The Wand Dice Dagger - Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Its a dagger, but also a full set of dice. Today we're looking at the Wand Dice, a metal spinner shaped like a phurba (aka Tibetan Spirit Dagger). It looks cool, but does it work as advertised?
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A good kicker to that spinner joke would've been him going "wait, wait, I have advantage!" and he spins it again and everyone groans.
This would have killed me
😂😂 This got me just reading it.
I am cackling right now
OMG, that is SO true, and I got one as well
OK, that is too good!
Seth Skorkowsky: the only rpg youtuber brave enough to review shivs
Dweebles insisted
@@SSkorkowsky you can use it to stab players too.
I'm just saying...
Brave enough to give a bad review to a company that _makes_ shivs...😲
Impractical for dice rolls, practical for impromptu occult rituals at Seth’s table.
Another point for dice over this spinner?
Security checks. I can walk through a TSA station with dice in my pocket, but not this thing.
"Call with me, brothers and sisters, call with me the words of hope, the words of power! IA! IA! Lord of hope! Ftagn Ia!"
The d20 spin about absolutely killed me
I laughed so hard!
All I could think of is the movie "Inception"
No, it missed.
i would be like... "alright spin the die and i'll be back after a restroom brake"
He swings his sword and... adds considerably to the length of Seth's video.
Like 20% of the video is that one spin. I thought about speeding it up or editing it down, but figured, no, I want to show exactly how long that is. I've also been wanting to do the "Mike goes to the kitchen and returns before it's done" gag for a while now.
@@SSkorkowskyI honestly thought you looped the spinning for comedic effect. That is a really long spin.
[one minute later]
"And you can STAB your game master with it!" How many watchlists is Dweebles on?
All of them?
Yes
None. He is protected from on high. "Forget it Sarge, this case is political. We can't touch him."
He’s also banned from Walmart.
Never forget.
Idk about watchlist... But ban list? Maybe a few.
The first thing that entered my head was the old movie, The Shadow.
"Who knows what Natural 20s lurk in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
Last night I watched a video that suggested watching The Shadow in black and white.
So you know the evil that dwells in the hearts of men...
@mr.pavone9719 how was that?
Did it hurt when that whole movie entered your head?
I feel like Seth's "I just think they're neat!" Reviews are the real hidden gem of this channel.
My player bought this, and it is pretty cool looking but as you said, impractical in game. However, as a GM I used it for The Haunting as the dagger before Mr Corbitt fight and it was super cool and it freaked out the players!
How is it impractical? Just raise it up to eye level and wait a tic after spinning before putting your finger on it.
@@MrEkor69How is the GM sitting across the table going to verify what you rolled?
@@tuomasronnberg5244 I simply wouldn't play with anyone who I didn't trust enough to be honest with their dice results.
3:15 "the monster lunges towards you, its claws raised"
3:50 DM looking up stat block for Bear
very clever
I respect Seth showing us how long the spinner can go for, then showing us how long it takes to roll a die. You know, because the audience might be unfamiliar in dice rolling. Made me giggle, and appreciate actually watching the video opposed to listening while doing something else.
It looks like a prop for the Call of Cthulhu
I've played enough CoC and Delta Green to know that you probably found this artifact in some jungle ruin after a doomed expedition that you mysteriously emerged from unscathed.
you spin me right round baby
right round, like a record baby
Loved the review and, I need that dice tray with the Crown Royale surface- it brings me back to the old days.
The live “watch the spinner go” was hilarious.
I'm glad you took a stab at this. You got right to the point and offered some sharp insights. Truly a cut above the rest Seth.
Let’s see, fireball does 8d6 so… Ok, the damage is… ah. The monsters appear to have died of old age.
The solution is simple - more dakka... I mean daggers.
Along with the players
...and now they're ghost monsters!
I got this as a Christmas present and i pretty much agree with everything you say. I relegated it to gorgeous eye candy fairly quickly. But boy is it pretty
For some reason, I want to watch The Golden Child again, or maybe The Shadow...
I want the knife... please
3:50 Seth browses the monster manual to determine how to punish the party for this inconvenience.
As one does, as one does
The dagger almost reminded me of the floating dagger from the 1994 movie, The shadow
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.. the shadow knows!”
I have one of these things and just love the ominous factor for it. Is it practical? No. Is it comedic? Yes.
Honestly the thumbnail alone had me reaching for my wallet because I thought it looked awesome, but after watching your fair review of it, I think I'll save my money! Thanks for being fair and honest in your reviews, Seth!
3:25 holy jesus, the way my mind went back and forth between "there's no way seth would tarnish a product just for a joke" and "there's no way this isn't edited" was just beautiful
I promise that is a 100% real spin. I figured there's 'Telling' people it takes forever and 'Showing' people it takes forever.
