These Dice Will Make Running Games EASIER!

These Dice Will Make Running Games EASIER! | Dice Review

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Dice review for the Game Master (GM) Assist Specialty Dice Set by Gate Keeper Games & Dice.
If you are tired of digging through books and poring over tables to come up with random results, take a look at this resin dice set.
Big, chunky dice with bold colors and great icons are here to help make your next game run a little smoother.
Company product page:
www.gatekeeper...
Is this the dice set for you and your D&D / Pathfinder / TTRPG and adventuring needs?
Let's get to the table and start rolling!

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@dicecrazydude 11 ай бұрын

Do these have a place in your GM/DM toolkit? Let us know your thoughts!

@Jasales42 11 ай бұрын

I have had a set of these for a few years now and use them often. I highly recommend this product for GMs and even solo players.

@dicecrazydude 11 ай бұрын

@@Jasales42 Glad they have worked well for you!

@gearsfan6669 9 ай бұрын

the hit location ones for bipeds for sure would mainly cuz my group likes to play Deadlands Classic so all wounds are applied to a part of the body rather than a normal HP system so hit location matters even more mainly because it would be easier to determine hit location than having to remember the ranges for the d20 it normally uses and would just save time overall weather as a player or DM/GM/Storyteller/Marshall/Overseer since everyone needs to determine hit location on attacks regardless of if melee or ranged

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

@@gearsfan6669 Love Deadlands! It doesn't get nearly the love it should 😀

@kimanilestercomia1879 10 ай бұрын

I think this dice set is also perfect for solo players who would want a quick adventure scenario. You won't have to worry playing alone and spoil the thrill and challenge since the dice will decide for themselves.

@Streaming_Santa 9 ай бұрын

I got a set of these from the original Kickstarter, and immediately gave them to my DM who loves them! Of course, i then started running a couple campaigns myself and regretted giving them away, so i splurged and bought a set for myself. Last night, i had a session where they took on a giant scorpion. I use the hit location dice on crits only, just to add some flair. Lo and behold, one player happened to crit on each of their first two turns, so it got rolled. The result? Two of its right legs got chopped off. The players went nuts, loving this addition, and i later got a hug from our youngest player, telling me that fight was the best fight he'd ever had in DnD!

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

That's an awesome story! Glad you and your group have gotten so much from these!

@paulcoy9060 10 ай бұрын

Am I the only one looking at that "golden" die and thinking, wow, that's green?

@ultimateninjaboi 10 ай бұрын

Yeah. I was gonna say. XP

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

It definitely is a more muted color. Seems more of the golden "shimmer" is towards the core and then surrounded by earth tones which brings down the shine. Looks better in bright light. Green would have looked great for this one, but I would guess there were probably concerns with regards to color-blindness and confusing it and the red "critical effect" die.

@ricksanchez538 10 ай бұрын

You are not! Keen eye good sir. Tips hat

@PH4RX 10 ай бұрын

It’s translucent matte gold and will always require proper lighting to appear as bright gold. I saw a video about painting minis a while ago where they replicated gold or something metallic with shades of brown and yellow I believe. The main thing that brought it to life were the accents though, that suggested reflection and tricked the brain into thinking it’s actually metallic as "gold" isn’t a colour.

@Tscharlieh 10 ай бұрын

I am thinking the same, this color is everything but gold.

@JadenZion84 9 ай бұрын

I bought a set of these for my DM last GenCon, and we love using them at the table! The old weather dice we had were a d6, so it was awesome to upgrade!

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

Glad they are working well for you!

@stillnotstill 9 ай бұрын

I love this concept!

@KevimationYT 11 ай бұрын

Man, I wish I had a set of those. That is really fun. Instead of look up tables putting the results on the dice is really fun.

@dicecrazydude 11 ай бұрын

I like how quick and easy they are to use. They're also nice and big, so they are fun to roll!

@johnglindeman248 9 ай бұрын

I like that this set of dice gets me out of my biases as I enter into an encounter. In addition, the hit location and critical effect dice keep my game moving along.

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

That's a good way of looking at it. I think the hit location and critical effect are my favorites out of the set and really make fights more memorable.

@Grumppant 10 ай бұрын

Really cool dice! Thanks for showing them off!

