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ADVENTURE DICE!
🕑 Added 2017-01-12 22:15:15 +0000 UTC Here's January's game, ADVENTURE DICE. It's a super rules-lite storytelling game designed, primarily, for kids to tell stories together - or for adults to tell stories with kids. (Or, honestly, just adults all together. It's a ludicrously simple system with a lot of output.)It comes with four dice that you can cut out and stick together (or that you could reproduce on other dice, like I did for testing). It's pretty freeform, and it's more interested in collaborative narrative than hit points and armour classes.
(You could also, I think, use it as a means of generating stories for writing? Like - once you've got the characters in place, roll to see what happens next to them. There's a lot of information in those dice.)
Because this is a cut-out-and-play thing, I've attached the file as a PDF for easy printing rather than my standard JPEG.
On the rear of the sheet, for my sexy and exciting physical edition Patrons, there's a random character generation matrix. I tested it out this morning and made a pipe-smoking dwarven wizard knight who's adventuring to win the love of his ex-wife, so there's that.
(I really like random tables. Have you noticed that? Anyway, I got to write a whole page of them, and combine them with the other thing I really like, which is shorthand story nodules to pepper a character sheet with. It's a cracker, I promise. 100% guaranteed brilliant characters. Use it for other games, if you'd like. I won't get angry at you.)
At the end of this month I'll send off the physical copies of Adventure Dice to you lot, as well as the copies of We Three Kings (and the mysterious but largely unrelated dungeoncrawl adventure on the rear, THREE KINGS HILL, where adventurers investigate a series of strange disappearances that get ever-stranger).
I'm also happy to say that [This is] Not a Place of Honour has vastly outgrown its one page limit, and I'll be developing it as a one-off PDF of around twenty pages or so - a bit like Royal Blood. Your support is making that possible. Thank you all so much.
If you've got any ideas for games you think might be fun, leave me a note - I'd love to hear from you.
- G
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Game one was my wife as a Human Baker, her cousin as an Elvish Barista, and my son as a Dinosaur Superhero complete with jet wings, rocket packs, drills, and lasers. We played a modified suggested adventure #1 and they successfully recovered a stolen crown from the goblins (helped tremendously by the aforementioned rocket packs and drills). After a few game tips for my son (nothing electricity based) they set off again to find the ingredients to make a dessert for the royal coronation, with a challenge from the queen to make a dessert that no one had ever seen before. They decided on an ice cream cake and the campaign is paused while they are currently planning to head up a mountain to get some ice. Game three was my wife as a Human Archaeologist, our friend as a Lycan Ghost Buster, and my son as a Bat Geologist (this time with period specific tools and no lasers). We played a campaign I found online from the One Page Dungeon Contest (<a href="https://www.dungeoncontest.com/)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.dungeoncontest.com/)</a> called A Wild Chase by Jeff McKelley. It worked out very well to combine the simple dungeon structure with the simple Adventure Dice rules. As I have been looking for kid-friendly RPGs, there is very little out there. I found some from D&D but they are more about learning the D&D combat rules and less about full adventures. Your system is just what we were looking for. It is simple and fun. It is sometimes a challenge for me to come up with outcomes from the dice rolls (a check and an X are the worst!) but we have really been enjoying it as a family. Thanks again!
Thanks so much! I'm really glad to hear that people are playing it. It didn't land very well because it's not super... shareable, I guess? So I'm happy that you're having fun with it. What's your world like?
Just finished our third game of this. My four year old son absolutely loves it! Thank you for making it.
