This is true, although in the intervening decade between the World of Darkness taking off huge and Exalted coming out, it began much, much easier to acquire those bucketfuls of d10s. I was very young in the early nineties, but I do recall that any non-standard die could be tricky to find if you weren't fortunate enough to have a dedicated gaming store nearby; even getting extra d20s could be hard.

(Pretty stoked about the third edition of Exalted, by the way.)

-Merc
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