The hunt for d16.

For those of you who don't know what a d16 is, it's a die with 16 sides: the following program may contain offensively-geeky material for your taste, viewer discretion is advised.

I recieved a game called Button-men a few days ago. It's basically a duel game where each character is represented by a button (pin) with the amount and number of sides of the die each character uses printed on the button.


Since I don't have a lot of dice in my possession, I decided to go buy a bunch of these fancy poly-sided dice (I'm sure there is some geekier proper term for them), which I always saw people used and never had an excuse to acquire.

I went to a few mainstream games store in town and bought a total of 29 dice, including 11d20 (11x 20 sided dice), 3d12, 3d10, 4d8, 5d6, and 3d4. It wasn't much of an adventure getting all these except that the radio was playing the Maren Ord song and until I noticed that they don't seem to have any d16.

I asked the girl in the River City Games, "Do you guys carry any 16 sided dice?"

Without much hesistation, she answered me in a blink of an eye, "No, we don't, sorry."

Now, this may make me sound very judgemental, but she really doesn't look like a person who is so familiar with board games that she could comprehand the concept of d16 in such a short time and answered me that quickly. Mainly because she's pretty, and we all know pretty female geeks do not exist. Anyways, I went on asking her if they may have some in the larger store in southside and she said that she doesn't think so, and she knows this because lots of people have come and asked about them. At the moment, I understood. Right am I about the lack of pretty female geeks, for the pretty girl standing in front of me does not know about the d16s because she's a geek, but because many have inquired before me.

With much disappointment, I left River City and went on to Comex, Game Workshop, the General Store, Kite and other delights, and some other CCG places, yet none of them have what I'm seeking. Who would have thought it's so difficult to find a d16?

Finally, due hunger, I gave up on my quest for the day and went home for supper. When I search about d16 on the internet, I found some online stores that carry them, but they charge ~$5US for each and that's just too expensive. Today, I will go check out the games store on Whyte and hope they have some for a more reasonable price. If all fails, my last hope will be Mission in St Albert.

Stay tuned.

Nano nano.