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Forever ago, Matt kickstarted the Halfsies dice campaign. We were able to pick up four sets of dice and I got the Superdice (blue and red) and the Davinci dice (black and gold). We just got them in the mail today, but I had a D&D game tonight so I was able to put my new Superdice to use on my earth genasi bard, Ariyaris. That's it. I just want to show of my new dice and say how well they did for me out of the box. Ari rolled two nat 20s tonight and at least one nat 12 for damage. So they're off to a good start. My Davinci dice might turn into my GM dice for the game I run on Wednesdays, as long as the cats don't bother me. They didn't seem to care for them tonight, but they almost always want to be on my desk when I'm surrounded by dice, books and notes. We would've had these dice long ago had some bad luck not befallen the nice guys at Gate Keeper Games in the form of a nasty fire just before GenCon last year. Thankfully, they've gotten things up a...

In the D&D game I play in on Mondays, my druid has recently come into guardianship of a young red dragon wyrmling. Against the better judgement of part of my party I gave him a name that was NOT food related. This party is constantly at odds and rather than attempt to save the poor thing (while he was still an egg), they wanted to make him into a dragon egg omelet. Hilarity did not ensue. Anyhow, thanks to me, our party is +1 protective dragon. It's pretty great so far. Since our party is mostly in travel mode at the moment, escorting part of our npc group home, my druid has been spending her time teaching the little guy to forage, speak, fly and fight. I'm working on skills that she has, so she can better train him, so tonight I opted to teach him about Religion. She's a worshiper of Silvanus herself and thought this would be a good start. Our DM is never the best at spur-of-the-moment dialogue but the exchanges we've had as druid & dragon have been pretty ...

I'm giving today's post to share with you a cause near and dear to my heart, # INeedDiverseGames . I Need Diverse Games is a 501c3 non-profit organization advocating for diverse voices in gaming. The organization sponsors attendance at conventions with diverse panel tracks, promotes diverse creators and teaches about diversity and inclusion in gaming spaces. There's plenty of ways to support this effort, starting with either  Patreon or   Twitch.tv . You can also continue to support and share the work of creators with underrepresented or marginalized voices from the tumblr and twitter accounts for INDG which boost games and creators regularly. We get that everyone struggles with funds, but every little bit helps. There's just a few people involved with Tanya at the helm, and there's still plenty of work to be done. Right now, INDG needs help with both funding and content and you can read more about both  here on this post . If you're new to Patreon, you...