I never owned any of these dice myself, but, growing up in Maryland, I often went to The Armory's shop out in Pikesville, where I do remember having seen these dice, along with many others. Back then, I wasn't the dice connoisseur that I became later, so I rarely was willing to spend much money on random number generators. Even if I had been, I'm still not certain I'd have bought these, but who knows?
Does my dungeon frighten you? I can tell because your mood dice are aqua, baby.
ReplyDeleteI never saw Chameleons, but would've gone nuts over them. I wonder if they stopped changing colors after a few months, like those Hypercolor shirts...?
ReplyDeleteI can think of some fun house rules that could be added with these dice. For instance, in a modern or scifi setting, if a die changes colour then your weapon has over-heated and jammed.
ReplyDeleteI still have a Chameleons d4 -- the problem is the cheap color-change plastic eventually changed color permanently, and then faded to a muddy off-grey.
ReplyDeleteNever saw those, but I did have a set of glow-in-the-dark dice.
ReplyDeleteThought you guys would appreciate these!!! They are just too funny not to comment on. i found them on eBay while searching for Armory blank 1/4" hex maps.
ReplyDeleteStill looking for blank hex maps if anyone knows of a stateside source!!
I've got a set of those dice (all green) and they still work fairly well.
ReplyDeleteBlank hex maps?
ReplyDeleteTry http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/hexagonal/
That page let's you configure custom hex patterns and generates a PDF you can print.
That site is fantastic! Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteI had them and they did stop changing after a few months. But like many dice they are gone evaporated into the ether.
ReplyDeleteI have a couple d30's (orange and green) that I picked up only a few years ago. I'm a sucker for novelty dice. They work just fine.
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