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CONTEST: Roll Into the New Year

gmdicelogoWe have two sets of dice to give away, courtesy of GM Dice. Our last contest had us choosing our contest winners, but as any GM can tell you, sometimes it’s just more fun to let the dice decide. To that end, we are making this contest entirely decided by the dice themselves.

To win, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post. (Make sure you use a working email to leave the comment, too.) The contest will run for one week and end next Friday, 1/16/2009, at 11:59 PM. Over the weekend, we’ll roll an appropriately large enough sided die (or set of dice) to determine who wins the two sets of dice. That’s it.

Here are the two sets of dice we’re giving away:

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Good luck to everyone who enters. Again, thanks to GM Dice for providing these prizes to us and other RPG bloggers and podcasters.

Semi-Legal Stuff:

Limit one entry per person. Critical Hits reserves the right to disqualify any entries based on any evidence of attempting to enter multiple times.

TheGame is Dave Chalker, a lifelong gamer, freelance game designer, Master of Arts, and son of Jack L. Chalker. Dave is the Editor-in-Chief of Critical Hits and so runs the place. He is the envy of geeks everywhere because he's dating e, the Geek's Dream Girl. (Email Dave or follow him on Twitter).

Comments

91 Responses to “CONTEST: Roll Into the New Year”
  1. Scott Jacobs says:

    ooooooo Pretty…

  2. Erekose says:

    Free dice? Sweet! They look really nice too.

  3. Viriatha says:

    weeeeeeeeeeee posting! and I could really use new dice!

    Viriatha´s last post: House Rules

  4. Thoams Cackler says:

    Shiney dice. Thanks for the contest and the blog, both are great!

  5. Chgowiz says:

    May the Great RNG look favorably upon my entry…

    Chgowiz´s last post: My "best" D&D Character – George

  6. Tony Law says:

    What they hey. :D

    Tony Law´s last post: Stuck in the Dark with a Grue

  7. newbiedm says:

    Dice… oh, thats for that dnd stuff… i heard its the devil’s game…

  8. bonemaster says:

    Cool beans more contests.

    bonemaster´s last post: To Webring or not to Webring, that is the question.

  9. Bob The GM says:

    Free dice? I’m there! ^_^

  10. Nathan says:

    Free stuff! Hook me up!!

  11. Milambus says:

    Shiny dice are shiny?

    Milambus´s last post: Introducing new players to DnD 4E

  12. Danchops says:

    Just lost my dice in a move from the Middle East. Would love to get a free set.

  13. BrandonLeon says:

    Oooo… purple dice… Big money, big money… No whammy!

  14. Sam says:

    All your dice are belong to us

  15. tehdiplomat says:

    Sign me up. I’ve been missing my d12 on my dice set for a few years.

  16. occultsearcher says:

    May I have it? May I? May I?

  17. Tom says:

    Diiiiiiiiiiiiice

  18. Tommi says:

    A comment of the pointless kind.

  19. Kevin says:

    Yay!

  20. Leah says:

    Oh pick me pick me!!

  21. Leephus says:

    He who has the gold dice, makes the rules!

  22. Chris Olson says:

    He who has the most dice, wins!

    I wanna win!

    Chris

  23. brcarl says:

    Purple. Very noble.

    (Sad that it takes a freebie to drag me out of lurker status…)

  24. Syrsuro says:

    Purple, Sparkly and Free.

    What’s not to like….

    Carl

  25. benpop says:

    Long time lurker! This is as good as any time to start commenting. ;)

  26. DragonBane says:

    Free and shiny? Count me in!

  27. PWBrian says:

    My comment is posted.

  28. Questing GM says:

    May the dice gods bless your rolls (and give them to me).

    Questing GM´s last post: Word of Wizards – Excerpts: Kas the Betrayer

  29. Nice. Digging the purple ones. Pink, meh. Guess my wife would be stoked.

    Soul Existence´s last post: The Community

  30. BZWingZero says:

    Its a new year, I’ve got a new campaign starting; new dice would compliment that perfectly.

  31. RPG Ike says:

    You’re going to have to roll a D1Zillion in a week’s time…

    RPG Ike´s last post: MOTHS!

  32. IrishVince says:

    I need MOORRRREEE DIIIICCCEEESS :)

  33. MJ Harnish says:

    It’s hard to beat purple dice. ;op

  34. James T says:

    My high school colors were purple and something else, so that’s awesome. Of course, my high school mascot was the Lambkin, so that’s not so awesome.

  35. Ravyn says:

    Talk about a lot of people. I think you’re going to need a bigger die. (And yes, I’m making you need a bigger one. I know.)

