Tag Archives: dungeons & dragons

Dragon Cake Pan: Game of Birthdays

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If you need something to be the centerpiece of your next Game of Thrones viewing party, this could help. This cake pan makes a cake that looks like a dragon coiled around three eggs.

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I think this would be the most difficult cake to frost in the history of cakes. Any frosting on it would hide all the awesome dragon details. I wouldn’t use it for cake at all. I would totally make cornbread in it to have with my dragon breath flaming hot chili. That would be so awesome.

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The cake pan holds about eight cups of batter, which means you will need two boxes if you are making cake. I’d bet it needs a few packages of cornbread mix too. The pan measures 10.5″ x 4″ tall and sells for $24.99(USD) at ThinkGeek. Pair this with that D20 cake pan and you could have an epic Dungeons & Dragons party.

Giant D20: Roll for Disaster

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Our latest oversized D20 sighting comes courtesy of Etsy shop Inner Geek Outer Beauty. Its giant D20 has a crazy 10″ diameter. But despite its imposing size the die is actually fragile because it’s made only with thin acrylic or wood triangles. The saving throw is an oxymoron with this one.

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You can order the giant D20 die from Inner Geek Outer Beauty for at least $130 (USD); the price will vary depending on the material you choose.

[via ThisIsWhyImBroke]

 

ThinkGeek EnCounter Fitness Quest Giver: LARPwatch

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Every year ThinkGeek comes up with an April Fools’ joke product that you want to be real. The EnCounter Wearable Interactive Quest is one of those ideas. It’s a fitness tracker that turns your movements and activities into tabletop RPG quests. It even has an A.I. dungeon master that narrates your adventures via a headset.

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The device goes full dork with random encounters, which completely abandon its fitness metaphor and just gives you imaginary enemies to pretend fight. Fortunately (?), you can form a party with other EnCounter users.

I think most of the EnCounter’s features are doable with current technology, but I don’t think an A.I. can substitute for a good dungeon master. Come to think of it, a dial-a-dungeon master/narrator service would be great on its own.

Mythoard Tabletop RPG Subscription Gift Box: Because DMs Want Loot Too

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Subscription gift boxes have become incredibly popular in the past couple of years, and now there’s something for everyone. A new one called Mythoard caters to tabletop RPG players.

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Mythoard appears to have launched just this year. It’s run by a young couple in North Carolina and focuses on exposing gamers to DIY and indie RPG shops, who just like them don’t yet have the marketing resources and recognition of bigger brands. To give you an idea of what you’ll get from a Mythoard box, the beta bundle contained a poster and a smaller print from Metalweave Games…

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A sampler of dry erase map tiles made by Red Kobold…

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An exclusive adventure handbook from GM Games…

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A dungeon map by Dyson Logos…

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An illustrated post card by Aengium…

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Awful Good Games’ booklet of magical items for Dungeon World…

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…and a pair of dice from Chessex.

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Roll anything to hit this link and subscribe to Mythoard. Subscriptions start at $25 (USD) a month. You should also check out Bleeding Cool’s reviews of the Mythoard boxes for January and February.

[via Boing Boing]

Dungeon Master Uses a Projector for Digital Maps of Awesomeness

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I have mentioned before that growing up we played a bastardized version of Dungeons & Dragons because we didn’t like rules. We also never once used a game board. In fact, we didn’t even know there were game boards. It was a bunch of geeks, dice, an old tabletop, and copious amount of Doritos and soft drinks that made up our gaming time.

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One dungeon master has taken his game very high tech with his game boards, and has mounted a projector that shoots straight down onto the surface of a table. The projector throws maps of the dungeons using Roll20, and there’s a digital gaming mat below to detect the position of pieces..

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The coolest part of the setup is the dynamic lighting, which automatically shows only the relevant section of the dungeon based on the position of player’s game tokens.

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Using an Apple TV as a second screen, the DM is able to project just the map on the table, while their laptop’s screen displays the complete Roll20 interface.

It’s very cool, but seems like it would be hard on the eyes after a while.

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I can tell this is a hoity toity game of D&D because there are no 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew or Doritos in any of the images; in fact, someone appears to be drinking wine.

[via The Daily Dot via Laughing Squid]

Critical Hit LED Dice Set Flashes When You Roll the Big Number

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Growing up, my cousins and I played our fair share of Dungeons & Dragons. In fact, we went so hardcore geek as to make up our own game set that used similar rules. The problem was that our dungeon master was a dick and you never knew if you wanted high numbers or low numbers when it came time to roll. It would go down something like this, “YES!! I rolled a 20!!” followed by hysterical dungeon master laughing and then you die because in that instance, you wanted a low number.

ThinkGeek has some cool new dice that you can play D&D with called the Critical Hit LED Dice Set. While they won’t solve the problem of an asshole DM, they certainly look cool.

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There are three dice with a d10, d12, and d20. Each of them are red opaque plastic with an LED inside. When you roll the highest number available on each of the dice, it flashes.

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Whether their flashing indicates your demise or victory depends on how big a jerk your dungeon master is. Get all three for $24.99(USD).

Dogs Playing D&D: Chaotic Cute

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Johannes Grenzfurthner and Heather Kelley present the successor to dogs playing poker paintings: Dogs Playing D&D. The artists finished the oil painting in 2010, and now you can get it printed on canvas, clothing, gadget cases and various other merch on Red Bubble.

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I bet they’ve been sitting there all day, wondering how to roll dice when you have no thumbs.

[via Archie McPhee]