What I think is happening on the frosted dice is this: They tumble them after they are cut, which gives them the rounder edges. Or they acid etch them. This gives them a slightly rougher exterior compared to "normal" ones. The rougher texture gives the frosted appearance. The oil from your skin is causing light to reflect in a more unified way which lets the color underneath come through more. You have probably experienced this before when pouring water on finely broken glass or onto dry stones outside. Those will get lighter again once they dry, but the oil in your skin won't evaporate like water does.
The uninked d8s look real old school. The kind you'd get in the box with RPGs in the 80s. I remember TSR including a white wax crayon in the Star Frontiers boxes, for "inking" the numbers in yourself. It was a simpler time 😊
I bought two pounds of Chessex Pound o' Dice. I got NO outsized dize or dice in special denominations, and no miniature (10 mm) dice. The dice were standard sized (17 mm?), and preponderantly speckled, an opaque colour mixed with little specks of another colour. There were also some opaque East German military dice with a ceramic-like finish, mainly yellows and greens with a few orange, mainly d10s and d20s dominated. There were also a group of two-toned dice roughly bisected by two different colours. There were some clear dice, a few luxurious looking ones with iridescent finish, and the matched set in the manila envelope packet. By the way, if you ever get un-inked dice like the way they were sold in the old days, a great way to fill them up is with a correction-fluid pen. You fill in the grooves of the numbers, and wipe off what goes out of bounds with a rubbing-alcohol soaked tissue, and let dry. If it's a lighter colour die and white may not be readable, you can consider inking in the numbers with fine black marker.
With anything that is frosted, whether that be glass or plastic, it will go clear when it gets wet, so there's nothing wrong with your frosted dice.. I'm pretty sure frosting is a textural thing and not a coating.... Give it a quick rinse in water and pat it dry with a clean dry towel or paper towel.
The frosted dice are like a frosted glass or sea glass. The darkness comes from the moisture and oils from your hands. I have bead like that and the lighter color does come back when they dry out and get knocked around. Gorgeous dice set. I’m thinking of getting a pound of dice from them. Nice variety even if there are a few misfits. They have a character all their own. It’s exciting to see what you’re going to get.
The 2 translucent D8's with the sharp edges are Gamescience precision dice. They are supposed to have that little mark from the molding process. Chessex produced themfor a while.
The Un-inked D8's are (deliberately or accidentally) 'precision dice'. They are little bit more expensive than normal dice. Have a look at game science who sell dice with the sprue mark showing.
All the kids are making the same mistake by calling the d10 marked in tens as "percentile". A percentile roll is d100 done with two 10-sided dice, and you can have one die marked in tens 10, 20, 30, ...00 but it is not strictly necessary. In the old days all d10s were marked the same. When you take SAT scores, they show your relative standing by putting you into 100 different categories also called "percentiles" and tell you you are in the 64th percentile, or whatever. In the bags, you never get enough tens dice to match with all the single-digit d10s.
+Duhruhm d20 I have seen other videos where people have gotten different dice, so yes, I believe they are randomized at least from a few different options. And they do look nice, but aren't the easiest to see from a distance.
I believe they do it roughly monthly in the factory (a unique run for a few hundred bags and then switch it up to another unique colour variant), so what you'll end up with won't be one of a kind but definitely rare.
+JadekindGaming awesome video. I still have part of my first set of chessex dice from 1989 and they are still looking like new. I am going to buy another pound now this week from your video lol.
+JadekindGaming lol I have a few thousand to choose from but never have enough. And I was 8 when I got those dice and started to play so I am sure I am not much older.
+Major Genral Dizz Not a whole lot older, no. I, however, did not start playing until some time in my teens, once my mother got past the idea that the game was inherently evil.
+JadekindGaming lol same here, but my friends convinced her thank goodness. I have older dice than the chessex though. I have the original tsr dice from the very early 80s
That is what it seemed like when filming, but it doesn't dry or come off - they don't return to the lighter color, so maybe it was a residue from the manufacturing process coming off. Regardless, it's been many months and they are the same darker color that they became once handled, and that is the information that is relevant to anyone considering purchasing them; it doesn't really matter why, just that people know that it will happen.
from what i gather the way dice get so rounded on the edges is from being in a rock tumbler, like what one uses the polish their brass for reloading ammo, or cheap gem stones. This of course causes a lot of residue which isn't always wiped off in the pressure washer. So residue could be caused from that The discoloration may be because of cheap plastics that are reactive. Which isn't good at all, but nor harmful. Just a mess up when they mix the chemicals to make the plastic that is injected The more you know!
