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Fall In Love With Flash Point: Fire Rescue Board Game Free Find On Craigslist

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Mon, 2 Nov 2020 10:30:00 -0800

I recently was able to grab some great finds in the "for sale/free" section of craigslist for my area. A very nice individual near me offered up a few games for free. Here is one of the finds:

From BoardGamingGeek:

Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a cooperative game of fire rescue.

There are two versions of game play in Flash Point, a basic game and expert game.
In both variants, players are attempting to rescue 7 of 10 victims from a raging building fire.
As the players attempt to rescue the victims, the fire spreads to other parts of the building, causing structural damage and possibly blocking off pathways through the building. Each turn a player may spend action points to try to extinguish fires, move through the building, move victims out of the building or perform various special actions such as moving emergency vehicles. If 4 victims perish in the blaze or the building collapses from taking too much structural damage, the players lose. Otherwise, the players win instantly when they rescue a 7th victim.

The expert variant included in the game adds thematic elements such as flash over, combustible materials, random setup, and variations on game difficulty from novice to heroic. The game includes a double sided board with two different building plans and several expansion maps are available.

Flash Point : Fire Rescue sounds like really fun game! FP:FR is a co-op game similar to pandemic, albeit a bit simpler. Playing in the basic mode might be best for younger children, introducing the board gaming hobby to newbies, or just a solid game for family game night.

Players: 2-6

Play Time: 45min

Age: 10+

Weight/Complexity: 2.5 out of 5

Rank on BGG: 333

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80's D&D Cartoon Revival? Kinda...

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Sat, 25 May 2019 15:09:00 -0700

I could get behind this except... Its for a damn car commercial! WTF. While well done in almost every aspect, its just wrong to use this decent cast and cgi, for a car commercial. How about new stories, with this same level of detail and casting!!! Id watch the hell out of that!!!

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FREE : CCG Sorting Box Made from Foam Core Laser Cutter Plans

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:00:00 -0700

So I found this file on thingiverse, by BTSculptor . However his file doesn't include how to build the box, is a bit cluttered, e.g, has an extra piece that is'nt needed. After testing it out, after sorting, getting the cards out can be tricky as there is no finger slot. So I added in a finger slot, and organized the file a bit. This sorting box should be able to handle most regular ccgs sizes, like Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, etc., with and without card sleeves.

I used a laser cutter, but you could do this with a vinyl/craft cutting machine like the cricut or cameo machines, or even just print out the pieces you need and glue them to the foam core, or cardboard.

You can fine my.svg file here:

d4d6d8d10d12d20 Card Sorter Box for CCGs

The blue line is a score and on my glowforge the settings I used were 200 speed 25 power. This cuts through the top layer of the paper and into the foam but not the backing paper forming a hinge.

The rest of the lines should all be set for a cut operation, which on the glowforge is 200 speed and 60 power. This will give you a good clean cut and minimal charring.

You'll need one short piece, 3 divider pieces, 2 edge pieces, and 4 card slot hinged pieces.

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Here is how to build the box...

Top Secret: New World Order - The Espionage Roleplaying Game, ITs BACK! WOOT!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:52:00 -0700

So I've been trying to cut down on the number of kickstarters I've been doing lately, so much that I only have one left (a 3d resin phone based printer the ONO). But when I saw this post I had to back it! You can find it on Kickstarter here: Top Secret: New World Order - the espionage roleplaying game by Merle M. Rasmussen!!!

I have most of the modules and all of the editors of the original Top Secret Game made by T$R (TSR) back in the day and loved playing the game, I've even used their combat matrix for martial arts/unarmed combat in a few other table top games. It was a fun system and was one of the few that made you feel as if you were a "real" spy. I'm glad to see it getting rebooted. I've tried a few of the other systems for espionage rpgs when the d20 system was released, but none ever caught my attention like the original Top Secret!

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Whoa! Gary Gygax's FBI File Is An Interesting Read!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:57:00 -0700

Apparently the FBI had a file on our beloved DM of yore, Gary Gygax! Over at Reason.com they have an article about, with a snippet of Gary's FBI file(shown after the break), which was originally obtained using the freedom of information act request by journalist CJ Ciaramella:

Be sure to check out the full article for some fun reading...

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Review Of The Pathfinder & Q-workshop Metal RPG Dice Set

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:30:00 -0700

The TL;DR of this article... "After getting these dice would you buy them again?" In short, No! No, I wouldn't! (Read on to see why!)

Kickstarter backed, Pathfinder & Q-workshop Metal RPG Dice Set.
Kickstarter Origin Date Oct 2015.
Kickstarter Planned Delivery Date - March 2016.
Kickstarter Actual Delivery Date - Sept 2016. (6-7 Months LATE)

(Side note, I'm no longer backing anything with a year projected delivery date or really any Kickstarter these days. I've been burned by one entirely, the peachy printer debacle, and I've YET to see any of the Kickstarters involving a physical product actually on their promised delivery date.)

