Comments on: Ink Nerds I Have Known: Ezra

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:35:22 +0000

Great post. I’m going to link to it on my web site about everything dice (including tattoos).

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:06:46 +0000

Thanks!

By: JohnO

JohnO — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:00:22 +0000

It’s not really wrong, per se, but if you’re gonna have a pair of d10s to represent rolling %iles, one of them could have been the tens 00-90 or 10-00. I saw the 8 on the d4 but figured it to be due to pic quality. I completely missed the importance of misreading the 7 as a 1 which would have shown two “ones” on a side. Nice eye for spotting the rolling problem represented by the 2 & 4.

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By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:22:49 +0000

I just bought a set of black with silver numbered dice for a Cthulhu game. They are pretty sweet. Not everyone who played had their own dice, so I had to share. Boo.

By: tim h

tim h — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:49:39 +0000

Be careful with those doubled-digit dice, I once missed numerous to-hit rolls because I was using an un-crayoned old fashioned 1 to 10 twenty-sider.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:43:51 +0000

Ding ding! That is the error I was referring to (there also seems to be a “7″ on that die. Evidently, it’s pretty common for tattoos of dice to fudge which numbers are show on each face in the interest of readable longevity and space constrictions, but adding a 7 and and 8 to a 4-sider is just silly.

Ezra, while I was doing some research to make sure there wasn’t some variant on a 4-sider that did indeed include numbers up to 8, I came across these “barrel dice,” manufactured by a company called Crystal Caste:

http://crystalcaste.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CC&Product_Code=06010&Category_Code=CD

But I think I would prefer the doubled digits on an 8-sider, as you suggest.

By: Ezra

Ezra — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:14:34 +0000

The 4-sider (pyramid) has an 8 on it. What is that, some kind of Formula DE die?

I always have disliked the pyramidal 4-sider because of how hard it is to pick up. But then I learned that some thoughtful soul made octahedral dice (8 sides) that go from 1 to 4 twice, “four-siders” with 8 sides, easy to pick up. You can find them in dice stores on EBay.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:51:30 +0000

You, sir, are correct! But that’s actually not the error I was thinking of… Let’s see now, how many bonus points are in a mondo-nerd point? I’ll tally up scores at the end.

So, Jamietoon, I didn’t know your website was up and running! Looks great! I can’t wait to see it when it’s a little more fleshed out. More flesh, please!

In the meantime, I’m adding you to the blogroll under “Tattoo Artists and Shops” (although you also qualify for at least 2 other categories…).

By: Jamietoon

Jamietoon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:04:09 +0000

The d4 would read “2″ and “4″ simultaneously if rolled on the top-facing side.