I felt savvy last year to have booked myself a dice advent calendar as the lack of them became a big story, along with awfully bad D&D fake dice advent calendars.
Dicebound, in April, is thinking ahead with a different approach and has launched a Kickstarter with a November delivery estimate for the Fey & Frost themed dice advent calendar. The Kickstarter community has noticed, and the project has hundreds of backers.
It’s a 24-door dice advent calendar, but there are more than 24 dice, as some days have more than one mathrock lurking behind. In total, there are 4 whole 7-piece RPG dice sets.
Dicebound offer different colour themes and, wisely, a Kickstarter around buying more than one of the dice advent calendars. It’s for more than just retailers. If you’ve more than one young gamer in your family, you may find it hard to give a calendar to one but not the other.
There’s a use for Dicebound’s Fey and Frost box in an excellent and green idea. The backs can be used as wall art and go together to forge a single illustration if you want that.
A pledge of CA$75 will get you the “Classic Calendar”, aka the Fey Edition. That means 3 x classic edge dice sets (Fey theme) and one random Frost theme set behind the doors with the advent calendar wrapping. That’s about £46 or $58.
Alternatively, you can go with 4 sets of dice and a bag without the calendar cardboard for the same reward level.
Backers at $128 get the same deal, except the hidden dice are 1 handcrafted sharp edge set of Fey themed and 3 classic edge sets fey themed. Or you can have them all Frost themed.
Higher still, at $250, there are two calendars in a bundle that will get you a combination of classic and sharp Fey and Frost.
Kickstarters aren’t pre-orders, and the delivery window is an estimate. This is a Christmas risk despite Dicebound’s best efforts and good intentions. There are also shipping restrictions.
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