Chessex
Fort Wayne, INBrand
For those new to our community, Chessex is a name born from decades of experience and innovation in gaming. Our founder, Donald Reents, began his journey in 1980 with his gaming store, Games of Berkeley. Don fueled his passion for games by making gaming accessories with Berkeley Game Company in 1981. Don transitioned into distribution with Berkeley Game Distributors in 1982 and then manufacturing in 1984. Chessex Manufacturing officially began making dice starting in 1987.
Don is always thinking of new and innovative features to add to his dice. For example, Chessex was the first company to manufacture d4s with the numbers on the top point area of the die instead of the bottom edge. The Chessex Tens10™ die shape was designed independently at the same time as Lou Zocchi’s style of percentile d10. Chessex also replaced the dots next to the 6s and 9s and instead used an underline to indicate their orientation. Don is known for pioneering your favorite dice color styles such as Speckled®, Scarab®, Borealis®, Gemini®, Nebula®, and many more.
Today, Chessex is still motivated by our founding mission: to make high-quality dice that are affordable for all gamers, because you can never have too many dice!
As Donald once said, “I didn’t get into this business to make a lot of money; I simply did it because I liked games. It’s all because of you that I made Chessex, and it has become what it is today.”
