It’s a green sack with a lot of tiny dice. Not my bag really.
Name: Halfling’s Haversack Second Breakfast 10mm Miniature Polyhedral Dice
Description: This is a sack containing 20 sets of 7 mini TTRPG dice. They are of the “cheap bulk resin” dice variety. They dice come in various colors and come in a few different colors and styles. Some are transparent, some are solid with glitter mixed into the resin to give a shimmery look. The font is similar to Gill Sans or London but the 2 doesn’t have an acute vertex at the bottom and the zeroes have straight sides. Another non-font font I guess. The d10s have softly edged waists. None of the dice have sharp edges or vertices. Dots are used to indicate orientation of the 6 and 9 faces. The dice came in a green fabric sack with external stitching along the seams, a yellow cord drawstring and an embroidered logo on the front of the sack.
Size:
d20: (Face->Face) 12.17 mm (Point->Point) 14.31 mm
Where did they come from: That company with the rainforest / river name and the evil billionaire (redundant) owner.
How much did they cost: $21
Material / color: Resin, several colors, some translucent resin, some not.
Quality: fair
Readability: good (for small dice)
Value: fair
Overall Rating: 6/10
Attempts needed to roll a natural 20:34
One Hundred d20 rolls: 2, 10, 16, 6, 4, 13, 13, 15,8, 5, 12, 8, 8, 1, 16, 13, 7, 3, 7, 4, 6, 16, 8, 6, 4, 4, 14, 19, 13, 1, 15, 16, 9, 18, 16, 10, 18, 6, 14, 6, 13, 3, 7, 8, 14, 14, 15, 20, 14, 2, 1, 11, 13, 3, 6, 8, 8, 2, 19, 3, 2, 20, 17, 1, 11, 9, 20, 16, 10, 17, 17, 9, 7, 16, 16, 10, 14, 4, 14, 15, 9, 19, 11, 1, 7, 13, 20, 19, 13, 10, 11, 14, 8, 8, 4, 3, 1, 12, 7, 20
Mean: 10.29
Median: 10
Mode: 8
Chi-square: 18.00 **
Result: Balanced
4d6 drop 1 stat block: 10, 13, 15, 11, 15, 18 (82 total) A Reluctant Half-Elf Warlock from a backwater village who is the only surviving member of their previous adventure party
For reference: the Standard Array method totals to: 72 and the Point Buy method totals to: 69.
A 20th level warlock with a 20 CHA casting Eldritch blaeeeest with Agonizing blast (also with an active 9th level Spirit Shroud) at a Krakaren (Kraken) until it’s dead. The warlock shoots 4 blasts per turn:
Round 1: 22, 22, 15, 30 (3 hits): 12 + 22 + 7 + 15 + 13 + 15 = 84 damage
Round 2: 25, 26, 12, 30 (3 hits): 15 + 18 + 11 + 16 + 7 + 20 = 87 damage
Round 3: 23, 21, 29, 31 (4 hits, 1 crit): (16 + 25) x 2 + 15 + 18 + 8 + 20 + 12 + 23 = 178 damage
Round 4: 30, 18, 19, 14 (3 hits): 15 + 20 + 14 + 21 + 7 + 11 = 87 damage
Round 5: 30, 19, 26, 29 (4 hits): 9 + 18 + 12 + 18 + 7 + 15 + 14 + 16 = 109 damage
The Krakaren is finally dispatched after taking 545 damaga. Now She has to talk to a manager.
a situation goes here
Random Tables rolls:
Forest Locations: 97 – Tar pits
Seeds and Nuts: 68 – Gabon Nuts
(I’m in-between random table generators at the moment so I’m scrounging for tables wherever I can, mostly in books)
Final Thoughts: I bought this sack of dice very early in my young dice goblin-hood. They were cute and came in a nice little pouch. It’s fun to have a lot of something in general. These tiny dice remind me of my childhood when I used to go to a toy store and buy (or ask my parents to buy) tiny d6 dice. I believe that they were even slightly smaller than the d6 dice in this set. I love the variety of colors and material for these tiny dice. They’re not nearly as hard to read as I worried that they would be.
I never use these dice for anything though. I just have the sack sitting on a shelf while I use much prettier, much nicer math rocks as I play make believe with my friends. I’m going to bring these to my next game session and see how it goes. Overall I’m not a fan of rounded resin / plastic dice and my eyes are not very good at seeing small writing on dice so these never leave the shelf.
These dice are cute and neat to spill into a dice tray. It’s chaotic to just live in a world where 20 sets of dice are all intermixed in a bag living together like there’s no order or rules in the world. I couldn’t do that with regular sized dice. I need structure and separation between my dice sets.
The name “Halfling’s Haversack” is a reference to a magical backpack in D&D 5e called the “Handy Haversack” which functions similar to a bag of holding or portable hole, an interdimensional space for storing things with specific rules about how to interact with it. Things like: never turn it inside out, if you put a living creature inside, they have 10 minutes of air, if you put one Haversack into a bag of holding, or another Haversack, both are destroyed and you create a gate to the Astral plane that you will probably get sucked into. Pretty standard boilerplate stuff actually.
Luckily I just have a simple bag of dice. They’re fun, colorful, and affordable. They probably make great gifts to people who aren’t very snobby about dice.
** 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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