1. I completely agree with you about the big dice shop thing. I have 125+ sets and like diversity, and it's harder and harder to not find a million dupes of the same dice again and again. 2. Halloween Dice Confession of my own: I'm to the point I wanna puke every time I see a Kraken RAW set announcement, not because I think it's a bad idea, but because I don't have the equipment to safely finish dice, or extra money to pay someone to finish the set for me, yet that's all they've made this year.
Oh my gosh SAME. I had a bit of a mini rant about the raw sets on my personal twitter a bit ago--I have no interest in finishing sets myself, so if they were also releasing finished versions of the same set it’d be fine, but they’re not, and it’s really galling that I essentially have to take up DIY to be able to purchase these frankly gorgeous sets. It really feels like they saw their fans were already willing to shine up the sets that came out dull and scratched, so decided to take it to the logical conclusion and just not even try to polish them at the factory level.
Sorry for the salt y’all, but I’m genuinely PEEVED about that one.