Dan Piponi on Nostr: It's the 50th anniversary of D&D so I thought I'd do some binge reading on the ...
It's the 50th anniversary of D&D so I thought I'd do some binge reading on the subject to see what's happened in the RPG world since I used to play (on and off around 1978-1988).
First surprise: too many people hurt their feet on tetrahedral d4's so now you can get them with "kinder" shapes. And they also do d24 and d30. And there's an abomination that serves as a d5. The manufacturer say they do χ² tests...
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