This ‘D-20’ Watch Will Celebrate Your Crits in Dungeons & Dragons Games

If you’re the benignant of subordinate who perpetually shows up to your Dungeons & Dragons campaign without a acceptable of dice, past you whitethorn privation to look astatine the Timestop D-20. It’s a beautifully lo-fi ticker with 3 main functions. It tells you the clip and the day and rolls integer dice.

The $160 D-20 ticker seems expensive, but it has entreaty beyond galore different elemental integer vintage timepieces. It includes an orangish backlight for speechmaking successful dim, dungeon light. While it won’t way your mile times, the D-20 does diagnostic the random fig generator connected the ticker face. The D-20 proudly displays the symbols for a D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, and D20, which you swap betwixt with the property of a mechanical switch. For D&D 5E players, you tin acceptable it to rotation with vantage oregon disadvantage connected the D20. The ticker volition fto you cognize erstwhile your crit succeeds oregon fails with a tiny sword icon successful the apical close corner.

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Better yet, it could perchance beryllium utile beyond D&D. There’s an “Advanced Combat Mode” that lets you rotation up to 12 dice astatine once. You tin besides acceptable it to rotation a random fig generator for immoderate dice up to a D100, truthful each those Delta Green oregon Call of Cthulhu players whitethorn besides privation to slap this old-school timepiece to their wrist.

As overmuch arsenic I similar the look and function, the D-20 whitethorn not beryllium a bully prime for my existent TRPG, Mythworks The Wildsea, which uses a dice excavation strategy wherever you effort and get the highest fig by rolling much D6s. We’re funny to cognize if the ticker could beryllium updated aboriginal connected with much functions. Gizmodo reached retired to Timestop for clarification, and we’ll update this portion if we perceive back.

In a blog post from September, D-20’s decorator said the task sprung retired of a pandemic-era obsession with D&D and physics tinkering. He went with the conception LCD wristwatch due to the fact that it was calved astir the aforesaid clip TSR released its Dungeons & Dragons publication by TSR successful 1974.

The archetypal fewer ticker prototypes were housed successful 3D-printed shells with ever-shrinking boards and components. The last mentation has a water-resistant lodging with mechanical buttons for selecting dice types oregon changing the time.

Timestop promises a 3-year artillery beingness earlier you request to regenerate the CR2025 ticker artillery housed successful the rear.

Despite its precise old-school aesthetic, the ticker isn’t astir arsenic inexpensive arsenic immoderate vintage $20 Casio you tin find online. The basal achromatic resin exemplary costs $100, but the peculiar orangish mentation costs $120. For stainless steel, you’ll request to fork implicit $160. The stainless alloy mentation is presently available, but the cheaper models won’t commencement shipping until January adjacent year. As of writing, the archetypal 1,000-unit tally of the metallic ticker whitethorn merchantability retired soon. If you tin hold until January, I suggest opting for the cheaper achromatic resin model. With achromatic plastic, you’ll astatine slightest consciousness similar you’re handling a existent D20.