This is a very quick post showing off some paper cut-out products on DriveThru which have caught my beady greedy eye. Like many others I have Monday off their might just be a few other posts happening in this blog.
Okay, if you're an old-schooler, a fan of AD&D, or of the earliest Basic editions, you'll be no stranger to the pig-faced orc. Whether or not I believe orcs should have snouts is now completely ambushed in my nostalgia addled mind by the fact that they represent illustrations from those games. David Okum's Orc Tribe is a sheer pleasure to behold. It's a great mix of caricature and chunky costume details.
The PDF containing these printable figures also gives the player the option to select different colour capes and armour with different layers. I'm really looking forward to other figures from this "Darkfast Classic Fantasy" range. Perfect for acolytes of the OSR.
Another Okumarts favourite of mine is this pack with ninjas and samurais (plural of samurai? not latin like octupi...). This is mainly because I'm reading (S&W Whitebox) Ruins & Ronin rules at the moment, so I'm a complete sucker for quality medieval-Japanesey stuff. Again, there's an option to change colours using the layers menu.
I hope you get to read this in time to take advantage of the a free offerby Lord Zsezse Works. The Megalith Circle looks simple enough for the more clumsy paper modellers, like myself (thumbs the size of footballs). Having browsed that pack, I'm now mightily intrigued by the Ancient Worlds: Columns Circle. Both would make ideal set pieces for fantasy, horror campaigns. Certainly cheaper than Dwarven Forge or Hirst Arts.
Chatting about dice. It's at the core of gaming. Lovely, shiny, almost edible dice. Poly dice ... oh yeah, baby! Is it a fetish? Isn't a fetish really just a type of dedicated love-niche? I mean I love women. I like some in high heels - but I don't want them to actually walk across me. Okay I don't exactly go to bed with dice but, no wait... this is getting weird. I mean I hardly know you.
High heels being used for storing dice in. How does that make you feel? (As a talking point probably beats the hell out of one my dice mugs)
The editions of games may change but at least you get keep bringing the same dice to the table
I was intrigued the other day to read that some players like to punish their dice for being bad.
Noisms in a post on Monsters and Manuals said that out of a "f*ckload of d6's" those "... that score 1, 2 or 3 have to go back to the dice bag and think about what they've done. When they've had some time to reconsider their positions they can come back into play." In the comments he also referred to "a teenage friend who used to put his d20s in the freezer if they'd performed badly" An anonymous comment which made me laugh (and slightly disturbed me) was about a chastised d20: "It was yellow, translucent, and evil. It rolled 20s only in practice, the rest of the time (i.e., when it mattered) it was a 1 rolling machine. I threw that bitch deep into the woods after it vexed me one last time with (you guessed it) a 1." Banishment! :o
I mean those sorts of relationships don't just happen over night, and I'm just highlight the cruelty side of our loyalty-fickle random enumerators. :) Not to mention the don't-touch-my-dice-or-you'll-destroy-my-luck obsessives. I'm sure Knights of the Dinner Table and Dork Tower must have plenty of material on that. :)
Oops, I really just meant to post about some dice shopping. Apart from some dice sets bought from Forbidden Planet in Nottingham, my most recent polyhedrals purchases were from the cheap and cheerfully priced Big Cherry on Amazon. I bought two sets of black dice to offset a pack of white polys I already owned ( Big Cherry Poly Dice Set, Black, 7 Polyhedron Dice ). Of late, my dice collection has looked a bit like a bag of Skittles mixed with a whole load of boiled sweets (gems), so black and white opaque dice feel like a "mature" purchase. ;) I like them, but pondered upon the D% double-unit tens die - I don't remember owning one in the past, tens and single units were differentiated by colour (ah, yes, these are all black, I get it ...). Then I remembered those strange the d20's with the 0-9 twice. Well, they rolled better, I suppose. I'm also surprised at myself how I'm going off translucent gem dice and maybe one day I'll invest in some of those metallic coated ones. I used to crave matching sets of gem dice.
Ah, our clacking tactile friends. Roll, my pretties roll!
Anyhow, here's a little slideshow of some other dice on Amazon via a widget which I decided was far too distracting to put into my blog margin.
Got any dice-punishing stories? This perverted priest will listen to your confessions. :D
If you have a Onebookshelf account you can also donate to DWB/MSF without purchasing any products by going to this page on DriveThru.
... I'm also taking the opportunity to draw attention to the Disasters and Emergency Committee East Africa Appeal - which is primarily focussed on the refugee and famine crisis in Somalia.
on Amazon. I bought two sets of black dice to offset a pack of white polys I already owned ( 