Why?
I received an e-mail from the RPG.net folks a few weeks ago asking if I had time and interest in doing some more reviews for dice bags. Given my weakness for dice and everything related to them, I said you bet. Time went by and when I received my package from rpg.net I was rewarded with four dice bags to review from The Gamer’s Bag.
This is the second in
a five part series of reviews for dice bags from The Gamer’s Bag. Note, I am using a
fair amount of the same informational verbiage through the reviews and other
bits to keep things consistent and have a reset anyone coming in the middle of
things.
The Company, The Review Item
Basically we all have dice, so where do we store them? The Gamer’s Bag offers a lot of neat We all have dice, so where do we store them? You can use an old Crown Royal bag or that flimsy felt bag you got 15 years ago for free from that Armory bonus pack. Or you can get a dice bag customized to you.
The Gamer’s Bag offers a lot of spiffy options for their bags. On their website the choices for your dice bag material is more than a hundred types ranging from smoke, fire, dragon scale to various other patterns. There are 13 different options for leather bags for their offerings, though these will cost a bit more. All the offerings have pictures displayed on the website.
The order form is simple and concise; all the options are
available for selection and adjust to what bag you are ordering. There
are some other options offered from include:
The sheer numbers of options from style to material to extras are very nice and guarantee there is something for everyone. The Gamer’s Bag slogan ”Custom Dice Bags for Gamers, by Gamers” is wholly accurate.
The small dice bag example that I was sent is the purple dragon scale, which is a nice deep and weathered purple in a scaled pattern (follow this link for a look). It measures approximately 4” x 5”.
The drawstring for my bag is a nice smooth black cord and the grommets are silver.
The Testing
As with my previous reviews; I used five testing measurements with the bags filled to capacity. In this series of reviews I was provided with an estimate for how many dice each bag can hold and went with that recommendation.
Capacity: I fit 51 dice randomly selected polyhedral dice
Test 1, The Five Foot Drop: Passed
Test 2, The Fifteen Foot Drop: Passed
Test 3, Lateral Pressure: Passed
Test 4, Squeezing Around the Center of the Bag: Passed
Test 5, Squishing Against The Floor: Passed
The Analysis
The small dice bag performed very well. It sealed properly and passed my regimen of tests. Make sure to use a use a double knot for the drawstring, a single knot may come loose. The purple dragon scale material was of good quality and free from defect. The cuts and folds were even. The stitching is complementary colored and straight as an arrow. As a note, I filled the small dice bag with 51 randomly selected polyhedral dice, which was a little less than the 65 that the folks from The Gamer’s Bag could squeeze in.
The Recommendation
If you are looking for a nice sized dice bag (and most of the time 50 plus dice is more than enough), the small dice bag from The Gamer’s Bag is a fine choice. It performed well and the company offers a multitude of options that should fit any gamer’s taste, be it dragon scales or cow pattern.
Note
These bags were
provided to me by RPG.net via The Gamer’s Bag, as
always my reviewing remains strictly unbiased.
