A dice rolling tray can be a very useful thing. They don’t just help avoid dice explosions that scatter across the floor they are useful for handing dice around a table and even allow a player and GM to watch a dice roll together without anyone else at the table knowing the results. Etsy store […]
Is this a thing for Valentine’s Day? Chocolate dice
It turns out that Amazon has no shortage of chocolate dice on offer. These dice are about as healthy as you’d expect, with all that sugar, dairy and nuts, but they are shiny and perhaps they’re just the surprise gift for that tabletop roleplayer in your life? The catch? I don’t think the dice on […]
RPG Player kits funded
If you’re a DM looking to get a game on then I think these RPF Player Kits from Critical Games are the ticket. At the time of writing the campaign has funded with over $8,000 in the pot and 13 days to go. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/critgames/rpg-player-kits-for-dnd-5e-pathfinder-cthulhu-sava [Back this Campaign] It’s worth paying attention to the pledges. $20 […]
This dice is between 1,700 and 4,000 years old
Dating from the Ptolemaic Period, which is around 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD, is this icosahedron from Egypt. The ancient d20 sided die is held now by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art and rather nicely the image of the artifact is entirely in the public domain. It is inscribed with Greek […]
The portable Crit Kit for travelling GMs
Do you GM a game that you travel to? Perhaps you game from home but just don’t have much space? I think Justin Sirois Kickstarter for dice tray and portal dungeon will appeal to you. The main problem? This metal fan was surprised to encounter a loud death metal track to the Kickstarter video. This […]
Forging a steel d20
In this episode the vlogsmith Gil Ramirez forges a steel d20. There’s more skill to it than I imaged as Gil’s required to hammer each face of the die by hand. He’s keen of eye enough to do this without measurement or fancy tools either – though I doubt the die is as well balanced […]
Glowing d20 necklace
One of the interesting deals out there in geek land at the minute is the 50% off these glowing critical hit dice dice necklace d20s from ThinkGeek. The season sales have reduced them to less than $10 but they’ve only tallied up 70 or so likes on Facebook. What do you make of them? Too […]
Is it a Mimic monster or a wooden chest?
Where do you store your favourite dice and the miniatures currently in use as the characters in your RPG? Somewhere disappointing like a balled up plastic bag? Somewhere sensible like a bookshelf or somewhere heroic like on the mantelpiece? You could store them in a large wooden chest that might just be a Mimic. That […]
The best possible gift for your stressed DM?
Imagine being able to take a cursed dice and squish the very life from it with your fist. [NEED!] You don’t get one dice with this Think Geek purchase; you get 7. One purchase unlocks the foamy d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 and the d20. This means you get to squish each of your enemies […]
Mathematically this is as many sides dice can have
You can’t have more faces on a die without losing symmetry and becoming a broken dice. The d120 is as large as you can go. Opposite faces add up to 121. The dice is the creation of the The Dice Lab. A single die will cost you $12 whereas a set of five sets you […]