My gaming friends weren't impressed with the dice either, and in fact got more of a kick out of using the Laser Cut Dice Tower perk that came with the dice! (You can find the assembly instructions here.)

Don't get me wrong, the dice are indeed ALL metal, but I wouldn't pay $69 USD for these dice if I saw them at my local game store. The funny thing is, according to the Kickstarter project marketing wank, they were to be valued at $99 USD! Hahaha! The dice themselves are just "OK".

The Kickstarter included along with the all metal dice, a set of normal plastic "Goblin Dice", a linin dice bag, and the laser cut Dice Tower perks. I believe I received them on a Wed, which was lucky for me as I had a 5th edition session that Saturday. These pics, along with the pics from the Dice Tower build were all taken at the same time the Saturday before the game, some with my phone and some with my dSLR. (I'll try and include some at the end of the article that shows how they look after one month of light game play about two sessions. (They are already beat up looking!)

Now the packaging the dice come in is very nice. The box is of sturdy and textured cardboard and very lavishly done, along with some nice dense foam to separate individual die. You get d4, d6, d8, d12, d10, d%, d12, and a d20.

With that said, I'm not sure why Q-Workshop/Pathfinder/Paizo put the effort and cost into this area of the kickstarter since you are not likely to keep your dice between game sessions in this box, especially when they sent along as a "perk" a linen dice bag. Personally I use a crown royal bag as many of you already know! It just seems an area they could have save a bit of cash on, and passed along the "savings" or included a few more "perks".

Also another pet peeve of mine is the replacement of the high or low numbers with a company logo, and in this case all the die have the high number replaced with a "P", that is except the d4.

They also used a tin alloy with 83% tin as the base metal. While they indicate the material is durable, with just two play sessions the dice seet looks dull, scratched and worn, unlike other metal dice sets I own and used far more!

Also there are other manufacturers out there which you can get metal dice sets from that look far better than these dice, some are cheaper too!

Here are some examples:

https://www.dnddice.com/metal-dice.html Most sets $50 usd.
http://norsefoundry.com/product-category/7-piece-rpg-metal-dice-set/ Most sets $34.99 usd.

As well as a few people out there crafting their own dice via 3d modeling and then using places like Shapeways to get custom dice sets and even others making dice via CNC machining or old skewl milling & machining . The following is a set of pics taken showing both the Paizo/Q-Workshop Kickstarter dice and the other metal dice I own as well as my friends metal d6's he has used from day 1 of our current set of campaigns which started in about 2008 ish.

(all the images can be clicked on for a larger view)

These are my Crystal Caste Dwarven Metal Dice, which I've measured all of the other metal dice against. These are durable, have a great finish, look awesome, and are heavy as hell! (These d20's are more for intimidation of the players than anything else, as they are the LARGE d20 (size of a golf ball ish and could kill you if thrown and hit in the head!) I believe my friends d6's are also of similar make(see the photos of those below). I'm unsure if crystal caste is even in business any longer, their website seems to be out of stock of all the metal dice, and I heard a rumor that the one and only molds for these dice were broken and lost, but i've seen similar dice pop up on ebay from Noble Knight Games and they list 2015 as the manufacture date, so who knows for sure!

As you can see HEAVY at 140 grams! The Pathfinders set is only 190 grams in total!

You can see here the sizes of the d20s I own currently.
From left to right top, Crystal Caste 12mm Dwarven Metal die, light blue "Mud Dice" from my original D&D set,
Modern plastic d20 from chessex 16mm, The "GIANT" Crystal Caste Metal d20,
Mini d20 12mm plastic die, and the d20 Paizo Q-Workshop Die (this was taken before any play had occurred!)

This was my first set of rpg dice, from the 77 or 78 edition of D&D boxed set.
These were called the "mud dice" as overtime and heavy use the edges would break down
and cause a rounding of the edges. These were as sharp as www.gamesciencedice.com when I
first had my own D&D box set way back in the day. These dice are OLD, but are still in good shape I think,
and I still use them in games!

This is my most recent acquisition, I bought two sets to go with playing my Gnome Illusionist Ip!

These are my pure solid silver dice 12mm that I bought from Crystal Caste
back in the day for I believe $75. They certainly are tarnished! Also very heavy.

These are the 12 mm crystal caste metal dice, as you can see they are in GREAT condition
despite being used quite often in games, the finish really holds up, I have the three colors offered,
Brass, Copper, and Brushed Nickel.

As you can see these are the Paizo/Q-Workshop dice.

