Sunday, October 25, 2015

Easy Roller Dice: Review

I am... particular about my gaming dice.  I don't just buy or use any old dice.  My main set is a collection of Chessex sparkled dice, themed after the elements (fire, earth, air, and water) and a set of Q-Workshop dwarven runed Fudge Dice, from their first production run.  I don't like other people using my dice, and I keep them in a custom embroidered Crown Royal bag which says, "TIM'S DICE, HANDS OFF."  I have a whole separate bag of dice that I use as loaners and to store the dice I've acquired which don't make it into my main dice bag.

I say "particular", others might say "insane".  I'm OK with that.

I was first exposed to Easy Roller Dice through their frequent sponsorship of Happy Jacks RPG Podcast, on which I am a part-time host.   Being something of a dice snob and perfectly happy with the amount and quality of dice I owned, I honestly didn't pay them too much attention.  But then they started showing up at my gaming table as most of the people I game with are also Happy Jacks related, and I couldn't help but notice them.  I decided that should the opportunity present itself, I would get myself some Easy Roller dice.

Well, the opportunity presented itself, and I am now the proud owner of a set of pristine black smoke Easy Roller dice and a matching dice bag.  Yes, they're the ones shown in the picture up above.
First off, the bag.  This is a nice little dice bag!  It's made of a thick, faux velvet, lined on the inside with a red, satin-esque material.  The drawstrings are thick, and there's an Easy Roller Dice Co tag sewn into the side.  This dice bag is going to hold up for a long while.

Now on to the dice themselves.  They're really nice.  The numbers are thickly and uniformly inked, and the white coloring makes for a nice contrast against the black smoke.  They feel solid, but not overly heavy.  They roll well, and by that I don't mean they provide the results I'm looking for.  I mean that when you roll them, they roll exactly as much as they should.  They don't stop short after a heavy "thunk", nor do they skitter all the way across the table.  Universally they seem to be just a hair smaller than my Chessex dice, but that's only noticeable under close scrutiny.

All in all, I really like these dice, and I'm looking forward to using them in a game.  They're certainly going to become a part of my main set, but they've given me a conundrum: I don't want to just throw the dice in my Crown Royal bag, but I don't want to shove another bag into it.  So now I have to figure a way to integrate my Easy Roller dice into my main set.  Like I said, I'm particular about my dice, heh.

And hey!  Easy Roller Dice is once again offering a discount for Happy Jacks listeners.  Simply enter the promo code "HAPPY" (minus the quotation marks) during checkout and receive a 20% discount on your entire order.  You can snag a single set of dice, a bag of 6 complete sets of dice (42 individual dice), or one of their brand new gaming mats.  Check them out at: http://www.easyrollerdice.com.

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