@@SSkorkowsky i totally believe you, I just didn't believe my own eyes 😅
It's a bad product, and deserves a bad review. Unbalanced, hard to read, and slower than the obvious and more sensible alternative. Three strikes is more than enough to relegate this to dust-collecting shelf curio.
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I want the Crown Royal dice tray.
Right? How did *I* never think of felting a tray with that?
(Hey Prof!)
Right? Where the heck can I get one?!
My buddy Jorge 3d printed the dice tower for me and asked what color I wanted it felted. I told him to felt it with a Crown Royal bag, and gave him a few from my unreasonably huge stockpile of them.
@ Y'know..a less scrupulous person...a bold adventurer/merchant, say, would seize this opportunity to merchandise said highly desirable dice tray. Or, maybe have ones with various members of the gang (Dweebles, Mike, or Todd) on it.
Probably better use for it would be doubling as a prop for the table, and possibly a ticking bomb roll to make players sweat. This is absolutely more a tool for a GM than a player, players need snappy quick results with clean and clear visuals to keep the pace moving.
Yeah, exactly. Plus the dice rolls are visible to everybody, everywhere, all at once.
The ticking bomb roll is a great idea! I can think of a dark magician conjuring up a powerfull spell (with a randomized effect maybe) and the players only having ~55 seconds to decide how to succesfully prevent them from casting the spell.
OMG, I almost hurt myself laughing so hard at your skit, today.
That is one SMOOOTH spinner!
that 100% looks like something Todd would buy
I´m 100% with you on that - dice spinners are awesome if you tread them as decoradtion but they are a pain in the ass if you want to use them during your game. I backed a massive six sided dice with spinners on each side, each representing a specific kind of die
Yup, gimmick dice/dice substitutes tend to be like that...
They're cool to fiddle with one or twice, but once that novelty wears off it's back to the old fashioned lumps of metal/plastic we've been using since... Roman? Greek? How old are dice as we know them? A good few millenia at least...
"Not broke, don't fix" as the saying goes.
It almost looks like the dagger from The Shadow!
The Shadow trained with Tibetan monks, do yeah. It pretty much is. Also featured in Uncharted 2.
Hey Seth, that was some Chuck Jones comedic timing right there. Bravo. Looks like the Mayan numbering system
Great review, Seth! Glad you focused on the practicality and not just "it looks cool". This is a neat thing to whip out for special occasions, but it's not gonna be replacing regular dice. If it had a button or switch that instantly stopped it and it spun fast enough that people couldn't try to game the thing, it might work, though.
I bought one on kickstarter as well. It is cool but you are hitting all the points. And great idea for the use for a prop.
Great review! 👍
Awesome cast and crew “collaboration”! LOL
Looks - 9.5/10
Practical usage - 1/10
Yep, you pretty much nailed it, Seth. It appears to be a great and cool looking decorative display item and usable for the end of the game final roll type of thing. But impractical for regular use/rolling/spinning.
Also, I would add a cool gift idea for buying a ganer/collector of tabletop games.
Rocking a Mothership shirt, nice!
Great review as always
OMG, literally within days of this video coming out, I've been given my own first spinny dice thing as a belated birthday present and I had to resist bursting out laughing remembering the infinite spin skit.
As Eddie Murphy said. "I. I. I want the knife!"
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Oh wow notifications actually work
The amount of time it took that d20 spin to stop is precisely why the massive d100 ball is reserved for dramatic moments with my group
the spinner joke, was priceless, i was suprosed how long the spinner would last when i first got my kickstarter pledge
I remember backing a dice spinner some years ago. I tried using it, but TBH even though it's nifty, it's too easy once you've used it enough to ensure the spin stops on a specific number most times. They're more novelties than reliable RNG.
Yeah, I have a d20 spinner ring, and I never use it during a game. It's exclusively decorative... except that one time I used it during an impromptu game session while driving. ;)
Crown Royal bag is in the dice tower tray? Epic!
Clickety clack math rocks ftw!
Great video, thanks for doing it.
3:25 S-Tier skit
Also the (hopefully) imminent Mothership review is killing me!!
Those look legit! Very creative design.
Holy smokes you're good at comedy. I needed that.
Legends tell it's still spinning
That's pretty cool. Years ago, long enough that I actually can't remember where I found it. I purchased a triangle blad3d sacrificial bronze dagger like that. I rarely take it out of its secret drawer because I keep forgetting it.
That being said, I am going to go check out the link you provided. It has to be better than the fetish dice website.
Omg that spin had me laughing hysterically. The silence...
The waiting on the spinner bit was so good.
That spinning scene got a chuckle out of me.
The most wicked part to this is the d20 spin taking forever. I think this is perfect tool to just implement for spooky sessions too.
A very honest review.! Thank you!
+1 for the crown royal dice tower pad. Thanks for the vid, Seth.
