UK Games Expo 2018: Friday Live Blog
Taking Inspiration from the Past with The Historic Games Shop
Jun 1 2018 @ 16:00
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Ryan gets to talk to Jon from The Historic Games Shop about some of his new dice games that he has been developing. Drawing from his practice in making ancient and medieval board games like Alquerque and Hnefatafl, Jon introduces Faerie Dice.
A push you luck dice game.
Yahtzee
dice for the dice jar
This is neat. You always see them play these kind of games in movies and books but I always wonder what’s actually going on.
Another quick pub game.
Meh. Another generic push your luck game.
a interesting fun game.
reminds me of playing dice drinking games in China
If it includes dice, you can count me in!
I would have liked to see some of the historic games also.
I could very easily see this game being played during an RPG as part of the world: a dice game at the tavern, maybe the outcome influences an NPC’s reaction to the party. Actually playing out the game rather than roll the dice, apply your modifier, wait til DM tells you if you succeed.
And this the fairy tale start like, Once upon a time a gnome…