Festive holiday idea for game geeks: make chocolate RPG dice for your gaming buddies

Critical Success for Chocolate - image: Ariel Segall, offbeatbride.com

Either you’re a GM looking to soften your reputation for cruelty with player characters or maybe a game geek with an angle on bribing camaraderie out of your fellow players: “Sure, we’ll let you walk away with that amazing artefact… since you baked us these amazing chocolate dice”.

Or maybe you’re a “game widow”?  One of those long-suffering girlfriends or boyfriends who regularly lose contact with their partner when they vanish off to do battle with… whatever.

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Here’s a link to a great step-by-step guide for creating some functional chocolate goodies. And what’s better, if you happen to roll a ’1′ fumble on a d20 or a ’00′ critical fek-up on 1d100, just pop the evidence in your mouth before the GM can dispute what they think they saw.

This isn’t a quick win by the way. Some effort required. First you’ll need to make a mold that’ll allow you to batch the scrumptious polyhedrons.

Baking mold - image: Ariel Segall, offbeatbride.com

The article by Ariel Segall contains a comprehensive list of required crafting components that you’ll need to buy in before you begin, including liquid molding silicone, modelling clay and food-safe wax, to name a few. So anybody munching down on your treats should be prepared to get a lecture from you on how difficult they were to make.

If you’re up for the challenge then read the full article here: How to make your own Dungeons & Dragons chocolate dice mold – via offbeatbride.com

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Santiago – an exciting new card and dice game where conflict and strategy prevail

A lowely force confronts the mighty Queen & King of the game

I was in Santiago recently and trapped in an airport for several hours as heavy storms battered the country.  During this time I came up with a brand new game, with the help of my good friend Pete Wills, utilising an ordinary pack of cards and two dice (d6).

The result was surprisingly enjoyable and immensely engaging. The hours melted away and I have to honestly say I enjoyed the whole experience – despite arriving back in the UK at 2 o’clock in the morning.

Overview

This is a game for up to four players. Each player uses one suit of cards (Spades, Hearts, etc). They start by selecting one card to be their base. This can be a high card (10, Jack, Queen, King, or the all powerful Ace) to create a strong defensive position, or they can gamble with a low card for a base – using the higher (more powerful) cards in the approaching battle.

Each player places a card at a time, creating a snaking line of offensive forces, stretching out from their base towards an enemy base(s).  When the cards of an opposing force touch, there is conflict.  Conflict is resolved by rolling two dice (standard, 6-sided) and adding the score to the value of the card.  The highest score wins that particular conflict.

Lines of attack can be broken leaving forces stranded.  Beaten cards are taken and used later to “buy back” troops.  There is a surprising amount of tension created by this game, and plenty of opportunity for strategy, alliances, deal-breaking and bluffing.

Grab the free download PDF – click

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David Rodger (@davidjrodger) June 10, 2011

Game geeks: Thorn Dice by Ceramic Wombat, twisted fusion of organic form and metal

Thanks to Sammi Rule for sliding these beneath my glazed eyeballs and causing an immediate upright posture and blast of interest.

Thorn Dice by Ceramic Wombat

Perfect dice for Yellow Dawn as they look like the kind of objects that have been warped by exposure to the corruptive influence of Hastur.

Thorn Dice - illustration

I think these are fantastically crafted. No idea how well they roll but I’ll let you know when I get myself some.

Relevant links:

• Thorn Dice purchase point via Shapeways website – click
• Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur – Official Webpage – click

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