(Kickstarter) – Steampunk Dice
Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 8, 2013
Okay, as many of you know, I’m a little reluctant to advertise Kickstarter campaigns too often around here. I’ve got enough friends, acquaintances, friends-of-friends, and community members running Kickstarter campaigns these days that I could probably fill half my posts with announcements. And I’ll still feel guilty if and when these projects fail to deliver.
After all – Broken Age, the original big video game Kickstarter “hit” success story, is facing problems even with (or because of) gobs of KS funds.
But I’m making an exception. It’s not the first, and probably not the last. This is from a long-standing community member. And I have an ulterior motive. And it’s not videogame related.
This campaign is for dice – for, like, dice-and-paper role-playing games. Or just having some really cool dice to play Monopoly or something. But done in a steampunk style.
Tinker / Gearpunk Dice – Steampunk Metal Dice
My ulterior motive, of course, is that I really want a full suite of gamer dice for D&D / Pathfinder, but that requires hitting the stretch goal. Tesh is about 2/3rds of the way to the final stretch goal now, so it looks likely. But I figured I’d make mention of it here in case anybody else is interested.
Now we just need to play a Steampunk-themed Pathfinder campaign… 🙂 But I’m looking forward to rolling some sweet nat-20s regardless.
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Tesh said,
Thanks for the mention, Jay! I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the positive response to these dice. I think they are great designs, but just didn’t expect as many people as have joined the campaign. It’ll be awesome if we can get to the full gaming set. 🙂
McTeddy said,
Hmmm… would it make me an awful person to advertise my own kickstarter while we are on the topic?
My first published board game went up a couple days ago and I’m pretty excited. We’re actually fully funded, but I’d still like to keep yelling out “I MADE A BOARD GAME!”.
(The cards of Cthulhu published by Dan Verssen games)
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Shameless advertising aside, do you know how heavy those dice are?
They look absolutely beautiful but I can’t help but cringe about throwing anything metal onto my wooden tables.
Tesh said,
McTeddy, The Gearpunk ones should be about 20 grams, according to the company making them. The Tinker Dice should be similar, I just don’t have verification from that company. They do have a fair bit of heft to them.
Incindium said,
Just got in on this Kickstarter today for the Tinker dice… Thanks for posting about it Jay.