Ready for a game of D&D at the drop of a hat
Last night I was sifting through the iPhone’s app store (again), and I noticed a 99-cent application called the D20 Gaming Dice Set.
Seriously?
I tapped at my iPhone, which brought me to a download screen. I don’t really play tabletop games but, sure enough, the D20 Gaming Dice Set is exactly as I’d hoped:
D20 Gaming Dice Set provides a set of dice compatible with most dice based games. The application provides 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, and 100 sided dice. It will let you roll between 1 and 9 dice at a time.
I love this idea. You’re sitting around a table with friends, and then you suddenly blurt, “Oh, I know what we should do!” And you bring your iPhone out and pass it around, and your iPhone really is a Swiss army knife of technology. And everyone is so impressed with your phone, and therefore, by proxy, with you! And the game is going wonderfully; truly, you are the life of the party!
But then your battery dies before the game’s end, and everyone looks at you a little bit accusatorily. You shrink in your seat, wondering why you don’t simply travel with a spare die. And I pat you on the back and I tell you it all reminds me of that time in NYC when I mocked my friend Dave for using an enormous travel guide with fold-out maps, but then my iPhone’s battery died and I was suddenly useless. In junior high, I once flunked a survival mission—it was “map orientation,” the real-world application of a compass in the wilderness—and even with a map, even today, I am perpetually lost.
Seven types of die? Nine of each type of die? I’m no mathematician, but that’s 63 dice! The D20 Gaming Dice Set is, if nothing else, a moneysaver.
- Direct iTunes link – D20 Gaming Dice Set
- The Michael Litman Experience – D20 Gaming Dice Set goes live on App Store
kentdoggydog
said,
July 18, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
I’ve been listening to the Dungeons and Dragons podcast featuring the Penny Arcade boys and it is quite entertaining. It makes me want to get a group together and roll some d20s.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20080530
Since I don’t have an iPhone, though, that’d be a $199 and 99 cent set of dice. Ouch.
librarian
said,
July 18, 2008 @ 8:34 pm
Oh. Well, OK, yes.
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librarian
said,
August 23, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
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