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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
DungeonMorph Dice
The Geomorph phenomena has spawned an interesting new project. Joe Wetzel (of the amazingly cool Hexographer and Inkwell Ideas) is proposing a pretty cool product that involves many of us OSR cartographers. In a nutshell, the idea to is create a set of geomorph dice in the old-school TSR module style. He's got the full pitch up on Kickstarter and it will only go forward if enough people pledge their interest. I think it's a pretty sweet idea and I encourage you all to at least consider backing the project. There is absolutely no risk if the project does not collect enough money to go forward.
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Those are some nice looking novelty dice! Makes me want to work up some paper versions.
Hmm. That would work even better, as they could be made from graph paper, and would thus be easily adaptable, and give you easy folding lines.
Also, new Caphcha: Ingen. Yep, the company from Jurassic Park is now online.
JAW. DROP. When I get some spare money, I think I'm going to drop it on this. Maybe I can get some people to help out! This is too cool to pass up.
Heh. That's cool.
So bitchin'! I think this is a great idea!
Indeed, it seems like a cool idea. I was thrilled that Joe invited me to participate. Since he lives fairly close to me, I may even get drafted into doing some of the physical production work...
@bulette: haven't made paper dice yet... are they really usable?
I'm still trying to decide if it's something I want but I'm thinking that caverns would really be cool as they could be adapted to almost anything (forests, canyons, irregular terrain that couldn't be traversed).
I also saw a labyrinth face, I'm all for that, especially if there was at least one labyrith face per dice or a separate dice just with those.
The paper idea wouldn't be so bad either. A set of numbered geomorph pictures with a roll all the dice table and it could work really well.
I pledged!
These will be cool to own and I hope others will be able to buy them later, too! :)
@LuísSP: Good point about caverns being used as a stand-in for other irregular terrain. I hadn't considered that.
As for paper, I have a PDF of my first 100 geomorphs: http://www.risusmonkey.com/2011/02/monkey-maps-volume-1.html
@retrorpg: I hope people can buy them later as well. :)
re: paper dice, see my experiments here and here. :P
@ze bulette: Wow, that's pretty sweet. I suck ass at building paper models but I totally see how this would be a could way to build up a huge quantity of geomorph dice. A d6 template is all that it would take.
Amazing! The little project is at halfway to the goal, looks like this could really happen!
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