrast better than lighter ones and are easier to read.

Value: Good. These are premium prices for sharp-edge resin dice and they look the part.

Overall Rating: 10/10

Attempts needed to roll a natural 20: 19

Fifty d20 rolls: 10, 6, 18, 2, 2, 2, 17, 1, 19, 5, 19, 19, 4, 15, 17, 19, 4, 4, 10, 19, 13, 2, 15, 18, 3, 18, 11, 6, 3, 7, 20, 2, 6, 2, 19, 18, 20, 4, 2, 6, 16, 1, 6, 3, 15, 9, 13, 3, 9, 9

Mean: 9.62
Median: 8
Mode: 2

4d6 drop 1 stat block: 7, 15, 14, 10, 14, 16 (76 total) A Playful Dragonborn Druid from an underwater city once dry by a magical force field who is getting too old for all of this!

For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.

A 20th level Circle of the Moon Druid with maxed WIS, fighting a CR15 Purple Worm

Initiative:
Druid: 20 + 2 = 22 (first)
Worm: 11 -2 = 9 (second)

Druid: Bonus Action – Wild Shape into a Fire Elemental
Elemental touch attack #1: 1 + 6 = 7 FAIL!
Elemental touch attack #2: 20 + 6 = 26 CRIT! 2d6 * 2 + 3 = 17 damage
Worm is on fire and takes 8 fire damage at the start of it’s turn.
Worm bite attack: 14 + 9 = 23 HIT! 22 piercing reduced to 11 damage
Elemental DC 19 DEX save or be swallowed: 7 + 3 = 10. Swallowed

Elemental touch attack #1: 20 + 6 = 26 CRIT! 2d6 * 2 + 3 = 23 damage
Elemental touch attack #2: 4 + 6 = 10 MISS!
Worm is on fire and takes 9 fire damage at the start of it’s turn.
Worm: No action, just trying to digest the Elemental
Elemental takes 21 acid damage from the worm.

Elemental casts Incendiary Cloud
Worm: DC 19 DEX save: 4 – 2 = 2 FAIL. It takes: 52 damage
Worm: DC 21 CON save or regurgiate the druid: 9 + 6 = 15 FAIL!
Elemental Bonus Action: uses a 6th level spell slot to regain 32 HP
Worm is on fire and takes 11 fire damage at the start of it’s turn.
Worm bite attack: 9 + 9 = 18 MISS!
Worm stinger attack: 8 + 9 = 17 MISS!

Elemental moves the Incendiary Cloud over the worm again
Worm: DC 19 DEX save: 16 – 2 = 14 FAIL. It takes: 52 damage
Elemental Bonus Action: uses a 4th level spell slot to regain 23 HP
Worm is on fire and takes 4 fire damage at the start of it’s turn.
Worm bite attack: 20 + 9 = 29 CRIT! 35 piercing reduced to 17 damage
Elemental DC 19 DEX save or be swallowed: 17 + 3 = 20. SAVE
Worm stinger attack: 18 + 9 = 27 HIT! 19 piercing reduced to 9 damage
Elemental is immune to poison

Elemental dismisses the cloud and casts Call Lightning at 9th level
Worm: DC 19 DEX save: 6 – 2 = 4 FAIL! 70 lightning damage
Worm bite attack: 8 + 9 = 17 MISS!
Worm stinger attack: 13 + 9 = 22 HIT! 19 piercing, reduced to 9 damage
Elemental is immune to poison

Elemental touch attack #2: 19 + 6 = 25 HIT! 2d6 + 3 = 12 damage

Total: 248 damage and the worm dies.

It made more sense to fight as the elemental for the temporary HP that wildshape provides and because the druid can cast spells in it’s elemental form. The big part here was choosing the Moon druid because of it’s much higher CR max for wild shape and the ability to become an Elemental (with immunities and resistances)

Random Tables rolls:

Funny Gods: – 17: God of Uncomfortable Questions: This god is known to ask awkward and uncomfortable questions at the most inopportune times, leaving those nearby feeling embarrassed and flustered.

Things to find in a cult hideout: – 80: 5d10 skeletal rats run out of their nest and run past the party. A very aggressive giant skeletal rat runs towards the group.

(I’m getting these random tables at: https://d100tables.com by the way

Final Thoughts: Okay, one last review for the year and then we can stop thinking about dice for…. a week or so. Deal?

This is another gorgeous set of multi-color dice where each die is a different color. I’ve been on a bit of a rainbow dice set buying spree lately. with posts: 97, 98, 100, and now this one. I don’t know why but colorful things just make me happy. The colors that they used for the resin tints for this set of dice are beautiful and the holofoil inclusions makes them pop even just a little bit more. These dice roll well and stop quickly, something that I love about sharp-edge resin dice. The font (whatever it’s called) is very readable and serious which is fine with me. There is zero confusion when I’m looking at the numbers I rolled. I never need to squint out a roll to see whether I failed a saving throw or not.

I keep thinking to myself: “I’ve got so many sets of dice, I’m covered, I never see anything new and interesting come out. Innovation in dice-making has become stagnant.” Then I buy several more sets of dice and prove that I don’t know what I’m talking about. Now I have to buy a couple more dice holder tray things as I’m running out of space in the (glances over to the shelf where they are all stacked) eleven! trays that hold 18 sets of dice each.

So these dice were made using the 6 classic / standard shapes. The size of these dice is a little smaller than I’d like but still quite nice. I got a promo email with a discount code for this set of dice just before thanksgiving and promptly bought them along with another chonk d20 (review coming soon) without much thought when I saw that 20% off in the email. Just throw some pictures of pretty dice and a discount code at me and walk away laughing all the way to the bank. I dare you to honestly tell me these aren’t gorgeous dice though. Go ahead. I’ll wait.