{"id":786,"date":"2016-08-14T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=786"},"modified":"2016-08-14T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:59:53","slug":"review-easy-roller-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2016\/08\/14\/review-easy-roller-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Easy Roller Dice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Easy Roller Dice Co. sent me a package of dice to review.\u00c2\u00a0 Evidently they overestimated the popularity of my website.\u00c2\u00a0 To date I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve reviewed plenty of books, music, and an eclectic mix of what I suppose you could call Places I Think People Should Visit, but gaming accessories weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t on the list.\u00c2\u00a0 However, as my wife has pointed out, apparently I have an opinion about everything, and that includes polyhedral dice.\u00c2\u00a0 I was paid for all the aforementioned reviews\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby the publications I wrote them for, of course, not the companies that provided the products or services\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the case this time, since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m posting this to my own blog.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose the dice themselves can be considered remuneration, of a kind that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s likely to keep the writer honest: you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bribe someone to write a deceitfully positive review in exchange for something he or she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually like.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, I do like the dice, which means everybody wins\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding you, because now you know where to get your next dice set.<\/em><\/p>\n

In my story \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Game of Dice,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a group of charmingly surly misfits plays a simple gambling game where high roles win, and the currency is years of each other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives.\u00c2\u00a0 As the pot grows, the dice get heavier, and throwing them down is like releasing an imposing pair of weights.\u00c2\u00a0 If that scene were real, the players almost certainly would be using the Gunmetal Dice series from Easy Roller Dice Co.\u00c2\u00a0 The set I have is impressively heavy, and it looks like it was designed for a game with high stakes.<\/p>\n

Gaming accessories can be works of art in their own right, but to fulfill their purpose they should also add to the gaming experience.\u00c2\u00a0 They enhance a game\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s atmosphere while it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being played, or provide a continuing source of inspiration and impatience as you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re waiting for the weekend to come around again.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably why trying out the polyhedral Gunmetal Dice is making me want to put a new gaming group together: the seven-piece set is beautiful, hefty and solid, and with its faux leather case I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m carrying serious equipment for a serious enterprise.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes me want to play something.<\/p>\n

I also received two sets of plastic dice, one burnt amber and the other emerald swirl, each with a black carrying pouch.\u00c2\u00a0 My friend Greg thought they felt unusually light, although I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t notice a weight difference from the dice I already owned.\u00c2\u00a0 With their beveled edges the plastic Easy Roller dice seem to roll longer, and more satisfyingly, than the comparison set, but without any way to quantify this I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m willing to acknowledge that it just might be my imagination.\u00c2\u00a0 Like any good dice set, the numbers are indented and printed in bold, easy-to-read ink.\u00c2\u00a0 They are easily among the most attractive dice I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever owned.\u00c2\u00a0 (The honors for most attractive have to go to the Gunmetal set.)<\/p>\n

The Gunmetal Dice are formed from a zinc alloy and hand plated in reflective black nickel.\u00c2\u00a0 All the dice are standard size (16mm).\u00c2\u00a0 I recommend both the plastic and the metal sets, with the plastic for everyday use.\u00c2\u00a0 These are my new go-to dice.<\/p>\n

Website: http:\/\/www.easyrollerdice.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Easy Roller Dice Co. sent me a package of dice to review.\u00c2\u00a0 Evidently they overestimated the popularity of my website.\u00c2\u00a0 To date I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve reviewed plenty of books, music, and an eclectic mix of what I suppose you could call Places I Think People Should Visit, but gaming accessories weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t on the list.\u00c2\u00a0 However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}