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10 Responses to “Poly Dice Sets (The Armory, 1983)”

1. 1 mwschmeer February 2, 2015 at 7:40 pm

   You know, what I’d really like to find is the single-sheet d30 critical hits table that was distributed with the Armory’s d30 die. That thing is impossible to find!

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2. 2 His friend J February 2, 2015 at 8:54 pm

   First off, I am really digging those green dice. Never was a fan of the yellow ones because I never felt like the numbers stood out enough. I’ve never seen a 30 sided die before. Does it have negative numbers on it? How does that work?

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   • 3 contradextraavenue February 2, 2015 at 11:13 pm

     http://www.amazon.com/Green-Opaque-Triantakohedron-Sided-Dice/dp/B001AAZ4TG/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1422918754&sr=1-2&keywords=30+sided+dice

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     • 4 2W2N February 2, 2015 at 11:19 pm

       That’s a lot of numbers. What’s wrong with d20 + d10? Or better yet, d10 + d8 + d8 + d4?

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       • 5 contradextraavenue February 2, 2015 at 11:26 pm

         Not the same. The d30 gives a range of 1-30, but d20+d10 gives 2-30. And the second combo gives 4-30. Besides, it’s an excuse to buy more weird dice. For Dungeon Crawl Classics, I also have a d3, d5, d7, d14, d16, d22, and d24. I draw the line at the d100 though.

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         • 6 2W2N February 2, 2015 at 11:29 pm

           Nerds!

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         • 7 His friend J February 3, 2015 at 3:28 am

           Ok, so the negative numbers on the drawing of the die in the add was artistic license.

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           • 8 contradextraavenue February 3, 2015 at 3:14 pm

             No idea why they used negatives for that. I can’t think of a single roll in the D&D of the time that would need a range of -10 to 20. Maybe it was for another game..

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3. 9 michaelmhughes February 11, 2015 at 3:30 pm

   I used to work at The Armory. Boy, the stories I could tell 🙂 I wish I could go back and wander through that enormous warehouse. The owner, Roy Lippman, was really ahead of his time in many ways—in particular, he tried to create what he called an “electronic buyer’s guide” long before the Internet. I was part of the crew putting that together. Each hobby shop would have had its own Mac with the Buyer’s Guide built into it. Sadly, it never worked out that way, but working there was quite the experience.

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   • 10 Gabe November 22, 2017 at 6:04 pm

     When I was a little kid, I lived in Pikesville and when my dad and I would go to The Armory to shop, the folks there would take me into the warehouse and let me look around. Man… SUCH great memories of that. Opened my mind!

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