The second thing you notice in this Kickstarter is the name of the company; ‘Flying Horseduck’. Good one. Of course, the first thing you’re likely to notice is how their golf ball sized 60-sided die could probably be used as a thrown weapon! They’re asking for US$10,000 to mill and laser all these die and hours into launch already have nearly US$7,000. You can follow their progress via the campaign page.
I think the offering is pretty simple. You can buy one or more dangerously shaped, 60-sided, black die. There are seven different types of milled metal dice; the d4, d6, d8, d12, d10, d00 and d20.
I get how that works. The d20, for example, has the numbers 1 through 20 appear three times on the dice in appropriate positions so that you have got an equal chance to roll 1, 20 or any number in between.
How does the d8 work, though?
That seems a little less smart. The numbers 1 through 8 appear multiple times on the dice, but there are 4 ‘re-roll’ faces. Flying Horseduck reassures potential backers than 93.33% of the time the sharp black dice won’t roll a re-roll so you’ll barely notice.
The pledge tiers are pretty straightforward. US$39 (not $40) for any one dice with early bird. Those are running out quickly! Did you miss it? That means you’ll be paying $49 for a single dice.
It seems to be much better value to get the full set of seven which will cost early birds US$199 and everyone else US$249.
I imagine shopping won’t be fun. The full set is about 1.2 lbs of aluminium. If you don’t like fiddly little dice that dodge your fingers and won’t pick up then these laser edged chunks of metal are for you.
The costs make these sort of dice you’ll use as a collector’s item or as a gift I note that the casing the milled metal die come in as a good fit for that. We’re talking lovely pouches, and foam lined boxes.
Tempted to splash the cash on some hunks of metal? You can back the campaign here.
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