![]() The subject might be found amusing, though serious.The subject is a notorious hoax, such as the Sokal affair or Mary Toft.The subject is well-documented for unexpected notoriety or an unplanned cult following at extreme levels, such as Ampelmännchen or All your base are belong to us.The subject is a clear anomaly-something that defies common sense, common expectations or common knowledge, such as Bir Tawil, Märket, Phineas Gage, Snow in Florida, etc.The subject is a highly unusual combination of concepts, such as cosmic latte, death from laughter, etc.The article is something a reasonable person would not expect to find in a standard encyclopedia.If you wish to add an article to this list, the article in question should preferably meet one or more of these criteria: We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic. These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something one would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica. Of the over six million articles in the English Wikipedia there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. ![]() Wikipedia contains other images and articles that are similarly shocking or udderly amoosing. Still, all such lists risk being deleted for lack of a neutral definition of what counts as "unusual".Ī cow with antlers atop a power line pole. Though none of these dice sets would pass muster today, it’s still nice to look back at where we started.Lists of unusual things in Wikipedia mainspace (see Category:Lists of things considered unusual) should have an external reference for each entry that specifically classifies it as unusual, to avoid making it a point of view (POV) fork of original research. We’ve come along way in both the methodology and skills we use to make dice since these were made. A cheap Drill Press, a plastic miter box and hand saw, along with a palm sander were all that was used to make the Alpha Dice as my gaming group calls them. The Alpha Diceīelow you’ll find photos of those very first sets of dice that I made entirely with the limited hand tools I owned at the time. Every face of each die is still hand polished, and each die is still a unique work of art crafted by gamers for gamers.įat, bald, pie loving, dice making ninja. Each one is crafted individually, through a mixture of modern CNC machining, and old world handcrafting techniques. Myself and all of the minions at Artisan Dice are committed to making the best dice on the planet. Each set of dice we make is a chance to continually tweak what we do in an on going effort to craft something of absolute perfection. Today, we continue to improve on what was started in 2012. From one fat, bald, pie loving, dice making ninja in his garage, to a full compliment of dice crafting Minions and plethora of machines dedicated to the task. What started as a weekend project turned in to a full time passion quite literally overnight. The AD story is one of over night success. It still astounds me today to think back on that first month of Artisan Dice’s existence. 24 hours later, Artisan Dice was launched, and successfully funded through our first KickStarter in March of 2012. ![]() The dice were so well-received that they spent the next several hours convincing me to make them available to the entirety of the Internet. To say the least, my gaming group was astounded. ![]() So I headed to the local woodworking shop and picked up a couple dozen blanks of the finest exotic hardwoods they had and set about fashioning several sets of Fudge Dice to give out to my fellow players at the next gaming night. My gaming group had just started playing The Dresden Files RPG and I was not able get the Fudge style dice needed to play the RPG. Artisan Dice owes it’s existence to a complete lack of Fudge Dice on the East side of Dallas, Texas. ![]()
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