Pyramid Review
The Dice of Wrath (A Knights of the Dinner Table Dice Game)
Published by Flying Buffalo, Inc.
Designed by Rick Loomis
Five Dice, pad of 40 score sheets, rule sheet; $14.95
Dice are available singly for $2.00 apieceThey've been comic book characters, as have their alter egos. They've been figurines, card games, and battle books, and their favored RPG system has gone from fictional to Game of the Year. That leaves clicky bases and dice, and Flying Buffalo, Inc. has the dice thing covered now that the Knights of the Dinner Table are featured on The Dice of Wrath.
Jolly Blackburn's popular gamers' comic strip about the misadventures of B.A. and his motley cast of roleplayers pokes fun at the gaming hobby. In this tabletop incarnation, their in-game alter egos -- the Untouchable Trio plus One -- have finished another dungeon crawl, and the time has come for the group to divvy up the loot. Players (three to five of them) take on the role of one of the strip's characters: B.A. the GM, his cousin Sara, bloodthirsty Bob, dizzy Dave, or rules lawyer Brian. There are 11 items up for grabs, each worth a certain number of points.
The game provides a pad of 40 score sheets, which list the characters, the treasures, and the point values. Everyone gets a copy of the sheet. There are five six-sided dice, each with pictures of the five personalities on the die faces; the sixth side is the wild Hoody-Hoo side. If that comes up, it counts as any character you want it to.
On his turn a player . . .
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Article publication date: September 19, 2003
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