dice set

A dice set is the small toolkit of tabletop gaming, used by role-players, board-game fans, and anyone who needs random numbers without a phone on the table. By our assessment, its best quality is simple physical clarity: you can roll it, read it, and keep the pace of a game moving without much explanation. The drawback is equally plain, because dice sets are only as good as the numbers they give and the feel of the material, and they do nothing on their own beyond that. In practice the object is less about the dice individually than about having a matched group that belongs to one game or one character, which is why collectors and players both care about the look as well as the function. A dice set sits at the basic end of the hobby, below fancy accessories and above improvising with whatever is near at hand. By our assessment, it is a sensible little purchase for games that rely on chance, and not much use outside that world.