Romance & Relationships in D&D, The Follow-up
Last week I reminisced about the FFG April Fool’s product, Romance and Relationships. At the time I bemoaned the failure of the internet in finding the actual fake book cover that the graphic designer whipped up. It appears that I was a bit too fast to claim failure on the part of the internet. I was emailed with the Internet Wayback Machine page that recorded that moment of history. So for the sake of posterity, here’s the actual post. You can determine for yourself what it means that so many people kept asking for this product for so long, thinking it was...
Romance Rules in D&D
Many years ago when I worked at FFG we had a tradition of posting some kind of April Fools product every year. During the height of the d20 explosion FFG was making the Legends & Lore series of d20 books and one of our April Fools announcements that year was a new upcoming title, “Romance & Relationships.” The graphic designer even put together a lovely fake cover — all in pink, of course. Alas the interwebs have failed me and I can find no record of that cover art, but I did find this lovely review [dead link removed] someone...
How to Ink Numbers of Game Science Precision Dice
A lot of gamers are big fans of the GameScience precision dice, with their sharp edges that are supposed to roll closer to true than most other RPG gaming dice. How much of a difference there is between GameScience dice and dice produced by other gaming dice manufacturers remains a debate, but defenders of Game Science dice have a lot of logical arguments on their side. The one problem that all gamers will face when purchasing Game Science precision dice, however, is that the number on the dice are not inked. In order to easily use the dice for gaming,...
Call of Cthulu Mood Music
Today I’m going to list what I think are some of the best Call of Cthulhu mood music options out there. Just about every Call of Cthulhu game is made better with the addition of some nice creepy background music. Some games suggest a very specific kind of music — like period music for a 1920s Cthulhu game — but for the most part just a generic spooky soundtrack will help set the mood. Unfortunately it can be hard to find good Call of Cthulhu mood music. Too much of the spooky music out there is far too intrusive and...
How to make chocolate D&D Dice???
How to Make Chocolate D&D Dice!? I stumbled across this fantastic article on how to make chocolate d&d dice — at, of all places, the Offbeat Bride (I found it via a Google Alert). The site gives step by step instructions for how to make a mold for D&D dice, which you can then fill with chocolate and literally end up with chocolate D&D dice.How flipping awesome is that? I have to say, I’m not a big DIY person myself, but even I am tempted to go out and buy the clay and silicone needed to put this one together. I would even...
World's Largest Dice Collection
One thing that all gamers have in common is our love for dice. Heck, Awesome Dice is built on that principle. While a simple 7-dice set of D&D Dice is more than sufficient for killing some orcs or throwing fireballs, there is something in the nature of gamers that makes us want to have more dice. And not just enough extra dice so that we don’t have to reroll — we want different kind of dice, different dice looks. Different dice for different games, or different characters, or even for different situations. Gamers tend to have dice collections, and all of us...