Game Science Part 1 of 2

Part 1:Colonel Louis Zocchi explains dice manufacturing and why Game Science dice are better than all the rest! Informative and fun for all dice fanatics.
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmkWr...

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[Alan De Smet]

That old photograph of stacks of d20s that appears at 3:10 and shows how superior GameScience dice are? It dates to the early 1990s, maybe earlier. My wife and I recreated it with modern dice! Turns out GameScience is still the best! 1000d4 dot com/2013/02/14/how-true-are-yo­ur-d20s/

[Laurke Denise]

thanks so much for recreating this test! GameScience has posted to their facebook page :)

[David Jones]

At 1:50, he holds up a mold, where/how would one make that?



[Laurke Denise]

I have no earthly idea, sorry. Anyone??

[Laurke Denise]

Yes, and those Chessex branded dice are manufactured by GameScience. There may be others that I'm not aware of, of course, but at the time of recording, this was truth.

[Laurke Denise]

Yes, there are precision edged MACHINED dice, also known as casino dice. GameScience dice are the only ones made by injection molding that retain the sharp edges.

[ReanimatedBit]

I would think that you make it from clay then you put some kind of molding material onto it and then wait for it to dry and carefully pull it off and then put the two parts together an then fill with hot plastic. This is only speculation though.

[pavo6503]

What kind of wood? Pine? 25 years. Petrified Ironwood with a concrete veneer? Replace often. Dude, unless you're playing games literally for life/death/millions of dollars per roll your dice should be good forever. Otherwise you could spend lots of money on computerized randomizers. The moment you take sandpaper, file or knife to your dice you'll change them. Just leave them alone and have fun.

[the99887]

Make a 2 part mould of a set of dice using silicone, use wooden dowels or something similar as a running tube, and pour in your dice material, (resin or metal or whatever)

Not easy work, but from there you could get many good quality dice as long as your starting dice are good.

[TypeSaturn]

Wow, you can really tell how much this guy loves and cares about dice. That's amazing.

My group plays online so we don't use physical dice, but just hearing him talk about it makes me want to get a set.

[Shinzou001]

That's the sprue he's holding up, not the mold. That's the result obtained from injecting molten plastic into a 2-part mold. The only way I know of to get one of those would be to pay someone to create you a mold and employ someone with an injection machine to produce it which is only economical on large production runs.

[Superkittensnugs]

This guy is so jazzed about dice, he somehow made ME jazzed about dice. I think he might be a wizard.

[RiseofMarine]

huh...

[dshoub]

I'm about to get into D&D for the first time (I always wanted to, but never had friends that played) and I was told I should pick up a set of dice. Very informative video, I'm glad I checked it out so I can be sure and get a decent set of dice.

[Chibi1986]

Right after I saw this video, I dug out my 10 dice set from the D&D 3.5 Player's Box to check them. None of my D6s lined up at the edges. Not one, and the D10s had really curved, unstable edges. No wonder I got bad rolls with those so often.

The D&D 4.0 dice set though, those deep blue/black swirled ones, have very straight edges, so they should be good. Otherwise, I think I'll grab some of these at some point.

[Laurke Denise]

They'll last for years on a wooden table, and this is a guess, but I think longer on vinyl. No, the blemish doesn't always need sanding, but sometimes if a large sprue slips through quality control, you'll want to sand that down. Its largely a matter of preference. I like them smooth as possible myself.