They're not 190g as was stated in the Kickstarter, maybe even lighter,

as my kitchen scale isn't that sensitive and if you add up the numbers below,

of the individual die's, you'll see they don't add up to 155! Also, you can

see the issue with the 2's, 8's 3's and 5's all looking similar. They picked a

terrible font for the various numbers and depending on the angle and lighting

conditions you really have to get a close up view to determine what you rolled, which

is the second thing a company should be shooting for visibility, the first of course is accuracy!

That's a TWO on top not an 8, and you can see the three underneath.

Grrrrr, Thats the 6 on the d6. Which could be the 1 for all your DM knows Unless
you know ahead of time, also gets confusing when you've not played in a bit and you have other dice sets
that use the "logo" for the high number where other company's (like dice for craps) put their logo on the snake eyes.
I hate when companies do this!

Only die in the set that hasn't a high or low replaced with a "P". So yay for
consistancy?! Also I prefer the d4 where you read the number off the base vs the top
of the pyramid. Potatoes/Patados. ;)

Again that's a TWO, could be a 8, could be 3(look below at the 3 and 5)
Legibility is a pain in the ASS on these dice for certain numbers.

Yeah that dot on the 9 is pretty small, when your DM asks you to roll a d12,
and you roll that you could argue 6 OR 9 if they're at the other end of the table!
(but regardless I bet your ass just got eaten! :D )

These are the goblin dice, they about on par with a low quality of plastic dice you get in a starter set these days, a bit on the light side feel wise but they roll nice. However as you can see legibility is again shit here. The high numbers are again replaced, but this time with differing symbols! WTF! (all the following pics show the high number for the Goblin Dice)

Here again you can see the perfect finish of the 12 mm "old" skewl metal dice,
the left is the pure silver dice, and the right is the brushed steel, both from crystal caste.

Again more of that terrible TWO and "P".

The finish is just subpar for these dice and isn't holding up to even light
game play, are these the new "MUD DICE?"

Here is the other "Perk" that you get with the Kickstater. Its a linen dice bag.

As you can see the linen bag is of very nice quality, roomy with nice cordage and a screen printed bag, not just some sticker on top of the cloth, though i would have liked to see some embroidery or pipping along the edges. I'm likely to give this to a friend just getting into the game or my girlfriend who isn't as picky as when it comes to dice bags (crown royal is the ONLY way!)

Well that's it, I don't wholly regret getting these dice, but if I had to "do over" I certainly wouldn't have taken the plunge, especially with their initial imagery, which looked like a physical prototype, and many were miffed when they found out it was a CGI pic of the final product. I even fell for the pics and I work with 3d imagery and rendering all the time. Eventually they labeled all the images with "visualization" to avoid further confusion. With that said I am a lover of dice (except those wooden ones! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!) so i'm ok with keeping this dice set and using it from time to time specifically for playing pathfinder games. (thankfully have been just playing more 5th edtion these days ;) hehe!)

Update: Here are a few pics from TODAY of how they have held up! (not the greatest!)

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How To Build The Q-workshop / Pathfinder Dice Tower!!!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:30:00 -0700

Way back in October 2015, I backed a Q-workshop / Pathfinder Kickstarter for a set of metal polyhedral dice, because as many of my friends/family/readers know, I'm absolutely mad when it comes to dice! I love almost all types of dice, well all dice except for those damn wooden dice, but that is another blog post entirely.

So I backed the kickstarter and it finally arrived in Sept of 2016! Yay! Only 6 months off the target date! :( Ah, Kickstarter the only place where you can miss your target delivery date without consequence, or not deliver at all and keep all the cash! (ask me about a failed kickstarter 3d resin printer and a house in Canada!)

I chose the $69.00 level of rewards, which included a set of "lead free" metal polyhedral dice, the review of the dice set is coming soon, and any stretch goals unlocked. The "free" goals unlocked were a set of green "Goblin" polyhedral dice, a linen bag, and a laser cut dice tower!

A dice tower is used when rolling dice to help "randomize" the dice results during a game, e.g., The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Dungeons And Dragons, but it really can be used for any game with dice.

While the pictures on the provided sheet DO show you how to build the dice tower, its pretty straight forward, there isn't any text explaining the steps in detail. So here is a little walk through my own building of the dice tower, along with a few tips and tools that I used...

First off a WARNING: This is a laser cut wooden item. If you never had a laser cut wood piece before, IT SMELLS OF BURNED WOOD, almost like a smoldering campfire. Its a strong odor and will remain with the item, unless taken care of, more on this below. In addition after touching the laser cut wood your fingers will also smell of burnt wood for a while. I, Myself, enjoy this odor. The smell reminds me of all the times camping with family/friends.

