Chessex Pound O Dice | 1 lb Bulk Polyhedral Assortment with Approx 100 Factory Seconds Plus Bonus 7-Die RPG Set | for DND Pathfinder and Tabletop Gaming | Mixed Colors and Styles

Chessex has a well-earned reputation for producing high-quality gaming dice. Most local gaming/hobby shops have displays where you can buy full seven-die sets in gorgeous color combinations for $10 to $15; and they are worth every penny. The dice included in the "Pound-O-Dice" package, as clearly stated in the product description, are "Factory Seconds." This means that these dice -for whatever reason- did not pass the final Quality-Check Inspection. These reasons could include -but are not limited to- the following: 1. Production Over-run; The work order was completed, and these dice were the leftovers completed while changing over to the next work order. 2. Wrong Color; The color of the die -body or number markings- did not match what was specified in that particular work order. 3. Experimental Color; The development team tried a body/marking combination that didn't work (hard to read, otherwise unpopular or didn't sell well). 4. Transition Color; Work order 1 in color A has been completed, and the production line switches to color B for work order 2. The dice are then automatically rejected until they come out fully in color B. 5. Painting Error; The numbers/other markings did not get painted properly. 6. Incomplete Casting; During the molding process, the mold cavity did not completely fill, producing a misshapen or otherwise incomplete and unusable die. 7. Damaged Product; Somewhere along the production line, the die has gotten scuffed, chipped, broken or even welded to another die. For the first five reasons listed above, the rejected dice still meet all other QC standards. They are still every bit the equals of the dice you would find in the $15 gaming set on the shelf at your local gaming/hobby shop; they're just odd, mismatched colors. Over the last ten years, I have ordered eight of the Pound-O-Dice packages. Out of those packages, I have gotten a grand total of FOUR unusable dice: one incomplete casting D10 (discarded), one broken D8 (discarded), and two D6[pips] that were welded together (kept because "why not"). All other dice from those packages went into my ever-expanding collection of spare dice. I've gotten some dice in very interesting color combinations that I'm fairly certain do not exist anywhere else (half color A/half color B; a result of transitioning the molds from color A to Color B). If you want full dice sets, buy the individual sets from your local gaming/hobby shop, or the Wiz Dice Series II 100+ Pack. If all you need is just "more dice," then the Chessex Pound-O-Dice is the most cost-effective way to go that I have found. I will happily continue to purchase the Chessex Pound-O-Dice whenever I feel the need to add to the collection, because, as any table-top RPG gamer will tell you, there's no such thing as "too many dice."

So I'll start off by listing the amount of dice I received. I got: -10 d4s -25 d6 -6 d8 -23 d10 -15 d12 -22 d20 -4 percentile dice making a grand total of 105 dice. Now the reason I went with the Chessex set of dice is because it offered a chance to get more d6s (as I wanted to give some away). I got a little less than I thought I would but keep in mind that in the product description it says "quantities weighted in favor of d6s, d10s, and d20s." Something I overlooked myself. Also, this is not the product for you if you are looking for complete sets. It comes with one speckled set and for me that was the only one. The good: You get a lot of dice for a good price and there is a decent assortment of colors (i.e. marbled, speckled, and opaque) and varying sizes for the d6s. And for the most part the dice were of decent quality (as far as chips, scratches and the like). The bad: Although there is a good assortment of colors I found some to be unattractively speckled. This isn't a big deal for most and for it being random it was pretty good all-in-all. The only things I didn't like was a d4 that has a messed up side, a d6 that has a side with no pips, and a clear d4 and d20 that are awful. The clear d4 has a cutoff design for the edges that I didn't like and a small chip. And the clear d20 has double 8s on it. -------------- All-in-all: The reason this gets 5 stars is because I got everything the product description told me I would. Although some of the dice were flawed (only 4 from what I could see) and some weren't to my liking based on color it's a good way to get a lot of dice.

