Weekender: Telling Tales With Rory’s Story Cubes
June 18, 2016 by warzan
Welcome to The Weekender folks where we have a jam packed show. Kicking things off you'll notice we had another slice of Wargaming The Movie where they talked to Alessio Cavatore about licensing within the industry.
Rory's Story Cube Competition & Interview
We have a great competition for you this week where there can be three winners who could all get their hands on One Story World Set (You get to choose the Story World Set - Batman etc), One Core (9 Dice) Set & One 3 Dice Expansion. All you have to do is use the Story Cubes below and Make A Story, dropping it into the comments below!
Once you've got your story into the comments below we'll have a read of them and pick three winners for a future Weekender. We're looking forward to what you come up with.
We also got to sit down for a chat with the creator of Rory's Story Cubes. We think these are a fantastic way to get yourself stuck into storytelling around the tabletop and maybe train the next Dungeon Masters of the future.
Competition Winners
We have some competition winners to announce today. So, watch the show to find out who won the Talisman: The Horus Heresy Steam Keys AND the winner of the Con Exclusive Pack from our Live Blog last week at Lock & Load.
As always hit up the Claim Your Prize button above and we'll sort the prizes out for you.
Gates Of Antares Campaign Launches
Today is the launch of the Beyond The Gates Of Antares Campaign called The Battle For Xilos. We'll be taking a different episodic approach to this one.
Which faction will you be playing as over the next few weeks?
News
It's time to catch up with the news from this week.
- Tsan Ra for Gates Of Antares - Gather new alien reinforcements for Gates Of Antares.
- Get Started In Warhammer 40,000 - Start your journey into the grim dark with Chaos & Imperial Guard.
- Team Yankee: Leopard Previews - Check out all manner of stat cards for the Germans.
- Mantic Games' Industrial Battlezones - Create a new Sci-Fi landscape for Deadzone and Warpath.
- New Wolsung SSG Characters - New quirky characters enter the Steampunk world of Wolsung.
- 4Ground's Growing Gothic City - A wonderful set of buildings arrive for your 28mm gaming.
What did you like from the news this week?
Forges Of Mars Mat!
It's time for a bit of a showcase as we show off this amazing Mat which shows off the Forges Of Mars. It's a highly detailed piece by Yohann Schepacz who was behind the artwork in games like Deus Ex and Tomb Raider.
This mat is a web exclusive and limited to 1500 pieces so if you want it be quick!
Exploring Ruins With Manorhouse's Resin Gaming Tiles
Last but decidedly not least we're looking at some new Resin Gaming Tiles from Kickstarter by Manorhouse Workshop.
They have created some wonderful pieces which would be great for laying out a tabletop Ruin or maybe even a wider battlefield for Fantasy and Historical gaming.
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Happy Weekend!!!!
happy weekend all.
It’s the Weekend!! The weekend all sensible Fathers hope to be woken up on Sunday to hobby related presents rather than socks!
Loving the flexible resin terrain, looking forward to seeing it painted up.
Yes, they were incredibly flexible! But I wonder…if you slap on some paint will the paint flake off on account of the material being too flexible and bendy?
Hi panzerkanzler.
this the video where I do see that painting is not ruined if mistreated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbZCG7-sXD8
regards. Lorenzo
I bought the story cubes for my daughter, she loves them.
I’m not interested in the story dice but I really enjoy the longer interviews you guys do. Even though the dice hold no interest for me it’s always interesting to hear the story behind them and how designers think. Good show (as always)!
Happy weekend from sunny Tenerife!
A Relic Knights battle report you say?…
Yep and first opportunity your next 😉
The ‘Ladies of the Court’ are in waiting 😉
I’m on it
Happy weekend
loving the story cubes
so here is my story
Once upon a time a man ran out of fuel, so decided to take his axe to go find some fuel, it started to rain
so he hid in a cave, in the cave was lots of slime and he saw an egg
out of the egg popped a crab with a laser gun , he then woke up and realised it was a haluncination brought on after tripping out on some pills.
FFS lol 😀
lol…. 🙂 even if i dont win i want to get my son these cubes they are awesome
Ref Mantics factory “Soylent green is humans” could see the wafers coming off the conveyor belt.
The library where I work has a set of Story Cubes.
The story cubes are something I had never seen before – such a fantastic idea!
hehe my story,
In the land of amoeba I had been sent to deal with the evil crab in the ghastly cave of doom, only to find the rain had shorted out my laser pistol (its energy meter, zeroed, sigh), It was a bitter pill to swallow. My plans in ruins, I decided the best action was to rethink my endeavors over a nice boiled egg for arvo tea (cracked it open with my new axe my mom gave me bless her cotton nickers, she said ya never know when ya need to break a door down sonny. love her)
While I was out logging, I had to hide in a cave to escape some bad weather. A cave crab egg hatched out a cave crab, since it’s that time of year here in the mountains, and it promptly attacked me. I tried to use my laser gun to kill it, but it was out of power. The crab managed to nip my leg, and I had to spent a month taking pills to cure the infection.
