Recently the Mystery Dice Goblins (https://mysterydicegoblin.com/) provided me with three of their Mystery Dice Bags and asked for an honest review. To help me with this, I recruited some willing youth from our Roll for Joy D&D Youth Group. Check out the video below. (Apologies for the poor camera work and sound, that’s what you get sometimes when working with youth!)

Each of these dice sets contain a full set of seven color-coordinated rpg dice. While the packaging is difficult to open, we loved the artwork on it. The beholders and the dice mimic were fun and beautifully done. Once we got inside we found that the dice were finely made. As one of the youth said, “they don’t feel plasticky”. They spin, they sparkle, they go clackity-clack, and they brought a bit of unexpected surprise to our dice collection.

The quality of the dice was good. I especially liked the opaque purple ones and the blue ones with reddish smears. The translucent pink ones were difficult to read the numbers on and I wouldn’t have selected them otherwise.

My players enjoyed taking these dice for a spin in our adventures. The dice rolled well, or at least well enough to enable them to sweet talk a nasty black dragon wyrmling into becoming their accomplice on their quest for the Gems of Power.

On their website, the dice goblins Lee & Lucy sell their mystery dice bags for $9 each, or you can subscribe for 10% off. The subscriptions give you a new and different set of dice that will keep things fresh. And they ensure that the sets will be different each month. Plus you get extra bonuses the longer you subscribe.

• Month 3 – D20 Mystery DnD Dice Bag
• Month 6 – DnD Pin
• Month 9 – Mystery Box
• Month 12 – Mystery Bag & D20 Mystery Bag

Final Thoughts

I do still prefer picking out my own dice so that they match a particular character concept I’m playing with vs. getting a random set in a mystery bag; however, a mystery dice bag or subscription would make an interesting gift. There are so many choices for dice out there, the mystery bag takes the decision fatigue out of getting a new set for a player you care about. I know my youth players enjoyed having a unique set of new dice to call their own.

While I generally like to create my character first and match my dice second, a mystery dice bag could also present an interesting character creation challenge. Get a bag and then create a character who would be representative of the color palette.

The reddish-blue ones would make an interesting set for a halfling dhampir.

The opaque purply ones could match up with a more delicate and subtle wizard or bard.

And those translucent pink ones that I didn’t care for actually match up nicely with an old character I made: a tinker gnome from Mt. Nevermind of the Dragonlance campaign world named Clipisnipurcashbupuasnaggleyurpaintash. Originally from Mt. Nevermind on Krynn, his Life Quest was to categorize the flowers growing in the gardens of Queen Titania and her Summer Court. He found a fey crossing and ended up in Forgotten Realms with bright pink skin, a warlock pact with an archfey, and little memory of his time in the Feywild. Yep, those pink dice would match Clip just fine.

Thanks again to Lee & Lucy, the mystery dice goblins for providing these review sets. Pick one up or sign up for a subscription if you’re feeling like you want a dice surprise!