Posts Tagged by superstitions about dice

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The Sharing of Dice
February 27, 2013 Posted by
GMingAdvice05

In a nice bit of synergy, I composed this piece before Matt’s excellent article on Alan DeSmet’s GameScience Dice Analysis, so it continues the die theme nicely. Unfortunately, this article doesn’t have nearly the comprehensive analysis (or fancy charts) that Matt’s did. Soldier on, I say! The question — and potential solutions — posed today revolve around the sharing of dice: Friendly gesture to the unprepared or sacred taboo to never be discussed? It’s Only Weird if it Doesn’t Work Gamers are a superstitious lot,…

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Review: The Bones & Things We Think About Games
January 26, 2011 Posted by

This review has been a long time in the coming. I’ve had both of these books on my shelf for a while* and I’ve been sitting on doing the review for no real particular reason. Neither of these books were comp copies and this review is unsolicited. These are just two products that I’ve had for a while and wanted to review. Ok, lets talk about the books, and to talk about those we have to talk about GameplayWright Press. Back when I was first…