80's D&D Cartoon Revival? Kinda...

I could get behind this except...  Its for a damn car commercial! WTF.  While well done in almost every aspect, its just wrong to use this decent cast and cgi, for a car commercial.  How about new stories, with this same level of detail and casting!!!  Id watch the hell out of that!!!

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Whoa! Gary Gygax's FBI File Is An Interesting Read!

Apparently the FBI had a file on our beloved DM of yore, Gary Gygax!  Over at Reason.com they have an article about, with a snippet of Gary's FBI file(shown after the break), which was originally obtained using the freedom of information act request by journalist CJ Ciaramella:

Review Of The Pathfinder & Q-workshop Metal RPG Dice Set

The TL;DR of this article... "After getting these dice would you buy them again?" In short, No!  No, I wouldn't! (Read on to see why!)

How To Build The Q-workshop / Pathfinder Dice Tower!!!

Way back in October 2015, I backed a Q-workshop / Pathfinder Kickstarter for a set of metal polyhedral dice, because as many of my friends/family/readers know, I'm absolutely mad when it comes to dice! I love almost all types of dice, well all dice except for those damn wooden dice, but that is another blog post entirely.

So I backed the kickstarter and it finally arrived in Sept of 2016! Yay! Only 6 months off the target date! :( Ah, Kickstarter the only place where you can miss your target delivery date without consequence, or not deliver at all and keep all the cash! (ask me about a failed kickstarter 3d resin printer and a house in Canada!) 

I chose the $69.00 level of rewards, which included a set of "lead free" metal polyhedral dice, the review of the dice set is coming soon, and any stretch goals unlocked.  The "free" goals unlocked were a set of green "Goblin" polyhedral dice, a linen bag, and a laser cut dice tower!  

A dice tower is used when rolling dice to help "randomize" the dice results during a game, e.g., The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Dungeons And Dragons, but it really can be used for any game with dice.

While the pictures on the provided sheet DO show you how to build the dice tower, its pretty straight forward, there isn't any text explaining the steps in detail.  So here is a little walk through my own building of the dice tower, along with a few tips and tools that I used...

Gary Gygax Day!!! Happy Birthday Gary!!!

Today is GYGAX DAY!  Also known as Gary's Birthday 07/27!  Which is apt since on a whim I decided to wear my Dungeons Crawlers T-Shirt today! The power of Gary moves through me!  NAT 20 Baby! In Gygax we trust!

You can get your very own shirt here(no affiliation just passing along the link):

Dungeon Crawlers T-Shirt From Tee Fury "In Gygax We Trust!"

If you enjoy D&D, or playing any role playing games, both tabletop and video games, you might want to contribute to the Gygax Memorial Fund, as Gary was one of the most influential on this genre of gaming along with co-creator Dave Arneson. Both men have since passed away.

#gygaxday , #gygax , #garygygax , #dnd , #d&d , #gaming , #videogames , #pathfinder , #geek, #nerd , #polyhedrons , #dice , #storytelling

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