Two Dice in my Pocket

[rob_donoghue]

Chris Hanrahan, being an intensely cool guy, sent me a pair of dice from the Endgame 8 mini-con out in Endgame, Oakland . They’re gorgeous six siders with a mother-of-pearl finish and the endgame logo where the 6 should be. I found them in my pocket today and have been rattling them around in my hand every now and again, thinking

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[ex_gobi]

Yay for minimal! I spent a whole chunk of time focusing on the various ways one could use your basic d6 in a board game. I loved exploring the physicality of the object, the various axes of information it could generate and the different states it could represent. It's a remarkably versatile object.

Back on RPGs and story games though... I just wrote a game that you might find useful in your ponderings: Happy Birthday, Robot. I tried to write it with the short, simple sentences of a child's early storybook. The games reads a lot like the stories that the game creates. Hopefully that makes it easy to learn and encourages young readers to exercise their new vocabulary and grammar skills in writing.

It also has a pretty recognizable frame of reference in stories about childlike robots exploring a new world. Most recently Wall•E, but also Johnny Five, Astro Boy, Iron Giant, heck even Frankenstein, kinda. So that helps make the scenario a little easier to understand because I don't have to spend a lot of time explaining what "robot," "exploring," or "childlike" really mean.

Fred and Ryan seem to dig it and there's already some really funny actual play posted over here.