Wednesday 30 March 2011

Pretty trumps Utility: Spiky Dice and Bony Cutlery

Oh dear, oh dear.

And I thought the Gamescience D-Total was an invention in search of a role.

Feast your eyes on these little beauties(?):



"Sure, I like the busyness and illegibility of Pathfinder dice sets. But what I'd really want is over-sculpted, likely-to-be-irregular dice reminiscent of bundles of barbed wire. That would really represent me as a gamer."

You can get them here. $28 a set. Also available in metal for anything up to $200 per set if you really want to scratch up your table.

Edit: Also in the "excessively baroque much?" category: skeleton cutlery by Raven Armoury.


Right-hand skeleton: "Peg legs? They are for pussies and part-timers!"

These might actually make for fun treasure/monsters. Something like animated cutlery scaled for giants and made from the screaming skeletons of halflings.

Party: "So, do we give them a decent burial, or sell them as curios?"


Pic Source
Vendor's website.

4 comments:

  1. My foot hurts from just looking at them and imagining how (inevitably) one of those caltrops would fall on the floor and I would step on it with my bare foot.

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  2. Heh, a friend linked me to these this morning and I just posted about them as well - they must be making the meme rounds.

    Nice to see Raven Amoury's still around and churning out high gothic kitsch. Although I won't be ordering any of it, I appreciate it as the gamer geek equivalent of a black velvet Elvis or pink flamingos: high camp.

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  3. Now we know what to get the Shen for his hatchday prezzies...

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  4. Still, they are more legible than anything Q-Workshop puts out.

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