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Zombie Dice on the iPhone review

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A game we’ve been hanging out for for the iPhone for a while now is Zombie Dice by Steve Jackson Games. Many of you would be familiar with the dice game by now, and if you’re not, you probably should be. The premise of the game is simple – you and you’re fellow players are all zombies trying to eat as many brains as you can without getting shotgunned. Now, with the release of the iPhone version, you can play anytime, anywhere. Continue reading

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Understanding the Maths behind D&D4E Combat

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Is there something wrong with 4E maths? Some say using 3d6 instead of a d20 improves the system. Should we get inspiration for changing the rules from computer games like World of Warcraft? Continue reading

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Zombie Dice from Steve Jackson Games

Zombie Dice, a new game from Steve Jackson Games, has us pretty excited here at Dice of Doom. The premise is pretty simple – you are a zombie, hungry and desperately attempting to eat brains whilst trying to avoid the … Continue reading

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List of the Best 8 iPhone RPG Dice Rolling Apps

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We have covered a lot of different dice rolling applications for role-playing games that are available in Apple’s App Store on this site. Over the past year that the app store has been around, these apps have started to fall … Continue reading

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Zom-B-Gone Day 03 – Still no zombies

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This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series Zom-B-Gone Review

While I can safely report no zombies on day three (boring I know…) we did have an interesting discussion over lunch at work. Where are the Vampire Repellent soaps? I thought that that was a very good question. There was … Continue reading

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Custom Nerd Jewelry – Chessex Polyhedral Dice Pendants

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Long promised on their home page, Chessex (our favorite dice people…) have finally released their gaming dice jewelry.  As of writing their website still says they are coming soon, but order numbers and pictures are available in their catalog (link … Continue reading

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Upcoming post – Zombie Repellent Soap Roadtest

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Just today our ‘office’ made an order at Geeky Clean for their Zom-B-Gone soap. Apparently this soap will help repel zombies and we think that that is awesome. We, of course, want to make sure that this claims actually hold … Continue reading

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iPhone Dice Roller: dynamicDice

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One of the great perks of writing for the Dice of Doom blog is getting asked to play with loads of iPhone dice rollers. We get a few gentle requests to try a new one out, and generally speaking we … Continue reading

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iPhone RPG dice roller ‘Pip’ reminds us simple is often better

A few days ago the developers of iPhone polyhedral dice rolling application ‘Pip’ (Mystery Coconut) sent me a request to look at their application and offer my thoughts. Well, we have had a play around with it and we have … Continue reading

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iPhone Polyhedral (RPG) Dice Rolling Applications

Some of you might remember my previous rant on this topic. Back when the iPhone 2.0 was released, the App Store contained a pretty poor collection of RPG dice rollers. And some were asking extraordinary amounts for them. Well, that … Continue reading

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