Comments on: Get Your Dice Off My Lawn! http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/ The Journal of Gamer Culture Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:14:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stargazer's World » Blog Archive » Open Game Table Vol. 2: Nominations! http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51991 Stargazer's World » Blog Archive » Open Game Table Vol. 2: Nominations! Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:56:02 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51991 [...] started. And while you are at it, check out my favorite article from Volume 1: Berin Kinsman’s “Get Your Dice Off My Lawn!” Like Unlike Don't miss a single post! Subscribe to my RSS [...] [...] started. And while you are at it, check out my favorite article from Volume 1: Berin Kinsman’s “Get Your Dice Off My Lawn!” Like Unlike Don't miss a single post! Subscribe to my RSS [...]

]]> By: Recent Links Tagged With "d20" - JabberTags http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51990 Recent Links Tagged With "d20" - JabberTags Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:19:32 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51990 [...] AndiLatte on Sun 19-4-2009 Dice, Now Available on iPhone Saved by verstraeten on Fri 17-4-2009 Get Your Dice Off My Lawn! Saved by marnikdotorg on Tue 07-4-2009 Miskatonic University: Pickman Freshman Dormitory Saved by [...] [...] AndiLatte on Sun 19-4-2009 Dice, Now Available on iPhone Saved by verstraeten on Fri 17-4-2009 Get Your Dice Off My Lawn! Saved by marnikdotorg on Tue 07-4-2009 Miskatonic University: Pickman Freshman Dormitory Saved by [...]

]]> By: Tom Zunder http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51989 Tom Zunder Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:49:45 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51989 Ah. It's not funny, it's so true. I am post-chit but still in the crappy colour-in your own dice generation. We played Basic D&D and Traveller, and I think it was 1980. I don't think I saw a dedicated games shop until 1983 when I went to University and went to a Games Workshop. Mind you, GW sold all sorts of stuff including computer games then. This is Britain, so obviously I rode a penny farthing to gaming sessions. <abbr><em>Tom Zunders last blog post..<a href="http://www.gamingtavern.eu/tav/viewtopic.php?p=25025#25025" rel="nofollow">Savage Space:1889</a></em></abbr> Ah. It’s not funny, it’s so true. I am post-chit but still in the crappy colour-in your own dice generation. We played Basic D&D and Traveller, and I think it was 1980. I don’t think I saw a dedicated games shop until 1983 when I went to University and went to a Games Workshop. Mind you, GW sold all sorts of stuff including computer games then.

This is Britain, so obviously I rode a penny farthing to gaming sessions.

Tom Zunders last blog post..Savage Space:1889

]]> By: “Get Your Dice Off My Lawn” A/V Challenge | UncleBear http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51988 “Get Your Dice Off My Lawn” A/V Challenge | UncleBear Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:28 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51988 [...] year I wrote a guest post for Musings of the Chatty DM entitled “Get Your Dice Off My Lawn“. It was a humor piece, done as a rant, highlighting some of the differences between old [...] [...] year I wrote a guest post for Musings of the Chatty DM entitled “Get Your Dice Off My Lawn“. It was a humor piece, done as a rant, highlighting some of the differences between old [...]

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]]> By: John Fiala http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51986 John Fiala Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:56:55 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51986 Oh, god... those chits! I had those! Kids these days... Oh, god… those chits! I had those!

Kids these days…

]]> By: Gnome Rodeo: Everyone’s at GenCon Edition - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51985 Gnome Rodeo: Everyone’s at GenCon Edition - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:32:45 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51985 [...] Musings of the Chatty DM: With Chatty on vacation, Berin “UncleBear” Kinsman’s Get Your Dice Off My Lawn! fills the void. It’s one of the best RPG blog posts I’ve read in recent memory. Whether [...] [...] Musings of the Chatty DM: With Chatty on vacation, Berin “UncleBear” Kinsman’s Get Your Dice Off My Lawn! fills the void. It’s one of the best RPG blog posts I’ve read in recent memory. Whether [...]

]]> By: Diane http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51984 Diane Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:53:32 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51984 This is great. I bet at least some of it is true too. Although I haven't played for that long I do remember when there were very few shops to buy D&D games and supplies at. Dianes last blog post..<a href="http://her-sca-blog.com/2008/08/role-playing-world-building-situation-world-hooks/" rel="nofollow">Role-Playing World Building: Situation World Hooks</a> This is great. I bet at least some of it is true too. Although I haven’t played for that long I do remember when there were very few shops to buy D&D games and supplies at.

