There’ll be no shortage of players at your next tabletop role-playing game campaign! New rule: if you roll the highest value, you get to eat the die. Ariel Segall built a custom mold to bake chocolate dice. At the link, you can find her step-by-step instructions for the project.

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Mikey Mason, having listened to Allie Goertz’s Dungeons & Dragons song “Tonight,” decided to compose his own. It’s about that time when your campaign was plagued by an idiot player who kept on getting his characters killed. But because he was the game master’s brother, he stayed in the game, again and again. You know, that game.

For me, it was a Cyberpunk campaign and the game master’s brother (who had just gotten out of jail) insisted on provoking gun fights with heavily-armed strangers as often as he could. He ran through three characters in that session, and never saw a causal relationship between his behavior and their mortality.

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Patton Oswalt’s book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland includes his reflections on the impact of role-playing games upon his life. This is followed by a lengthy poem entitled “The Song of Ulvaak,” which is about one of Oswalt’s own characters. Allie Goetz, who composed the Dungeons & Dragons song “Tonight,” has put the poem into music. It’s a lovely, haunting poem, especially as Ulvaak becomes aware of his true nature.

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I’ve been saying this for years: we’re all just characters in a really boring role-playing game played by transcendent, unseen beings. Or that our lives, somehow, are interesting to them. Kris Straub sums up this reality nicely in this strip. Link -via Ace of Spades HQ

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John F. Talarico of the podcast show Bloodthirsty Vegetarians created two 20-sided dice out of stained glass and black and copper patina. The orange one is called “Fire.” There are more detailed images in the flickr photostream.

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Gourmet soda maker Jones Soda has released five new flavors inspired by the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. They are Potion of Healing, Sneak Attack, Bigby’s Crushing Thirst Destroyer, Eldritch Blast, and Dwarven Draught. I hear that drinking any will add +2 to your constitution for 1d4 rounds.

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5.  The best quests require a mixture of skills in the party. Find new friends and cultivate ancillary skills. That pesky little hobbit thief may eat you out of house and home, yet sometimes he comes in pretty handy. This is the point of all those tedious “diversity training” exercises from your HR department; perhaps the message would get across better if they talked about the apparently-weak wizard and the bard with those amazing negotiation skills.

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A short film by Atom Films user The555 about a man who decides to bring along his dungeon master to mediate a blind date. Clearly, he botched an intelligence check. 2.5 minutes long.

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