dice

As I recall, they came out sometime in the mid-to-late-80s. I think...not sure. I don't think they were common before then because I remember rolling two d10s and all the game rules explaining rolling percentiles by reading two d10s. Then again, where I grew up (West Michigan), there was a...

I look at the obscene number of RPG rules on my digital shelf and think the answer is probably “no”. In the early years of RPGs there was, of course, a great deal of experimentation as to how one might use dice and other randomisers to simulate, emulate or decide. That period of experimentation...

Greetings RPG Pub community, how are you? :smile: We re Drakkarti, a startup that develops apps to assist players in several RPG games and boardgames. We invite you to discover Rolld, a free app that generates different types of dices (numeric, alphanumeric, for RPG, for table games...

Jon Peterson of Playing at the World made an excellent video and post about the first generation of dice.

A fun piece about Robert Coover's cult novel The Universal Baseball Association Inc., baseball and tangently but interestingly D&D. Include some good insights into the relationship between the GM and the players, control, dice and randomness in RPGs I think.