Game on!

Game night is tonight, and I’m sit­ting here wast­ing time wait­ing on us to get going.  We’re play­ing D&D 3.5, and I’ve got a half-orc rogue who is a level away from becom­ing a Shadow Dancer.  Her name is XaXa, and the guys call her the raid boss, even though I see her as a major diplo­mat.  Right now, we’re bat­tling an icky cult of dis­ease wor­shipers with an infra­struc­ture that we’ve only barely begun to crack into.  We are hop­ing we’re one step ahead of the big bads, but we really aren’t sure.

Game­Science Dice finally has some­thing of a use­ful web­site.  Game­Science was the first Amer­i­can man­u­fac­turer of poly­he­dral dice, and I truly believe that they are still the best on the mar­ket.  There’s a cou­ple of awe­some videos of Mr. Zoc­chi him­self explain­ing why his dice are supe­rior to his com­peti­tors.  I love how cro­chety he is, and his air­brushed  Zoc­chi­he­dron (d100) T-shirt.  He explains why that hor­ri­ble flaw on the 7 of all my d20s is really a sign of supe­rior crafts­man­ship, and why those sharp edges really cre­ate a more ran­dom roll.  I feel vin­di­cated by the pro­pa­ganda.  There’s sci­ence to back up my intu­ition that my dice rock!   Even bet­ter, there’s finally a place for me to buy the beau­ti­ful gem dice again.  They haven’t been avail­able locally for a decade, and the com­pany I pre­vi­ously bought them from online is closed.  They were my first poly­he­drals way back when I was just break­ing into AD&D my fresh­man year in col­lege.  Even though occa­sion­ally I’ve had a roam­ing eye, I always return to those sharp edges, quick rolls, and glit­ter­ing facets.