I could use some advice...

[Ravenarchon]

Not really for the GMing side of things, but I wasn't sure where else to put this. The advice I need is where one can buy some good dice. Are there certain websites that the people here use?

I'd like to get my hands on about 15ish d6s, and I'd like to pick out certain ones. As far as I know there's no real comic shop around where I live, so I'm basicly stuck using the net. I want to get some dice that use actual numbers on the faces and not dots.

So anyone know a website that's trustworthy, and let's you pick out which dice you want?

Also on a unrelated note (but still about buying things), I want to actually start my collection of books and I was wondering what books are considered must haves/fantasticly written etc. I think there may have been a question sort'a like this posted already, but I don't remember the post's title and as long as I'm already asking a question, no sense in making another post.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[vong]

if there is a general game store near where you live (board games etc) or a smaller toy store, you can usually find dice there as well.
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[ifurin]

the best place to get dice is your local game store. i would suggest getting a chessex block of dice. their about 1/2 size and come in packs of about 36. or if you want some interesting but much more expensive dice (which i don't recommend for people just starting gaming) then look at crystal caste. i think they have websites but the best place is your local game score. they can give you good (and maybe better) advice on what to buy.

[Ankhanu]

Hell, you can get dice at Walmart... they're with the playing cards.
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[cheshire]

Ohh... you don't want THOSE dice. You want the nice ones. The pretty ones... the ones you pay a lot more for.

http://www.chessex.com

Now those are the dice you really want... and that I have hundreds of. I would say that it's a problem that I need help for, but I haven't bought any more dice in over a year... though there are hundreds of them in my little dice box.
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[cheshire]

Sorry for the double, but if you want a cheaper alternative for the classic dice (plainish looking D6's) you can go to

http://www.crystalcaste.com

I have to say, though, that their crystal dice are very attractive.
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[Ravenarchon]

o-o The chessex dice look like what I'm looking for. Sadly as far as I can tell they don't have PICTURES of their dice. How can I know what I want if I can't see exactly what I'm ordering.

Edit: Nevermind, I found the pics. Now if only they accepted paypal.

[ZepDek]

Ravenarchon, as for dice I recommend most hobby stores, but for books, I really liked the D6 Death star technical compainon (really has loads of useful information about the empire in general), and for wealths of information I'd recommending a big honking Star wars Encyclpedia. I got one a while back and its a bit old but it still great. I'll try to find it so I can tell you who makes it.

[FightingCorsair]

When I first started gaming I plundered all the dice from the board games in the house. Of course every once and a while I'd here my name being yelled from across the house. Axis and Allies comes with 12 dice.

Gaming and SciFi cons are likely to have tables and tables of dice. I just picked up some Chessex dice this summer at DragonCon. We were just starting to get back into SW gaming and it was a good opportunity to get some new stuff.

Six siders should be available anywhere. Anyplace that carries card decks and other gambling stuff should have them.

[Ravenarchon]

I finally settled on, and bought two blocks of chessex 12mm dice. 36 dice per block. I got one translucent red block, and one translucent blue block (Red and Blue lightsaber colors ;D). My plan is to use the red dice as the wild dice and the blue as the main. I think that'll look pretty danged cool.

[Orpheus]

[Orgaloth]

When we started playing star wars, a friend and I brought a cheap set od 24 d6's each, me with red dots, him with white, and we just swapped a die each. Voila. We had one die different in our sets which made our wild dies. He later painted the dots on his blue.
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