The public beta for digital dice launched yesterday on D&D Beyond, and thousands of fans have already rolled millions of times to see that first "20" land on their screens.
The D&D Beyond team has taken the task seriously of helping people across the world play games and connect with one another during the unprecedented times of this pandemic. Knowing that we can bring even the smallest amount of joy in the midst our global situation provides a real sense of purpose, and we appreciate the reports of happiness brought about by these pixels bouncing across your character sheets more than you know.
Starting today, you will be able to unlock new dice sets for your collection, including the colorful 'Pigment Pack' and a fully-animated 'Mythic Set.' You can check out both in the Marketplace. There will be plenty more where they came from in the days ahead.
We are also acutely aware of recent events that call into stark focus the systemic racial injustice that continues to exist in the world. We understand that messaging from companies often lands hollow without action, and we do not wish to remain silent in the face of this. For the next week (through June 9th), D&D Beyond will donate 50% of all proceeds from digital dice sets to the Black Lives Matter movement.
We stand in solidarity with the Black community against racism, discrimination, and senseless acts of violence.
We have reparations for Native Americans and for the Japanese internment camps. We never enslaved any of them. We continued discriminating against them for more than a dozen decades, finally gave them equal rights, but there's still racism, and they want more money to get them out of the slums that we white people put them in. Democrats don't want to get rid of police departments or condemn the Israel. The letting criminals out of jail is because of the stupid Mandatory Minimums that effected minorities the hardest and everyone, democrats and republicans, agree that they were stupid and bad. BLM is not a Democratic organization.
You're bringing politics into this, not BLM or DnD Beyond. Please stop. This is off topic and offensive to african americans.
Sorry I get what your saying and agree.
The D&D Beyond team gets a big thumbs up for donating to BLM. Thanks for caring and sharing.
As far as the dice themselves, they are pointless if you can't share the roll results with your group. I hope that is the next step for your digital dice. Until then they are just a toy that will end up forgotten.
I appreciate that.
How about donating money to the families of the police officers killed by people who claimed to be apart of blm?
Is there a way to buy multiple sets? I bought them for myself but would love to buy them for my DM of my other game.
Oh i understand that, just like i understand that it wasn't all police officers that caused a wrongful death. But it doesn't stop the event from making me shy away from supporting BLM just like one bad officers terrible choice has made many turn against law enforcement..
Okay. You know that police that do this are rarely punished, though, right? And, nearly never prosecuted for doing so. The overall institution of law enforcement isn't racist, but the system does not punish those that need to be held accountable to the extent that they need to be punished.
Agreed, this feels more like what should come with pre-purchasing the book rather than a side add-on. I'm also not buying cosmetics for a feature that isn't even done.
$14.99 for Mythic and $7.96 for pigment dice is insane. These are items that we will never be able to touch or use for other games. At least when buying real physical dice, I can use them for other things. I can use them for other RPG games, I can use them to line the bottom of my fish tank. Whats the justification for a $15 price tag??
Yeah its pretty pricey. I just bought a set of Metal Forged Dice for $22 & I can hold them in my hand.
I personally would never buy digital dice, because I have a ton of physical dice. I also have bought a metal set of dice, but it was only around 10 dollars for me. I appreciate them donating to a good cause, but would probably not buy these.
Oh wow, $10 bucks. Good for you. I am jealous. Mine I bought from a randomized package. You don't know what you are going to get. I bought2 of them. Got some great dice out of it. Yeah I have a lot of dice too. I was going to fill a kiddie pool with them & scrooge macduck the pool. Until I stepped on a 4-sided bare footed. That crushed my dream
I have also stepped on the d4 dice before. It was my metal one. I started bleeding.
Working for a place that does investigate and punish police officers that do that i'm going to have to disagree but would love to see where you get your number for that claim as i would be very interested in reading them. The issue is you refer to law enforcement as one system when in truth it works in a much more localized manner. If you believe that an officer in your area has committed a crime contact the county's District Attorney's office, if you don't feel it is being handled in an appropriate matter contact the State Attorney General. LeviRocks i would like to thank you for having a positive mature conversation on your point of view it is nice to discuss without any resorting to insults like this could have gone.
Sorry to hear that. Lucky for me mine was a chessex fire elemental. My dog got to my dice bag & slung my dice all over the floor. Missed it when I picked up the dice. Sadly I also found a 10-sider air elemental die outside...my dog passed it. I guess its better out than in.
Awesome! Thank you for your contribution to making a difference in our country, Black Lives Matter too!
As a race (and I'm talking the HUMAN race) we are an incredible and amazing achievement. But as individuals the few bad turds are spoiling the whole gene pool. I really wonder if the world would be better off if we were all blind, that way we wouldn't be able to see the outer differences of people, and wed have to rely on what we LEARN about a person and not what we SEE.
This wasn't the source that I got it from, it was a video on Police Accountability by John Oliver, but this website says the same thing: https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938234/police-shootings-killings-prosecutions-court
Thank you for being civil as well. Most people don't tend to be this calm online when discussing topics like this.
A few bad apples ruins the barrel. The general public isn't bad or racist, but the minority of people who are can ruin the perception of the whole institution.