Time and Space Bridal Shower & Contest!

Thanks for the good wishes about my bad news post yesterday. I think it was important for me to get that off my chest and get back into blogging with an honest start.

Yesterday turned out to be an awesome day as a gaming friend of mine held a bridal shower. My friend Beth arrived at my house looking pretty and glam to drive us to north to the event. I completely forgot that people dress up for stuff like this and was wearing a Victorian Tron shirt to try to fit the theme of the upcoming wedding.

Once there it was an awesome time of sitting around a table talking about gaming and anime with a bunch of other ladies. I'd never had the experience of just hanging out with a group of girl gamers without a dude present and while not super different than any other gamer conversation it was a positive experience. We were surrounded by movie themed decorations and by a very supportive family.
As the afternoon progressed we filled out a 2-page document that would be used to generate a custom RPG about the bride and groom. When the presents were open your sheet was used to fill out an ongoing story about the bride fighting her way across the world. At one point she defeated a book club and a mad-scientist surrounded by enchanted bunk beds! When it got to my answers...
My sheet was a little all over the board and once my present was open she had to face...ENCHANTED PROSTITUTES! (Hey, it said profession and that was the first that came to mind since I'd already used lawyer for a job title in a previous question).

Now on to my present. While I did get the Bride something for her house (ok Dragonfly decorative lights...) I also gave her a dice bag with a space print and an IronDie. What is that you ask?
Oh look there's my antique Tron shirt! Ok, and what's that I'm holding? That's an IronDie. It's an all metal D6 that retails for $5-$6 and can be used to replace your typical D6s or can be used as part of the IronDie Game. I included a different more steampunk looking one with the bride's gifts, but this lovely purple one is what I'm giving away!

To win the D6 leave a comment about what you would hope to see GO WRONG during a wedding that involved actual time travel. The contest is open until Sunday July 16th at 11:59 PM CST. The winner will be randomly chosen (using dice of course!) and announced on Monday July 17th.

Good luck! I leave you with the awesome cookie jar someone gave the bride. It makes the Tardis brake noise when you open it!

Cool Dice Containers

This past Saturday I spent a very fun afternoon at a brewery on the Mississippi river at Brewfest! I'll be posting a full re-cap a bit later.

For now I wanted to share with you some very cool ways that people were keeping their dice safe and cozy at our game table.








Kitteh is hungry 4 ur dice! Meow!



















Magic scroll container? Well, maybe, but it's also a mega tube o'dice for the gamer.










Naturally we had our Dragon Chow dice bags going. While we were gaming some random figures represented wild cats on the hexmat. The random figures included this little Ewok whose "cat" counterpart in-game I really, really wanted to kill.

You can see some wedding dice from my friend's wedding and the blue dice is from Gen Con. Actually, the Ewok could have represented my Kobold since you know in the game I was playing kobolds are ugly little dog creatures that eat people. Sounds like an ewok to me.

I Won!

When it comes to random chance drawings I almost never win things. In fact, this is the second time I've won something on the internet in my many years of entering stuff, the first time being a DVD I won from Alice Cooper in 2007.

So, here's what I won! It came in the mail today from the fabulous Dragon Chow Dice Bag. The blue bag I bought and the red/black bag with the dice I won. Hurrah!

Thanks so much to Dragon Chow!!

Wedding Dice and Anime Bookmarks!

You may recall I was in a wedding two weekends past. Well, since it had a lovely Fall theme and I am celebrating the season I wanted to share with you some of the amazing favors that were given out!

The bride and groom had custom dice made with a Fall theme:

There were also bookmarks with a comic book/manga theme. I blacked out the details from the bride and groom.

There was also a bottle of Tequila floating around with a glass Tiki god inside of it.... Whew! Fun, piratey times were had. Arrrrr!

Here are the dice in action with a Dragon Chow dice bag!

