Q: What
dice will you trade?
A: I will only take the dice listed on my "Dice Wanted" page.
If the dice you want to trade to me are not listed on that page, don't waste my
time and yours by asking. The answer will be "No". All dice listed on the other
pages that list "Extra" followed by a number, have that many of that die available
to trade out. And I do not trade anything that's on the "For Sale" page. It's only
for sale. So you want dice from me, but you don't have anything I want? Then your
only choice is to buy it. See my page, "Trading/Selling" for details.
Q: Isn't
Dragon Dice a dead game?
A: No way! It was on life support for a long
while, but a new company, SFR, Inc. now owns all rights to the game. They are a
group of Dragon Dice players that formed a company to promote and
expand the game. They have new Dragon Dice products coming out. You
will see them at all major gaming conventions. I am now the President
of the company.
Q:
What are all the name changes to the dice?
A: Here are all the name changes:
| Swampstalkers | Coral Elves | Frostwings | Scalders | Goblins | Eldarim | Magic Items |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Destroyer -> Annihilator | Champion -> Protector | Slayer -> Devastator | Tender -> Dragonne Tender | Harpy -> Harpies | Elemental Dragonslayer -> Dragonhunter | Bronze Targe -$gt; Wooden Targe |
| Annihilator -> Ravager | Hero -> Trooper | Hounder -> Hound Master | Rider -> Dragonne Rider | Silver Buckler -> Steel Buckler | ||
| Ravager -> Warmonger | Trooper -> Fighter | Wolf Rider -> Wolf Master | Web Bird -> Web Birds | Gilt Shield -> Mithril Shield | ||
| Attacker -> Striker | Sentinel -> Guard | |||||
| Mudman -> Mudmen |
Q:
How can I view an individual die and it's faces?
A: If you want to know what a die does or looks like, click on it's
name, and you will get a full description of each face of the die,
and a picture of each face as well.
Q:
What's the best way to ship individual dice?
A: I buy OOO size mailers. These are small 4 x 7
padded envelopes. You can use the ones that the Post Office sells,
but they cost a lot more. Any office supply store should have the
padded envelopes packed 5-25 to a package. They are also sold as
"cassette mailers" since they are the right size for a single audio
cassette.
Q:
What's in a Starter box?
A:For the old TSR starters, a starter includes the following: 1 Dragon, 2
Terrains, 15 Units (9 Common, 4 Uncommon, 2 Rare) for a total of 18
dice. Also included are the rules, a reference card, a dice bag
(one of 4 different colors) and 3 Banner Cards for placing your
armies.
For the new SFR 2-player starters, a starter included the following: 2 Dragons, 4 Terrains (one of each color),
20 units (36 health) of which half are one race and half are another race. Each race includes 1 monster, 1 rare, 3 uncommons, and 5 commons for a total of 18 health.
Also included is a rules book that covers the entire game, and 3 army/reference cards. The two races that are in each box are marked on the back.
Q:
What's in a kicker box?
A: Each kicker contains 8 dice. There are 4
commons, 2 uncommons, 1 rare, and 1 monster. For all kickers except
the Monsters & Amazons (Kicker 1), all the dice are for that
kicker race. Also included is a folding rule book to cover all the
possible dice that could come in that kicker.
Note: Monsters & Amazons is no longer available... The Monsters & Amazons has a random assortment of the first four races (the ones that come in the Starter), and Amazons. The monster is any one of the first five races. The commons are always at least 1 Amazon (sometimes 2 or 3), and the rest random from the first races. There was a problem with the uncommon and rare distribution. The first two thirds of the kickers had no Amazon rares, and at least 1 uncommon. The last third had no uncommons and all the rares were Amazons. To make matters worse, most of the last third went to Europe. So most the uncommons were on one side of the Atlantic, and most of the rares on the other side.
Q:
What are Dragon Shields?
A: The Dragon Shields are foldable cardboard that
you would use in a tournament to hide your setup. Then no one would
know what kind of armies you are bringing to the table and have a
chance of putting in units to counter. They are marked on the
inside with all the sides of all the first five races (Coral Elves,
Dwarves, Goblins, Lava Elves, and Amazons). It also comes with a
book that is a little history of the world. You also get some spell
cards with all the spells that are in the Starters. You also get
some little counters so if you throw 3 Wind Walks, you put down a
Wind Walk card, and put a "3" counter on it.
