Dungeons & Dragons is booming in popularity, not only through social media and pop culture, but simply because more and more people are playing it. The tabletop roleplaying game brings friends and family together to have a good time adventuring.
However, that’s not all that stems from the game’s growing popularity. Like with any piece of culture or media, fans express their love for the game in various ways. D&D has a massive fan art scene, along with comic artists, cosplayers, and dice makers contributing to their hobby. Here are 10 very cool dice designs made by fans of the game.
10 Blackwater Gold By Dispel Dice
Beautiful and intricate, this dice set from Dispel Dice has a mysterious allure to it. The golden, iridescent flecks of gold within the smoky black creates the illusion of murky and mysterious waters. The name, Blackwater, might be an allusion to a swashbuckling NPC from the D&D module titled Waterdeep: Dragon Heist.
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is a sprawling, urban treasure hunt where adventurers are lead through the packed city of Waterdeep, ultimately leading to an encounter against some of the city’s most infamous figures.
9 UFO Themed Dice by CritTradingCo
D&D campaigns and stories come in a variety for genres. From high fantasy adventures and heists to steampunk and science fiction flavored offerings, there’s something for everyone and every sort of group.
It should come as no surprise, then, that the same is true for dice sets. The fans’ passion and diverse tastes shine through in their creativity, sparking ideas such as this crop circle inspired dice set. The green is a lovely shade, beautiful to look at but also a bit alien. The addition of the crop circle designs adds a lovely touch that’s out of this world.
8 Cosmic Embers By Eldritch Chaos Dice
A common joke in D&D circles is about the Fireball and Eldritch blast spells. These spells are both fantastic and destructive, letting daring players make a high risk and potentially high reward move. Besides, who doesn’t love fireballs?
These dice tap into players’ fire loving hearts. With the combination of a beautiful ember red colour and an almost charred, ashy black, this dice set looks almost explosive. Adventurers might have second thoughts before haphazardly tossing these across the table, even if they don’t have second thoughts about casting Fireball.
7 Music Themed Dice By Dice Envy
Bards are a fun and popular class in D&D, for a lot of reasons. They have an undeniable charm to them. They are the masters of arts such as the art of song and speech, aiding their allies in battle and hindering enemies with biting words from the sidelines. They’re an incredibly versatile class.
Dice Envy on Twitter takes the tried and true color combination of purple and white, combining them to make a very elegant set of musical, bard inspired dice. The finishing gives a clean, soft look, and with the musical bar and instrumental designs, it’s like you can almost hear the dice sing as they’re rolled.
6 Ghost Mines By Forbiddengummi
What’s in a name, anyways? A lot, perhaps. This dice set, called Ghost Mines, looks spooky and bone rattling, but in a way, also oddly refreshing. This set of dice looks like ore that adventurers would find in a cave while searching for an ancient treasure.
At the same time, these dice seem to resemble spirits trapped within them. The name of the set is what really brings both images to life, the mine treasure hunt one as well as the ghostly one. Perhaps this set could inspire a dungeon crawl through an intricate, haunted mine with a dark history buried within.
5 Rose Gold Dice Set By Devann
Rose gold is a color that seems to define the world we live in these days. A lot of products are available in this metallic, pastel pink color that leans towards a peach shade. There’s no reason why this shouldn’t extend to accessories and tabletop gaming dice.
This set of rise gold dice by Lady Devann has a wonderfully swirled texture to its design. Not only are the dice themselves colored rose gold, but the numbers are also written in gold, adding to their glamorous energy.
4 Dreamy Green And Blue Dice By StardustCreatives
There’s something awe inspiring when studying the details in a handmade die. A lot of thought, effort, and personality goes into each set. This Dream Loop die is no different, bursting with colors that seem to move and swirl in wispy shapes.
This die evokes a sense of the seaside, with the foamy, swirling colors that could either be seafoam or thin clouds trailing across the sky. If the Blackwater Gold dice evoked a sense of dangerous mystery, then these feel like a call to adventure.
3 The Downed Patron By The Yellow Yuan-ti
One of the most loved D&D classes is the Warlock, a melee spellcaster whose power comes from the pact they have formed with an otherworldly creature, referred to as their patron. The relationship between a warlock and their patron can come in any sort of dynamic, so there’s a lot of flexibility and room for character development in this class. The formation of the pact lets players have a character arc built into their character’s narratives easily.
This dice set clearly alludes to the concept of patrons in D&D, while also evoking deep sea imagery. Adventurers will be piqued by the addition of a hand in one of the dice, and the use of moss to simulate underwater plants is a clever touch.
2 Gilded Rose By The Yellow Yuan-ti
Another set by The Yellow Yuan-ti, this dice set feels like a stark contrast to The Drowned Patron set. Still magnificently detailed and hauntingly beautiful, the Gilded Rose set is a set of mostly clear dice with what looks like gold linings and flower petals inside.
While The Drowned Patron set may seem more at home in a mysterious, unsettling adventure by the bottomless sea, the Gilded Rose dice feel like they belong in a campaign where matters are brushed in a gold coat.
1 Magnetism Dice By Theoretical Dice
Sometimes, experimenting with different things can lead to discovering fascinating results. A lot of times, puzzle solving is a key component of D&D games, and players have to use the tools at their disposal to creatively solve problems and pave the way forward.
Theoretical Dice’s magnetism experiment while making this die illustrates that. There doesn’t appear to be anything fancy going on with this die, as there aren’t any fancy colors or items inside. However, the use of magnetism to create the effect in this die is spectacular. Asymmetric and mysterious, the black streaking in this die looks like a brewing storm, perhaps even a magical one.
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