![]() ![]() ![]() There is nothing as satisfying as picking up your feeble D6, aiming at the D20 with an 18 or something ridiculous on it, and knocking it down to single figures. The trick here is to aim to knock the other dice to change their scores. The player with the die with the most sides throws it onto the table. When everybody has licked their wounds, and the losers take what’s left in the pool of unclaimed dice, you move on to the part where you score the majority of the points. If you miss, you can expect it to be picked up and returned with all the haste of a Happy Meal box full of turds. If you hit the other person, you add the loser’s card to your score pile. Imagine Cobra Paw, but you could throw the tile at the other people. The players who matched scramble to grab that die and throw it at the other person. If two or more of you play the same card, however, it’s battle stations. If yours is the only card showing a particular die – congratulations! – you just take it. Most show one of the dice on them, and there are a couple of special cards too. Everyone plays a card from their hand, face-down, and then they’re all revealed. Playing the game is simple enough that the rules are printed on a three-fold sheet of paper. This is the version on the right is the one I was sent. They might even be the gentle nudge you need to get your hardcore D&D friend to emerge from behind their GM screen and engage in some primal tomfoolery. Firm bouncy, and satisfying to play with, like so many of the best things in life. You’ve got a D6, D8, D10, D12, and a D20, which is really cool. You’ll notice that the asteroids include all the standard dice types for a tabletop RPG. In the aforementioned burrito game, the titular burritos were also squishy, but not in a ‘toss up and down in your hand’, fiddly, juggley, kind of way, not like these asteroids. ![]() I mean seriously, seriously good fun to play with. Asteroids? Diceteroids? Whatever, they’re squidgy, vibrant, and they look like they were made for giants with anger issues. The first thing you’ll notice about the game is the collection of big, squishy dice. ![]() For the rest of us, we’re just going to have a good time throwing stuff at our friends and loved ones. If you’ve got a very specific set of criteria for a game which just so happens to match this description, this is your perfect game. Asteroid Dice is best described as Throw Throw Burrito in spaaaaaace! But it’s also got a bit of bluffing thrown in and a natty, secondary throwing part to it which reminds me of Strike, despite being pretty different. So let’s just get it out of the way right now. When I talk about a game that takes a theme or a mechanism and transplants it into a space setting, I’m unable to do it without adding “in spaaaaaace!” afterwards. The title dicebox is a reference to the peorth rune, which in divination systems may represent 'dice cup' or 'womb', symbolizing "something revealed that had been hidden, though it can also stand for a gamepiece or a pawn".I have a bit of a problem. Dicebox is also on comic scholar Scott McCloud's top 20 webcomics list, and was used along with Penny Arcade, Fetus-X and Questionable Content as an example of comics using the web to create "an explosion of diverse genres and styles" in McCloud's 2006 book Making Comics. The Oregonian calls Dicebox the "gravitational center" of Oregon's "vibrant Web-comic scene". Manley Lee's work on Dicebox made her a finalist for the Friends of Lulu's Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent for 2003. The comic, planned for four books totalling 36 chapters, is set in the space-travelling future and is primarily the story of one year in the lives of two women factory workers, Griffen Medea Stoyka and Molly Robbins. Molly and Griffen, protagonists of Dicebox by Jenn Manley Leeĭicebox, by American cartoonist Jenn Manley Lee, is a science fiction webcomic which has been hosted at the subscription-based comics anthology site Girlamatic. ![]()
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