Q: What is a Dragon Dice Battle Ground?
A: The Battle Ground is 18" square cloth covered
with a rubberized printing. They have the Home in the center,
Burial near you, Reserves and Dead to the sides. The far corner is
marked "To the Frontier". They come in five different versions, one
for each of the first five races (Coral Elves (blue), Dwarves
(gold), Lava Elves (red), Goblins (gold), and Amazons (white)).
They are designed to interlock four of them on a table.
Q: What are Dragon Champions or Dragonkin
Champions?
A: Red and Blue Dragonkin Champions are 4 health
promo dice that were given out at GenCon mostly. They are just like
the other Dragonkin found in Magestorm!, except for their size and
their breath lets you, rather that your opponent, pick which unit
is killed. Click
here to see what one looks like. The Gold,
Black and Green colors have been released! See the SFR, Inc. website for more information and to purchase them.
They are easy to tell from the old Dragonkin Champions, because they have
an "SFR" icon rather than a "TSR" icon.
Q: What is the different between the TSR UK's Gold Dragonkin Champion and SFR's Gold Dragonkin Champion?
A:While most of the dice made for Dragon Dice were made in
Hong Kong, the promo dice were make in the UK. TSR had their UK office handle it,
most likely just because it was easier. So the Red and Blue Dragonkin Champions were
made in the UK. Then the Medallions were made there as well. Since less of the Gold
Medallions were made than the other colors, the plastic molder had some of the plastic
for the Gold Medallions left over. So the TSR UK office decided to make Gold Dragonkin Champions.
This was without the knowledge of the TSR US office. When the UK office started handing
them out at cons, people started asking what they were. The questions got back to the US
office, which at first denied that any such thing existed. It was thought at one time that
these are the rarest dice ever made for Dragon Dice, but since then it was found that
several hundred were made.
SFR's Gold Dragonkin Champion, was made recently along with the Black and the Green.
They are easy to tell from the old Dragonkin Champions, because they have
an "SFR" icon rather than a "TSR" icon.
Q: What are Dragonlords and Dragonmasters?
A: Dragonlords are 4 health promo dice. They can
cast any color magic (but not racial magic). They can also tame
dragons (of any color) when they roll their ID or the TSR icon. The
TSR icon also gives them a save on any individual roll. Otherwise it
does nothing. They are very tough in combat, and are covered with
Special Action Icons. Dragonmasters are the same as Dragonlords,
with three differences. They can only cast magic of their color.
They can only tame dragon of their color. But the TSR logo counts
as two points of anything you are rolling for. Click here to see what a
Dragonlord looks like. Click here to see what a Black Dragonmaster looks
like.
Q: How can you tell the color of the
TSR Dragonmasters?
A: Dragonmasters come in the 5 elemental colors
of the Dragon Dice game. Black, Blue, Gold, Green, and Red. Some of
the colors are hard to tell apart. The Blues are often purple
looking. The rule is: if it has any blue in it, it's blue. The Red
has got to be all red (and white mixed in). The Gold is a muddy
brown more often than not. Sometimes the die is clear, or nearly
black, and you can't see any color until you hold it up to a light.
If it looks black, but shows a different color when held up to the
light, the color seen in the light is it's color.
Q: What's in a Magestorm box?
A: Magestorm is an expansion set for Dragon Dice.
It has three new types of dice, Dragonkin, Magic Items, and Minor
Terrains.
Dragonkin are a single color race, that come in three types, and in three sizes, in all five elemental colors. They are summoned into the game with a new magic spell. There are 6 commons, 4 uncommons, and 2 rares in each box.
Magic Items come in five types, in four sizes, and in all five elemental colors. They give your army a boost in a specialized way. They count toward your allowed health that can be brought to the game. Each 4-sided does just one thing (magic, melee, save, maneuver, missile). The artifacts have an ID (just like normal unit IDs), and a mixture of action icons. There are 3 commons (4-sided), 2 uncommons (4-sided), 1 rare (4-sided), and 1 artifact (10-sided) in each box.
