Rookie Mistake #1: No Dice Tray
Let me take you to a scene in Bull Durham , a baseball movie that has absolutely nothing to do with tabletop gaming— and yet, somehow, everything to do with dice collecting. A hotshot young pitcher is bragging: he’s got a Porsche, he’s got a quadraphonic Blaupunkt stereo system, he’s flying high. But his veteran catcher— grizzled, grounded, and not here for nonsense— gives it to him straight: “ Christ, you don’t need a quadraphonic Blaupunkt. What you need is a curveball!” Now hold that thought. Because if you’re the kind of person with 40+ sets of sharp edge dice , one- of- a- kind resin swirls, and a growing addiction to mystery dice drops… you may just be the pitcher in this story. And what you need? Is a dice tray. 1. THE BEAUTY OF CHAOS— UNTIL IT’S NOT Don’t get me wrong— I love the chaos. The dnd dice that glow in the dark, the ones filled with floating koi, the absurdly sharp ones that feel like they could stab a god. Chaos is kind of the point. But chaos without bo...