    Ravyn´s last post: Engaging Secondary Characters: Socratic Characterization

  36. Dave Pedersen says:

    mmmmm…dice

  37. Andrew says:

    possibly free dice; awesome :)

  38. Pez says:

    Free dice?
    Got ‘em coming out of the woodwork now, eh?

  39. I won’t say no to free dice, even if I might have too many already (what am I saying? Can you even have too many sets?)

  40. John says:

    OOOHHHH. I like shiny new dice.

  41. Detroit_Paul says:

    Cool website … cool dice!

  42. highbulp says:

    So are you going to roll something that has a linear distribution or use multiple dice to get a bell curve?

    *hopes he’s in the middle*

  43. Wolfsheadk says:

    Me likey

  44. longcoat000 says:

    Mmmm…dice. Do you have a pi sided die in there?

  45. itliaf says:

    purple? works for me

  46. Dark Young says:

    Dyce

  47. I am all about the dice. Sign me up.

    The Pretentious Fool´s last post: MK vs. DC

  48. Krog says:

    If I win, I will donate them to the Krogling. Chances are (good pun, eh?) that I’ll use them in the meantime! ;)

  49. JS Dougan says:

    fabulous sets. Can’t wait to see who wins.

  50. Xander says:

    Ooooooooooooooooohhh.

  51. Bill says:

    Nice dice

  52. bujoojoo says:

    Game Master dice are the best dice EVAH.

  53. Mark says:

    C’mon, baby. Papa needs a new set of dice.

    No seriously. Mine are at least 20 years old, although I suspect from the slight burrs on each, and the still sharp edges that they are the renowned Lou Zocchi Gamescience dice. Not sure where I picked them up, though.

  54. jerm says:

    The purples match my wife’s dice. Just sayin’.

  55. Scott says:

    Ooh, purple.

    I always use purple dice. It’s not a superstition; I just run into so few others who do that I can almost always be sure of telling my dice apart at the table when everyone starts rolling.

  56. DNAphil says:

    Roll Big.

    DNAphil´s last post: Weekend Update– 08dec2008

  57. Joey says:

    Nice dice, would love to win. Come on lucky oll

  58. Krieger says:

    No wammy No wammy No wammy… STOP!!!

  59. Pekka Pekuri says:

    Precioussssss!

  60. TheMainEvent says:

    This post could have been called, “Forcing Lurkers into the light of day…” ;-)

  61. Phazzar says:

    Here goes the post.


    This post could have been called, “Forcing Lurkers into the light of day…” ;-)

    Exactly.

  62. fabiobeta says:

    I’m in.

  63. Tony says:

    I like the cut of your jib m’ fellow m’ lad. I have about 9 bazillion dice but more dice = more better.

  64. Owen D. says:

    Hooray for purple dice.

  65. Nathan W says:

    Count me in!

  66. David says:

    Enter me please.

    David´s last post: Australian Monopoly Championships

  67. Cush1220 says:

    Another set of dice is always a good thing. Thank you for the chance to win…..

  68. Wild's Joker says:

    Mmmm….
    Grape-flavored dice.

    Nothing goes better with cold pizza!

  69. Scypher says:

    Whee!

  70. Jim D says:

    Nice dice. :)

  71. Kevin Richey says:

    Oh, pick me! Pick Me! Me me me meeeee…!

  72. Scott says:

    Looks like Dark Crystal dice. :)

  73. SnakeNuts says:

    Hmmm… ‘Diiiiiice!!’ has been done. What about Dutch? ‘Dobbelstenen!!’ – Doesn’t sounds as nice, does it?

    SnakeNuts´s last post: Notebooks

  74. Alan says:

    My favorite quote from Jerry Macguire was not “You had me at hello” but it was “Show me the Dice.”

  75. Eric says:

    I even like the color.

  76. Norman says:

    Wearing my +3 lucky undergarment

  77. almuric says:

    One can never have too many dice. That’s my rule and I’m sticking by it.

  78. Brenden says:

    Well, to win these dice, I’ll need more luck than I had with *my* dice last night.

  79. Nester says:

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  80. As some somewhat famous revolutionary person once said, “GIVE ME CAKE OR GIVE ME DICE!”…

    Reverend Mike´s last post: Demotivational Monday: 2009 Is The International Year of Friendship

  81. ScottM says:

    I’m also drooling over the first set.

  82. Eric says:

    You can never have to many dice. :)

  83. I was going to do this for my contest ending tomorrow. Weird timing…

    Samuel Van Der Wall´s last post: Contest Update: Win Sundered Skies & Savage Worlds

  84. Andy says:

    Purple.

  85. Skelly says:

    Dice me! These look like royal dice…

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