Dice Advent Calendar 2025 Day 10

Today within the advent calendar we find another d4; this time not quite as sharp.

The calendar returns to the charcoal set today. Once again, it’s night and day between the metal set and the non-metal set. If I remember to do so, I’ll do comparison weigh-ins of the different sets to see just how different the weights truly are.

I still think this was the perfect dice set for a Krampus box. The idea of charcoal under the tree and the purple to represent Krampus (as opposed to the red and green of Santa and “regular” American Christmas).

This is not to say that the blood-spattered metal dice are not as good. It all depends on how you’re viewing Krampus. Is he a Christmas demon and we’ve lost the stories of his true nature? Then the blood dice are perfect. Are we accepting his reformation into an anti-Santa? The charcoal with purple numbers are then perfect. Also, if you read my blog often, you know that I am into Tales of the Valiant as my main TTRPG of choice. (It’s also the 5e preference of my kids - who are one of the tables I GM for) Monster Vault 2 has this cover:

Is it just me, or does that monster look like Krampus? The book claims it’s a shanlayu demon, but I think I know a Krampus when I see one! 😉

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