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

You are welcome, glad you liked it 😀

@johnwrot8305 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, Daniel for taking the time to make this thoughtful review!

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

You are welcome! Thank you for making these dice 😀

@RickKoeppen 10 ай бұрын

I'm definitely a sucker for random DM novelty tools like these, thanks for the review!

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

You are welcome! Glad you liked it! 😀

@ElwoodShort 11 ай бұрын

You actually use the hit location and critical dice as a rules lite short and brutal combat system…this set would be awesome for EZD6.

@dicecrazydude 11 ай бұрын

Great idea!

@TheRealmsman 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic! These seem like they would be great for either on the spot rolls or session prep.

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

Exactly! They don't fully replace charts and tables, as those can have more options and be more applicable to a situation, but they do have their place.

@joyhammergames 9 ай бұрын

Very cool.

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! 😄

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

Sorry folks, a bunch of comments got removed when I was just trying to clear out notifications....my bad

@ItsMrFresh 11 ай бұрын

This is awesome! Shame it isn't available in the UK

@dicecrazydude 11 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that! Hopefully some shop will offer a decent price on shipping, seems like an opportunity :)

@johnwrot8305 10 ай бұрын

The creator (us) ships to the UK at actual shipping cost if you want to consider. Thx.

@AVspectre 10 ай бұрын

It would be nice if they came with a small container (even a drawstring bag) to keep the instructions and set dice together and separate from the average dice goblins’ horde. :)

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

As a dice goblin, I'll never turn down more dice or more dice bags 😅

@AVspectre 10 ай бұрын

I think it would have been useful if you read aloud 2-3 faces of each due to give an idea. It’s not always easy to pause to read and some of us are audio listeners. Just a suggestion for the future. :) Interesting product - thanks for the review. :)

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome! I really went back and forth on how much I should show versus tell for this video...Hopefully you got enough out of it 😊

@AVspectre 10 ай бұрын

@@dicecrazydude Oh yes! I appreciated the video. Sounds like a nice DM gift.

@simonhughes2902 9 ай бұрын

dm guide tries to emulate this with tables to roll on, but going to the book always sucks, im defiantly gonna see if there's a digital version of this

@VA434 10 ай бұрын

Super cool idea! I guess ill have to break out the debt card 😂 ya teisted my arm😅

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

Haha, I know the feeling!😀

@wakcedout 10 ай бұрын

Looking at that damage one…..I’ve known many a gm who would use one like that and randomly roll it just to make anyone “usually me” paying attention to sit on edge worrying what was about to come. Suffice it to say I had friends who would mess with your character but not kill you outright to keep the story moving and comical.

@JadenZion84 9 ай бұрын

We had a player lose an eye and suffer a -1 to perception checks for the rest of the campaign this way! It was great flavor for our pirate campaign. He was the captain too!

@mattpace1026 9 ай бұрын

I call bull. No group of players is going to put up with arbitrary damage.

@JadenZion84 9 ай бұрын

@mattpace1026 just because your players don't, doesn't mean other players won't. My group thinks things like that keep you on your toes, and give you real world consequences of actions. Hell, the Pathfinder 2e Critical Hit/Miss decks are a hilarious addition to any campaign, and add some cool ways to mess with the people rolling poorly that night.

@irisidem6580 9 ай бұрын

These could definitely be useful when you want these random effects without having to consult tables. Cuts down on overhead, and not too pricey for the quality!

@dicecrazydude 9 ай бұрын

Exactly! I like to use these for more spur of the moment story-telling. Gives you a prompt but still allows for creatively expressing it.

@bAtACt1X 10 ай бұрын

NPC Attitude: GREAT! Encounter Difficulty: Useless. Makes the game worse in my opinion, because its crucial to the quality gametime Encounter Approach: nice! Trap Damage Kinds: not so bad, but also not so good DMG Zones: not sure,. its a try case Crit Dice: very usefull, one sheet less to look up Loot size: I like it very much Weather: same All in all: damn I want these!

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

They are definitely worth checking out!

@mal2ksc 10 ай бұрын

You can make the encounter difficulty die work even if you're planning out how much to put in the party's way. Instead of telling you how to build an encounter, the die would just tell you what order to chain up the encounters you already planned. If you get a roll that doesn't match anything on your list, you can either say "close enough" and pick something similar, or just roll again. You're just trying to deal out your list of encounters like you might deal a deck of cards.

