Tenkar's Tavern: Kickstarter - The Dungeons Keep, Wood Dice Cases for RPG tabletop gaming!

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Kickstarter - The Dungeons Keep, Wood Dice Cases for RPG tabletop gaming!

What do you get for the gamer who has everything?

Game books? Got that.

More dice? Dice are nice but very personal.

Something to store your dice in? Maybe.

Made to order wooden diced cases? You might be on to something...

I'm in for a medium (3 dice set) red oak with a light blue felt and lightning effect. Shit, I feel like a kid in a candy store. The prices are reasonable too: medium red oak is 30 bucks, lightning effect for another 5 and felt for another 3 - $38 bucks and shipping makes $44.

Hell, I'll be able to roll dice on my desk without loosing any with the dice tray ;)

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Kenny JohnsonApril 7, 2016 at 2:55 PM
I backed on of these from Studio 6D6 and the construction was really poor quality compared to the samples they used on the KickStarter. I love the idea of this product I'm just worried about the finished product.
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Stu OrdanaApril 8, 2016 at 3:32 AM
Hmmm. I think I will stick with dice bags and using game box lids for rolling dice. Though the lightning effect video was pretty cool.
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea (thank you Kickstarter) (edit) BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and will soon have some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep ~~shipping shortly~~ in my grubby hands awaiting a review..

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls (and still waiting on dT&T to ship).

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 48, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Kickstarter - The Dungeons Keep, Wood Dice Cases for RPG tabletop gaming!

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