In all seriousness, I see this as a big issue hindering adoption of the game. I have had a couple of conversations with people at my FLGS. One of the guys that works at the store told me point-blank that they cannot stock the Zocchi dice. They can't find a distributor for them. Also, one of my gamer friends (he is a blogger, podcaster, and freelance writer and editor in the industry) pointed this out as the biggest issue that he sees with the game. He used the example of Evil Hat's FATE system and the FUDGE dice. If those dice hadn't been readily available FATE probably wouldn't be nearly as popular a system as it is today? He convinced me that the dice need to be widely available to encourage new players. This will lower the barrier to entry.
But, wait. I am not just here to complain. I have a cunning plan!
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I am looking at the awesomely successful Kickstarters which the third party publishers are running. This has me wondering if it makes sense for Goodman Games to setup a Kickstarter to fund the creation of official dice sets for DCCRPG? I have no idea how to structure the different funding levels, or what the stretch goals would be, but I think it would work.
I would definitely kick in a few bucks! That way, when I am talking up the game at my FLGS and someone asks me about the dice, I can just point out the tubes in the dice section at the front counter. I think that would be awesome.
What do you guys think?