Hi friends, Ginny Di here
The world is pretty crazy right now
And so I thought this week I would just do something kind of low-key
and chill and pleasant
and show you all of my most beautiful dice!
Getting into tabletop gaming very quickly exposed by true Goblinoid nature
I am 100% dice obsessed
It happened very quickly
And now I own a lot of dice
So I'm just gonna show you all of my favorites
This isn't sponsored or anything
These are just like the prettiest dice I have
And of course I'll tell you where they're from
in case you want to get some for yourself
I thought a fitting place to start would be the very first dice set I ever bought
I actually bought these years ago before I started playing D&D
I just thought they were pretty when I saw them in the store
And I was like "Maybe these will be useful someday"
These are Chessex frosted teal with white
I actually lost the d6 from this set a long time ago
I think I probably took it out of the set to use as like a regular die
for some other game
And then just never put it back
Thankfully I don't play a rogue, so it doesn't come up much
Another funny thing about this set is that it is pretty much a perfect match for my hair
But I bought this set years before I dyed my hair this color
One of the first sets that I bought once I did start playing D&D
was this limited edition Critical Roll bronze set
I really like metal dice I like the weight of them
I like how they feel when you roll them
It feels very serious
These aren't available anymore, unfortunately
So I feel really lucky that I nabbed them when I did
The next set I'm gonna show you is the one that I primarily use when I'm DMing
And I've been keeping it in this beautiful Wyrmwood vault
with the art of Deven Rue on the front
I use these when DMing because I think it's funny
Because they have tiny skulls in them
and as the DM I'm often trying to kill my players, in some way
Not like genuinely trying to kill them
but I am playing characters who are trying to kill them
These are from Cozy Gamer Shop
I think the d4 is my favorite because you can see the skull the most clearly
But I also really like that on the d20 the skull is like right under the 20
So if I roll a natural 20 when attacking a player
It's like "time for death"
Okay this set was gifted to me, and it is hands-down one of my favorite sets
This is Violet Incantation from Seersword
These dice have like big magical girl vibes
Personally I've been using them for in Nightshade
which is my D&D character Aisling's pseudodragon familiar
Because nightshade is a black pseudodragon
with little purple nightshade flowers down her back
I know a lot of dice will put a special symbol on the 20 face of the d20
But these actually have cute little star and moon symbols
on the highest face of every die
Speaking of magic, I was also gifted this witchcraft set from Secret Cat Shop
Secret Cat Shop has been doing dice that are themed after Studio Ghibli movies
So these are the Kiki's Delivery Service dice
It's funny, I have almost no red in my dice collection
Because it's just not a color that I normally go for
But I think these are so cute and the color scheme is perfect
So I know I said I've been using the Violet Incantation dice for Nightshade
But I actually just bought some dice specifically for Nightshade
So I'll probably be using both sets
I don't know why one familiar needs two dedicated sets of dice
But that's what I'm doing
These are the Die Hard Dice Moonstone Dreamwalker
I'm obsessed with these dice
It's funny because in still photos I feel like they don't really look like anything special
They look really dark and they don't seem to have much color to them
But photos completely fail to capture what makes these dice so beautiful
Because it is all about the movement and the interplay of the light with these colors
They feel very, like, Nebula esque
Okay so I was already obsessed with these Forest 3D beige and black dice from Q Workshop
When I first saw them online, I ordered them so immediately
And then while they were in the mail to me I saw a post in a dice group that I was in
Where somebody was repainting them
And they were painting all of the leaves in different shades of green
And leaving the numbers in beige
And that made them a lot more readable
So I think I'm gonna do that to mine
And my thought is that if it goes well I'll get a second set of these exact same dice
And then paint those too, but with like autumn colors
Because my D&D character Aisling, her hair changes with the seasons
and has little leaves and flowers growing from it
So I think it would be pretty cool if when it was autumn in the game
I rolled with the autumn dice
And when it was spring or summer
I rolled with the spring and summer dice
These were a Valentine's Day gift from a friend
They are the Storm green and pink from Crafts and Wonders on Etsy
These are so perfect for Aisling
And they are so delicate
They're like mostly transparent
But with these little wisps of pink and green and like beautiful fine glitter
Although I have to say that my first session rolling with these was awful
Aisling didn't hit anything for like four consecutive turns
in like our major boss battle that we had been building to for weeks and weeks
But I'm willing to forgive them, once
And finally who doesn't love stuff in miniature!
I got this itty-bitty scorched rainbow set at a convention
But I actually keep these little guys in my purse
I have not come across a circumstance yet where I need polyhedral dice, randomly
But that's not to say it's never gonna happen
I just want to be prepared
Those are all of my favorite sets but I do have some individual d20s
I tend to buy single d20s when the full set is really expensive
and I have a few other miscellaneous dice that I want to show off too
So this one is a favorite of some of the other players in my party
This is the fantastic glass d20 from Crystal Maggie
This one is so simple and I think that's what makes it so elegant and so beautiful
This is a luxury die for suresies
I also have
This is my only gemstone die
This is green fluorite from URWizards on Etsy
I know people have mixed feelings about gemstone dice
because they're like a little fragile
And then also, there are often flaws in the stones
Which I think is kind of part of what makes them special
I also ordered a single Scorched Rainbow Mythic a d20 from Die Hard Dice
I wanted the full set, but at the time couldn't afford it
I'm really into the scorched rainbow finish
I know that it's available on a lot of different kinds of metal dice
And I'm just like always a sucker for it
My last solo d20 was gifted to me this is a Keyfish die
It has a tiny little goldfish in it
The creator is actually running a Kickstarter right now
where you can get d20s or full dice sets with tiny little goldfish in them
I'll link to it in the description
They're already fully funded, but if you want goldfish dice
That's where you get them
One of my absolute favorite artesian dice makers
is Yaniir
Man, I hope I'm pronouncing that right
And I was at a con
I think it was Gen Con
Where she had just brought a bunch of miscellaneous flawed dice with her to give out
And she gave me this slightly flawed Astral Sea d10
And it is seriously one of the most beautiful dice I've ever seen
I know it's sort of weird to just have like one d10 out of a set
But her dice are really hard to get a hold of
So I don't know when I will be able to get a full set
For now, I am thrilled to have this one d10
Also I have a patron named Nick
who has made me some really beautiful handcrafted stuff over the years
And one of the things that he has made for me
is these beautiful custom aluminum d6s
Each face says di2, di3, di4, but
D-I like like Ginny Di
I actually loved this idea so much
that I asked his permission to sort of build on that concept
for the dice set that I am working with Wyrmwood on
I don't know how much I can say about that
But I will link in the cards to their video about that
It's upcoming
I feel like this is either gonna be a video that nobody cares about
or a video that does really surprisingly well
So please tell me in the comments whether or not you enjoyed me
showing you my favorite dice
If you didn't, that's totally fine, no harm no foul
I will not do any more
But if you did enjoy it, let me know
I know that there are multiple sets of dice that are coming to me in the next few weeks/months
And you know, if I do regular dice videos
That makes dice a business expense
which means I could write them off on my taxes
Just saying
Please tell me all about your favorite dice in the comments
I would love to hear your recommendations
I am always ready to check out more dice
Tell me about your favorite artesian and dice makers
I follow dozens of them on Instagram and Twitter already
And I would love to follow dozens more