Mad Gaming Madness

I posted a long time ago about the Order of the d30 . Well, there's been more traction on that front of late, with a Google+ group . Also, Rich Leblanc has posted a link to a Mediafire folder with the sigil in a variety of formats. I may have to make a t-shirt!

Here's an interesting contest: design a game that will still be played in a Thousand Years, interesting in a number of ways. For one, they give three examples ( Chess , Tag , and card games ), but card games played the way we know them are relatively new. Still, an interesting challenge. Society changes so much over the course of a thousand years, how can you anticipate what's going to be popular?

Well, here's a link to my submission for this year's One Page Dungeon contest : the Wilderlands of Dire Omen. NOTE: This is the updated version that fixes the problems I had with formatting the PDF. This is what I had intended to submit to the 1PD website!

Way back in the Stone Age, I went to DexCon 3 here in New Jersey in 1994. (I still have the t-shirt with its great Phil Foglio illustration!) In the dealer room, I saw a weird sort of die in the bins. It was like a d20, but bigger because it had 30 sides. Thirty! I was still pretty new to convention gaming, and splurged, buying three of them. They came with a leaflet from Lou Zocchi with a d30 table for generating some random something or other; the chart has been lost to the ages, and the details escape me. And they've sat in my dice bag for a decade, since other than the one chart, I had nothing to use them with. Fortunately, that has now changed! I came across this post on Dave Larkin's blog, and it's got a bunch of stuff to use them with! He even has started an Order for d30 enthusiasts; it's probably the most prestigious honor I can hope to attain! Of course, now I can't find any of the dice I bought oh-so-long ago...