Hi Dark, That's unfortunate, but the fact of the matter is the majority of people with visual problems, either blind or low vision, are over 60. The RNIB and other organizations like them tend to market solely to the largest common denominator leaving youngsters like you and I out in the cold. Grrrrr....
I do think though that having a company produce some braille gaming dice should be relatively easy if we could find someone interested in doing it. They already have standard six sided dice so I don't know why they can't come up with 10 and 20 sided dice for roll playing games and some of the more advanced board games out there. For example, I have this really cool board game with a castle and various game pieces like goblins, wizards, skeletons, rangers, dwarves, etc. What makes this game different is there are a number of different dice depending on the situation. The Haunter, a ghost, rolls a special 10 sided die which is impossible to braille because it is diamond shaped and the print numbers are very very small. Too small to braille the numbers 1 through 10 and stick them on it. I'm sure this isn't the only board game out there where you need something other than the standard six sided dice, but the only dice I can get from Independent Living Aids is the standard dice. Like many I've made do with bringing my laptop along and using the GMA Dice program when it is my turn to roll, but that isn't as fun as taking the dice and rolling it physically. Not to mention dragging my laptop around is much more cumbersome when I could just carry a few braille die in my pocket for such occasions. Cheers! On 4/20/13, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Decota. > > Sadly not that I've heard. a few years ago, I tried to persuade the rnib to > > produce gaming dice on the basis that with gaming dice and access to a > manual (and often not even that), blind people could be totally equal in the > > tabletop gaming sphere, but they flat out told me "most of our members > wouldn't be interested in this" ie, the rnib's usual thinking that anyone > who is under 60 and won't leve them money in their will doesn't exist. > > When i first started playing d&D, we got a large size set of standard dice, > > and sticking braille lables on worked with most of them, but not with the > d20 since the surfaces were just too small to take numbers (heck, we > couldn't fit double didgits onto the d10). > > Though i have used Gma dice every week for several years playing our mutants > > and masterminds campeigne, I completely agree on the moree viseral and > practial feeling of physically rolling dice, so I would certainly love a set > > of tactile gaming dice, though whether any company would wish to produce > these I don't know. > > it's a shame really, since they'd be really quite easy to make. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
