I’m not sure you’d ever roll them for fear of smashing them into a pile of glass caltrops but it would be cool to have a pair of stained-glass d20. They’d look great on the coffee table. You know; beside the black skull, the Predator gun and ghost trap. As it turns out you can […]
Interview with Brian Wood of Awesome Dice
Brian Wood runs Awesome Dice shop and accompanying blog. Selling die online is surprisingly competitive and there’s a far greater range of options than even some experienced roleplayers might imagine. When Brian dropped Geek Native a note about a rather clever WordPress dice roller I thought it might be wise to get a walkthrough from the man himself.
Blood on the Game Dice
How functional is your gaming group? Wait. Don’t be harsh. I don’t think that’s an oxymoron – there’s too many words, for a start. The truth is that some gaming groups get along well, some are chaotic but generally line up but then there are some that are so fractional it’s amazing any gaming goes […]
Impressive custom dice
I became aware of Dice Creator through Google+. All of a sudden, in my stream of Google+ shares, I started to see some really wicked looking dice. Sometimes these dice were clever – like the Inception dice; dice inside dice. Sometimes the dice were works of art – like the shadow dice. I reached out […]
Everyone’s talking about these d20 pillows
Sometimes we can all agree on cool. When Think Geek first published these D20 Velvet Pillows I put them in a queue. This queue gets worked through on slow news days. Plans have had to change. All around the wise wonderful web I can see bloggers going cray over this clever idea. As Geek Native […]
Reddit rebellion over BF3?
This geeky roleplayer is not in the Battlefield franchise and there was every chance that BF3 would have sailed past without me noticing – except, EA seems to have botched their “game blance” saving through like some rookie GM. The result? The powerful Reddit community is planning an open revolt. How did EA mess up […]
IronDie competition from UnderDiscussion
The gamer podcast UnderDiscussion (itunes link) is a year old. Their last podcast reached over thousand uniques – that’s traffic many blogs would be jealous of! To mark their first anniversary the team are giving away some IronDie. These are dice cast from solid metal and shipped in from Italy. These metal die are up […]
Spiky! Thorn dice go viral!
This set of thorn dice aren’t cheap. Prices start at about $30. That’s certainly not putting off the window shoppers though. At the time of writing the set has had over 3,000 Facebook Likes and over 98,000 views. It’s a fantastic advert for Shapeways which I hadn’t heard of before. Do you imagine there are […]
Self-loading LEGO dice tower defeats RPG cheats
This is so cool. This Christmas I was given a plastic tower for dice rolling – not because I’m a cheat, but because one of my gamer groups think my dice rolling is bad luck and provided the tower as an alternative. Gamers and superstition, huh? In this case I suspect the tower was built […]
Q-Workshop dice elves go on strike
It’s hard to stand out in the competitive world of dice selling and manufacturing. However, Polish based Q-Workshop are trying to do just that. For a start, they are a successful company. It might not be brand you’re familiar with but they’ve won awards you will have heard of. For another, they use worker elves […]
