As my first year as a serious Tabletop Gamer goes by, since my love of Munchkin, Gloom and Cards Against Humanity made it finally click in my head that Tabletop Games aren't something to be ashamed about, and are in fact damn good fun, our small collection of Card Games has developed into a swiftly growing collection of Board Games too. And on a related note, our games room is slowly amassing a variety of dice.
There's a different colour D6 in each core Munchkin game, there were a couple of nice translucent red ones in the collector's edition of Duke Nukem Forever a few years back, a couple that came in a Christmas cracker last year, some tiny little ones from a glass game compendium and at least one from each Board Game we owned, and typically we just used the pink sparkly dice from Munchkin: Fairy Dice. Don't judge me, it was beyond my control.
Some of the Munchkin ones looked really nice, and although I have no need of them, I've coveted the more exotic dice I've seen in shops, the D4s, D8s, D10s and D20s. So I decided to have a quick Google at how people displayed theirs, and stumbled across something awesome and touching in equal measure.
Keith Baker is a writer and gamer. He's the guy behind games such as Gloom, mentioned above as one of the games that got me into the hobby, and the RPG Eberron. In 2009, he travelled the world gaming with people in exchange for a sofa to crash on. But more recently, his wife gave him a gift: a Gumball Machine half full of dice, which led us to this:
Stories and Dice - Keith Baker
He's only posted about it a further two times, here, but the story captivated me. Give it a read. It's also inspired me, I went out and bought a small candy jar, fitted it with LED lights and started my own little collection. I can't wait for it to grow.
~TiD
