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Charon Dice Bag
Charon Productions: Dice Bag
Introduction
We all have dice, thus the need to have something to put
them in. You can put them in a Crown
Royal bag that you stole from your parent’s basement bar circa 1985 or you can
pony up some dough and get a real dice bag.
There are a lot on the market (more reviews to follow), but this
particular review covers the dice bag made by Charon
Productions.
The Bag
The Charon Productions dice bag is
made from a shiny black vinyl, so it definitely has a slick look about it. It measures approximately 6.5 inches by 3.75
inches. On the side, near the top, is a
loop of the same material as the bag and in that vinyl loop is a metal
ring. It is a different design for a
dice bag, than I have seen. It is a good
thing that included was a small instruction sheet on how the bag is secured,
for there is no drawstring. How you
secure this bag is once you put dice in it, you put the top of the bag through
the metal ring and bang zoom the bag is closed.
I grabbed a bunch of Chessex dice from my big bin of dice
and started filling the bag up. The Charon dice bag holds 40 dice on the high end, and about 20 comfortably. If you are a dice horse this bag might be a
bit small, but I think for most gamers it holds more than enough dice.
With the bag filled I designed a number of tests to put the
dice bag through the paces. I performed each
test fully filled (40 dice) and half filled (20 dice).
Test 1: The Five Foot
Drop
No problems the bag stayed secure.
Test 2: The Fifteen Foot Drop
After free fall from the second floor of my house to the
first, I ran down the stairs and found the bag to be secure.
Test 3: The Side
Impact
I tossed the dice bag against one of my couches with modest
force, no problems.
Test 4: The Squeeze
This test was basically grabbing the bag around the middle
and squeezing. 20 dice in the bag
yielded no problems, the ring held and the dice stayed inside the bag. With 40
dice inside, the metal ring did slip off with a lot of squeezing (e.g.
pinching the bag so the sides touch). I
am certain this was more pressure than usual use would generate, so I was not
too worried.
With only one marginal failure in the testing, I was happy
that I had a good bag to lug around dice with.
The only thing I might have liked to see is the bag made out of leather.
Vinyl is not as sturdy as leather and wear marks could show up over time.
Also smooth leather might hold the ring slightly better than the vinyl already
does..
Synopsis
Charon Productions’ dice bag is
good looking and distinctive. It
performed well in my testing to ensure it did exactly what it was designed to do;
hold dice. It is a great addition to my stable
of dice bags and will see use in up coming game sessions.
Minutiae
This was a review item sent to me by
Charon
Productions, where you can also order the dice bag if it is not in your
local RPG shop. Also they have a
yahoo group, which
has a ton of pictures of the bag and its instructions.
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