The fact that Todd is the only one that uses the dice in the video tells you everything lol
Nice, real time spin. A super majority of these will be used a couple times and then sit on a shelf to be gawked at by everyone's gamer friends.
That dramatic pause while it spins was classic.
This feels closer to a fidget toy than a proper dice replacement tool.
"...Well maybe not to you." was too good!
Don’t fly with it in your carry on.
My wife got me one for Christmas and I would agree with everything Seth mentioned.
We are in a Cthulhu campaign, and I will be using it as a 2-pice prop down the line.
It does look awesome.
I feel like this would be cool to whip out for some very special rolls once a session or a few times a campaign. Maybe for Lair actions for a thematically fitting boss..otherwise? Eh, I'll just throw my trusty plastic shapes.
I want so badly for something like this to be practical, but it really is more of an art-piece, and that's not a bad thing.
I do not own the dagger dice, but I can agree that spinning dice definitely have the issue of taking awhile to stop. I own one myself and suggest that the best way to handle it is to spin it, and then *firmly* and *quickly* press on the wheel with a hand and take whatever number is under the needle. If you do this it's much quicker, even if you need to reroll due to the needle being unclear, and if you do it while the spinner is still moving rapidly it's difficult to predict which number the thing will land on. Yes, I do suppose a player could try to cheese it by quickly changing what number is on the spinner, but if you've got a player doing that you've got a number of other problems already, not just a finicky die.
I cast Fireball. Roll 8D6.
Well, we'll pick this up next week....
Omg lol the spinning. Love it!
That skit where the Gang all wait for the roll hat me burst out laughing at the very end.
I think I'm in the same boat as you about it: it doesn't look practical at all, and these days I play online so probably not even useful... But It does look so *cool*, though...
Don't know why, but the spinner skit got me good!
Wow really cool collector item and perfect for an important roll as you said
I run games over Roll20 these days...I'll say that if I was running a campaign in-person and someone brought this to my table it would be too cool to not let them use it. Though it does fall into the category of "awesome, but impractical".
What I'd probably go with as a rule of sorts is that they can use it for dramatic rolls or when rolls aren't happening frequently, but to use regular dice when convenience becomes important.
Great review
Omg, that spinner thing was hilarious!
Thank you for a good and honest review
I was expecting Todd to accidentally knock it over when describing his action, it looks fairly easy to topple and then it will happily roll off the table.
Reminds me of the Phurba Dagger from The Shadow
The long spinning had me lol
with a spinner could there be some pegs like on the wheel of fortune wheel or some teeth or ratchet that prevents in-between results?
Thats a thought I had when I got a dice ring that had the same problem. it had a free floating second part, but no stopping system to prevent the indicator from landing somewhere between results. it would also lessen the spin time as it syphons energy with the friction.
Me: THE DICE ARE MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!
Seth: why not both?
As someone running a pirate campaign...... yeah i might just have to pick this up despite its flaws. its perfect for my table.
I have this. Your criticisms are mostly accurate (but stop the spin with your finger!). Still happy to have it - especially for the dramatic moments, like you mentioned.
Yes I had the same thought. Stopping it with your finger would give a better random result over waiting for the friction of the bearings to do it.
I've used spinners in games..we had a house rule where any spin is a count to three, then stop the spinner with your finger without looking at it.
I think it would actually be fun to see you review different Kickstarter projects but I know that's a little unreasonable to ask given that you would have to both buy into and play it.
Some like Veil of Eternal Night were really neat as well as Zander's Guide to Zombie hunting.
That's scary. This didn't pop up on my main page. It was buried in suggestions after a different vid.
What that think is missing is the brakets like youd have on a planketo board. Something to slow down the roll and ensure it cant land between two numbers.
"More decorative than practical" 95% all dice bought I'd say
Several hour loop of the spinning when?
D20 spin took so long that the characters weren't edited in with jump-cuts. Seth had time to change outfits and face fungus between each shot.
3:59 we usually do a finger push after 3-4 seconds to speed it along
Excellent spin sketch, both demonstrated your point poignantly and made me snigger. So in short, it's a very visually stimulating and space efficient Box of Doom? (But not useful for much else.)
The Shadow Dagger!!!! kool ☻
As a piece of art it's great, but it would get old real fast at the table. Using it a dramatic roll like you mentioned is probably the best use of it.
At least the 20 side spinner has some good bearings. I remember some alternate geometry dice also tend to roll forever. Sometimes, all ya need is just the good ol' polyhedral set.
nice knife nice review seth - looks like the knife from the shadow
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Ah, a metagaming, rules lawyer, minmaxing murder Hobo?
>Thwip THUNK!!<
HUUURGH!
None of that at MY table! Ooh, a nat 20!
As a DM, I hate when players bring these bespoke random number generators for all the reasons you mention. Give them (and me) a small dice cup with clearly marked plastic dice. That’s all we need.
I laughed way too much during the d20 spin. Man, that thing spins forever!