@ElCubodelNarco 10 ай бұрын

would´ve been nice to have a link for the product...that´s what´s usually done when someone reviews anything...

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

Added the company's website, but it can also be found other places 😀

@RIVERSRPGChannel 11 ай бұрын

Cool set How much are they? I might see a use for them

@dicecrazydude 11 ай бұрын

They MSRP for ~$35, but they are on sale from GKG for $31 right now.

@AngelusNielson 10 ай бұрын

If you're going to use these to run a game please consider how much of the DMing you're going to replace. Just because it's easy to decide things doesn't mean the decisions are going to be good ones. I've experienced a "By the die" DM at a con before and it wasn't fun.

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

You're right on. I like to use these more for adding story elements than deciding the direction of the game. Great for adding a little more to your descriptions :)

@AngelusNielson 10 ай бұрын

@@dicecrazydude The only reason I stuck with that con game, by the way, is that i was playing with the person who wrote the book.

@mal2ksc 10 ай бұрын

I was expecting a 20-less d20 (also 1-less), for those times you absolutely don't want to crit. The 20 becomes another 2, and the 1 becomes a 19 (I think). It means rolls can remain in the open without the risk of screwing up a situation that is developing perfectly, like the party members are all one hit from going down and you don't want to kill them outright.

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

That's an interesting way to handle critical success/failure. I guess you could always just tell your players that you are going to treat rolls that way, so then you can use your favorite D20 😀

@mal2ksc 10 ай бұрын

@@dicecrazydude I don't have a favorite d20. I usually choose my dice by choosing a color group the players aren't using, for minimal confusion. If they're green and red and orange, I might choose black and white, or I might choose blue. But the point is that you don't tell them why you're switching, and you can do it mid-fight without anyone else knowing the battle just got easier. In my case they wouldn't really know because I don't care whether I use the same dice from one session to the next. They just have to be distinctly different from all player dice, for those times when we're rolling on the same mat. I don't want them to know things are exactly the way I hoped they would be, and I don't want them to know I'm taking (baby) steps to keep it that way. I don't have any solid pink dice, so if I had a "no crits and no fumbles" d20, I'd probably go that route and then use a non-white fill for the numbers just in case someone else is playing pink dice.

@artistpoet5253 10 ай бұрын

So I figure there's a way to weight tge results especially on weather? Hit Location is a nice add but I use called shots/targeted effct in combat.

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

The booklet that comes with the set lists the results, so you could always treat some of them as others if you don't want certain outcomes. Rolling behind a screen would help so the players don't see the changes, or roll a handful of dice so they don't know which one you are looking at :)

@docvic9533 11 ай бұрын

I've been very disappointed in basically all the other GKG dice I received from the KS campaign in the past, but I do have this set, and it's the best one by far.

@dicecrazydude 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, they really made a good set with this one! Sorry to hear the KS haven't been good. Were these their "weird" dice? I've bought a few sets directly (electric bumblebee, biome: deep sea) and have been happy with them.

@docvic9533 11 ай бұрын

@@dicecrazydude Yes, it was their "weird" dice. Very disappointing overall. None were even close to being "weird". All were very overpriced, even at the discounted Kickstarter prices. A few sets were supposedly "weird" because they were small, basically the same as any other mini polyset. There was the one magnetic set, that was ok. Not really "weird", but at least a bit different. But the customer service is really the worst aspect, the constant emails and posts "THESE ARE THE WEIRDEST DICE EVER PRODUCED! EVERYONE LOVES THEM!" It's like the guy is trying to bully you into loving the dice. He's obnoxious as all get out. His dice are fine, not great, but fine. He's a goober :)

@dicecrazydude 10 ай бұрын

@@docvic9533 I really like the look of the magnet dice set, but totally agree that receiving tiny dice would have been disappointing. Large dice aren't really "weird" either, but at least would feel like a better deal. This set and the solar set seem like the "weirdest."

@docvic9533 10 ай бұрын

@@dicecrazydude Yep, those are the two sets nearest to being "weird", but still pretty disappointing compared to the tons of more interesting dice out there on Kickstarter. So, I can't say I'm a fan of GKG, but I do love your videos, so keep them coming!