The Minor terrains can be summoned in place of maneuvering the major terrain. They give you a chance to have an action different than the major terrain. There are two minor terrains in each box.
Q:
Did you ever hear of a product called "Treasure Hoard"
A: Originally Magestorm only had Dragonkin and
Minor Terrains. There was another product called Treasure Hoard,
that had magical items, artifacts and a dice-rolling "cup". These
were originally two separate products. It was thought that these
two products were sparse individually, so they were combined. The
dice-rolling "cup" was dropped. Interestingly, the product number
got reused for the Unearthly expansion.
Q: What's a Dragon Dice Battle box?
A: A Battle box was TSR's attempt to take Dragon
Dice to the mainstream game markets at places like Toys R Us. It
comes with a simplified set of rules, the revised rules, a battle
board (just like the army card placement shown in the rules), and
two sets of Starter bags of dice. It comes it a cool box. I got a
couple just for the box.
Q: What are the different rarites of the dice in the kickers?
A: For all the kickers, the rarity of the each type of common and
uncommon is equal. For the last two kickers done by TSR (Frostwings and Scalders), a non-equal
rarity was introduced for the rares. The first five kickers and for Treefolk, all rares are equally
likely.
For Frostwings rares the rarity is:
Most Common : Vindicator 37.1% (26/70)
Common : Slayer 31.4% (22/70)
Uncommon : Assailer 20.0% (14/70)
Rare : Bear-Master 8.6% (6/70)
Ultra-Rare : Magi 2.9% (2/70)
For Scalders rares the rarity is:
Most Common : Blazer 37.1% (26/70)
Common : Charkin 31.4% (22/70)
Uncommon : Dragonne Knight 20.0% (14/70)
Rare : Searer 8.6% (6/70)
Ultra-Rare : Inferno 2.9% (2/70)
All races have different rarities of monsters. The Monsters and Amazons are the tricky ones,
since there are five different races of monsters possible in any box. The rarity of the
monsters in the Monsters and Amazons kickers is as follows:
Coral Elf Common : Gryphon, Sprite Swarm, Tako
Dwarf Common : Androsphinx, Gargoyle, Roc
Goblin Common : Harpy, Shambler, Troll
Lava Elf Common : Drider, Hell Hound, Rakshasa
Amazon Common : Centaur, Hydra, Medusa
Rare : Coral Giant, Umber Hulk, Death Naga, Beholder, Chimera
Chance of getting a rare in a box about 10%, chance of getting a particular rare is about 2%,
chance of getting a particular common is about 6%.
With the 2-player starters out, the chance of getting a common monster for that race is 30% (9/30), a rare monster is 10% (3/30).
Firewalker Monster rarity:
Common : Fireshadow and Gorgon - 25%
Uncommon : Genie and Salamander - 20%
Rare : Phoenix - 10%
Undead Monster rarity:
Most Common : Fenhound - 30%
Common : Skeletal Steed - 25%
Uncommon : Minor Death - 20%
Rare : Carrion Crawler - 15%
Ultra-Rare : Dracolich - 10%
Feral Monster rarity:
Common : Owl-Folk - 30%
Uncommon : Elephant-Folk, Rhino-Folk, Lion-Folk - 20%
Rare : Bear-Folk - 10%
Swampstalker Monster rarity:
Most Common : Mudman - 40%
Common : Swamp Beast - 30%
Uncommon : Swamp Giant - 17.5%
Rare : Crocosaur - 10%
Ultra-rare : Ormyrr - 2.5%
Frostwing Monster rarity:
Most Common : Wolf Pack 40%
Common : Yeti 30%
Uncommon : Cyrohydra 17.5%
Rare : Remorhaz 10%
Ultra-Rare : Frost Ogre 2.5%
Scalder Monsters rarity:
Most Common : Ettercap 40%
Common : Web Bird 30%
Uncommon : Quickling 17.5%
Rare : Will 'o Wisp 10%
Ultra-Rare : Unseelie Faerie 2.5%
TreeFolk Monster rarity:
Redwood : Common - 30%
Satyr : Common - 25%
Darktree : Uncommon - 20%
Strangle Vine : Uncommon - 15%
Unicorn : Rare - 10%
Q:
Do you have a list of all Dragon Dice products?
