Well … they’ve been around, but I’ve never really found a compelling reason to use them (aside from threatening my players with 100 dice fireballs).
Now … I just have to find some mousie miniatures to go along with them. I hear David Petersen makes sculpts of his characters as part of his art. I may have to make my own … hmmmm … I wonder if I can make mouse-shaped dice cups … good thing these dice will fit.
The PVC mouseguard figures made by diamond select have been pretty good for my group. They are easily repaintable to make them representative of your PCs however I’m not entirely sure how to change the weapons without some serious toycrafting ability. For enemies I just go out and buy toy animals and those cheap rubber snakes have turned out to be quite useful.
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(edit): I made it out of clay … Had to bake it once to get a basic structure stiffened up. Then I added the steeper slide walls. I was using a chopstick to keep it upright … and now the stick is stuck … ah well, armature.
The dice are about 4mm … came from the semi-old WizKids game called Rocketmen (other similar games like Pirates of the Spanish Main).
I actually tried rolling a normal d6. It works, but the width of the ramp is just barely wide enough to accomodate the die. But for the purpose that I made this slide for – 4 to 5 mm dice, it works just fine.