Reddit reviews Koplow Games KOP10827 Jumbo Polyhedral Dice Game Set

For everyone's benefit, here they are: Kaplow Jumbo Polyhedral

They are great dice. Either the multicolored or their uniform colored sets of jumbo dice are great--I have all but the blue, I think, and that's coming. In the end things like visibility, contrast, good weight, and the like just beat fancy scripts or intricate designs or "cool" factors by a lot, for people like me.

(Note, I am not a shill for Kaplow... I only regret they don't make an orange set, as one of my players is a junkie for the color orange)

I use these around kids who might choke on dice and also because I am old and blind:

https://www.amazon.com/Koplow-Games-KOP10827-Jumbo-Polyhedral/dp/B002IXM1EK

Koplow Games KOP10827 Jumbo Polyhedral Dice Game Set https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002IXM1EK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GItkDbDHH3J5J

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Here's a really good DM Screen/Player Cheat Sheet that I would recommend. Pages 1, 2, and 6 are all really good things to have extras of for players to look at and read.

I'd see about getting a set of these dice or something similar. Large size (so they don't walk away!) and different colors so you can say "roll d12, that's the white one". Have at least one extra d20 for rolling at Advantage and Disadvantage.

I'd recommend pre-made characters, and I'd recommend spell cards for all the spellcasters.

Do you have a UK branch at all? We play here mostly using theatre of the mind, not sure how it works over the Internet though, I've only played/GM'd with the group all around one table

For those who are partially sighted , we found these jumbo polyhedral dice, each die a different colour

UK Amazon link here

US Amazon link here

Koplow Games Jumbo Polyhedral Dice

The edge of the cube is 2.4cm. edge dodecahedron = 1.3cm. edge tetrahedron 3.1cm

There are some dice with larger numbers, and some quite large dice, if you look around.

When I go into decent game shops (not much lately, there's none local any more), they usually have a few dice that look to be about double normal size with large numbers.

Here, for example, are images of oversize (34mm) d20s, that show the kind of thing I've seen regularly in stores:

http://www.dnddice.com/cart/index.php/oversize-d20-s.html

Those are really quite big.

These are a little smaller - about 25mm, which is still pretty large:

http://www.mathartfun.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/PolyDice.html

They're not too expensive and have good contrast.

Amazon's site has a seller jumbo polyhedral dice from koplow (you see koplow dice in most game stores):

http://www.amazon.com/Jumbo-Polyhedral-Assorted-Colors-KOP10827/dp/B002IXM1EK

You can find those dice online in many places. Here's koplow's own catalog page :
http://www.koplowgames.com/page82.html

your local FLGS can probably order them in for you if they don't have them in stock already.

Those, IIRC are about double standard size (but don't forget if you double the dimensions, they weigh 8 times as much).

For really large dice you can go to Learning Resources foam dice:

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-Jumbo-Foam-Polyhedral/dp/B003IHTZGW/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t

Those are designed for classroom demonstrations. They're probably bigger than you want.

Here's a kickstarter that was recently funded, which has less gigantic but still large 2-inch foam dice:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miniongames/giant-2-inch-soft-foam-polyhedral-dice

This would avoid the table-damaging weight of overdoing a roll with a big plastic die.

And you can often find specialized dice that are relatively large. Some 'spindown'-type dice are fairly big

-- here's a 55mm (!) d20 that koplow sell:

http://www.koplowgames.com/newitems.html or http://www.koplowgames.com/17970.jpg

-- for d10s, for example, SJG's Munchkin dice are really pretty big. I wouldn't want one to hit me. They have a munchkin-head instead of a 0 but that should pose little problem. They went out of print but you can still find them here and there.

My white one has great contrast. Edit: It looks like they have reprinted them more recently:

http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/leveldice/ (those are expensive, if you shop around you can probably find the old ones much cheaper)



You can also look at improving contrast (choosing lighter colored dice with dark ink or dark dice with light ink, or even re-inking dice in stronger-contrast colors).

Another possibility is that with dice-rolling programs, some of those may be induced to display rolls nice and big, also.


(All those links took only a few minutes with google, by the way... what the heck were you searching on? I started with big|large|jumbo|oversized polyhedral|roleplaying dice and went on from there)