Greetings from Denmark.
I’ve been ploughing through the forums for a few weeks now – it’s just packed with great information.
I’m trying to establish a home game and looking at upgrading my old dice chips. I’ve gotten a couple of samples(!) so far – and I guess I might as well share my opinion.
Dice chips:
Actually the look and feel is alright considering the price. My main beef with these chips is how slippery they are when handling and how unstable they become when stacked.
Bluff Canyon, metal slugged plastic chips:
They look quite nice - bright colors aligned edge spots and somewhat aligned stickers. They feel really heavy, 13.5g I believe and handle like a dump truck. The somewhat flared/rough edges render the immediate feel a bit worse than the dicies.
12 Star, china clays:
I’m not sure these are a good representation of china clays, but the selection in Europe seems quite limited. I like the classic design although the colors are a bit bland. I like their softer more “natural” feel and sound, but handling them they feel a bit dull and sluggish in an uneven sort of way – hard to describe really.
Lucky dragon, ceramics:
With their smooth edges they feel quite nice to handle – also shuffle super easily. They seem very stable and I imagine they stack to infinity. The printing seems a little faded or blurry – not sure if that’s a general ceramics thing. They have a quite hard/sharp sound to them which I’m not an immediate fan of.
Oh well, the search continues. I guess the answer is more samples…
I’ve been ploughing through the forums for a few weeks now – it’s just packed with great information.
I’m trying to establish a home game and looking at upgrading my old dice chips. I’ve gotten a couple of samples(!) so far – and I guess I might as well share my opinion.
Dice chips:
Actually the look and feel is alright considering the price. My main beef with these chips is how slippery they are when handling and how unstable they become when stacked.
Bluff Canyon, metal slugged plastic chips:
They look quite nice - bright colors aligned edge spots and somewhat aligned stickers. They feel really heavy, 13.5g I believe and handle like a dump truck. The somewhat flared/rough edges render the immediate feel a bit worse than the dicies.
12 Star, china clays:
I’m not sure these are a good representation of china clays, but the selection in Europe seems quite limited. I like the classic design although the colors are a bit bland. I like their softer more “natural” feel and sound, but handling them they feel a bit dull and sluggish in an uneven sort of way – hard to describe really.
Lucky dragon, ceramics:
With their smooth edges they feel quite nice to handle – also shuffle super easily. They seem very stable and I imagine they stack to infinity. The printing seems a little faded or blurry – not sure if that’s a general ceramics thing. They have a quite hard/sharp sound to them which I’m not an immediate fan of.
Oh well, the search continues. I guess the answer is more samples…