Wow Great video, Kina a late reply but you got a sub from me. I like these type of videos because I started my own dice collection for D&D. I see these are quite worth and I like the way you sort out the dice. Anyway thanks for the great video.
I have - I did one just 5 months ago even... Not sure why this one caught on and others haven't... But, I like dice, so I'm sure on occasion I'll keep doing more.
I don't know why, but when I bought this exact pack, all of the dice that had the same number of faces were all the same size. I had no big or small ones, they were all the same volume :( Was I just unlucky with my random assortment? Can anyone help me out? I live in the UK, so maybe there's a difference in the versions between the UK and US?
I'm not sure why that would be. I wouldn't think that it would be different based on the country, though I suppose it might. It is probably just based on when the assortment is made, and what spares they have to throw into their bulk assortments...
These are dice used for Tabletop Role Playing Games. If you were asking why I got so many, I do sort of collect them and have them semi-organized in a partitioned box container thing. Generally, I do have more dice than I can use in most situations, but it is nice if I play with new players to have extra sets of dice for them to use.
I recently purchased on Amazon from an external seller #5 sets of 16 mm D6 opaque dice (12 dice each set) from Chessex and, although I haven't checked out whether they are or not biased (salt water test), I've found the following: - All dice actually measure *15 mm* instead of 16 mm. - The seller assures they are original (in fact they all came in their original plastic cases with the typical Chessex label in each), but he stated that *all Chessex dice are made in China* regardless what the label says (apparently the label only refers to the country where the Chessex office is located, but not the country of manufacturing.) So, although mines say "Made in Denmark" on all labels, should I trust the seller and assume they are actually made in China? Maybe the lables are made in Denmark but the dice themselves are made in China? 🤔 If so, Chessex has been lying to everybody during all these years! Does anyone have any information to clarify this, please?
From a quick online search, it seems that Chessex uses a few companies to manufacture their dice, one in Denmark(that produces their opaque and speckled dice) and also factories in Germany and England(which produce their other dice ranges). The labels on the Germany and England dice(at least, as I don't have any from their Denmark facility) specify 'Dice made in England' and 'Dice made in Germany' so it is clear that the dice are made there, not the labels. I'd be more suspicious of the Amazon seller in this case, though this is all just from online research, as I've, of course, not been to any of the facilities personally.
+Mein Kanal! I don't know currency conversions, but in my mind, I value this as being worth about $20-25 (USD). But, in all honesty, it really depends on what you need. If you need a random assortment of dice, this is great. If you need dice for a particular game, there are sets of dice that may be better for your needs and are going to be cheaper.
hello sir would you sell me that two toned d 20 like blue and yellow with red numbers for like dollar or two ?? It would fit my playmat ferfectly with ocean and beach☺
What I think is happening on the frosted dice is this: They tumble them after they are cut, which gives them the rounder edges. Or they acid etch them. This gives them a slightly rougher exterior compared to "normal" ones. The rougher texture gives the frosted appearance. The oil from your skin is causing light to reflect in a more unified way which lets the color underneath come through more. You have probably experienced this before when pouring water on finely broken glass or onto dry stones outside. Those will get lighter again once they dry, but the oil in your skin won't evaporate like water does.
The uninked d8s look real old school. The kind you'd get in the box with RPGs in the 80s. I remember TSR including a white wax crayon in the Star Frontiers boxes, for "inking" the numbers in yourself. It was a simpler time 😊
I bought two pounds of Chessex Pound o' Dice. I got NO outsized dize or dice in special denominations, and no miniature (10 mm) dice. The dice were standard sized (17 mm?), and preponderantly speckled, an opaque colour mixed with little specks of another colour. There were also some opaque East German military dice with a ceramic-like finish, mainly yellows and greens with a few orange, mainly d10s and d20s dominated. There were also a group of two-toned dice roughly bisected by two different colours. There were some clear dice, a few luxurious looking ones with iridescent finish, and the matched set in the manila envelope packet.