Dianes last blog post..Role-Playing World Building: Situation World Hooks

]]> By: Virgil Vansant http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51983 Virgil Vansant Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:33:59 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51983 I laughed, and then memories of playing Gamma World and coloring in cheap red ten-sided dice are all coming back to me now... I laughed, and then memories of playing Gamma World and coloring in cheap red ten-sided dice are all coming back to me now…

]]> By: Get Your Dice Off My Lawn! http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51982 Get Your Dice Off My Lawn! Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:57:42 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51982 [...] Original Nuketown | Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Geekdom [...] [...] Original Nuketown | Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Geekdom [...]

]]> By: Heather http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51981 Heather Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:18:06 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51981 This post was a riot. I usually like to include a big about having to keep a potato in my pocket to keep warm - which also served as lunch, so the uphill snow walk home was chilly. This post was a riot. I usually like to include a big about having to keep a potato in my pocket to keep warm – which also served as lunch, so the uphill snow walk home was chilly.

]]> By: Storyteller http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51980 Storyteller Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:43:32 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51980 Great article! Truly hilarious! Storytellers last blog post..<a href="http://beneaththescreen.blogspot.com/2008/08/rpg-three-part-two.html" rel="nofollow">The RPG Three: Part Two</a> Great article! Truly hilarious!

Storytellers last blog post..The RPG Three: Part Two

]]> By: Dr. Checkmate http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51979 Dr. Checkmate Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:54:16 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51979 MADNESS! First games were with my cousin's bits and pieces of BD&D and AD&D 1e. We had the crumbly blues and some yahtzee dice. Then a fateful summer with my parents on a 24 foot sail boat on Nantucket Sound. I had yahtzee dice, pencils, and Muppet stationary. I so impressed my Mom with my enthusiasm that she bought me the red box for Christmas. No chits though. I missed that. So... You might say that I road a whale to my first sessions. Dr. Checkmates last blog post..<a href="http://drcheckmate.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/lately-it-occurs-to-me/" rel="nofollow">Lately it occurs to me</a> MADNESS!

First games were with my cousin’s bits and pieces of BD&D and AD&D 1e. We had the crumbly blues and some yahtzee dice.

Then a fateful summer with my parents on a 24 foot sail boat on Nantucket Sound. I had yahtzee dice, pencils, and Muppet stationary. I so impressed my Mom with my enthusiasm that she bought me the red box for Christmas.

No chits though. I missed that.

So… You might say that I road a whale to my first sessions.

Dr. Checkmates last blog post..Lately it occurs to me

]]> By: Tala http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51978 Tala Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:57:40 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51978 This article was awesome! I was lucky in the fact that both of my folks were D&D geeks. They had started playing in '78. My dad had about every book you could get your hands on, boxes of modules, and tons of minis that we would sit around for hours painting together as a family hobby. I still have all of those minis. Almost three hundred of them sitting in my curio cabinet in my living room on constant display. They had started me playing when I was a wee lass at the age of seven. My first set of dice were light and dark blue that I had painstakingly colored the numbers in with a white crayon. I have those dice in with all of my other ones. The corners are worn completely off and have turned this odd brown color. I love them even tho' they don't roll worth the crap. Fond memories of great battles, heroes, sorceresses, wizards, dragons, and Cheetos... This article was awesome! I was lucky in the fact that both of my folks were D&D geeks. They had started playing in ’78. My dad had about every book you could get your hands on, boxes of modules, and tons of minis that we would sit around for hours painting together as a family hobby. I still have all of those minis. Almost three hundred of them sitting in my curio cabinet in my living room on constant display. They had started me playing when I was a wee lass at the age of seven. My first set of dice were light and dark blue that I had painstakingly colored the numbers in with a white crayon. I have those dice in with all of my other ones. The corners are worn completely off and have turned this odd brown color. I love them even tho’ they don’t roll worth the crap.

Fond memories of great battles, heroes, sorceresses, wizards, dragons, and Cheetos…

]]> By: GameDaddy http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51977 GameDaddy Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:15:14 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51977 Aww. yeh. I remember the Good olde days. At $12 the white bookset was way too expensive... That would mean my allowance for like, the entire summer, or mowing lawns every weekend for a month. Even though I mowed lawns every weekend until the middle of June, Picked up a copy of Ready Ref Sheets, and along with the Bluebox set we made do just fine... Inventing completely new monsters for an encounter and just statting em up on the spot while everyone was rolling for initiative! Star Wars? No Problem. Lightsabres statted as +5 with Vorpal qualities, meaning with a natural 20 the Jedi got to pick the body extremity removed from the hapless victim, and if it didn't happen to be the head the Jedi was striking the victim would continue taking bloody damage from the severed limb each round equal to the damage taken from the attack. Laser Pistol d6+2, Laser Rifle? 2d6+2 Laser Cannon 4d6... Force Powers = PSIIIONNIICS! Oh, and where I lived in Colorado and Wyoming, It was winter all the year around. It snowed once there more than an inch, on July 14Th! And we rode Worgs... These huge half wolf/half dog things to our games when the snowplows broke down. Aww. yeh. I remember the Good olde days.