When I ordered the back, I genuinely expected that what I would get would be a bag full of factory rejects. I expected that 3/4 of the dice or so would be useable, that I'd get 2 dozen worthless d12s and a bunch of d6's and very few others. I expected the complete set to be hideous and worthless. But, I expected that I'd get enough to refill the giant bag of dice I've been using (and losing from) for the last 20 years of playing dice games. To me, that would have been worth the ~$20 and would certainly beat buying 3 or 4 full sets just to make up for the fact that I somehow ran out of d8s and only have like 2d4s left in my bag. I got a far better deal, and am very happy with my purchase. A few of the dice are downright beautiful and make me want to buy a set of just that style. While many of the dice aren't exactly pretty, only three of them look like a factory reject: 2 spent slightly too long in the polisher and some of the numbers are partially missing (still useable though), and the other has a terrible color scheme that makes it difficult to read (still useable, but you have to get pretty close to tell the number). I got a disproportionate number of d20s (you only ever need 1), but otherwise the set is pretty balanced. The full set that came with it is a simple white with red lettering. It's not exactly award winning, but I think it fits a vampire NPC I have in the current DnD game, so I think it's perfect. I'm overjoyed with my purchase and highly recommend it if you're looking to start or refill a dice bag. All in all, here is what I got: d20- 27 (-2 that were overpolished) d12- 10 d100- 5 (-1 that has a bad color scheme) d10- 22 d8- 8 d6- 16 (12 numbered, 3 pipped, 1 mini-pipped) d4- 8 + 1 Complete set (bone white with red lettering) Out of that one bag you have enough dnd sets for 5 players (with extras), enough white wolf sets for 2 players, and enough shadowrun dice for 1 player. That's a pretty great deal and definitely beats buying sets, at least for me. It's a great value and much better than I expected. My dice bag overfloweth once again.

First off, here's a breakdown of what I received: 1 complete set of seven polyhedral dice with teal numbers on off-white. One each of d4, d6, d8, d10, d10%, d12 & d20. (The d6 had Arabic numerals, not pips.) These were in a small manila envelope inside the bag. The remainder were packed loose: 12 x d4 -- eight read at the top; two read at the bottom. No center-read dice. 13 x d6 (Arabic) 9 x d6 (pips) 5 x d6 mini 2 x d6 jumbo 11 x d8 19 x d10 3 x d10% 9 x d12 17x d20 107 dice total! I would have prefered a better balance between the d10 and d10%, but overall there is a good mix of dice here. There was certainly no over-abundance of d6 in this batch. As for being seconds, I saw very few glaring printing or drilling flaws, the most glaring being a d6 with no pips painted or drilled on the "6" face. There are some sloppy bi-color dice where the color lines don't match up to the edges, but those flaws look kind of cool. A couple of the d12s did use an unusual indicator for differentiating 6 and 9: a decimal point following the number rather than an underline beneath it. There are a lot of colors and effects in the bag. The stone-flecked dice are especially nice. One of the d6 had a metallic copper finish. Oddly, aside from some of the d6 minis, all of the dice are opaque plastic. The dice are very diverse -- so diverse that its unlikely any particular bag will contain even a single complete polyhedral set outside of the one that they compile for you in the small envelope. But if you are looking for a large variety of dice of reasonable quality and are not interested in creating sets, this is a great value. Even if you throw out the d6 minis, you are getting each die for under 20¢.

I seem to be the one that loans out dice and supplies on a weekly basis, so having a decent collection is good. This is an excellent start for this. Starting an RPG with some friends that have never played before? There's plenty in here for that, and enough left over for the GM. This is less expensive than buying five matched sets, not counting the one it comes with (reserved for the GM, since they're the only ones guaranteed not to be seconds), and the players would get to pick out their own. My bag came with 96 dice total. 8 d4's (mostly translucent), 24 d6's (8 minis, 9 standard with pips and 7 standard with numbers), 9 d8's, 20 0-9 and 4 00-90 d10's, 9 d12's, and a whopping 22 d20's. A good bunch of dice were speckled in various colors. Not enough for matched sets, but a mix-and-match set would be nice enough, and leave me able to identify by color. Two of the 20-sided die were just a little oversized. One of those seems a little overly rounded--like it went through the polisher twice. It still appears perfectly serviceable. Aside from that one, not a single die seems to be a 'second' in any physical way. The 'seconds' come in the form of the speckled dice that appear to have been between runs. Most are perfect, pretty speckled dice, but the occasional one is one color on one half and another on the other, or collected the speckles toward one corner or face. I would actually love to have a set of matching half-and-half dice. Complaint one: I'm not overly enthused with the matched set that came with this. Perfectly made, like most Chessex products, but a milky semi-transparent white with sparse black specks seems anemic. Not up to my standards as a lover of beautiful dice with character. That said I obviously did not buy a bag of random dice for the looks. I get superstitious about my personal sets so don't lend my matched Blue Blood (gorgeous!) or black/gold ones to ANYBODY; this sickly-looking set will make good loaners without ruining my good sets' mojo, or lend a perfect ambiance to a GM running an undead-based setting. Of course, the matched sets vary. I'm just nitpicking. Complaint two: There's something magical about ducking into the local comic shop and digging through those fishbowls at the counter in the process of converting your pocket change into a handful of carefully-selected dice. You don't get that with this grab-bag, but it certainly gets points for the anticipation when you first open it up and dump it onto your table.

