107 Pcs Writing Dice Set Gifts for Writers Adults Authors Teachers Include 10 Creative Writing Dice Story Cubes, 96 Skill Card and Storage Box Prompts Inspiration Game

Great help to redirect a stale story...

I'd probably give these 3.5 stars but I rounded up. Just because of some issues. They don't quite look like the dice pictured.I LOVE the idea of these. I have taught writing to some reluctant writers and I had a book that helped a lot. These however would be more hands on for those who learn that way.Unfortunately not all of the words on the dice are really workable. So I figured out a work around. I have a label printer and tons of different colored tape to go in it. So I just will make new words from time to time and cover the words that aren't useful.There is also a blank die so I was already planning to use the label maker for that.Kids learn better by games. They don't put their 'effective filter' up when they are playing, so this is a way to help them stay open to learning.With my own kids we often played a similar game in the car but without the dice. Someone would throw out a person, place, an event and then we would start a story and then take turns adding to it.Years later my kids still laugh about some of the stories we made up in the car.Great for the imagination!

They're dice, I will be repainting them bc they didn't have very good options, I personally would never use fantasy football in my fictional books but they are the cheap version of the ones I wanted

The wooden dice come in a nice little box with a fun latch. Of the 10 dice, 2 are dark green, 2 are light green, one is blank (presumably so you can write your own words on it,) and one is multi-colored purple. The others are one each of dark blue, light blue, orange, and pink. The dice surface quality is OK, with some raised grain, scuffs, and lathe marks, but it's not like these dice are expected to be 100% symmetrical anyway. The printing is OK, but not particularly centered - e.g. "Football Trading Cards" runs completely over the edge of the face and "Nun" is way at the bottom of its face.Some of the prompt choices seem a little too specific, and some are a bit too similar. For example, two of the six subject die faces are "Football" and "Football Trading Cards." If you only have 6/12 faces to work with, the prompts on these faces should be a lot more varied and generic. The grammar is also questionable like "mix up" (mixed up) and "don't know how to do" (doesn't know how). There are a few words that could be used in multiple senses like "dismissal" on the WHEN die which could be a WHAT or HOW and "mercenary" on the PERSONALITY die which could be a WHO/WHAT. It would have been nice if all of the words on the dice could be used in multiple ways.The prompts on the cards were also a little weird grammatically. I guess I should have been clued-in by the listing, which reads: "Whether you are an experienced writer or just starting out explore the art of writing, and you can easily use it." Many of the errors may just be due to translation from another language, but others just seem like carelessness and lack of consistency.The cards are on cheap stock with plain white backs, but they are very precisely cut so they are all the same size and can be shuffled (at least until the edges start to wear.) I got an extra duplicate of "Becoming Huge" so if you are missing yours, you know where it ended up!The pink cards are subjects/characters, and they are mostly consistent, with a few oddities. "Toucan/Bird" seems like it could have simply been one or the other; "Actor/Actress" and "Chef/Baker" are the only other cards with slashes, and those don't have similar relationships. Then there is the improbable but fun word "Laboratorian" and for whatever reason "librarian" doesn't get capitalized.The blue cards are events/actions and are way less consistent than the pink cards. There are a bunch of cards in the form of "A noun", "The noun", or simply "Noun" like "A fight", "The genie's visit", "House on fire", "Revenge", or "Tornado". Then there are a bunch of cards starting with verbs in various tenses, like "Find a secret cave", "Finding treasure", "Finds a flying", "Hiking", "Go Jogging", "Lost in a fog", "Save world", "Wearing costume", etc.I don't think I'd recommend this set to teachers simply because of the wildly inconsistent and sometimes bad grammar. Maybe it's just because I grew up as the child of an English teacher, but I cringe reading through these. Still, I like collecting weird dice, and these are pretty weird!