Zombie Dice

Do you even dare to reach your hand in a canister such as this? Zombie Dice is a putrid party game that you play with decaying dice. The dice comes loaded with fangs and wants to eat your brains or your fingers or whatever it can sink its rotting teeth into!

So now that you don't want to play this game let me tell you what it's really like.

Zombie Dice is by Steve Jackson Games and it if we want to be alliterative, a better description is that it's a portable party game. All the pieces you need are the dice and the canister (which has a very solid lid that makes storage easy).

Playing the game is simple. You draw out 3 dice at a time, throw them to get your result and depending on what you get either earn points or lose your turn .

You are trying to roll for brains. Each color of dice including green, red and yellow has a different ratio of brains to shotgun blasts to footsteps.

If you get three footsteps on the first throw you lose your turn because your victims got away. If at any time you reach three shotgun blasts you don't get any points and your turn ends. So you must be savvy about the number of brains that will satiate your zombie lust. If you don't keep your points at the right time and your next roll is a shotgun blast that takes you up to 3 hits then you don't get any of your brain points.

The more delicious brains you get the better! You are trying to be the first person to reach 13 points by "eating" 13 brains.

This is another game that can have added layers to it if you tell little stories about what's happening, but it's not necessary to do anything more than roll the dice to have a fun time.

I wonder if you could do a variation of the rules to try to kill zombies by getting shotgun blasts instead of brains? Or footsteps? In any case I think this game would be great to play with people who don't normally indulge in gaming.

Dragon Chow Dice Bags (Review)

Look what I got in the mail today!

Two incredibly well-made new dice bags from Dragon Chow Dice Bags.

I've used a lot of things to hold my dice sets. Up until recently I was using an embroidered bag that my mother sent me from a trip to Spain. I think she sent it to me to hold jewelry, but it was getting very crowded being used to hold dice.

The bag on the top is made with two kinds of reversible blue material. The one showing and the reason I chose it, is printed with a caffeine molecule.

The bag on the bottom is the periodic table of snacking! I love periodic tables of fun things. Yes, like elements, but also other things as well...


Something that I really appreciate about these bags
as compared to others is the very wide opening at the top. When in the heat of battle, sitting at a small table it's not always possible to have all your dice out and searching for them in the typical tiny bag that you can't see into mucks up the game pace. These bags are really made with the gamer's needs in mind. They will also stand up, so you can keep a large amount of dice on the table and at the ready without crowding out the gaming surface.
Finally, not only are these nice to look at and reversible (you can see the other fabric used in the picture above) these are also made very well. I know what good sewing looks like and these bags are not skimped on. They will hold up very well with time.

Cthulhu Dice Contest

Here's one of my cats playing with Cthulhu Dice.



I have an extra Cthulhu Dice package and have decided to give it away!

To enter simply leave a comment here about either Cthulhu or dice. Yes, creative, I know. I'll choose the winner using MATH and SCIENCE! (Random number generator!) I'll announce the winner on Thursday, so you have until Thursday at noon to enter.

Yay!

T-Shirt Tuesday

Since I played "D&D" this past weekend I thought I'd keep the momentum going with an RPG inspired t-shirt for this Tuesday's edition.

Now, I'm sure people don't want to see me every week in a different T-shirt (although Cthulhu knows I own enough to keep this going awhile) so, I issue you web denizens a proclamation.

"Henceforth and herewith I do so declare that anyone who sendeth forth a photograph in which said individual is wearing a T-shirt that this blogger does deem acceptable to the masses will be featured on T-SHIRT TUESDAY!"

Okay, so above is my D20 shirt. I really debated buying this but decided I liked the humour enough to go ahead and exploit the double meaning. This shirt proved popular with the other ladies I game with, so that's cool.

Once I start going to all the conventions I have lined up I will try to persuade people with cool shirts to let me feature them on the blog. I'll catch my kind in their natural habitats!

If you'd like to submit something e-mail chronicgeeker@gmail.com.