What do you get your gamer girlfriend for her birthday? What stocking fillers do you use to top up your boyfriend’s Christmas presents? What can you bring to your convention scenario in order to make sure the players remember your game most of all? Three questions – and perhaps there’s just one answer for them […]
Are RPG dice good enough quality to be truly random?
The video above is of Colonel Louis Zocchi, the founder of GameScience, explaining why he believes GameScience will roll more true than others. The summary is that the traditional RPG dice are polished in a way that rounds off corners and painted in a way that gives them an inconsistent shape. The inconsistent shape results […]
DiceyDecor for the fashionable gamer: glass dice lamps
A geeky pillow with its own sleep mode is a start – but what can you do if you want to take household geek fashion up to an even higher level? You want people to know, at a glance, that they’re in the home of a gamer and prepare themselves for educated banter and geeky […]
D&D versus Pathfinder – battlefield Google
Awesome Dice have put their search research hats on and dug into marketing data to compare Dungeons and Dragons to Pathfinder. The dice co have put together a cracking, long, well researched post over here and provided some handy charts for it. What is Geek Native going to do? We’re re-using the eye candy, the […]
Crochet Dice
Geek Native has featured plenty of intersting dice in the past. Check out this impressive collection of custom dice from Dice Creator, this skull dice thrower, this felt lined castle dice tray or even this history of dice infographic. Time for something new? What about crochet dice? Not sure they’re evenly balanced but they’d be […]
The awesome dice infographic
Over on Awesome Dice you’ll find a remarkable post and infographic. Yeah; it’s about dice… but it’s a deep dive on the history of dice, going back to 3100 BCE, to the Egyptian era that surfaced the first d12 and up to modern day. I was impressed. I asked Brian Wood of Awesome Dice to […]
The d12 bag of holding (Handbag style)
Fancy yourself a handbag that broadcasts your gamer status? Perfect for conventions and parties. But how would you get such an item? You’d have to ask an Evil Mad Scientist. Fortunately, a certain crafty team of evil mad scientists have rallied to your help. There is a set of instructions that will help you craft […]
Felt lined castle dice tray
Want to roll your die in style? Okay, okay… do you just want to roll your die in such a way that they don’t bounce off the table, clatter loudly to the floor and then hide under the sofa? Dapper Devil have a rather impressive looking and not too expensive felt line castle dice tray […]
Dice, grenades and other gamer items for a fresh guacamole
This stop motion video from PES shows every day household gamer items being turned into fresh guacamole. It’s worth watching because, for stop motion, it’s incredibly fluid. The trick is to spot when the gamer items are being brought it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMO6vjmkyI
Skull dice thrower
Have you ever had a gaming session where the dice just hated you? If you believe that dice are anything other than random – and so many gamers do – then try switching to a die tower. In fact, don’t switch to any ordinary dice tower to throw the bones. Use a skull dice tower. […]
