With a pregnant wife and bills to pay, he figured he didn’t have much to lose. At the time, he was working practically for free, helping his family keep their sporting goods store afloat. Would people really be into buying dice at the price he would need to ask for them in order to make the effort worthwhile? He doubted it, but he decided to take the chance anyway. The dice were such a hit, in fact, that Brumfield’s friends were convinced that their pal had found his new calling. “I thought I made some really crappy, sort of cube-shaped dice,” Brumfield says. So he set out to the local woodworking shop, purchased a handful of blanks made from different exotic woods and went to work with a handsaw and a drill press.Įven with his handyman experience from working on cars, the first set of dice took him “hours and hours” to make - mostly, he says, because he didn’t have the right tools. He didn’t love the craftsmanship on those first sets, but the dice were functional enough. After checking out seemingly every gaming shop in town to no avail, Brumfield thought to himself that it couldn’t be too hard to try his hand at making a few sets himself.
ARTISAN DICE INFILL PLUS
This particular game required a set of “fudge dice” that only features plus and minus signs on its sides. That transition happened out of necessity, really. Brumfield and his table-top gaming group had just started a new game of The Dresden Files RPG, but were having a hard time finding the special dice needed to play the game. A few weeks later, he would find himself the nation’s leading distributor in high-end table-top gaming dice.
Then, one night a few years back, a roll of the dice literally changed his life. He spent his time working on cars, eating good barbecue and playing table-top games - Dungeons & Dragons, specifically - with his friends. From A Garage Workshop In Mesquite, This Company Produces Some Of The Most Gorgeous - And Expensive - Dice In The World.Īll photos by Travis Baugh (unless otherwise marked).Ĭharlie Brumfield used to consider himself a pretty average guy.
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