Testors Aerosol Spray Lacquer Paint, 3oz

Tools Needed:

Glue, If you wish to affix things permanently but isn't needed. Wood glue recommended.
Pair of tweezers, to help with placement of the small bits.
Modeling tool, Sharpie Pen, or similar "pointy tool", for pressing small bits out of the wood.
Masking Tape, recommend the blue painters tape.
Hobby Knife, or Utility Knife, for cutting out stubborn parts.
Spray Sealer (like Testors Dullcoate)

Step 1.
A few of the parts might have fallen out of the laser cut wood, don't loose them! The ones shaped like hammers are used for the "drawbridge" mechanism. The archway can be either tossed or used as a game marker! Pop out the remaining pieces with the modeling tool, sharpie pen, or your fingers, and arrange them so you can see each piece.

Step 2:
Grab the back piece, It is one of the larger pieces with the "door" engraved upon it, and then one of the side pieces notice that the "feet" of the side piece face the rear, so it should be fairly easy to tell which side faces which.

Insert the back into the side piece the little square/rectangle holes should be fairly snug with fitting the little tabs on the back into. Just be careful and try not to snap off the little tabs. If the square/rectangle holes are hard to get out use the tip of the sharpie pen to push them out, if really difficult use the hobby knife or utility knife and run the blade around the cut to free up the spaces.

At this point find the other "decorative" pieces as can be seen below that fit over the back piece for the window and the door to create a 3d-ish effect. These pieces will help stiffen up the "frame" a bit later as the panels can't slide around. You could at this point place a drop of glue at each juncture with a brush or just your glue bottle, taking care of wiping away any excess glue. I skipped this step being that all my pieces were really a snug fit, though with continued use I may go back and add glue at a later date.

Step 3:

Now find the "floor" pieces for the "tower" there should be three that look similar, and one that has cobble stone on it instead of planking. The ones with planks there should be a small, medium, and large. If you look at the pictures provided on the sheet it appears that the medium is attached as the top slide, the small is the second slide, which leaves the larger as the last slide followed at the bottom with the cobblestone small floor. You could use painters tape here to secure the floors in place while you either place glue at the junctions or to just hold them in place before the next step.

Step 4:
Here you can just flip the entire piece on the side to keep the items you've already placed intact then grab the other side piece and align the tabs and secure the side tightly together. Then you can grab the front of the tower the piece marked with a P in the center, and slightly pry apart the two sides to where you can slide in the front part of the tower as well as the little cobble stone foot. Note the small foot only goes one way, it should slip under the large plank floor. Now you can place glue in the junctions if needed.

Step 5:
Now to construct the "fence" to keep the dice within the dice tower proper. Grab the two side pieces along with the front of the "fenced in area". You can see the pieces below. Slide the front piece down into the grooves of the sides of the fenced in area. Finally grab the "bottom" of the fenced in area and slip the sides into the grooves near where the fenced in area connects to the tower. Yes there is an open area near the front of the fenced in area, this is either for easy dice collection, or they just want to show off the logo when the tower is in transit.

Step 6:
Now grab those little bits I said not to throw away at the beginning. Amongst them should be a few that look like little hammers. These are your connectors, to secure the fenced area to the tower. I had eight of them if I recall.

So essentially you slide over the fenced in area and line up the holes and then insert these little hammers securing the fence area with the tower, which then can subsequently be "raised and lowered" for transport. The hammers are square in nature as is the holes in the tower so they do fit snugly, and the fenced holes are larger and more round to allow for pivoting of the fenced area to fold up for storage/transit.

This is one area where I might actually "upgrade" to either a rivet, or maybe a metal brad to allow for better security, as this was the weak point during our first game with the dice tower, where were using metal dice from various manufacturers, and the fence pegs would pop out time to time, which then needed to be placed back in.

Step 7:

The final step is to find the remainder two "decorative" pieces and place them accordingly, which should be over the tabs on the back side of the dice tower. These should snap on and secure up the whole tower now allowing any of the sides to jostle back and forth. Again use of glue here might go a long way in making this structure permanent.

Again I just had all my junctions dry fitted, and a few of my friends were whipping their 16mm and 14mm metal polyhedrons into the top maw from across the table and the tower didn't once "pop" apart, except for two connectors which joined the fenced area and the tower, but liked I mentioned above either rivets or metal brads would do the trick to fix that issue.

Here is the "drawbridge" mechanism in action!

This is what it looks like in storage/transit mode!

Step 8 (optional): To finish off the dice tower, and perhaps remove some of the smell, or maybe the ease of the transfer of the smell to your fingers, you could hit it with some spray sealer. You would want to separate the fence area from the tower, so you don't end up sticking the two pieces together. I personally would apply a coat BEFORE construction, as the thin layer of varnish might cause the connection points to become slightly larger and will then need to be slightly sanded. Also only work in very light coats, flooding the pieces with spray will likely warp them.

