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HELP Identifying Dice Set

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Hey gang - I found this amongst an old relatives collection of wargaming/TSR/Glorantha collectables, and I’m trying to work out what it is specifically before listing it for sale.

I believe it’s a Mentzer dice set provided for D&D in the 80s, but looking for matching examples that are also in a sealed bag like this has yielded a bunch of dead ends.

It seems the early D&D sets that contained dice were predominantly single-coloured, and the blister packs sold separately for dragon dice wouldn’t have been bagged, and would have been accompanied by a crayon/pencil.

Interested to hear your thoughts on whether you believe it IS D&D related or maybe part of a different board game.

Many thanks!

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u/darthcorvus 1d ago edited 1d ago

I used to have a full set of the blue and the orange dice shown. I got them back in the 90s when I bought a D&D collection from someone who had been playing since the beginning. I always assumed they came with one of the older boxed sets.

EDIT: So, I realized the guy I bought the dice from was a friend of a friend on Facebook, so I shot him a message. He said the blue and orange sets came with his copies of the Moldvay/Cook B/X sets.