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I sew small folding fabric dice trays (GameFancy), about 5.5 x 5.5 inches with snap corners and a removable rigid base. last week a reviewer put a tape measure in one and the free space in the middle was closer to 4 inches, because the soft walls lean in when the corners are snapped. the reviewer was right, I just never measured it that way.

I'm making the walls stiffer now so they stand up straight. before I change the size too I want to ask people who actually roll in these:

• how many dice do you usually roll at once?
• do you share a tray with the table or is it just yours?
• would you take a bigger tray if it doesn't fold as small anymore?

photo is the tray with the tape measure. no links, just want to get the next batch right

One of my players painted this for me during a campaign where I was DM. The characters had befriended a friendly brass dragon at the time. The beholder liquid core dice are my main set but the plain colors are how I play with my kids and also teach new players. I've got 10 sets all matching and I can say to roll the white d12.

Went on a Dice Shopping spree and bought a lot of things I been Wanting.

The orange ones are your run of the mill Chinese dice; I started collecting the ones with that font and those are the most recent addition. No idea who makes them, if I had to guess Bescon might be the one. But do let me know if you guys know.

I had my eyes on the Q-Workshop Hit Location Dice for a while now and now is mine, a lot bigger than expected tho.

The d60 and massive d20 are Kplow but Were listed as Chessex, if you guys have any Idea why I'm curious if it was a mistake or if Chessex rebrands Koplow dice for their Big dice.

There is a singular MTG Spindown dice in there it's the 2nd spindown of my collection, very useful those.

Finally the Chessex Nebula® Primary™/blue did not know they were glow in the dark until I read the label, pretty cool. I wanted the Nebula® Nocturnal™/blue but they were not in stock. Might buy later but I need more storage bins first.

Also the dice bag, that was an impulse buy its branded as CIARAQ, decent dice bag, pretty standard.

So I'm looking for a place for them in my bookshelf. My book collection of books is growing, and so are my dices. What do you think?

I know the photos are clunky. However, they are in a plexiglass display case and it is difficult for me to take a close-up photo.

Photo 1: Font and sprue marks
Photo 2: Size comparison
Photo 3: Numerical layout and orientation

The Armory d6 has a standard numerical layout, with a sprue mark on the 2 face. Its font is larger and proportionately wider than the Gamescience font. The 1 has a prominent uptick and serifs. Armory d6s sometimes show delamination along the edges, which is not typically seen on Gamescience d6s.

Gamescience used two different d6 molds.

The earliest mold has a non-standard numerical layout, with a sprue mark on the 4 face.

The revised mold has a standard numerical layout, with a sprue mark on the 6 face and a letter “G” on the 1 face.

The Gamescience font is smaller and proportionately narrower than the Armory font.

The 1 on the revised Gamescience d6 has a small uptick and serifs. On the earlier Gamescience d6, the 1 may have an uptick and serifs, or, as in the example pictured here, it may be straight with no uptick or serifs. The straight 1 has a faint circle around it, and the circle can be oriented vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.

The Armory d6 measures 15 mm, while the smaller Gamescience d6 measures approximately 13.5 mm.

More information can be found at the Dice Collecting Wiki:

Gamescience Precision Dice Identification

Mold Identification Guide/Numeric d6

Possibly my most ridiculous acquisition so far: a pair of 16mm tungsten dice, weighing a massive 147.6 grams, or about a third of a pound!

For fun I weighed all my other metal d6s, and also some non-metal pairs. Left side is single die weight, right side is per pair. All weights in grams, feel free to convert to Freedom Units in the comments.