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Is it possible to have too many dice? That's a question I recently asked myself after attending Gamehole Con and CleriCon this month. When I was younger, my answer would certainly have been no, in large part because, in the '80s, there weren't that many dice to buy, at least where I grew up. For the longest time, the only dice I ever owned were the ones that came in RPG boxed sets. They were almost universally terrible – either the infamous "low impact" dice associated with the Holmes D&D Basic Set or the almost-as-bad Dragon Dice from other TSR offerings. I think the first decent dice I acquired were the Gamescience set included in Call of Cthulhu, but it's possible I'm misremembering.Regardless, I cherished every set of dice I acquired, even the bad ones, because, as I said, I didn't have the luxury of being able to pick and choose from a vast array of options. Even when more options became available to me, whether from Gamescience or The Armory, I still rarely bought them – not…

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