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So I won a competition from dicecreator to get my own custom dice, which rocks. So I spent an afternoon working on the design. I’m sure you’ve seen my the Cthulhu-inspired image on the front of this webpage (and it doubles as my twitter icon) but if not, here it is again.

I thought this might make a cool face on one of the dice, so I went about re-working it a bit, using my trusty lightbox. I’m sure I could have done the re-work on the computer exclusively but I still like to use pencil and pens. It’s more satisfying somehow, at least for me.

I removed the background, filled in his wings which highlighted the tentacles much better. I was keeping in mind how it would look on a small dice.

I wanted “Fudge Dice”. Fudge dice has two faces with plus “+”, two with minus “-” and the final two blank. Keeping the Cthulhu theme, the minus and plus have to be tentacles!

I cheated though, I drew one half of a tentacle and then using my lightbox built up a minus and plus.

But, I won two customised dice and didn’t want to waste the opportunity with just one design! Using some themes from stuff I did for Lost Heroes RPG and the same technique as the tentacles, I came up with theses:

Now with my two designs, I sent them.

And I got the results in my hand right now:

I think they look rather cool myself!

(I’ll write up my initial impressions in another post)

Character creation:  Excited about the ongoing outdoor LARP starting this week in Dublin, Shane, humbug and Liam dig into the rules document and see what kinds of characters they can turn out - a real man, a real roleplayer, a munchkin and a loony.  It's worth noting that in the short amount of time between recording and release a new version of the rules has been released so some of the rules referenced are now out of date.  Some of them are just referenced incorrectly, of course.  Features:

• Midway LARP
• Camarilla
• Real Men, Real Roleplayers, Munchkins, Loonies
• The nature of apocalypse
• Leather chaps
• Downtime and uptime
• First Aid and Surgery
• Professional-grade munchieing
• WWMD?
• Prestige: Pterodactyls
• Rolling on tables!

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Mailbag:  A Completely Non-Fictional Listener is back with another rambling question, and Shane, Liam and humbug are at hand with another rambling non-answer.  It's all got something to do with RPG wound systems, lethality and healing, and as with so many questions about RPGs, raises the big issue again of "what exactly is that nonsense trying to simulate, anyway?".  Some interesting things to think about are raised.  Features:

• Alarming rummaging
• Unstoppable fantasy killing machines
• Liam says "gambit" instead of "gamut"
• Exalted
• Call of Cthulhu
• Twilight: 2013
• Fate points and chips and karma and emergency dice
• Deadlands
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
• Shadowrun
• Silhouette
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Who suffers when you get hurt
• Rolemaster
• Where rules and genre don't match
• Wound negatives and system shock
• Heavy Gear
• Hit location versus one big blob of person
• Critical hits and fumbles
• Playing a healing character
• Ars Magica
• Star Wars Saga Edition
• How role-playing was born
• Computer games and injury systems
• Ghost Recon 2
• Halo
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
• Lethality as an extension of GM personality
• Amputation and sanity loss as other things that make a system lethal
• Cavitation - might actually be just for listening to submarines
• Traveller
• The United Federation of Caveman Planets

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Lorenzo Mele, expert DBM and DBMM player, has created a new website to support DBMM players with photos of armies, tactical advice, campaigns, etc. Well worth a visit: www.tagmata.it

Provisional Date. Full details to be announced.

It is anticipated that it will follow last year's successful format of 315AP on 200AP-sized boards with open army lists. 3 rounds in 1 day on preset terrain.

Organiser: Mick Hessian

400AP, 2-round invitational Finals for the RINIWA DBMM League.
http://www.iworg.com/league
In parallel there will be a new 2-round event called the RINWA Challenge that is open to all.

List checker: Rob Brennan.
Lists due by: 25th November 2010

Cost: 10 euro for RINWA members or overseas players (12 for non-members)

Format:

2-day, 400AP DBMM Event hosted by Munster Wargames Group

See http://www.corkgaming.com/ for full details (soon).

+1 Downtime:  With stacks of role-playing supplements accumulated from years of ill-advised purchasing, Shane, humbug and Dizzy examine the merits and flaws (ho ho) of the big-line-of-crap-for-each-game model, and discuss the many forms those supplements take.  Unfortunately a computer error wiped out the list of things in the episode which should be here.  I have no idea why humbug's new camera-phone is making all the embedded pictures be sideways.

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