TeeJay

Mar 07 2024

Oddball Dice #3 – Chessex Design Tests

By TeeJay

For the next two weeks, I will make daily posts where I’ll spotlight unusual or lesser known dice that I have in my collection that I hope are interesting for everyone to see and learn about. Each day I’ll cover a different theme, I hope you enjoy this series. Chessex Design Tests Sometimes you buy …

oddities, one-offs, rare dice

Mar 06 2024

Oddball Dice #2 – Chessex Mould Oddities

By TeeJay

oddities, one-offs, rare dice

Mar 05 2024

Oddball Dice #1 – Off-Colour Oddities

By TeeJay

For the next two or so weeks, I will make posts where I’ll spotlight unusual or lesser known dice I have in my collection that I hope are interesting for everyone to see and learn about. I will try to cover a different theme each day, I hope you enjoy this series. Off-Colour Oddities Sometimes …

oddities, one-offs, rare dice

Jan 18 2024

Final Names for the Chessex Pound-O-Dice 2023 Sets

By TeeJay

The names for the exclusive sets that are distributed in the little brown envelopes together with the Chessex PoDs get voted on in a Speckled Collectors group on Facebook every time they release new sets. Below are the names for the current run that are now in circulation.

Nov 01 2023

Dice History – The Danish Edition

By TeeJay

I recently came across a dice set on a second hand platform that caught my eye, because it looked like the Chessex Opaque urea dice out of the Danish Dan-Tern factory, but it curiously had a bottom-read d4 in a mould I had never seen before. My curiosity piqued, I went ahead and purchased said …

Feb 25 2023

Reference Guide: Ancient & Gold Mist

By TeeJay

I recently wrote a post on why the Ancient vs. Gold Mist names that collectors differentiate are actually a myth, but nonetheless is it useful to have this distinction in the dice collecting community. In a nutshell, collectors now differentiate between the somewhat darker and swirlier Ancient variant and the lighter and more misty Gold …

ancient, crystal caste, d&g, dice & games, dice id, dice identification, gold mist, id, id guide, identification

Feb 25 2023

The Idiosyncrasies of Dice Naming

By TeeJay

If you’ve been in the dice collecting community for a while, you might know that collectors sometimes give things names in order to tell certain dice apart that may look very similar or just to have a name for something specific that wasn’t quite disguished in that way by the company who made the dice.