By the way, if you ever get un-inked dice like the way they were sold in the old days, a great way to fill them up is with a correction-fluid pen. You fill in the grooves of the numbers, and wipe off what goes out of bounds with a rubbing-alcohol soaked tissue, and let dry. If it's a lighter colour die and white may not be readable, you can consider inking in the numbers with fine black marker.
With anything that is frosted, whether that be glass or plastic, it will go clear when it gets wet, so there's nothing wrong with your frosted dice.. I'm pretty sure frosting is a textural thing and not a coating.... Give it a quick rinse in water and pat it dry with a clean dry towel or paper towel.
Yeah, they're fine. Still looking great years later.
The frosted dice are like a frosted glass or sea glass. The darkness comes from the moisture and oils from your hands. I have bead like that and the lighter color does come back when they dry out and get knocked around. Gorgeous dice set. I’m thinking of getting a pound of dice from them. Nice variety even if there are a few misfits. They have a character all their own. It’s exciting to see what you’re going to get.
They don't quite go back to the lighter color, but do even out and stop changing when handled after a bit.
The 2 translucent D8's with the sharp edges are Gamescience precision dice. They are supposed to have that little mark from the molding process. Chessex produced themfor a while.
Oh, wow, I (clearly) did not know that. Thanks!
The Un-inked D8's are (deliberately or accidentally) 'precision dice'. They are little bit more expensive than normal dice. Have a look at game science who sell dice with the sprue mark showing.
For the "frosted" dice, they may have tumbled them in fine sand. Rinse off with water and dry.
your main set that deep blue color is very pretty!
Yes, thank you, I certainly think so.
that set of flesh colored dice look pretty cool actually
All the kids are making the same mistake by calling the d10 marked in tens as "percentile". A percentile roll is d100 done with two 10-sided dice, and you can have one die marked in tens 10, 20, 30, ...00 but it is not strictly necessary. In the old days all d10s were marked the same. When you take SAT scores, they show your relative standing by putting you into 100 different categories also called "percentiles" and tell you you are in the 64th percentile, or whatever.
In the bags, you never get enough tens dice to match with all the single-digit d10s.
Blame the seller for labelling them as such
Are the packaged dice inside the main bag randomized each time? They look pretty awesome either way.
+Duhruhm d20 I have seen other videos where people have gotten different dice, so yes, I believe they are randomized at least from a few different options. And they do look nice, but aren't the easiest to see from a distance.
I believe they do it roughly monthly in the factory (a unique run for a few hundred bags and then switch it up to another unique colour variant), so what you'll end up with won't be one of a kind but definitely rare.
Those two toned, blue/red and gray/red look awesome but i dont see them selling those type single, so i guess ill test my luck with the pound o dice
+PaulSport good luck! :)
Great video :p Kinda convinced me to skip out on the Pound-O-Dice, though, and buy sets I really like :p Those frosted ones look lovely.
Yeah, it's fun for the number of dice, but I mostly buy the matching sets myself.
+JadekindGaming awesome video. I still have part of my first set of chessex dice from 1989 and they are still looking like new. I am going to buy another pound now this week from your video lol.
+Major Genral Dizz Wow, that's awesome, those dice are just a couple years younger than I am. I hope you enjoy your new influx of dice.
+JadekindGaming lol I have a few thousand to choose from but never have enough. And I was 8 when I got those dice and started to play so I am sure I am not much older.
+Major Genral Dizz Not a whole lot older, no. I, however, did not start playing until some time in my teens, once my mother got past the idea that the game was inherently evil.
+JadekindGaming lol same here, but my friends convinced her thank goodness. I have older dice than the chessex though. I have the original tsr dice from the very early 80s
It is the oil from your skin wiping off onto the frosted dice and changing how they look.
That is what it seemed like when filming, but it doesn't dry or come off - they don't return to the lighter color, so maybe it was a residue from the manufacturing process coming off. Regardless, it's been many months and they are the same darker color that they became once handled, and that is the information that is relevant to anyone considering purchasing them; it doesn't really matter why, just that people know that it will happen.
from what i gather the way dice get so rounded on the edges is from being in a rock tumbler, like what one uses the polish their brass for reloading ammo, or cheap gem stones. This of course causes a lot of residue which isn't always wiped off in the pressure washer. So residue could be caused from that
The discoloration may be because of cheap plastics that are reactive. Which isn't good at all, but nor harmful. Just a mess up when they mix the chemicals to make the plastic that is injected
The more you know!
