May Cthulhu Come to Collect You, May He Bring You Madness and Pain

[diziara]

A friend of mine has been running a most delightful old World of Darkness campaign on game nights and I have been having lots of fun. He had us build two characters each, as he expected to have to kill us all off for one reason or another at some point... if we do something incredibly stupid. In our group, extreme acts of stupid are fairly common.

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[allah_sulu]

I have gazillions of dice. I need the Cthulhu dice. We also have just about all varieties and expansions of Munchkin.

[diziara]

The Cthulhu Dice game is pretty new, and somehow I hadn't heard about it until I found it in the game shop yesterday.

It is awesome though, and the game is silly and fast. A good thing to have in a bag or on a desk at work for those times when you're stuck waiting around or your code is compiling. :-P

Munchkin is such an awesome game. It's entertaining to me how I can get my brother to sit down and play, and there's just enough strategy to it that he doesn't automagically win with his shit house luck. :D

[allah_sulu]

We've got a bunch of games, but some flavor(s) of Munchkin or Apples to Apples are the biggest crowd pleasers. (It's been many years since I've been able to commit to an RPG campaign. But I have more than enough dice if that ever changes, including bizarre sizes like d5, d7, and d14s that no one ever uses.)

[diziara]

Dude, I've never seen a d5, d7 or d14. The die for the Cthulhu dice game is a d12, because Steve Jackson himself felt that the d12 doesn't get enough love. The video posted on the Cthulhu Dice page is kinda entertaining.

I don't have a copy of Apples to Apples myself, but I have played it once. Michael Jackson became the joke answer of the night after I got stuck with him in my hand, and played him on something odd. We play a lot of Settlers of Catan, and Tichu on game night. We haven't been getting as many RPG sessions in lately, which makes me sad. We'd been overdosing on Battlestations, but most of the group has been getting pretty tired of it, so it's tapered off lately.

[allah_sulu]

A couple of years ago I went searching online for unique specialty dice, and that's when I got a bunch of unusual shapes or normal shapes with unusual designs (like d12s and d20s with pips instead of numbers, d6s with Roman numbers, d16s in hexadecimal, etc.) Occasionally I find an actual use for one, but not often. Other people have also noticed that the d12 doesn't get enough love, like the Order of the Stick game (which, unfortunately, really sucked the one time we tried playing it). I don't know Tichu, but I do have Catan -- never got my wife to try it, though, but I've played it with other people. The Buffy:TVS board game is very enjoyable, too.

And Apples to Apples is the perfect game for inside jokes among friends, or for playing with people you hardly know and breaking the ice. Great for conventions, especially after a few rounds of my punch.

[diziara]

Catan isn't really a favorite of mine, but I can do okayish playing with the group if that's what everyone else wants to play. I really like Formula De, or Formula D if it's the domestic version of the game. That one's really fun, especially when someone gets crazy and rolls the really big die for the highest gear. ^_^ The street racing rules are pretty fun too, your character has a special power that can fuck with other people.

I've seen the d20s with the pips, and the roman numral d6s. I've got some fun dice in my bag too, one that'll randomly pick weather for me... and I really should have bought the one that had the little pictures of a person with a different impact point on the body for each face. That die actually made for a lot of fun at a Changeling game I played in at KublaCon, as the Storyteller for the game had one. <3

So, at KublaCon, there are winners pins for each event, and at the RPG events, it tends to be entirely arbitrary on how they're given out. So, we're all settling in for the game, and the Storyteller tosses

[allah_sulu]

Ouch. The only game I played with high PC turnover was Call of Cthulhu in college. Sometimes you got killed by eldritch horrors and/or their cultists, sometimes by the authorities, but often by other PCs. I'm surprised no one deliberately jumped on a grenade or something to get that pin, especially since there was a replacement character sheet ready.

I also have dice for drinking games, dice for sexual positions, and dice for choosing the toppings for pizza.

[diziara]

I'm pretty sure that had someone done something insanely stupid, in an intentional way that did not forward the story, the GM would have either made sure they lived through it, or not let them have the pin.

I have some sex dice too. Mine are a pair of d8s and a d6. :D

I recently got my hands on the Call of Cthulhu books, but I haven't found anyone who wants to play with me yet. Hopefully I'll work that out soon.