Hi Charles, You are beginning to see the problem. The dice would have to be made from scratch with the blind in mind and like the standard gaming dice the braille 10 and 20 sided dice would have to be larger than their print counterparts in order to accommodate the braille numbers. There are even d100 dice that are huge in terms of print dice, and would really have to be big to fit braille on them. :D
As far as picture dice I have only encountered that sort of thing in one game, and it was a standard six sided dice so I could braille them. What I did is use the letter l for a sword, since it was kind of sword shaped, and I used the o w contraction and o together to make a circle for the skulls. The blank sides I left blank. Basically, instead of using a letter for each picture I tried to recreate that picture in braille, and it worked out well for that game. Well, there is one other game with a picture on it and it is the Lord of the Rings Monopoly, but it was easy to adapt. The set of dice has an eye that comes up now and then which is used to move the ring one space towards Mount Doom. However, since the dice with the eye on it feels different from the regular dice I can feel it when it comes up. I labeled all the numbers 1 through 6 on the dice but left the eye blank since it is the only picture I need to worry about in that particular game. Cheers! On 4/20/13, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm. Texturing would not work, nor would raised illustrations of a sword, > skull, or what the picture is. They would be too small to be recognized by > > touch. And with a 20-sided dye, touching it would probably roll it due to > > the size of each flat surface. Increasing the size to make it accessible > would not be an option. An interesting puzzler. > > -- > If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling > errors! --- 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].
