Review on Titan Dice Polyhedral Roleplaying Accessories by Michael Thaxton

Recommend.Review: Many people have already praised the dice and box, and I should be ahead; They look like those silly little knick-knacks that I like. The box comes in handy as a small dice storage box, has that "cute, silly, and fun" feel I want for roleplaying related paraphernalia, and the dice look beautiful. They're easy to read, the awesome wavy embellishments look fun without obscuring the numbers, the colors stay where they should be and the edges look consistent. Table. Get a dice tray, a box, some restraint, anything. Don't be the one who pauses every five minutes by dropping ten minis and six dice off the table because you feel like you need to throw the same way an MLB pitcher throws a split-fingered fastball. - Buy the gaming audience as Grognard. Wiz Dice prides itself on making dice that should be as close to a truly random outcome as possible. They aim for well-made and balanced products. Most plastic cubes are made by pouring molten plastic into a mold. When making cheap dice, this process can involve air bubbles, small vacuum-sealed bits, or pieces of unmelted plastic that result in "inclusions" that unbalance the dice. In essence, the density of a poorly manufactured die is not uniform throughout the die. Also, poorly made dice can have edges that cause the dice to favor certain numbers since the dice lose more energy rolling over that edge due to their unevenness. That's why casinos don't skimp on their dice; Even a tiny statistical advantage is discovered and the casino loses the tiny margin it needs to keep the business going. Enter the salt (or sugar) water test, which is a cheap way to spot poorly made bones. The plastic bones *almost* float in the water. Add enough salt (or sugar) to the water, literally as much salt as the water dissolves, and the already denser salt water will start to float on top of the plastic cubes. Cubes with inclusions like bubbles are slightly less dense and will float first. When you spin a dice with a floating bubble, it tends to fall on the same number(s) over and over again. This is more common with single-color dice than clear ones, since clear dice show imperfections more clearly. A cube without bubbles will not float as close as a cube with bubbles due to density. Because of this, cheap dice are pretty much the dice for cheaters. They're just junk inside. Obviously the salt water test doesn't work with metal cubes that are too dense to float no matter what you do with the water. Are these Wiz Dice reliable? Does that mean the bones are bad? No, did you read the first sentence of this review? I supersaturated the water and went to the bones. They were sinking - a good sign because that means they didn't have huge bubbles keeping them afloat. More salt and it *barely* rose from the bottom of the cup, another good sign. As they were twirled around my water glass, they didn't prefer to approach from either side, showing that the bones lacked any of the noticeable internal defects that this simple test would reveal. After visual inspection, the edges are good and flat. I can't say these dice live up to casino quality as I don't know how casinos review their dice but compared to the cheap junk you see at table games they will. So good on Wiz Dice; these cubes actually correspond to the declared goal of the company to produce better and better cubes.