Happy weekend! 🙂 A really great show, especially the segment about Story Cubes 🙂 I have a few sets myself and I must say it is an absolute ice breaker when meeting new people 😉 Tell me a story and I will tell you who you are 🙂 Speaking of stories: Once upon a time Geoffrey forgot to take his pills before going to sleep and so in his dreams he got out of a cave with an axe in his hand. On the beach he saw a crab struggling to cut a jellyfish from one of his legs. He… Read more »
challange accepted. me and my daughter had blast with dice so we ( well she did i was writing it down) created both stories . first set /Crab/Viking helmet/Heat gun/Glasses/Music/Backpack/Sun/Angry face/Sea waves. there was a angry vikingsweaming on the sea. Then came a crab on his boat and sayed Its my water (*sea). Then Viking run away and he left his backpack, because he was running so fast. Then Viking sans a song. Then Viking wasn’t Viking anymore. He put glasses on because sun was hot. he took his freezing gun to cool down. The end. Róża age 4. set… Read more »
On the abbey ruins tiles and the hidden stairs: it looks like one or two of the more catacomb type tiles had staircases that lead nowhere so you could lay them out next to the abbey, but seperate them a bit rather than touching like you guys had it and then have it so that when a mini goes down the hidden stairs on the abbey board they come on at the top of the stairs on the catacomb board. Would allow for you to play multilevel games rather than playing above ground for one scenario and then having to… Read more »
Okay, here’s my go at a story: Once upon a time there was an amoeba which was caught in a rain storm. But it was no ordinary rain and it made the amoeba mutate, forming a hard shell around it like an egg. The egg hatched and out popped a giant crab. The crab scuttled about the beach, accidentally destroying the natives’ huts. An angry native took a pill which made him grow to titanic proportions so that he could fight the crab. He swung at it with his axe, but the crab’s shell was too hard and the axe… Read more »
The dark ominous clouds and heavy rain were a worrying portent for Warren as he awoke on the day of his vasectomy. Things only grew worse when he arrived at the hospital to find it was a cave. ‘I knew I shouldn’t have taken the budget option when I went private’, he thought to himself. Trudging warily down the steps, he was greeted by a sinister looking doctor, who handed him a giant pill. ‘Anesthetic’, grunted the doctor. Warren went to swallow the pill but was halted by the doctor. ‘Suppository’, he said, in that same guttural grunt. ‘Drop you… Read more »
@redben: if your scrotum looks like that I think you might want to go see a doctor yourself :s
Nobody read Viz growing up?
Not me at least. Can’t speak for @warzan or anyone else.
There’s a cartoony way of drawing a scrotum with is basically just a shape with some hairs on it.
I can confirm after much exami ation of my bolloks yesterday … unsettlingly they do resemble an amoeba.
(Puts magnifing glass away)
Disturbing, but you have made up for the 45 minutes of “die talk” than nearly put me into a coma. Preoccupation with Warrens ‘orifi’, err ‘orifices’ , mmmm (well you know what I mean) simply cannot be healthy. But your story has one gaping hole in it (no not the destination of the suppository)…….”he kept off the table and fled up the stairs”. Come on, I can believe all the rest but that’s really a stretch
It’s a fantasy so anything can happen lol
Obviously Warren just got lucky on his flee roll ;p
My attempt at a story… well, more of a blurb for the story… I hope its enough Fuel supplies around the world were running low, so Scientists used drugs to create a super bacteria that, as a by-product, created the fuel needed. Unfortunately a terrible storm hit the science lab that was conducting these experiments and some of the drug seeped into a local sea cave. Here it caused the crabs to mutate into giant, killer crabs that would eat anything and everything in sight. Their only weakness was boiled eggs, which upon consuming just one, they would be rendered… Read more »
Those dice and design learning products look ace, will have to get some for kids and students! My oddness contribution: There once was once was some slime that lived in a cave, his name was Sid…and his best friend was Dave. Dave was a crab, that fell from a cloud. Sid remembered it well as the day he laid an egg and was ever so proud. Today was exciting, as the egg felt hot, so Sid dropped a pill to keep awake and alert right there on the spot. But as time went past and things took too long they… Read more »
I got caught out in a rainstorm yesterday, soaked me right through. When I woke up this morning I had a temperature, a cold was definitely coming on. So, I took some medicine to see if it would help me feel better, but it didn’t do much so I went to bed for some rest. I had this really odd dream, probably the fever doing it, but I was in this cave, sheltering from the weather. Feeling hungry, I found an egg and started to cook it. Soft boiled, is there anything better? 4 minutes in the pan of boiling… Read more »
Ok. This is probably not for younger audiences, but you said to go with the first item, that caught my attention. Here it goes: “1. Pill / Bottom middle: As I was going on another trip with my favorite “medicine” I found my self … 2. Cave / Top Right: … in a cave. It was dark and gloomy. But I didn’t fear because I had three things,… 3. Crab / Bottom right: … first my long year buddy Scissors. He was always with me, could melt your heart with his smile and snap everything in two with his claws…… Read more »
Oh and before I forget, you guys should bring these dice to the pub on the next bootcamp. I believe it would be quite the icebreaker (not that breaking the ice was a problem) and a lot of fun.
It was a dark and stormy night. Rory had a splitting headache and was wondering if he should take some more pain killers. Lightning flashed and one of the eggs in Rory’s fridge suddenly moved. How could this be? The egg split open and a giant crab pulled itself out, gradually growing and expanding until it burst out of the kitchen, and forcing Rory to wake up and pay attention. Seeing the giant monster crab, Rory dashed out of the house to the shed to where he stored his adventuring gear. Unfortunately the ray gun had technical problems so after… Read more »
I wrote my story before reading anyone else’s. Funny how many of us gamers assumed the crab would be a giant one…
happy weekender, thanks for talking about story cubes, I was curious about them for a while. I’m picking up a set for my daughter and try them out.