A: Here is the complete list of TSR products:
Q: How many
different dice are there in Dragon Dice?
A: Regular units: 235 (5 races @ 19 each, 7 races @ 20 each)
Magic item: 103 (5 colors @ 20 each + 3 specials)
Dragonkin: 50 (5 colors @ 10 each)
Dragons: 36 (18 colors @ 2 types)
Terrains: 32 (4 color combinations @ 8 types)
Eldarim: 12 (these are all promo dice)
Other promo dice: 35 (different ink colors or logos, but otherwise the same die)
Reprints: 40 (2 races @ 20 each, different color inks)
Know Misprints: 11 (8 of these are Goblin uncommons)
Total of 436 for players, 522 for collectors
Q: How do
you keep track of all your dice?
A: I use DDAssist,
written by Bruce Parello. It lets you
keep an inventory of all your Dragon Dice. Bruce no longer plays Dragon Dice,
but has allowed me to continue supporting the program.
Q: Do you know of any dice games almost as good as Dragon
Dice?
A: I like Chaos Progenitus. I've also started
collecting Chaos Progenitus. See the link on the bottom. Chaos
Progenitus is a quick play game. It's also quite simple. I've tried
Dicemaster, Marvel Super Dice, and Star Trek Dice games. Dicemaster
is one of those games that has tons of rules that you have to learn
before you can even setup the game. It's fun to play, but not a
quick game. Marvel Super Dice looks simple, but since there are so
many character dice, you have to keep the reference chart handy to
know what the special power is for the face side of the die. It is
a another quick play game otherwise. I've yet to figure out how to
play Star Trek Dice. I picked up a box of Pracoro (Pokemon dice).
Since it's all in Japanese, I'm having a hard time figuring it out.
Dragon Dice, Chaos Progenitus, and Dicemaster are the only dice
games that only require the dice and the rules. No playing boards,
cards or other accessories are required. Marvel Super Dice requires
a playing board. Star Trek Dice requires a status panel (playing
board). Pracoro requires counters, cards, and other little pieces
of plastic (I don't know what they all are for).
Q: What
form of payments do you take?
A: I can take money orders, cash,
PayPal, and electronic payment. I do not ship until I receive payment. Please check with me before hand if you want to
send payment any way other than thru the normal mail. I've had a lot of problems with payments sent via Fedex. If you send
via the mail, and a signature is required, I may not be able to pick it up before the next Saturday.
PayPal is an electronic payment system that let you use credit card or your checking account to pay anyone and I ship as
soon as possible after I get the payment email. For other
international orders in countries not supported by PayPal, I have to charge %10 for credit cards, but
ship right away.
Q: How
soon do you ship?
A:Generally I try to ship as soon as possible. However, the Post Office near me
has just changed their hours to 8am to 5:00pm Monday thru Friday. I have to be at work at 8, and I
usually just get home by 5:30. So I'll only be able to ship out on Saturday mornings. If I can find a
way to get a package out during the week, I'll try.
Q: What is
your return policy?
A: If the dice are damaged or chipped, I will accept a return. I ask that you return
the dice to me, and I'll send out replacements. If the problem is the paint job of the dice, then do not
ask me for a return. When I picked out dice to scan in for the icon pictures, I had to use as many as
six dice (on a six-sided!) in order to get "perfect" icon pictures. Sorry, but I have found that almost
none of the dice are defect free from paint defects. The most common defect is small "pips" that are
not painted. Frostwing archers and cavalry almost all have this defect.
Q: Do you
have a store and is selling Dragon Dice how you make your living?
A: I do not own a store nor have I ever owned a store. And I do not make a living
off Dragon Dice. This is a very overgrown hobby for me. I have to work 8 to 5 to make a living. So
I'm not always around to answer each question right away, nor can I always ship right away.
For the really curious, I'm an electronics engineer. :)