http://diceofdoom.com/blog The Dice of Doom is a blog about gaming, being a gamer and general interest content suitable for nerds. Tue, 01 May 2012 13:26:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Dice of Doom podcast is a lively discussion about role-playing games, focusing heavily on Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu and Warhammer along with many other gaming systems. We have been gaming for longer than we care to freely admit and we have a wide range of interests and experiences in gaming in general (everything from obscure games printed in the 1980's to the most recent tabletop wargames). We like to take a lighthearted approach to our discussions and mix them up with other nerdy news and content as well. RupertG yes RupertG rupertg@diceofdoom.com rupertg@diceofdoom.com (RupertG) © Dice of Doom Dice of Doom Podcast dnd, d&d, dungeons & dragons, rpg, roleplaying, gaming, roleplaying games http://diceofdoom.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Podcast-Logo-New-SQ-SM.png http://diceofdoom.com/blog/topics/zombie-apocalypse/ Sydney, Australia http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/05/the-zombie-autopsies/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/05/the-zombie-autopsies/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 20:00:07 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=3154 If you’ve ever wondered what a Zombie Autopsy might look like, well, it might look a little bit like this… The Zombie Autopsies. Warning, pictures possibly NSFW (although drawn, they are pretty brutal). [Via @ZombieTrend]Similar Posts: “I, Cthulhu” by Neil Gaiman … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2011/05/the-zombie-autopsies/feed/ 0 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 afmbe, all flesh must be eaten, rpg, dnd, dragon chow, dice bags, dice, social themes, dungeons & dragons, d&d, roleplaying DoD Podcast 018: Dragon Chow Dice Bags, All Flesh Must Be Eaten Review and Adding Social Themes to your Roleplaying Games 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. During our All Flesh Must Be Eaten campaign, Paul (who was the Zombie Master) decided to try and add social themes to the game. The idea was to highlight the importance of personal relationship networks and how they collapse of these can add to the horrific nature of a catastrophe. This is not a new concept, Vampire: The Masquerade recommends attempting the same thing, but it was not something we had consciously done a lot of previously. We discuss whether or not it worked, how it could be improved upon and did it actually contribute to the game. RupertG yes 38:11 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/08/horror-roleplaying-part-4-zombies/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/08/horror-roleplaying-part-4-zombies/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:46:16 +0000 Cuchulain http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=2101 Zombies are one of the all-time great horror sub-genres, and they fit extremely well into almost any setting. There are many different flavours of Zombie, however, and you shouldn’t just automatically choose the most obvious. Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2010/08/horror-roleplaying-part-4-zombies/feed/ 0 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/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/2009/08/game-of-da-dead-a-simple-and-very-playable-zombie-tower-defence/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/08/game-of-da-dead-a-simple-and-very-playable-zombie-tower-defence/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:03:45 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1327 Always keen to give a zombie game a go, we were excited to try out Game of da Dead by Moyo studios in Sweden. The premise is fairly straight forward – planets are being taken over by zombies and you … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/08/game-of-da-dead-a-simple-and-very-playable-zombie-tower-defence/feed/ 6 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/06/zom-b-gone-day-07-a-successful-trial-no-zombies/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/06/zom-b-gone-day-07-a-successful-trial-no-zombies/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:03:56 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1139 So here we are at the end of the epic week of the Zom-B-Gone trial. I shall miss Steve, the little skull in my soap. I shall miss our early morning chats as he assisted me in getting clean. Geeky … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/06/zom-b-gone-day-07-a-successful-trial-no-zombies/feed/ 2 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/06/zom-b-gone-day-06-other-repellents-required/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/06/zom-b-gone-day-06-other-repellents-required/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:57:39 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1135 Due to the enormous success of Zom-B-Gone by Geeky Clean in protecting me from the threat of daily zombie attack I have come up with a list of other repellent soaps that I would find quite useful. Ex-girlfriends Auntie Betsy … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/06/zom-b-gone-day-06-other-repellents-required/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-05-extended-testing-procedures/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-05-extended-testing-procedures/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 10:51:09 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1122 My in-laws spent the weekend in Canberra (Australia’s Capitol) this weekend and returned with variety of souvenirs. I got a skull eraser and a nose pencil sharpener. I think they are both awesome. My wife, on the other hand, got … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-05-extended-testing-procedures/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-04-kinder-surprise-edition/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-04-kinder-surprise-edition/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 09:47:45 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1116 Not much in the way of activity yesterday in the zombie department. My wife did point out however that the dice soaps were very much like the Kinder Surprise of soap. I thought that that was quite funny… Now for … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-04-kinder-surprise-edition/feed/ 4 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/zom-b-gone-day-02-no-zombies/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-02-no-zombies/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 21:22:42 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1074 I have to admit, in my life I have encountered very few zombies. It is the first question I get asked when people find out I am road testing a zombie repellent. It seems that many people are quite skeptical … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-02-no-zombies/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-01-no-zombies/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-01-no-zombies/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 22:40:04 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1070 After the initial excitement of receiving my Geeky Clean order and wanting to try all of them at once I opened only the Zom-B-Gone soap and put it next to the shower so that I would not forget to use … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zom-b-gone-day-01-no-zombies/feed/ 4 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/geeky-clean-soaps-have-arrived/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/geeky-clean-soaps-have-arrived/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 12:33:20 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1060 My wife arrived home today, a box looking like those that I get models and books in from the US, under her arm. Ripping apart the label that said “Customs has opened this parcel for inspection” (I can only imagine … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/geeky-clean-soaps-have-arrived/feed/ 0 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/2009/05/zombieville-usa-beginners-strategy-guide/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zombieville-usa-beginners-strategy-guide/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 05:28:44 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=1009 Zombieville USA is one of those simple to play magical games that can distract you for hours doing the same repetitive thing over and over. It’s hard to say whether the charm stems from playing a trucker’s cap, flannelet shirt … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2009/05/zombieville-usa-beginners-strategy-guide/feed/ 0 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/12/strategy-guide-for-zombie-attack/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/12/strategy-guide-for-zombie-attack/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:30:12 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=730 Zombie Attack! for the iPhone has kept me happily distracted protecting the beer shack vigorously against the zombie onslaught for more hours than I care to admit. The recent update has seen the game improved immensely with new ways of … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/12/strategy-guide-for-zombie-attack/feed/ 34 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/11/facebook-zombies/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/11/facebook-zombies/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:35:02 +0000 mardo http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=611 By the title of this blog you may think I am talking about people who spend so much time on Facebook that they become like zombies, Pale skin, unable to communicate in person except by grunts, but despite this rather … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/11/facebook-zombies/feed/ 6 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/11/zombie-attack-for-the-iphone/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/11/zombie-attack-for-the-iphone/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:38:50 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=606 There has been a sudden rush of Tower Defence games released for the iPhone recently, and for the most part, they OK to play. What there hasn’t been is any real innovation in the genre as it is played on … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/11/zombie-attack-for-the-iphone/feed/ 4 http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/10/extremely-lifelike-faux-corpses-just-in-time-for-halloween/ http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/10/extremely-lifelike-faux-corpses-just-in-time-for-halloween/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:42:53 +0000 RupertG http://diceofdoom.com/blog/?p=573 For those of you who really get into the whole spirit [*cough*] of Halloween, this one might be for you. For a mere $545-$595 USD, you can purchase your own friend corpse to sit around the house, watch TV with … Continue reading →]]> http://diceofdoom.com/blog/2008/10/extremely-lifelike-faux-corpses-just-in-time-for-halloween/feed/ 4