I have about 8 complete sets of the low impact dice. They all appear to be the same type. I also have few holmes sets with dice and they, too, have similar dice.

I even have one set of percentile dice (pink, white) and they appear no different.

But now I am gonna look for that blueish 20 sider.

Hong Kong.

It came in original prints of Top Secret for sure.

Pink d20 came in twin pack with a White d20.

I don't know much about the history and variety of dice in our hobby, and there seems to be no real history or impirical data online. Would be really cool if someone was to put together something.

I recall seeing a half-white half-pink d20, and someone here bought a special set of dice in one of the Collector Trove's auctions. Again, no real info there either.

Also know of the two greek dice, the 30 sided and it's retinue of books, and Zocchi's little collection of unusual sided affairs (d100, d57, d36, d16, d dice that crumble, etc. etc. ad infinitum).

Anyone care to take up this chalice?

grodog wrote:Ian, are you unfamiliar with Kevin Cook's site @ http://www.dicecollector.com/ ?  Or are you saying that we need to match up the various dice to the sets better?

Didn't know about that site. It's hell to navigate. An RPG related archive on the Acaeum Wiki, or an RPG site would be nice. Not really enough data to make a whole site, but would make a good area of a larget site. Would like to see the history and technical data archived the same way we do TSR and JG, and ToT is beginning to do non-TSR.

. wrote:Pink d20 came in twin pack with a White d20.

That is how I bought mine originally. I think they cost $1.50 or maybe $2. The only other place I have seen them together is in Top Secret - and I think only in the first printing.

I have never seen them come together in a Holmes set an I have had dozens pass through my hands. But that is not definitive.

bbarsh wrote in Question about Original D&D dice:
That is how I bought mine originally. I think they cost $1.50 or maybe $2. The only other place I have seen them together is in Top Secret - and I think only in the first printing.

I have never seen them come together in a Holmes set an I have had dozens pass through my hands. But that is not definitive.

Yessir, that is correct.  I have a price list in one of my books somewhere that has the price marked out (either by the game store or a TSR employee) and raised, but I think that was just for the Poly set. I'll have to check later on. This is the UK price listing on the back cover of the UK Basic Book. This is the 2nd UK print, the 1st is the same also.

I realize this is mostly a 10-year old thread, but Boot Hill also had the White/Pink Percentile set. So: sold separately, in Top Secret and in Boot Hill.

See TSR Percentile Dice in the 1970s for a pic of a Boot Hill set with the dice. Also a catalog entry from 1977/78 showing the prices as $1.49 for the Polyhedra Set (5 dice) and $0.89 for the Percentile Set (2 dice).

Other posts perhaps of interest:

Dice of the Gods --- the low impact dice in their non-TSR Creative Publications packaging

Marked 20-sided Die --- about coloring the white 20-sider to distinguish 1-10 and 11-20. In addition to coloring half the die I've also heard of making a dot; writing a one; outlining the pre-inked number with another color; or using a razor blade to make a mark. Alternately you can use a control d6 (1-3 = 1-10, 4-6=11-20). Both of these methods (control die and marking) are mentioned in Holmes Basic.