OD&D How are your original dice holding up?

[Emirikol]

My first two sets: Moldvay Basic and Moldvay Expert box each had sets of dice.
The Basic set dice were the crappy gray ones (white crayon). My guess is by the time I got my own D&D boxed set they were down to the dregs of dice. They seemed to wear well.

My Expert set had the ORANGE dice! (example photo below from dice-collector).
They seem to have peeled and are practically gumballs now.

How have your dice held up?

 

[Emirikol]

I also had these, but the blue were a navy blue. These also didn't age well. Like the orange dice (example photo above), they seem to peel on their ends as they wear.

 

[Ondath]

My first dice are not that old, I bought them in a local monthly convention in 2010 (or was it 2011?). I immediately lost the d12, but the rest are holding up, alongside the case in which I bought them! It was a translucent, green set, kinda like this one:

I got much better dice afterwards, but well, you never forget your first right?

 

[Emirikol]

I love those green dice. I think my first sets I bought after the originals were a clear and a green set from Koplow (Nice Dice). They are gorgeous and easy to read (the green ones at least). I gave my clear set to some kid at a game convention as a gift (I couldn't read them very well anyway).

 

[Yora]

I got a couple of dice that came with some Forgotten Realms box sets. Got them for 22 years now and they are still perfectly fine. No signs of wear.

 

[Jer]

I don't know how my original dice are doing. I hope whoever who found them after I lost them in college is taking care of them.

 

[J.Quondam]

My first was a set of those cheapy pale blue ones that came in the Mentzer Red Box Basic set, with a snazzy white crayon. They're still around, very worn and chipped, with the d%s (I think) yellowing unpleasantly, as well. I don't use them in games anymore, but they still have an honored place in my equally ancient paisley dicebag, and so they accompany me whenever and wherever I go to play.

 

[ephemeron]

Mine came in the Mentzer Red Box, but a late enough version that they were pre-inked and each a different color. They're aging very well - no visible wear.

I had a great moment a few years ago when I realized that half the people at the gaming table were younger than those dice.

 

[Lazvon]

First set are 2d10 that came with Indiana Jones box set from back in the mid-80s. They are still holding up, just saw them a couple weeks ago when I was going through some dice.

 

[David Howery]

I didn't get any dice in the Holmes boxed set I bought back in 1980 (mine was one of the ones that had only chits), so I bought bunches of loose ones... the toy store that had all the gaming stuff in town had bins of them. I've tossed a few over the years that were irretrievably rounded and useless, but still have some. There are some oddities.... some of those '0-9 twice' D20s that stood in for D20s, D10s, and D100s; some other D20s that have 0-9 twice, but one set has the + sign on them. Still have some original basic dice.... I've added quite a few over the years....