A friendly joking facebook response made to a humorous post on gamers dice fetish. But seriously do you want to know more?
The first eight sided die I owned came from a set of polyhedral dice my dad went into the city and bought for me when I was a kid and had begun playing D&D with the boxed set that came with chits instead of actual dice. I pillage dice from the Yahtzee set but used paper chits for the other dice sizes. So probably sometime after my 2nd or 3rd D&D game my dad just shows up late after work one day with a set of polyhedral dice. There was a d4, d8, d12 and one or two d20's numbered 0-9 twice. The d8 has this curious little A on it instead of a 1 where the 1 would normally be.
Not a huge mystery really. Turns out it was from a mold meant for a set of poker dice to get results of 2 through 8 and Aces. I immediately pondered "what about the other numbers? Wouldn't a d12 make more sense for poker dice? That way you could come closer to a full set of cards, you'd just be missing one face card?" . "They probably didn't know about 12 sided dice when they made these eight-sided ones" was my father's sensible response. I was actually a little surprised the first time I saw d8 with a "1" instead of an "A".
EDIT: I believe the set of dice was sold by The Armory and my dad bought it as The Compleat Strategist.
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