Kokopelli Dice Set

Bring a piece of desert lore, ancient song, and legendary luck to your tabletop gaming session.

Across the sunbaked stone of the American Southwest, carved deep into red rock canyons by ancient Hohokam, Hopi, and Ancestral Puebloan artisans over a millennium ago, walks a legend.

Kokopelli, the traveling hunchbacked flute player, is one of the most enduring figures in Native American mythology. A mythological bringer of fertility, music, agriculture, and mischievous joy, he wanders from village to village, carrying spring on his back and driving away the cold of winter. As he raises his flute to his lips, the earth blossoms, crops flourish, and the air fills with song.

Anthropologists believe Kokopelli’s iconic silhouette stems from a very real ancient commerce network. He is widely theorized to be rooted in the pochteca, the traveling Mesoamerican merchants who journeyed hundreds of miles north from Mexico into the American Southwest to trade macaws, chocolate, shells, and turquoise. These itinerant traders carried massive, heavy packs of goods strapped to their backs, creating the distinct “humpbacked” posture depicted in ancient petroglyphs. As they approached unfamiliar villages across the desert, they played flutes or whistles to announce their peaceful arrival and draw out townsfolk to trade. Over centuries, as these peddlers wove news, exotic items, and stories across distant tribes, the real world merchant faded into legends and myths finally crystallizing into mythos of Kokopelli who traded not just physical wares, but fertility, music, and good fortune across so many tribe of the American South West.

In celebration of this rich Southwestern heritage and timeless storytelling, we bring you the Kokopelli Dice Set a tribute in native timber and vibrant stone.

Every die in this set is carved from rich, warm Mesquite wood, prized for its deep amber grain, and exceptional durability, this tree is endemic to the American Southwest.

• 70 Unique Faces: Across this 10 piece polyhedral dice set, no two faces are identical*. Every single face features a unique petroglyph-style representation of Kokopelli inlaid in vivid crushed turquoise the quintessential stone of the Southwest, long believed by desert cultures to carry the protection of the sky and water.

• Seamless Legibility: What better to inlay these dice with than Bright turquoise, the most famous stone from the Southwest. Each numeral is cleanly integrated beside a dancing figure, unique to each die face, inspired by the many ancient Kokopelli petroglyphs that dot the arid southwest.

A masterwork set deserves a worthy sanctuary. The included Mesquite Reliquary is custom-built to keep your dice safe between adventures:

• Petroglyph Engraving: The Mesquite Reliquary features a dramatic engraving of Kokopelli dancing beneath a radiant desert sun alongside towering saguaro cacti, encased in a traditional geometric border.

• Chocolate Suede Interior: Inside, a rich, plush chocolate suede leather lining cushions each individual die in tailor-made pockets, protecting the crisp edges and stone inlays from wear.

• Magnetic Closure: Rare-earth magnets embedded in the mesquite rim snap the reliquary securely shut.

• Rolling Tray: built into the lid and line in suede.

* =  Each dice face features a unique Kokopelli image because we like playing tricks on our graphics artists just as much a Kokopelli like playing tricks in the ancient myths. The only exception are the 4d6’s they share the same art work.