You could also paint the tower in any color you would like( a dry brush would be decent) and then you could use a wash/ink to fill in the cracks, crevasses, etc... followed up by a slight sanding. Either way there are a number of ways you can customize your tower! I'm keeping mine default! :)

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Card Games : Cards Against Humanity : Geek and Fantasy Packs! WOOT!!!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:30:00 -0700

Whilst browsing the Cards Against Humanity(CAH) pages I came across two packs that I had yet to include in my CAH collection! The Fantasy Pack and the Geek Pack! Which on CAH's website/store are listed as:

Fantasy Pack
Oh no! Not another fucking elf! It’s the Fantasy Pack, co-written by make-believers Pat Rothfuss, Neil Gaiman, Sam Sykes, Myke Cole, Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Sherwood Smith, Elizabeth Bear, and Wesley Chu. Look at how famous these people are! You basically have to buy this pack now that you’ve read this list.
26 white & 6 black cards that will hopefully be turned into a $300 million film franchise.This is an expansion. Requires Cards Against Humanity.

Geek Pack
There's nothing nerds love more than branded references that they can consume. Remember Batman? What about Firefly? Bazinga!
24 white & 6 black cards about video games, D&D, Game of Thrones, and all the other bullshit you like.
Previously released at PAX East & PAX Prime in 2013 & 2014.
Artist's Edition wrapper by Jessica Paoli.

So I ordered these and shipped them ASAP STAT! Got them last Friday, so lets take a look at what comes in each pack! (pics after the jump!)

#boardgames #CAH #cardgames #cardsagainsthumanity #funny #gaming #geek #nerd #fantasy #fantasypack #geekpack

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Card Games : Cards Against Humanity : America Votes - Trump v Hillary !!!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:30:00 -0700

(Max Temkin Designer from Chicago, Il.http://www.Maxistentialism.com)

Externalhttp://www.Maxistentialism.com)

Here are the cards from the packs! Yes!, You could buy both,essentially voting with your $$$$ because all the money is being donated at the end to Hillary Clinton. Oh you didn't realize that? That's a bummer to hear, better go offset those $$$$ and buy some more trump packs! ;)

You can buy them here: https://americavoteswithcardsagainsthumanity.com/

(you can click on the images to embiggen them)

#awesome , #boardgames , #CAH , #cardgames , #cardsagainsthumanity , #americavotes , #funny , #gaming , #geek , #nerd , #politics , #hillary , #trump , #king , #awesome

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Card Games : Cards Against Humanity : NIGHT SIX TO EIGHT - EIGHT SENSIBLE GIFTS FOR HANUKKAH

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:43:00 -0700

~~Its Christmas in July!~~ I mean Hanukkah in August! So yah, I'm just now getting around to posting those remaining days of the Cards Against Humanity's Eight Sensible Gifts For Hanukkah, that I was promising all the way back in December of last year! Cheese and crackers am I lazy!

Anywho, I've recently got some new stuff for the blog that I need for you all to see but I'd figured I'd better finish the posts from 2015 before I continue on with my Cards Against Humanity Extravaganza! So here they are nights six thru eight! Enjoy! (Just a fyi, NO MORE SOCKS CAME! WTF!) All three nights after the jump!

Night Six thru Eight arrived, same envelope, yadda, yadda, yadda:

What's this? A letter in Chinese? Oh There is a letter... (TLDR; CAH Used some of the cash and gave all the workers in the Chinese Factory, where CAH Cards are made, the ENTIRE WEEK OFF!) Oh and there are pictures! All of the pictures are what the workers did with their time off and sent along thank you notes on the backs! AWESOME!

(translated)

(originals)

Of course another letter was included, this time from Josh's dad on gratitude.

Night seven's letter was from David M's dad (because the M is important!) on culture!

Which led into CAH buying an Original Picaso "Tête de Faune" and allowing us to decide its fate:

Option 1: Chop it up into squares, everyone gets one!

Option 2: Donate it to a museum, how boring!

(can you guess how I voted!)

Click here to see what happened!

Oh yah we also got Jew Pack Two!

BONUS: World Wide Web Pack!!!

The last night's letter was from Max's Dad on ABSOLUTE POWER!

Which is fitting because...

That's right boys and girls I was KING for all of 00:03:00 Minutes! Unfortunately I had completely forgot about this decree, just like night six thru eight, and my reign began and ended in a whimper! Oh well they can't say I was a good or bad king!(but they do have to admit I was KING!)

You can find out who is currently in power and their, and former kings, decrees here:

Who Is The King Right Now?

So that's it, finally, on last years CAH promotion Eight Sensible Gifts For Hanukkah! Be sure to check out the earlier posts here, here, and here...

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Gary Gygax Day!!! Happy Birthday Gary!!!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:03:00 -0700

Today is GYGAX DAY! Also known as Gary's Birthday 07/27! Which is apt since on a whim I decided to wear my Dungeons Crawlers T-Shirt today! The power of Gary moves through me! NAT 20 Baby! In Gygax we trust!

You can get your very own shirt here(no affiliation just passing along the link):

Dungeon Crawlers T-Shirt From Tee Fury "In Gygax We Trust!"

