Since they used up the 150k already crowdfunded 'in house' though, they want people to buy other factory made sets to get the money for it.ĭispel has since started sending out their kickstarter orders, and only a few months behind despite the size of the campaign paired with the pandemic. Now LHD is looking for factories to finish the other 14 colors of what were supposed to be handmade sets. LHD asked Swordsfall to back off and Lemmie (who ran the LHD twitter) took a break from social media after this. There was also a lot of gross comments about Chinese factories sprinkled in the mix.Īt this point many people were pissed and some got refunds from LHD, but not all those that asked. They both spent a good chunk of time angry that Dispel's kickstarter did so well, and flipped their arguments from Karen (aka Dispel) being white and taking advantage of POC (Karen is asian, however, they just assumed) to then arguing Karen was still taking away opportunities from other POC because she wasn't 'more obvious about it'. Though none of these dice sets would pass muster today, it’s still nice to look back at where we started.LHD and Swordsfall (who has long been a common face in stirring up drama and very recently got outed as an abuser) accused Dispel of stealing from LHD, because a test design had both blue resin and gold foil in it. We’ve come along way in both the methodology and skills we use to make dice since these were made. A cheap Drill Press, a plastic miter box and hand saw, along with a palm sander were all that was used to make the Alpha Dice as my gaming group calls them. The Alpha Diceīelow you’ll find photos of those very first sets of dice that I made entirely with the limited hand tools I owned at the time. Every face of each die is still hand polished, and each die is still a unique work of art crafted by gamers for gamers.įat, bald, pie loving, dice making ninja. Each one is crafted individually, through a mixture of modern CNC machining, and old world handcrafting techniques. Myself and all of the minions at Artisan Dice are committed to making the best dice on the planet. Each set of dice we make is a chance to continually tweak what we do in an on going effort to craft something of absolute perfection. Today, we continue to improve on what was started in 2012. From one fat, bald, pie loving, dice making ninja in his garage, to a full compliment of dice crafting Minions and plethora of machines dedicated to the task. What started as a weekend project turned in to a full time passion quite literally overnight. The AD story is one of over night success. It still astounds me today to think back on that first month of Artisan Dice’s existence. 24 hours later, Artisan Dice was launched, and successfully funded through our first KickStarter in March of 2012. The dice were so well-received that they spent the next several hours convincing me to make them available to the entirety of the Internet. To say the least, my gaming group was astounded. So I headed to the local woodworking shop and picked up a couple dozen blanks of the finest exotic hardwoods they had and set about fashioning several sets of Fudge Dice to give out to my fellow players at the next gaming night. My gaming group had just started playing The Dresden Files RPG and I was not able get the Fudge style dice needed to play the RPG. Artisan Dice owes it’s existence to a complete lack of Fudge Dice on the East side of Dallas, Texas.
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