7/10/2023 0 Comments Dispel dice kickstarterKotaku recently interviewed Dispel Dice founder Karen Wang about her campaign and her plans to deal with its massive success. The “Black Emerald” (pictured above), “Crimson Nebula,” and “Mariana Trench” designs are particularly nice. I’m not sure I could ever bring myself to spend $48 on a set of dice, but if I did, it’d definitely be on these beauties. (The lesson? Never underestimate the purchasing power of nerds with disposable income.) Originally starting off with a $20,000 goal, the campaign has raised almost $1.9 million in three days - and as of right now, it still has 29 days left. Take, for instance, the handcrafted sets that have been announced as part of the insanely successful Dispel Dice Kickstarter campaign. What other features do you wish to see in a dice Kickstarter campaign? I would love to hear some of them.I suppose it was inevitable, but now that I’m regularly playing Dungeons & Dragons, I’ve found myself looking for new and interesting dice sets. Just pick the dice that you want/desire/need and leave the rest out. There is no need for a compromise in this campaign. I am pretty sure for those who have backed dice campaigns on Kickstarter before, there bound to be a dice in a set that you do not fancy as much as the rest. This is, surely, going to create a post-campaign logistics and fulfilment nightmare but this has significantly lowered the barrier to back the campaign. You can order any combination of dice that they are offering in any quantity that you want. In this campaign, they did something that is really eye-catching. Since there aren’t any “dice reviewers” on the market, their involvement adds some kind of a validation to the campaign. Despite having nothing special about the dice that they have “designed”, their outreach is the real “commodity” that they are offering in this campaign. ![]() Though they claimed that some dice are designed by the influencers which include Satine Phoenix (community manager for Wizards of the Coast), Ginny Di (well-known cosplayer) and Matthew Lilliard (actor), it’s more like the dice are inspired by their hair colours. I believe this is not something totally new in the world of RPG dice but it is definitely something of novelty and they do not charge extra for these. No middle rolls, just pure extreme rolls. For a high variance dice, the average is still 3.5 per roll but with the distribution at 1,1,2,5,6,6. For a standard D6, the average is 3.5 per roll with 1,2,3,4,5,6 on each face. A high variance, as I have learnt, is basically a dice that gives the same average roll but with a higher probability of rolling the extremes. They have also provided such a wide array of material, colours and they have a novelty feature called a high variance dice. The dice on their campaign are just so B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! Looking at their dice just gives me the impulse to click on the “Continue” button on one of their rewards. ![]() Let’s break down some of the things that brought about their success: Out of curiosity, I did a little research and there were only 2 other dice Kickstarter campaigns, one by Dispel Dice and the other by Kraken Dice, that have racked in more than a million dollars. I don’t think I have ever came across a million-dollar campaign that is not a full-fledged board game. It has already raised a million dollar worth of pledge at the time of writing this entry. I have written this post to talk about a dice campaign that I have chanced upon on Kickstarter called Dice by Wyrmwood. That is one of the reasons why we have decided to design a dice game, Lawless Empire, with 45 customized dice. To create a full-on dice rolling experience with well-crafted dice in a game has always been one of our design goals at Randomskill Games. ![]() Holding and rolling something that is delicately crafted definitely adds so much more to my own gaming experience. Dice has always been a fascination for me.
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