The luxury dice market is out of control. Resin, semi-precious stones, historic WWII armor? Dispel Dice, Level Up Dice, and dozens more litter the floor with beautiful, painful-to-step-on treasures.
Image: Dispel Dice and Wyrmwood Gaming
Two of tabletop gaming’s biggest success stories are teaming up for an exclusive new line of products. Wyrmwood Gaming, makers of specialty tables and other accessories, is coming together with Dispel Dice, whose unique, sharp-edged dice turned heads in 2019. The Dice By Wyrmwood and Dispel Kickstarter campaign will offer three unique dice vaults and 18 dice styles including, according to a recent YouTube video, dice with real flowers embedded inside.
But the campaign also underscores just how challenging the world of boutique gaming accessories can be.
The Wyrmwood story starts in 2013, when the Massachusetts-based company raised more than $84,000 to produce a series of hand-made wooden dice vaults slim, dovetailed trays with magnets to secure the lid in place. The company went on to run 11 more Kickstarter campaigns through 2019, averaging more than $250,000 each. It also ran a respectable online storefront and enjoyed a healthy conve
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The experience of playing Dungeons & Dragons could be getting an upgrade early next year with a brand new kind of die. Pixels Dice claim to be the first mass-market RPG dice fully integrated with a wireless radio. That means they can talk to your Bluetooth-enabled devices in real time, and will even be compatible with virtual tabletops like
Roll20 and toolsets like
D&D Beyond. Full sets with seven dice will start at $199.
Creators Systemic Games have been working on these dice for some time now, making the rounds on the convention circuit and even turning some heads at Gen Con the nation’s largest tabletop gaming convention.