At $12 the white bookset was way too expensive… That would mean my allowance for like, the entire summer, or mowing lawns every weekend for a month.

Even though I mowed lawns every weekend until the middle of June, Picked up a copy of Ready Ref Sheets, and along with the Bluebox set we made do just fine… Inventing completely new monsters for an encounter and just statting em up on the spot while everyone was rolling for initiative!

Star Wars? No Problem. Lightsabres statted as +5 with Vorpal qualities, meaning with a natural 20 the Jedi got to pick the body extremity removed from the hapless victim, and if it didn’t happen to be the head the Jedi was striking the victim would continue taking bloody damage from the severed limb each round equal to the damage taken from the attack. Laser Pistol d6+2, Laser Rifle? 2d6+2 Laser Cannon 4d6… Force Powers = PSIIIONNIICS!

Oh, and where I lived in Colorado and Wyoming, It was winter all the year around. It snowed once there more than an inch, on July 14Th! And we rode Worgs… These huge half wolf/half dog things to our games when the snowplows broke down.

]]> By: Graham http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51976 Graham Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:16:36 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51976 Ding ding! Ninetail wins. Even more specifically, Gygax's original polyhedral "dice" were regular solids made as educational aids. They didn't have non-regular ones, hence the funky numbering in D&D. Ding ding! Ninetail wins.

Even more specifically, Gygax’s original polyhedral “dice” were regular solids made as educational aids. They didn’t have non-regular ones, hence the funky numbering in D&D.

]]> By: Anarkeith http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51975 Anarkeith Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:15:44 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51975 I remember borrowing a friend's DMG, skipping school for a day, and copying the tables. On a typewriter. On onionskin paper. The ribbon was half red, half black, and never aligned correctly. I remember borrowing a friend’s DMG, skipping school for a day, and copying the tables. On a typewriter. On onionskin paper. The ribbon was half red, half black, and never aligned correctly.

]]> By: Ninetail http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51974 Ninetail Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:12:13 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51974 The 20-sided die has a more regular shape -- it's a platonic solid -- so therefore it rolls more easily. The d4, d6, d8, and d12 are also platonic solids, but the d10 is not. In order to achieve the better rolling, the easiest method is to double the number of sides, to 20, repeating each number twice. The 20-sided die has a more regular shape — it’s a platonic solid — so therefore it rolls more easily.

The d4, d6, d8, and d12 are also platonic solids, but the d10 is not. In order to achieve the better rolling, the easiest method is to double the number of sides, to 20, repeating each number twice.

]]> By: Graham http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51973 Graham Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:38:09 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51973 Oh, and trivia time! Who knows why the first d10s were d20s numbered 0-9 twice? [ Jeopardy music starts now ] Oh, and trivia time!

Who knows why the first d10s were d20s numbered 0-9 twice?

[ Jeopardy music starts now ]

]]> By: Vulcan Stev http://critical-hits.com/2008/08/08/get-your-dice-off-my-lawn/#comment-51972 Vulcan Stev Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:33:52 +0000 http://chattydm.net/?p=915#comment-51972 Ahhhh crayoned dice. Inventing rules for using D6 from old board games around the house (Roll four D6 first three are actual last one is "1or2=0" "3or4=1" "5or6=2" Its a logical choice. BTW I couldn't afford a dinosaur to get to my gaming group (even the wooly mammoth was out of my price range). I had to settle for a second-hand deluxe-size tortoise Vulcan Stevs last blog post..<a href="http://ncc2315.ning.com/xn/detail/1030520:BlogPost:2733" rel="nofollow">Ensign Alliea Reporting for duty!</a> Ahhhh crayoned dice. Inventing rules for using D6 from old board games around the house (Roll four D6 first three are actual last one is “1or2=0″ “3or4=1″ “5or6=2″

Its a logical choice.

BTW I couldn’t afford a dinosaur to get to my gaming group (even the wooly mammoth was out of my price range). I had to settle for a second-hand deluxe-size tortoise

Vulcan Stevs last blog post..Ensign Alliea Reporting for duty!

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