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https://www.enworld.org/threads/dice-pioneer-louis-zocchi-passes-away.718828/

Lou ZahKey, the father of dice passed away at 91 recently. If you’ve ever played a table top roleplaying game then odds are you’ve rolled some of Lou’s dice. He and his company Gamescience were the first in the United States to manufacture polyhedral dice. He is also the inventor of the 100-sided "Zocchihedron."

In addition to dice, Zocchi worked on many games and magazines, including a number of wargames including Star Fleet Battles and The Battle of Britain. He was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming's Hall of Fame in 1987 and was presented with the E. Gary Gygax Lifetime Achievement Award at Gary Con in 2022.

I am not only a fan of dice, but I loved The Battle of Britain game and likely still have the original box floating around the house somewhere.

Thanks for all the dice and the hours of great gaming Lou.

Christina, I know you are a massive dice nerd. This news had to strike a chord.

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What about you Mike. I have a feeling you were into the Battle of Britain as well.

Kick to Mike

Next up we have another Backerkit release that is tapping into the zeitgeist and personally I find it very Meta.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/rpg-crowdfunding-news-%E2%80%93-dungeon-crawler-carl-rpg-historica-arcanum-lairs-legends-3-and-more.718847/

Renegade Game Studios is crowdfunding a Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG and Card Game. Dungeon Crawler Carl is a LitRPG book series by author Matt Dinniman that has become very popular. It involves Carl a regular guy and his ex-girlfriends cat that get sucked into a world spanning dungeon created by aliens. It’s a book that uses gaming tropes and plays out like a roleplaying game. So we have a company making a roleplaying game about a book that is based on a world that is a roleplaying game…Yep, that tracks.

I have read the first book and it’s fun. Nothing earth-shattering or amazing, but it does what it set out to do. I have even used the idea from the book in my first Shadowdark adventure, because I couldn’t figure out how to make Shadowdark work for roleplaying.

Christina, Any experience with Dungeon Crawler Carl or thoughts on the Meta of the moment?

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Mike, what about you?

Kick to Mike

And there you have it, all the news you’ve already heard.