As an 80s kid, I recently got a couple dice sets that spoke to my childhood. First up is this set from 1985 games:

I saw this set one or two years ago on the 1985 Games site. I put it on my wishlist for a while because I loved the item for nostalgia, but I already have a lot of dice so I was hoping someone would get it for me. When it was recently on sale for half off, it was a no-brainer to get them. When I was a kid I remember the blank VHS tapes that we would buy to tape stuff off of TV would come in cases exactly like this one (and the other ones in their collection). I even associate some of the colors with Walgreens and others with Circuit City. But these dice aren’t only a nostalgia buy - they are also very sparkly and VERY sharp.

Free TTRPG Day Experience

This was my second year participating in Free TTRPG day. Last year I was in New York at the time and visited a shop in Brooklyn. This time I was home and decided to visit on of my local shops, Games and Stuff. The line had been long in 2025, but the shop in New York was tiny so I assumed the line, if one manifest would move rather quickly.

Our Game

How did things go?

The party started off by trying to hack into the charging station from the lobby. There weren’t really any ports there for them to interface with. They then wanted to go up the elevator, but the warning about the effects of the Aballon Sun up there deterred them. Satisfied that they had taken all the precations possible, they entered the main area. There they were greeted by Shalalamula (a seksevariak) artist who enjoys using mind-altering substances to enhance his worship of Triune. Nitpick, the hacker witchwarper of the group attempted to cobble together an interface between his comm unit and the professor’s plinth, but it was unsuccessful. He went outside and bought a dongle to convert the different interfaces. Nitpick’s hacking skills failed him and Jadaena was able to help gain access. From there the party was able to learn about Tierny’s suspicions and the fact that someone else had attempted to gain access to his backups. After that, Nitpick opened the chamber and they discovered Tierny’s body and note. After distributing the contents of the commercial null chamber, they did some more investigating. Nitpick tried to hack into the cameras in the room and once again needed Jadaena’s help. They were able to see Tierny enter, but after that the image was glitched.

Story

We are bringing the White Wargs Reavers a Longboat and Trollkin. (Although there was a fight among the crew as to whether to murder the Trollkin before presenting them to the dwarves) As we row ashore, a female dwarf greets us. She tells us that the dwarf we were seeking Knudstoneson is dead.

Trollkin stole an albino wharg puppy (named Snowball) from the village, a sacred animal to the village. While the pup is missing they cannot help us. We tell her what we learned during the interrogation:

After the flyting contest, we are hired by a ship merchant who wants us to help them. They need us to take the remaining ship to Wolfheim to find their cousin Knudstoneson (dwarf). From there we need to head to the White Warg Village north of Wolfheim. Once there, we need to convince him and his crew, the White Warg Reavers, to see if they can help this person. We are offered 500GP to do the job were given a crewed ship to get there. Before leaving, I (Scrabble) went carousing and developed a contact within the village.

We hauled all our treasure onto the ship and gave the captain what was due as members of the ship.

Ghada tries to intimidate the pirates to get to keep more of the booty. The captain smiles and says “no”. The rest of us split our booty - 132 GP each.

As we get closer to the shore we see that the Port of Stannisgard is on fire. A red dragon came and attacked the city. (Visandred is name of dragon)