MCDM starts work on its RPG Monday!

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Because special dice need someone to manufacture them (unless you're going with clumsy workarounds like "1-2 are blank, 3-4 is an advantage, 5 is a success, and 6 is an advantage AND a success"), and are usually quite expensive (due to small series) and subject to often being out of stock (like Star Wars RPG dice are at the moment). If your goal is to make the game "aggresively open" and presumably easily available as an alternative to D&D, you don't want to require specialized tools to play it.

Does he mean proprietary dice or Zocchi dice? Those are freely available to anyone who wants to make them, I believe, and with DCC on the market as long as they have been, there's a good variety of them on the market now.

 

[overgeeked]

Does he mean proprietary dice or Zocchi dice? Those are freely available to anyone who wants to make them, I believe, and with DCC on the market as long as they have been, there's a good variety of them on the market now.

The stream heavily implied unique dice. No idea about them being proprietary or not.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The stream heavily implied unique dice. No idea about them being proprietary or not.

Eh. I agree that's not ideal. I hope that's not it.

That said, MCDM loves new systems for their own sake -- it was what made me jump off of the Flee, Mortals Kickstarter -- so "hey, we love FFG's dice; let's do that" wouldn't be a complete shock.

 

[overgeeked]

Eh. I agree that's not ideal. I hope that's not it.

That said, MCDM loves new systems for their own sake. -- it was what made me jump off of the Flee, Mortals Kickstarter -- so "hey, we love FFG's dice; let's do that" wouldn't be a complete shock.

Yeah. I passed on FFG Star Wars because of the dice. And I'm a dice goblin. I'm willing to have a look at MCDM's game because it's Matt Colville but I'm generally not a fan of unique dice.

 

[overgeeked]

The story Matt tells about Star Trek, Last Unicorn, Decipher, and rapid prototyping is kinda awesome. He's hoping to run a combat by the end of next week. It starts at about 1:12:00 in the video.

 

[Zaukrie]

I hope they don't want me to buy special dice to play their game. I've already got a billion dollars worth of 5e stuff, don't put up barriers to moving.....

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The only wacky dice I'm willing to add to my collection (I keep my Broken Compass dice in a separate dice jail where they belong) would be a d30 and Zocchi dice. Those are relatively easy to get and have a long provenance.

 

[darjr]

 

[Zaukrie]

that would be something....

 

[Reynard]

A relatively lean document that sets a core mechanic and shared language would probably be best. Something that makes it easy to transition from one game built on the engine to another, but not limiting. Some of that previously promised modularity.