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Post Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 9:09 pm 
 

Bought a Top Secret boxed set and this bag of dice was inside. Pretty sure Top Secret came with two 20 sided die

Any idea what these would have come out of?

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Post Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 9:29 pm 
 

Those look like third edition Gamma World dice.

  

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Post Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 3:16 pm 
 

MegaTherion wrote in Another Dice Question:Bought a Top Secret boxed set and this bag of dice was inside. Pretty sure Top Secret came with two 20 sided die

Any idea what these would have come out of?


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Some sources oddly claim d20s
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I'm quite certain my Top Secret had d10s.  It's a percentile system.  I think a red and yellow (to denote which was the tens digit).  Not sure if it had d6, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secre ... aying_game)

  

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Post Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 3:32 pm 
 

mordrin wrote in Another Dice Question:
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Some sources oddly claim d20s
Top Secret Archive

I'm quite certain my Top Secret had d10s.  It's a percentile system.  I think a red and yellow (to denote which was the tens digit).  Not sure if it had d6, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secre ... aying_game)


My Top Secret set (and my Boot Hill set) came with two Holmes-style d20s, with 0-9 twice, which is why they would list them as being d20s, even though they were the early percentage dice. I'm not sure if the later printings came with the Moldvay or Mentzer d10s dice.

As to that set of four d6s and two d10s, that would be a Gamma World 3E set, as it came with four d6s and two d10s. I don't remember them coming with the numbers already inked/crayoned, but that might have been a later development?



  

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2025 6:11 pm 
 

What was the dice site where you can look them up? I had it saved to Favorites but it seems to have vanished.........


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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2025 7:22 pm 
 

I think this is the site you are looking for?

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Post Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:54 am 
 

mordrin wrote in Another Dice Question:
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Some sources oddly claim d20s
Top Secret Archive


I'm quite certain my Top Secret had d10s.  It's a percentile system.  I think a red and yellow (to denote which was the tens digit).  Not sure if it had d6, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secre ... aying_game)

Zooming in on TSR Archive’s photos of the back of Top Secret’s and Boot Hill’s early edition game boxes show the inclusion of the dual d20 percentile dice in those sets. Looking at the equivalent for Gamma World 3rd edition, it’s hard to argue with the conclusion of SeaToSky and James's responses. There might be some Star Frontiers memory interference in play potentially I fear..

Deadlord wrote in Another Dice Question:What was the dice site where you can look them up? I had it saved to Favorites but it seems to have vanished.........

That’s because your ex received your browser favorites in the settlement… ;-)

  

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Post Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:40 am 
 

Supernaut wrote in Another Dice Question:Zooming in on TSR Archive’s photos of the back of Top Secret’s and Boot Hill’s early edition game boxes show the inclusion of the dual d20 percentile dice in those sets. Looking at the equivalent for Gamma World 3rd edition, it’s hard to argue with the conclusion of SeaToSky and James's responses. There might be some Star Frontiers memory interference in play potentially I fear..



TSR Archive definitely claims d20s, which is why it got "??" from me.  I've never heard of that before (although I'm not definitively saying some versions didn't - but I've never encountered that before now).

Wikipedia says d10s.
TOP SECRET RPG (1980-3): 1st and 2nd edition  – The evolution of the black box – Wayne's Books  shows d10s
I know I had d10s.  (I just can't remember if they were both yellow or 1 yellow and 1 something else (red and pale blue are the other TS colors I recall seeing).  Some sets had mismatched (probably deliberately), but I feel like mine were the same.)

  

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Post Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:24 pm 
 



That might be it. I don't see anywhere on there that identifies dice. I have a boatload of old ones and would like to figure out if they are worth anything so I can pass them on to collectors. Dice are dice to me.


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Post Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:25 pm 
 

[/quote] That’s because your ex received your browser favorites in the settlement… ;-)[/quote]

That explains why she called me a nugget porn addict in court.


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Post Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 10:44 pm 
 

mordrin wrote in Another Dice Question:TSR Archive definitely claims d20s, which is why it got "??" from me.  I've never heard of that before (although I'm not definitively saying some versions didn't - but I've never encountered that before now).


I've updated the description and added pics to clarify. I know that some of the later prints included d10s but both of the copies I have came with the d20 percentiles.


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