http://diceofdoom.com/blog The Dice of Doom is a blog about gaming, being a gamer and general interest content suitable for nerds. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/09/dice-of-doom-podcast-032-riddles-and-puzzles-in-rpgs-favourite-components-of-rpgs-dice-and-randomness-in-games/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/09/dice-of-doom-podcast-032-riddles-and-puzzles-in-rpgs-favourite-components-of-rpgs-dice-and-randomness-in-games/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:10:27 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=3503 In this episode we discuss using riddles and puzzles in your roleplaying games, our favourite components of RPGs, are dice important and is a linear or bell curve of randomness more 'heroic'? Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/09/dice-of-doom-podcast-032-riddles-and-puzzles-in-rpgs-favourite-components-of-rpgs-dice-and-randomness-in-games/feed/ 6 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/08/dice-of-doom-podcast-030-dealing-with-a-bad-gm-running-short-and-long-term-games-and-tabletop-accessories/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/08/dice-of-doom-podcast-030-dealing-with-a-bad-gm-running-short-and-long-term-games-and-tabletop-accessories/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:25:37 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=3447 In this action packed episode of the podcast we discuss ways in which to deal with a bad GM (mostly by talking about what NOT to do…), the differences we've experienced in running short term games as part of our gaming experiment vs the normal long term games that are usually played and we answer questions about gaming accessories and dice from Donny on our Facebook page and Symatt on Twitter. Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/08/dice-of-doom-podcast-030-dealing-with-a-bad-gm-running-short-and-long-term-games-and-tabletop-accessories/feed/ 6 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/04/a-study-in-the-randomness-of-dice/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/04/a-study-in-the-randomness-of-dice/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:05:30 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=3118 If ever you thought you were the most unlucky gamer ever and you rolled more than your fair share of ones, well, you might be right... There are some very serious nerds who have gone to extraordinary lengths to check it all out... Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/04/a-study-in-the-randomness-of-dice/feed/ 1 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/04/review-dragon-chow-dice-bags/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/04/review-dragon-chow-dice-bags/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:53:34 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=3075 In a recent podcast we talked about Dragon Chow Dice Bags and how awesome we thought they were. To do them justice, we thought we'd take the time to do a full review of the two that we received. Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/04/review-dragon-chow-dice-bags/feed/ 4 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/04/dice-of-doom-podcast-019-dragon-chow-dice-bags-all-flesh-must-be-eaten-review-and-adding-social-themes-to-your-rpg/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/04/dice-of-doom-podcast-019-dragon-chow-dice-bags-all-flesh-must-be-eaten-review-and-adding-social-themes-to-your-rpg/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:14:33 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=3071 In this episode of the Dice of Doom podcast we review our Dragon Chow dice bags, we review the Zombie Apocalypse roleplaying game All Flesh Must Be Eaten and we discuss how to add social themes to your games. Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/04/dice-of-doom-podcast-019-dragon-chow-dice-bags-all-flesh-must-be-eaten-review-and-adding-social-themes-to-your-rpg/feed/ 4 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/02/dice-of-doom-podcast-014-at-the-mountains-of-madness-movie-zombie-cthulhu-dice-review-and-choosing-balanced-or-unbalanced-encounters/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/02/dice-of-doom-podcast-014-at-the-mountains-of-madness-movie-zombie-cthulhu-dice-review-and-choosing-balanced-or-unbalanced-encounters/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:01:35 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=2842 In this episode of the Dice of Doom podcast we discuss the recent news that James Cameron is planning to make the H.P. Lovecraft novella At the Mountains of Madness into a movie, we review Zombie Dice and Cthulhu Dice and we debate the value of balancing encounters or leaving them more realistic. Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/02/dice-of-doom-podcast-014-at-the-mountains-of-madness-movie-zombie-cthulhu-dice-review-and-choosing-balanced-or-unbalanced-encounters/feed/ 4 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/07/zombie-dice-on-the-iphone-review/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/07/zombie-dice-on-the-iphone-review/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:25:33 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=2080 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/07/zombie-dice-on-the-iphone-review/feed/ 4 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/04/understanding-the-maths-behind-4e-dnd-combat/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/04/understanding-the-maths-behind-4e-dnd-combat/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:37:51 +0000 Ellisthion http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1809 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/04/understanding-the-maths-behind-4e-dnd-combat/feed/ 28 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/12/zombie-dice-from-steve-jackson-games/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/12/zombie-dice-from-steve-jackson-games/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:25:06 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1751 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/12/zombie-dice-from-steve-jackson-games/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/06/list-of-the-best-8-iphone-rpg-dice-rolling-apps/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/06/list-of-the-best-8-iphone-rpg-dice-rolling-apps/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:17:45 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1162 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/06/list-of-the-best-8-iphone-rpg-dice-rolling-apps/feed/ 12 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-03-still-no-zombies/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-03-still-no-zombies/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 10:46:47 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1081 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-03-still-no-zombies/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/custom-nerd-jewelry-chessex-polyhedral-dice-pendants/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/custom-nerd-jewelry-chessex-polyhedral-dice-pendants/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 08:54:33 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1038 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/custom-nerd-jewelry-chessex-polyhedral-dice-pendants/feed/ 4 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/upcoming-post-zombie-soap-repellent-roadtest/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/upcoming-post-zombie-soap-repellent-roadtest/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 07:30:09 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1027 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/upcoming-post-zombie-soap-repellent-roadtest/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/01/iphone-dice-roller-dynamicdice/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/01/iphone-dice-roller-dynamicdice/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:22:01 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=800 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/01/iphone-dice-roller-dynamicdice/feed/ 2 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/12/iphone-rpg-dice-roller-pip-reminds-us-simple-is-often-better/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/12/iphone-rpg-dice-roller-pip-reminds-us-simple-is-often-better/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:33:05 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=705 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/12/iphone-rpg-dice-roller-pip-reminds-us-simple-is-often-better/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/10/iphone-polyhedral-rpg-dice-rolling-applications/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/10/iphone-polyhedral-rpg-dice-rolling-applications/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:00:22 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=557 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 →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/10/iphone-polyhedral-rpg-dice-rolling-applications/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/09/new-uses-for-your-iphone-dice-apps/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/09/new-uses-for-your-iphone-dice-apps/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:00:58 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=380 TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) has an article by one of their many resident nerds about new games to play using the multitude of Dice Rolling Apps available on the iPhone. Some of these are amusing. I myself, have posted … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/09/new-uses-for-your-iphone-dice-apps/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/08/very-very-pretty-dice/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/08/very-very-pretty-dice/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:08:41 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=201 My very very pretty Elven Dice from Q-Workshop arrived the other day. These are absolutely beautiful. Each set that they produce is extraordinarily detailed and perfectly cut. Currently they produce dice themed for Cthulhu and Munchkin (big dice that show … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/08/very-very-pretty-dice/feed/ 6 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/08/rolling-with-purpose/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/08/rolling-with-purpose/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:23:57 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=157 When I roll for my character to hit something, I really want to mean it. Seriously, big dice are awesome. There’s something tremendously rewarding about knocking over models, glasses, plates and anything else that gets in the way whenever your … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/08/rolling-with-purpose/feed/ 10 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/08/unbelievably-sucky-state-of-iphone-dice-rollers/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/08/unbelievably-sucky-state-of-iphone-dice-rollers/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:48:42 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=133 Update: The situation has improved immensely since this post was written. While I don’t think that dice rollers on your phone will ever replace the tactile awesomeness of rolling a handful of dice, I have investigated the growing number of … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/08/unbelievably-sucky-state-of-iphone-dice-rollers/feed/ 4