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Crystal Caste is more common in Europe, so it can be harder for a North American collector.
Crystal Caste sets are not as well-documented as Chessex and there is more overlap between their dice and other European companies such as Dice & Games, King Cards, Weible. In the dice community, it can also be hard to tell which company produced a set, as many shared factories and molds, or released the same dice under different names.
gencon, origins
Since 2005, Crystal Caste has released a commemmorative set for each GenCon. Until 2010, they did the same for Origins Game Fair, but they have consolidated down to one ’tradeshow’ set per year. Many dice companies do the same now, but Crystal Caste was the first (and the best)!
GenCon 2005 - 2022 sets (imagine how frustrated I felt in 2023).
Origins 2005 - 2010 and GenCon overflow, starting with 2023 in the bottom right.
satin, silk
Satin sets were also sold by King Cards under the name ‘Tutti Frutti’ and some of the Silk sets were sold by King Cards and Weible Spiele in Germany. Sets in this mold do not always have a d% and were often sold with an off-colour d10 instead.
All sets complete, including d%s if one was made for that set 🎉
magma, goldmist, oblivion
There is lots of collector confusion and/or disagreement over the production, labelling, and distinguishing features of these sets. I put my complete faith in explanations offered by Tina on the Dice Wiki about Ancient/Goldmist dice and Spectrum/Magma dice.
Without good lighting, many of these sets are lacklustre and so I don’t enjoy them as much as many of my other sets.
Spectrum/Magma, Ancient/Goldmist, and Oblivion sets.
toxic, fire opal, moonstone, interferenz
Fire opal and moonstone dice use the same glitter as old hessex borealis, which is a controlled substance nowadays. Thus, these dice are discontinued and sought after amongst collectors, particularly the fire opal sets.
Interferenz is one of my favourite styles of dice and I have not seen any similar ones even from more modern factories.
All sets complete (including multiples of fire opal smoke) 🎉
My moonstone aquarius set has not arrived yet.