Tag: DICE

Diceware is another tool by Iain Lamb, the maker of Typograph. It answers a simple need by letting users create passphrases with a roll of the dice. You are supposed to roll five physical dice on your desk and enter the result into the text box on the page as one string of digits (say, 14352). The JavaScript tool then searches a list of words that associates each word with a unique number. It ...

Before you get excited, modern video console gamers -- yes you, the one playing HALO -- I mean original table-top role-playing games. Dungeons & Dragons, that kind of thing! DriveThru RPG is offering, until the end of January, $1481 worth of RPG books and materials for the paltry sum of $20. There's a page listing every book in the bundle, but it's pretty damn long. Safe to say, there's ...

Should we eat that last donut? Are our Scott-e-vest cargo pants as stylish as the site says? Should we give our bank account numbers to a Nigerian businessman that came across a large inheritance? Sure, common sense would definitely help here, but sometimes you need to leave these choices to a higher power. Ind.ecisions, along with Mother Nature's help, hopes to win over your, well, indecision. ...

I can't decide whether I love Dicewars or hate it, but either way I can't stop playing it. It's a simple-but-diabolical turn-based Flash strategy game. The game board looks reminiscent of some tabletop strategy games. You and your enemies are represented by colored dice occupying a territory. If you have more than one die occupying a territory, you may attack an adjacent territory. The winner of a ...