If you enjoy D&D, or playing any role playing games, both tabletop and video games, you might want to contribute to the Gygax Memorial Fund, as Gary was one of the most influential on this genre of gaming along with co-creator Dave Arneson. Both men have since passed away.

#gygaxday , #gygax , #garygygax , #dnd , #d&d , #gaming , #videogames , #pathfinder , #geek, #nerd , #polyhedrons , #dice , #storytelling

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Card Games : Cards Against Humanity : NIGHT FIVE - EIGHT SENSIBLE GIFTS FOR HANUKKAH

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:00:00 -0800

Its that time of year again where Cards Against Humanity offers their take on the holidays, whichever holiday they choose to "honor".

The First Night we received SOCKS!, The Second Night, we received SOCKS! The Third Night, yup!, Socks! Night Four CAH threw us a curveball and actually supplied us with new cards, BUT NO SOCKS! Grrrr. I really want the set of eight days of socks, but alas I fear no more socks...

Oh well Night Five arrived, finally! Yes, I know Hanukkah is over and Christmas is almost here! Still waiting on those last three nights CAH and USPS! Anyhow, Same envelope, yadda, yadda, yadda, yep, its again:

*Drum roll* BOOM! Field notes, one notebook, and another letter of advice. That's it! Field notes comes in packs of three for 9.99 typically. Ok, fine, they gave the money for this day to support NPR and we get a year sub to some chicago station, fine... (still a bit hurt about no socks)

(its true today)

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Card Games : Cards Against Humanity : NIGHT FOUR - EIGHT SENSIBLE GIFTS FOR HANUKKAH

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:00:00 -0800

Its that time of year again where Cards Against Humanity offers their take on the holidays, whichever holiday they choose to "honor".

The First Night we received SOCKS!, The Second Night, we received SOCKS! The Third Night, yup!, Socks! All very sensible with a little menorah, which is being lit as we go! Very Nice.

Now on to Night Four! Same envelope, yadda, yadda, yadda, yep, its again:

~~SOCKS!~~ Wait. WTF! No Socks? No SOCKS!? Where are my SOCKS!? I WANT, NoO!, I NEED!, the other pair of SOCKS, all with the a tiny menorah, with the a progression of candle/oil lighting, NOW!!! WHERE ARE MY FUCKING SOCKS CAH! Damnit! Not only did this night arrive late, Its Dec 14th for gawds sakes, Hanukkah IS OVER!

*huffs off in a mad fit*

*stomps back after 15 minutes of simmering*

Fine. Fuck it. Night Four:

Begrudgingly begrudged and wondering where my SOCKS ARE!

(its a lie)

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Card Games : Cards Against Humanity : NIGHT THREE - EIGHT SENSIBLE GIFTS FOR HANUKKAH

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Tue, 8 Dec 2015 18:00:00 -0800

Its that time of year again where Cards Against Humanity offers their take on the holidays, whichever holiday they choose to "honor".

The First Night we received SOCKS!, The Second Night, we received SOCKS! Another pair of very sensible pair of socks with a menorah on them, which is being lit as we go! Very Nice.

Now on to Night Three! Same envelope, yadda, yadda, yadda, yep, its again:

SOCKS!

Alrighty, I've resigned to the fact i'm getting 8 pairs of Socks. Very sensible pairs of white socks, of course! You can find out what we get on Night Four > HERE!

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Card Games : Cards Against Humanity : NIGHT TWO - EIGHT SENSIBLE GIFTS FOR HANUKKAH

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Mon, 7 Dec 2015 18:00:00 -0800

Its that time of year again where Cards Against Humanity offers their take on the holidays, whichever holiday they choose to "honor".

The First Night we received SOCKS! Yep, Socks! A very sensible pair of socks with a menorah on them. Very Nice.

Now on to Night TWO! Same style of largish envelope, hmmm, and what do we have for night two of Hanukkah? OMG! Its again SOCKS! I'm sensing a pattern here!

Oh my, I'm now kind of dreading Night Three, as I'm now expecting another pair of very sensible pair of white socks! You can find out what we get > HERE!

(6pm PST)

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Card Games : Cards Against Humanity : NIGHT ONE - EIGHT SENSIBLE GIFTS FOR HANUKKAH

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Sun, 6 Dec 2015 18:00:00 -0800

Its that time of year again where Cards Against Humanity offers their take on the holidays, whichever holiday they choose to "honor". For the US Thanksgiving and Black Friday madness, they offered up NOTHING for $5 a pop! A great steal if you ask me! (They made over $70k for charity!)

Last year they "honored" Kwanzaa, this year CAH are riffing on Hanukkah with the "Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah"! There is also another puzzle this year! You can follow the puzzle solving here! But I'm sure you're here to see what you get for Night One!

