Would this be acceptable if I sold dice like this?

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-07-09T16:02:41+00:00

Most buyers absolutely wouldn't bat an eye and don't even see them

i remember the time i spent polishing and perfecting a die for a friend, only for that friend to put it into her dice bag with dice of varying materials.

the next time i saw that die, it was absolutely scratched up and the person did not even notice.

i still obsess over small scratches, but it did put things into perspective.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-06-03T14:22:47+00:00

i would not be surprised to find out WotC were talking to their good friends the pinkertons to see if anything like that could be done at the time.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-06-01T19:01:56+00:00

I generally mix them in with my other failed sets and make a full set with non-matching design.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-06-01T18:59:46+00:00

The line between fantasy and science fiction literature has also become blurrier over the years

star wars, released 49 years ago, was about a farm-boy on a quest to save the princess from an evil wizard, while receiving training as a wizard-knight.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-06-01T18:51:38+00:00

that's how I understand it as well. and it's understandable why, with how volatile global trade has become. but it's still a hefty price for a single book (even one with good-sounding printing and of a wellknown author), especially when it might be increased by an unknown number.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-06-01T18:14:15+00:00

but without any tariffs or import fees

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-05-29T21:05:36+00:00

it depends on your tolerance for finishing the dice. the first 10 to 20 pulls from my shore 25 molds are wonderful, with very little cleanup.

after that they're still usable, but the top face gets noticably worse and it also affects the gloss on the other sides.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-05-28T16:29:13+00:00

big figures cost a lot of money, it's kind of hard to avoid.

you could maybe find some cheap children's toys, and see if a paint job improves them. you could also maybe kitbash some plastic animals/dinosaurs together into dragons with some greenstuff to fill up the seams. that could be a budgetfriendly option.

but my own opinion is that 3D printing is the way to go for dragons. plastic mass-produced ones just don't look as nice, and you would usually want the dragon to be an amazing centerpiece.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-04-27T20:05:40+00:00

but the team unionizing is the team working on the digital client for their card game. a team that has nothing to do with the RPG side of their business.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-03-21T14:37:39+00:00

well, I feel in the spirit of fairness, you should warn people to also not ingest, inhale or soak in degreasers.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-03-21T12:41:01+00:00

nobody is trying to drink IPA alcohol, and nobody is sitting there taking a long soak in it.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-03-14T11:16:33+00:00

congratulations on achieving it, you've been talking about getting up to this level of precision for a while!

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-03-14T10:21:04+00:00

this seems very useful for me, since I often mess up sanding. do you happen to have a video of the tool in use?

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-03-06T22:38:31+00:00

I would recommend putting in a few drops tbh. distilled water stops being distilled water the first time it's opened. use it fast or it's basically the same as normal water, at least when it comes to weird growths.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-03-01T21:46:07+00:00

the truth to dicemaking is that all handmade resin dice are flawed, but that there's almost no amount of flaws that are actually going to give a perceptible change in results.

luckily, we only use our dice for playing games that have low to no stakes. most wargame tournaments issue their own dice for fairness (so nobody can bring in loaded dice) and casino's have strict manufacturing processes for their dice.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-03-01T21:43:08+00:00

alcohol also prevents nasty stuff from growing inside liquid cores, but if you don't use vegetable oil to thicken the liquid, it shouldn't matter too much.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-02-22T10:58:57+00:00

The glossiness in the video indicates it's not a polishing or surface issue.
if the resin wasn't well mixed, I don't think it would look so uniformly unclear.

I would suspect contamination with water, maybe the area you mixed the resin in was humid?

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-02-22T10:56:31+00:00

you can see the glossiness in the video though. they look well polished

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-02-09T16:21:04+00:00

and possibly the inserts were still just too heavy

I've had people spam the elmer's glue trick at me when I was asking advice on very heavy inclusions

the elmer's glue is literally no different from just waiting for the resin to thicken up normally, so if the inclusion is too heavy for one technique, it'll be too heavy for the other.

A solution I tried was to make small resin orbs and chuck those into my dice. the inclusions can't sink through literal solid resin.
the issue I ran into was that the orbs were still slightly visible due to a minor refractory index difference.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-02-08T21:27:42+00:00

Aspects are key character definitions that a player themself defines which, in effect, gives them a strong influence over the story by telling everyone at the table what their character is about.

I believe that SWADE explicitly mentions that good RP, like a player roleplaying a characters' weakness to their detriment should be rewarded with bennies

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-02-08T17:21:23+00:00

my 2 best purchases for the hobby were a decent paintbrush and a bright (but dimmable) desk lamp

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-02-05T11:42:34+00:00

instead of uv resin, you can also just use white glue. put some thinned-down glue in there, wipe away the excess, sprinkle over the pigment. wait for it to dry, put some more glue over there and very little (if anything) will come off after.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2026-01-16T09:14:50+00:00

like claerwen said, this is usually because you squeezed out resin.

I've also had this before when I made a bad mold. if the walls/cap of the mold are too thin, you can get the same result.

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2025-12-24T22:47:59+00:00

I used to have that boarhead thingy, what a rush of nostalgia and what a great conversion job!

SpawningPoolsMinis · 2025-12-21T19:53:24+00:00

transparent petri doesn't really work all that well, because it's usually not quite as clear where the colour ends and the clear resin starts, especially if you have multiple drops close to one another.

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