Cool unboxing you got me into dice
Wow Great video, Kina a late reply but you got a sub from me. I like these type of videos because I started my own dice collection for D&D. I see these are quite worth and I like the way you sort out the dice. Anyway thanks for the great video.
I didn't realize you've been making videos this long!
Yeah; I'm a couple weeks away from having been doing this for 9 years.
Good video and I love your shirt. Also, your shirt is 100% correct.
Oh, yes, it's certainly correct. And, thank you for watching.
I might buy this
you got so many views here that maybe you should do another "dice unboxing" :)
I have - I did one just 5 months ago even... Not sure why this one caught on and others haven't... But, I like dice, so I'm sure on occasion I'll keep doing more.
I don't know why, but when I bought this exact pack, all of the dice that had the same number of faces were all the same size. I had no big or small ones, they were all the same volume :( Was I just unlucky with my random assortment? Can anyone help me out? I live in the UK, so maybe there's a difference in the versions between the UK and US?
I'm not sure why that would be. I wouldn't think that it would be different based on the country, though I suppose it might. It is probably just based on when the assortment is made, and what spares they have to throw into their bulk assortments...
Yeah that's probably what it is. Thanks for replying!
btw, my name is Adam too :)
Well, Adam, thank you for watching. :)
You're welcome, Adam! :)
what do you actually do with all of these dice?
These are dice used for Tabletop Role Playing Games. If you were asking why I got so many, I do sort of collect them and have them semi-organized in a partitioned box container thing. Generally, I do have more dice than I can use in most situations, but it is nice if I play with new players to have extra sets of dice for them to use.
What are these dice made of?
I believe they are made out of plastic...
I recently purchased on Amazon from an external seller #5 sets of 16 mm D6 opaque dice (12 dice each set) from Chessex and, although I haven't checked out whether they are or not biased (salt water test), I've found the following:
- All dice actually measure *15 mm* instead of 16 mm.
- The seller assures they are original (in fact they all came in their original plastic cases with the typical Chessex label in each), but he stated that *all Chessex dice are made in China* regardless what the label says (apparently the label only refers to the country where the Chessex office is located, but not the country of manufacturing.) So, although mines say "Made in Denmark" on all labels, should I trust the seller and assume they are actually made in China? Maybe the lables are made in Denmark but the dice themselves are made in China? 🤔
If so, Chessex has been lying to everybody during all these years!
Does anyone have any information to clarify this, please?
From a quick online search, it seems that Chessex uses a few companies to manufacture their dice, one in Denmark(that produces their opaque and speckled dice) and also factories in Germany and England(which produce their other dice ranges). The labels on the Germany and England dice(at least, as I don't have any from their Denmark facility) specify 'Dice made in England' and 'Dice made in Germany' so it is clear that the dice are made there, not the labels. I'd be more suspicious of the Amazon seller in this case, though this is all just from online research, as I've, of course, not been to any of the facilities personally.
3:20 - never seen someone have so much trouble opening a stapled folder before....
How much would you say these are worth? Here the cost EUR 32,64
+Mein Kanal! I don't know currency conversions, but in my mind, I value this as being worth about $20-25 (USD). But, in all honesty, it really depends on what you need. If you need a random assortment of dice, this is great. If you need dice for a particular game, there are sets of dice that may be better for your needs and are going to be cheaper.
JadekindGaming Yeah, I need different colors of dice for counting.
Mein Kanal! everything in Europe is expensive. I see the same price range in the UK £ 25-30
hello sir would you sell me that two toned d 20 like blue and yellow with red numbers for like dollar or two ?? It would fit my playmat ferfectly with ocean and beach☺
Good job, thanks man
Thank you
16:14 How many people have you killed with those dice?
Ha. I don't kill characters often these days, but those do probably go back far enough that I've killed at least a few with them...
I meant, how many enemies :p
Ha ha, still somewhat few; I mostly the Dungeon Master for my gaming group, so I'm not against 'enemies' too often...
Ah, so you just kill the players :p
Illescas regálame una el de 6 caras el común como transparente
thanks for the awesome vid
Glad you liked it!
i wanna eat those, they look like candy (especialy the precision d8s)
I would advise against it; they might be a choking hazard...
is everyone here ready to DIE!
It actually took me a minute to get the pun; I was concerned at first...