Yep! That's right SOCKS! We've got some sensible SOCKS for the first night of Hanukkah!

Can't wait for Night TWO!(HERE)

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CAH - Cards Against Humanity Celebrates Hanukkah!!!!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:00:00 -0800

Looks like this season CAH is celebrating eight days of Hanukkah! I just got an email with the following link. After asking some brief questions of a variety of topics both normal and very personal, you'll get the following image :)

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FREE - Papercraft - Short Collapsed building Base 02 - Craftrobo / Silhouette

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 09:00:00 -0700

From The DM Files

It would seem that many people enjoyed the first post so I'm going to continue with the series, and I found a unique box for this installment!

This box was an advertisement for a electronics provider. It is unique in that the box collapses for easy storage, or perhaps even a pit trap! Take a look at this video:

The .svg file for illustrator/craftrobo/silhouette vinyl/paper cutter can also be downloaded and can be thrown into a browser window and printed out on cardstock, recommended 110 weight, so those apps / devices aren't necessarily needed to use the file.

The red areas are the cutting areas, the blue areas are the "fold/score" regions. Apologies to the colorblind users, but you can see that the interiors are the folds/scores and the outer areas are the "cut" lines.

If using illustrator and the vinyl/paper cutters the file has two layers, a "cut" layer, and a "fold" layer, to make things easy to use with those devices.

The pattern image is left empty on purpose, however you can easily copy paste images on the pattern in any image manipulation application, like photoshop, print out the images and then run them through the cutting device or construct by hand after the fact. This way you can customize it to your own liking, kind of similar to my other bookcase files you can find here!

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FREE - Papercraft - Short Stubby Building Base 01 - Craftrobo / Silhouette

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Wed, 9 Sep 2015 09:00:00 -0700

From the DM's Files

My girlfriend threw away some makeup boxes, which I observed to be sturdy little boxes and I thought could be used for the creation of some nice cityscape terrain or other such terrain for use with any rpg game. You could even combine various boxes together to get some unique shaped buildings. So I created a outline of each and added in some areas where you fold to create a nice little "box". This is the first box...

Resize to meet your gaming needs!

The .svg file for illustrator/craftrobo/silhouette vinyl/paper cutter can also be downloaded and can be thrown into a browser window and printed out on cardstock, recommended 110 weight, so those apps / devices aren't necessarily needed to use the file.

The red areas are the cutting areas, the blue areas are the "fold/score" regions. Apologies to the colorblind users, but you can see that the interiors are the folds/scores and the outer areas are the "cut" lines.

If using illustrator and the vinyl/paper cutters the file has two layers, a "cut" layer, and a "fold" layer, to make things easy to use with those devices.

The pattern image is left empty on purpose, however you can easily copy paste images on the pattern in any image manipulation application, like photoshop, print out the images and then run them through the cutting device or construct by hand after the fact. This way you can customize it to your own liking, kind of similar to my other bookcase files you can find here!

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Video - Louis Zocchi Gamescience Dice 2015!!!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:30:00 -0700

Always love seeing Lou preaching about random number generators! This appears to be from GenCon this year (2015) and i'm glad to see that he's keeping the faith for the dice purist! Preach on Brother!
(Daniel Fishers YouTube Channel, Go Subscribe!!)

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LONPOS 84T Braintelligent - Puzzle Game - Second Hand Store Find!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Wed, 5 Aug 2015 10:30:00 -0700

While at one of my local second hand stores called Savers, I picked up a unique puzzle game that I've not seen before, the box caught my eye first as it was larger than your normal game box, had bright colors, and had which I think was Japanese or Koren script all over it with a english in small print, so certainly a game from a foreign publisher!!! I poped open the box to find a nicely arranged pyramid. Yes this is a pyramid, after a few initial searches I'm tired of people proclaiming that "They say its a pyramid but I thought pyramid's were 4 sided!" Ug. Read a little why don't you... Yes this isn't your "classic" pyramid but it still is a tetrahedron which is a pyramid! This is a 4 sided pyramid, remember there is a bottom! A "classical" pyramids, like the ones in Egypt are 5 Sided actually! *rant done*

The game appears to be able to be played solo, you're trying to solve the various pyramid start positions which start out easy and get progressively harder, or can be played with many people of varying expertise as well handing the play back and forth or around the table. They have a scoring system which can include handicap between different players with varying levels of expertise.

After some initial searching, it appears the contents were missing a twelve sided die and two six sided ones, which I've easily replaced as I have a plethora of dice of all shapes and sizes. So while not original complete, close enough for my needs.

Overall I played a few of the solo puzzles and was very much happy for my $5.00 purchase and look forward to playing more of the solo puzzles or challenging my girlfriend to a few matches. This game very much reminds me of a Blokus 3D type experience/gameplay. The game appears to be out of stock currently at amazon, and I'm not even sure if its still published.

