Hero Forge has launched a new Kickstarter that pretty much any gamer that uses dice can get excited about: Custom Dice. Hero Forge is already one of the leaders in making custom miniatures, and now with the ability to make custom dice, your gaming sessions are going to reach a new level.
Real quick nitty gritty is that the Kickstarter campaign for Custom Dice ends on April 5 and the lowest reward tier is $39 (shipping not included) for a single custom die, early access to the dice maker, and 1 month of Hero Forge Pro. Higher reward tiers include additional dice, miniatures, and more.
Time for some transparency. Hero Forge did reach out about covering the Kickstarter and they did send me a statuette and XL D20 to match it (of their choice, not one that I got to customize).
You can see the pictures below, but these items were to help me get some hands on with what to expect from final products and I’ll sprinkle my own, subjective thoughts throughout the post with all the details.
What are custom dice? They’re dice that you get to design using Hero Forge’s tools. This means that you can design something on Hero Forge and then put it (or part of it) into a die (or dice) of your choice. Then, you can customize the fonts to really make the die yours.
Available dice include the standard array of (slightly bigger than my Chessex sets) polyhedral dice such as a D4, D6, D8, D10/%, D12, and D20. There’s also the XL D20 that is 38mm instead of 25mm (my standard D20 measures around 20mm for reference).
This is what I was sent and it is massive. In fact, the XL D20 is big enough where you could potentially fit your entire character’s miniature inside of it. Another perk is that you can have the D20s set to a Life Counter to make it easier to track things across all games such as tokens or life in Magic: The Gathering.
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