Beadle & Grimm’s Celebrates Their 5-Year Anniversary With Limited Edition Dice Sets

Welcome to the table,

My parents never really liked the stuff I was into. If it could not be turned into some kind of religious use or be used to make money in a way they understood they sorta saw it as useless and not worth the time it took to learn more about it or explore it.

Somehow, though, they were friends with a guy, we will call him Hank, and Hank was the biggest nerd I’d ever met in my entire life. Granted my life up to that point was maybe 11 years, so I didn’t have a lot of time on this planet to go on, but what I did know was Hank loved comics and TTRPG and video games in the same way that kids did… and unlike kids, Hank had adult money.

Whenever the opportunity presented itself to be rid of me, my parents took it. As Hank did not have a family, they somehow convinced him to take me off their hands. Every once and a while, the two of us would head off in random directions to do random errands for my parents. While going this way or that, Hank would tell me about Spider-Man and Blackcat or Honor Harrington and the space monkey things that inhabited the books she was in.

Unlike any other adult in my life, Hank would listen to me when I was trying to work through plot points for a TTRPG. My not-even-teenage mind was trying to build worlds and he would listen and then offer suggestions based on the 1970s D&D he had played.

You see, Hank predated AD&D and to a kid who knew what AD&D was and knew it had been around longer than I had, I saw him as a sage-like figure in my life akin to Merlin or Elminster. On top of being this pillar of nerd-dom, Hank was also super chill about my disability. Sure, he would overcompensate from time to time but for the most part he did not make a big deal about it, he just treated me like a person. Not a kid, not a disabled kid, not a member of the “lords flock” but just… a person. I think on some level his lack of relationships and family and my lack of friends and support from home sorta made us these weird reluctant partners.

For those who are fans of Dragonlance, I was the Tasslehoff to his Flint as it were. I’m sure I was annoying and full of questions and nervous energy, but I was hardly ever allowed to talk and when I was, it was never about dragons or the dungeons they inhabited.  Due to his understanding of the things I put value in, old Hank was often subjected to the stream of continuous that bubbled forth whenever he was around, and unlike most adults in my life, or honestly kids for that matter, he listened and offered feedback from time to time.

It was Hank that actually showed me my first set of designer dice. One day at the table in the back of the comic shop we would frequent he pulled out a little silk bag and produced a set of TTRPG gaming dice from it that were made out of some kind of precious stone. I think it was amethyst and I’m fairly certain that he mentioned to one of the other older guys who hung out back there, that he paid over $100 for them.

Now with inflation being what it is $100 to adult me is a fair bit of money to spend on something, so in the mid-’90s, to kids me this was a fortune to spend on something that my parents made fun of. Here, Hank was dropping what I considered vast wealth on dice… a thing that I cared about and saw value in. Until he came along, I was at least somewhat concerned with my own mental state over wanting to buy because the message I was getting was that these things were worthless in the grand scheme of the world.

What’s wild to me is that over time, Hank would come to own many sets of those fancy stone dice. Obsidian, amethyst, tiger’s eye, blue ones with white veins through it made of some kind of stone I could not pronounce. Hank had adult money and he spent it on the stuff he loved and there was not a damn person living or dead who could tell him he could not do it.

Hank would have loved these dice.

The beloved TTRPG company Beadle & Grimm’s is 5 years old. In celebration of this milestone, they are releasing a limited edition of the two dice sets that are nearest and dearest to their hearts. The Rogue Character Dice Set for Beadle, the world’s greatest Dungeon Delver, and the Barbarian Character Dice Set for Grimm, the Giant Slayer.

These dice sets are beautifully crafted from semi-precious stone and crystal and are uniquely curated for each of these iconic character classes. Each comes in its own custom-engraved wooden case as a testament to those who come together to share the love of the game.

The Beadle’s Rogue Dice Set includes 16 dice in two unique materials, Black Obsidian and Red Granite. The Black Obsidian set is the full standard set of 7 dice, while the Red Granite set consists of 9 rogue-specific dice including extra D6s for backstab.

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass created when felsic lava rapidly cools with minimal crystal growth. Red Granite is a red and brown granite quarried throughout the world. Created by the crystallization of magma below the Earth’s crust, granite is mainly composed of quartz and feldspar. Granites and marbles are more durable than other stones and are less likely to chip or break.

Grimm’s Barbarian Dice Set includes 14 dice in two unique materials, Red Crystal and Opalite. The Red Crystal set is the full standard set of 7 dice, while the Opalite set consists of 7 barbarian-specific dice, including extra D20s and D12 for great weapon damage!

Opalite is a synthetic opalescent glass that resembles the stone, Opal and is usually anywhere from clear to milky color and can take on an unearthly, luminous blue glow, to a milky, warm, pink, or even orange one.

These dice are beautiful and crafted by a company that has its foundations in spending time around the table playing TTRPG with your friends.

Only 300 of the Rogue set and 100 of the Barbarian set are made, so if you want to snag them both check out this link and go have fun with some truly adult money-level dice!

Until next time, sometimes the stuff we do for others echoes into infinity. Kindness is free… show it when you can, you never know when a weird little kid desperately needs it.