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Prequel For One Night Ultimate Werewolf TBA Next Month!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:30:00 -0700

The prequel for One Night Ultimate Werewolf will be announced next month! While we’re not ready to spill details on it quite yet, we will let you know the following:

It’s a new stand alone game that can be combined with the original One Night games (unlike Daybreak, however, this was designed as a standalone and it just happens to be able to be combined with the other two).
It’s a prequel, which means most of the events in the game take place before those nasty Werewolves wake up.
While the overall concept is the same, there are a few new mechanics that breathe new life into the game.
All the characters are unique, and all of them have night actions.

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FREE: The Uncanny Vault of Deviltry : A dungeon adventure area for an average sized party of level 1 characters.

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:55:00 -0700

1	There is a small puddle of water here.	2	This area smells faintly of manure.	3

4	This area smells faintly of manure. There are sticks scattered here.	5	Trap: Poison gas: Save vs. Poison or die.	6

7	There is a large puddle of water here. Treasure: 600sp.	8	There is a trickle of water here.	9	Encounter: Killer Bees (2) Treasure: None.

10	A strong, gusting wind blows through this area. This area is very dusty. Encounter: Lizards, Gecko (1) Treasure: As per monster type.	11	This area has a pleasant, earthy smell. Trap: Ceiling Block falls: Save vs. turn to Stone or take 1d10 points of damage.	12	A strong updraft blows through this area. This area is very dusty. Treasure: 500sp, 10gp.

13	The air here is very cold. A haze of smoke hangs in the air. Treasure: 200sp, 20gp, 6 gems. Trap: Spring-fired darts: 1-6 darts hit for 1-4 points of damage each.	14	An acrid smell assails your nostrils.	15	The air here is very cold. There is a putrid smell coming from something nearby. There is a mold growing here.

16	A slight, damp breeze blows through this area. Your nostrils are overwhelmed by a sulphurous smell. There is a pile of rags here.	17	This area has a stale, fetid smell.	18	A slight downdraft blows through this area. This area smells faintly of urine. This area is covered in cobwebs.

19	The air here is very hot. Treasure: 600sp, 60gp.	20	There is a rusted spike here. Trap: Chute: No damage, but slide to the next level down (ignore if there is no lower level).	21	This area has a stale, fetid smell. It is foggy here, making it difficult to see. Treasure: 600sp.

22	A slight, damp breeze blows through this area. There is a putrid smell coming from something nearby.	23	A cold air current blows through this area. This area smells of rotting vegetation. Encounter: Kobolds (7) Treasure: As per monster type.	24	There is a large puddle of water here. Encounter: Beetles, Fire (3) Treasure: As per monster type.

25	The air here is very cold. A haze of smoke hangs in the air. Encounter: Wolves (3) Treasure: As per monster type.	26	There is a salty, wet smell to this area. A haze of smoke hangs in the air. Encounter: Killer Bees (3) Treasure: None.	27	A metallic smell assails your nostrils. Encounter: Snakes, Cobra (5) Treasure: As per monster type.

28		29	This area has a pleasant, earthy smell. A haze of smoke hangs in the air. Encounter: Gnomes (3) Treasure: As per monster type.	30	There is water dripping here.

31	There are wax drippings here.

I've been using this on occasion as inspiration and for running friends who've never have played a dungeon crawl before to get them into role playing games. This dungeon was generated by DizzyDragon Adventure Generator, and is pretty handy in a pinch. Be sure to check out his other offerings such as:

B/X D&D Character Generator (which you can use for the above adventure!)

Deconstructing B/X D&D

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Happy Game Master Day! WOTC Provides Mass Battle Ruleset for D&D 5.0

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:29:00 -0800

Today is Game Master Day! So be sure to do something or send a note of thanks to the guy or gal who runs those adventures for you week after week and keeps you entertained (or frustrated if that's the case :) ).

It takes a lot to create those adventures and a bit of time to tailor them to your groups needs (otherwise most games would end in TPK's (Total Party Kills) for sure!

While they didn't release it specifically for GM's day, Wizards Of The Coast just released their latest rule set for mass battles (battlesystem for us old skewlers) for their latest edition of Dungeons and Dragons 5.0/next. You can read all about it here, or download the .pdf right here.

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3D Printing : Row, Row, Row Yer Boat!

poly@d4d6d8d10d12d20.com (david clunie) — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:30:00 -0800

(as always click to see full pic)

Row, row, row yer boat gently as can be, I be looking for treasure! Might ye have some for me?! Or else! - Robert Sull, Buccaneer, Caribbean Sea

For the pirate campaign i'm currently playing in I decided to print out some row/sail boats for use. These are from the open forge project on thingiverse and can be found here. These are fresh off the printer with minimal clean up, If you so choose you can paint them up or at the very least use a bit of black wash to bring out more of the details and deepen the shadows.

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