D10 engagement ring

Dragonslorefury posted this wonderful D10 RPG-player's engagement ring to DeviantArt, along with these notes:

My engagement ring, designed by myself and a reality thanks to my amazing jeweller father. Yes that is a D10 (10 sided dice for those not used to the lingo XP), me and my partner are quite frequent roleplayers and I'm a huuuge geek and odd-ball. I wanted my ring to be one-of-a-kind and personal to me any my amazing finace so I eventually came up with this idea. If I want the dice can also be removed and replaced with a stone of my choice ^_^ Happy to be engaged to my amazing partner and to have my awesome engagement ring. <3

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make a saving throw against “AWWWW!”
- http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai
  
  Nerds in love make me so happy.
  
  At my wedding we lightly glued a pre-painted plastic DnD mini to ever seating place card, so each guest got a unique figure.
Doug Black

In before someone else points out that “dice” is plural. That’s a die.
- http://twitter.com/kramski Kramski
  
  You’re not “in before” if you make it a point to point it out as well. You’re “in with” I guess.
xbox361

Love a romantic geeky story and a chick that still plays old school instead of just on line.
That’s a babe living in the now, a keeper. Cooler than a tattoo.
Chris Lites

The D10, because you gave the D20 ring to your first wife.
- http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai
  
  Counterpoint: the d10, because you play World of Darkness, or Rolemaster, or Call of Cthulhu or Palladium or…
  - pKp
    
    Probably WoD. A Chaosium-ruleset-based engagement ring would have TWO d10.
    
    Or one of these bad boys.
    - http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai
      
      But if it was nWoD the 8, 9, 0 would be in a different colour…
    - http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai
      
      Also, two d10s…his & hers! (Or his & his & hers & hers, I ain’t discriminatin’!)
Bucket

At first glance I thought it was a lunar lander, which would also make an awesome nonstandard ring.
Vian Lawson

You may find that it has a slight bias when you try to roll it, but the concept is sound. Congratulations to the happy couple.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8834925 Chauncey Scott

Notice, the little quip “If I want the dice (sic) can also be removed and replaced with a stone of my choice ^_^” :that’s probably because dad the jeweler, couldn’t comprehend, not wanting to bathe your hand in old carbon, like every other bride.
knoxblox

No way he’s going to roll a natural 1 with this idea.
http://profiles.google.com/marc.k.mielke Marc Mielke

Why choose between valuable stone and d10? DO BOTH!
http://crystalcaste.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=CC&Category_Code=XS
Ipo

“If I want the dice can also be removed and replaced with a stone of my choice ^_^”
Should be: If I want to, I can remove the die and play it.
- ocker3
  
  Talk about having a special die you’d only use for those Super important roles!
Oskar

This is a very sweet gesture and everything, but the pedantic math-nerd part of my personality (which is all of my personality, really) is fuming with rage: the d10 sucks ass!

It’s so ugly! All the other dice are beautiful platonic solids, but not the d10. Just look at it, the top and bottom vertices have five connecting faces, but the middle ones have only three! Blasphemy! And the faces aren’t even regular polygons, they’re not even trapezoids, but just some ugly kite-like quadrilateral! Just compare it to the beautiful masterpiece of the dodecahedron that is the d12, all faces being perfect pentagons and each edge connecting exactly three faces.

THIS IS MADNESS, I TELL YOU, MADNESS!!! THIS MARRIAGE HAS BEEN DOOMED FROM THE START BY THE CHOICE OF THIS POLYHEDRAL MONSTROSITY!!!

(good wishes to the happy couple, and I hope you grow old and nerdy together, and have many nerdy kids!)
Ryan Lenethen

All the hate for the d10… Tho initially I thought the d20 much more significant in gaming circles. However, a d20 is much larger, and really has too many facets.

To be honest I bet the whole idea came from the special practice of using 2d10 as percentile dice. Meaning they both get a d10, and together they make up 100%… Awwwww… :) Unless they both roll 01, in which case automatic divorice! Not sure what happens when you get a 00…
- Boundegar
  
  A large d20 is larger, but a small one might be smaller.