Love getting these, I am back into playing DnD and also have a new group of Magic players to give dice. Been probably 8 years since I last picked one up because it's plenty of dice for anything! Check other reviews for details of what to expect in theory. On the left top, the included set of 7. Pretty good. Left bottom is rejected for play by me. Bottom tier there is very flawed, then a bit chipped, then lightly chipped on the top of the three mini-rows. The four columns on the right are all playable, and sorted by interest/charm. Pipped d6 standards for charm are on the floor, of course. :) Bottom tiers of the type are unremarkable dice. Only 6 total black/white, all in pipped d6, most prevalent overall d20, and third prevalent overall d12. Middle tiers are just less exciting than the top tiers, and I tried to be as objective as possible. There are mid tiers I like more than top tiers, and a few in both tiers are hard to read but I don't dock them for readability. I actually find 3 of the 4 hard-to-read dice are near the top of my top 10 list. (The top right d10 and two bottom left d12) And lower tier dice can fit a character so having a variety of kinds of dice will be great later on. In playable dice: Pipped d6: 6 Regular Tabletop: D4: 8 D6: 6 D8: 7 D00: 6 D10: 15 D12: 12 D20: 26

I played D&D a ton as a kid, and on through young adulthood. I've recently decided to start up a new campaign with some friends. I found all my old rulebooks and some of my notes, but alas, I could not find my excellent dice bag. None of my friends have any dice either, so I decided to just load up heavy. I bought two pounds, and it really worked out well. Just one or the other bag would've been slightly disappointing, but they balanced each other nicely. Bag #1: 12d20 3d12 2d% 21d10 8d8 18d6 13d4 ...plus 23d6 of pipped dice of various sizes, including a giant transluscent pink die with white pips, and three dice that had a hand holding a sword instead of a six. The matched set for this bag was very pale blue with blue specks and dark blue numbers. I really like this matched set better than the second one. Bag #2: 15d20 8d12 4d% 23d10 4d8 10d6 7d4 ...plus 27d6 of pipped dice of various sizes, including a TEENY TINY black one. It's like 2mm on a side or so. There were also three dice that had something like a tiger's face instead of the six. I also got a matched set of seven that are kind of creamy with orange specks and green numbers. So, that's 100 (+7) for the first bag, and 98 (+7) for the second, for a grand total of 212 dice, costing just under 23 cents each. As you can see, each bag was short on either d12s or d8s, but the other luckily evened it out, such that I can make six more full sets, or eleven if I use regular d10 instead of the d% for some of them. It definitely was a crapshoot, though, as I could've easily gotten two bags short on the same type of die, and I also was happy to see how many d4s I got. I also thought it was interesting how many d10s come in the bags, but how light on d% they are. Also, bag #1 had a much prettier assortment of colors and styles, although both were nice, with very few truly ugly dice. A couple of the smaller pipped d6s have blobs of extra paint on a couple faces that make them hard to read, and some of the dice had tiny extra dots of paint or missing coloring in the numbers here in there, but most look basically perfect. Finally, I'm going to use the fifty pipped dice to replenish some old board games, or possibly use as markers for monsters in place of miniatures. My group is totally set to go, and I'm very satisfied with this purchase.

D4: 8 D6: 22 D8: 9 D10: 21 D12: 10 D20: 21 Broken D10: 1 I'm not a tabletop gamer, but I've seen my share of dice as life counter or tokens for games like MTG. My purpose for getting this set was primarily to have on hand for game development. Secondarily just to have the ability to play any game requiring dice on a whim without having to spend time going to a store or waiting on a delivery. Quality: First of all, the package I received and the picture on the listing says the quality is varied. Only one die was torn up enough to make me think it will affect rolls. The overwhelming majority are structurally sound. I checked the numbering on every die and all have the appropriate numbering. I feel that well more than half have one or more rough numbers (example in pictures). This won't affect rolling and doesn't bother me for my purposes, but not the best option if you're wanting flawless dice. The exclusive set seemed to be in better shape than the rest, but it also had some rough numbering, especially on the D4 and D10 as you can see in the picture. For the D6s, all are 16mm except the red one at the end of the group in the picture. I have some 12mm which are a bit smaller, so I'm guessing that one is a 14mm. All other dice seem to be standard sizes. Overall, I'm happy with the set and it fills my need.