Chocolate dice.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF

Author/web developer/chocolatier Mario Lung combined two unlikely ingredients--Dungeons & Dragons dice and chocolate--into one popular whole. In 2012, he embarked on a Kickstarter campaign with a goal of $900 and netted $16,000.

"The shape really resonates," Lung says, highlighting the 20-sided die as his most popular. The concept emerged during a role-playing campaign when a player feigned a die ingestion in 2009. "I said, 'You can't eat that,'" Lung recalls. His sage advice proved an a-ha moment, and now he makes chocolate dice for the retail market as well as weddings...