Hi everyone,
Custom dice.... Playing at events or conventions, we've ended up with a few souvenir custom dice here and there. Also, we've seen people playing with Space Marine dice when playing Warhammer 40K.
Thinking about that -- and, while gearing up for playing 40K with our Ork Looted Train at Warhammer The Summit -- we were thinking how cool it would be to have more of the Green/Pink dice to go with Spork's Pink Orkies :) [We figured the one Green/Pink die we'd found must have been a custom run somewhere.]
We had gotten the Green/Pink D6 at Kublakon about a year back. And, thought (maybe??) we got it from the Chessex stand there.
So, we started out by doing some checking of the internet to see if we could find a way to order more.... Nope -- none of the websites seem to have the Green/Pink type.
So, we started digging deeper - and when we found the e-mail for Chessex (figured we'd ask them directly) we stumbled upon the spot on their website which mentions custom dice.
Custom Dice !! ?? !!
Giving that some thought, it struck us.... "Wouldn't it be cool to be playing Pathfinder with one's Pharasma Oracle -- and have Pharasma symbols on the "6" side of the dice?"
So, we took the image we had created in Windows Paint to 3-D print our Pharasma tokens. (Here's a link to that adventure!) And, e-mailed them to very friendly Chessex team.... (And, we also asked about Green/Pink dice, too.)
Responses from Chessex:
- No - they didn't make Green/Pink dice
- But, Yes :) they'd be happy to make D6's with our graphic. And, they even sent us a rendering of how the dice would look. Said it would take 4-6 weeks - and at a price of about $1 per die we wanted created that way.
So, we placed our order. And, right on time (just over 4 weeks), we got a very nice box in the mail from Chessex with the dice inside!!! You can see for yourself - they look just like the rendering Chessex had sent us!
And, of course we had to give them a try. Did a lot of rolling. They seem to be just as random as any other six sided dice. (There was a brief moment of worry that the Pharasma-swirl might not come up as often as a normal "6 dots" on a d6. Not to worry - they seem to work just fine.)
Custom dice.... Playing at events or conventions, we've ended up with a few souvenir custom dice here and there. Also, we've seen people playing with Space Marine dice when playing Warhammer 40K.
Thinking about that -- and, while gearing up for playing 40K with our Ork Looted Train at Warhammer The Summit -- we were thinking how cool it would be to have more of the Green/Pink dice to go with Spork's Pink Orkies :) [We figured the one Green/Pink die we'd found must have been a custom run somewhere.]
We had found this single die -- perfect for Spork's Pink Ork Army. We were trying to figure out where we could find more. No luck so far....
We had gotten the Green/Pink D6 at Kublakon about a year back. And, thought (maybe??) we got it from the Chessex stand there.
So, we started out by doing some checking of the internet to see if we could find a way to order more.... Nope -- none of the websites seem to have the Green/Pink type.
So, we started digging deeper - and when we found the e-mail for Chessex (figured we'd ask them directly) we stumbled upon the spot on their website which mentions custom dice.
Custom Dice !! ?? !!
Giving that some thought, it struck us.... "Wouldn't it be cool to be playing Pathfinder with one's Pharasma Oracle -- and have Pharasma symbols on the "6" side of the dice?"
So, we took the image we had created in Windows Paint to 3-D print our Pharasma tokens. (Here's a link to that adventure!) And, e-mailed them to very friendly Chessex team.... (And, we also asked about Green/Pink dice, too.)
Here is the Pharasma symbol we had created in Microsoft Paint - coloring in the blue and yellow tinted one so that we had a monochromatic version....
Responses from Chessex:
- No - they didn't make Green/Pink dice
- But, Yes :) they'd be happy to make D6's with our graphic. And, they even sent us a rendering of how the dice would look. Said it would take 4-6 weeks - and at a price of about $1 per die we wanted created that way.
Pretty amazing that this is a rendering! The Chessex team sent this to us very quickly after we sent our e-mail of the Pharasma image....
So, we placed our order. And, right on time (just over 4 weeks), we got a very nice box in the mail from Chessex with the dice inside!!! You can see for yourself - they look just like the rendering Chessex had sent us!
The happy box from Chessex! Pharasma dice inside!
And, of course we had to give them a try. Did a lot of rolling. They seem to be just as random as any other six sided dice. (There was a brief moment of worry that the Pharasma-swirl might not come up as often as a normal "6 dots" on a d6. Not to worry - they seem to work just fine.)
Here are our custom Pharasma dice along with our Pharasma tokens....
