Of Dice, OX Blocks and Zombies

What is a wargame without dice. This simple ancient invention, that goes back to classical times, is a random number generator that requires no computer, no software and no electricity.

There are now dice for every occasion, and it seems, for every wargamer's personality.

For Thygocanberra, the howl at the moon dice.

 

 

For PythonMagus, the Roman dice.

 

 

 

For Paul, the alien dice.

 

 

 

There are entire games that only involve dice. Some of these are classics, like OX Blocks, which came out in 1973 not long before PRESTAGS. The Python and I have many fond memories of this game on the long 1980s train rides between Canberra and Sydney.

 

However, other pure dice games are distinctly suspect.

I thought "Zombie Dice" was a bit of a joke when I first came across it, but it is actually very popular and a classic to many admirers.

 

Apparently there are "Zombie Dice" parties, including where the players dress up. There is no reason why there cannot be PRESTAGS parties as well.

Comments

[Paul]

Don't worry, I am ready for Moderni Agone. And after you have made my zenbook totally linux, you can install Moderni Agone - even before EDEE - and take me through it.

[PythonMagus]

You should take your camera down to the warhammer store where they have trays of dice of different number of faces, up to icosahedrons.

A Prestags party would be great. My biggest complaint with Prestags is once you set one up, no one want to play. If if you set one up on a computer, no one wants to play. So a Prestags party with everyone playing EEDE would be painful beyond belief for me.