{"id":2496,"date":"2016-01-27T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2016-03-03T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T00:33:48","slug":"my-gm-kit-appendix-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/my-gm-kit-appendix-1\/","title":{"rendered":"My GM Kit &#8211; Appendix 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy <em>Thurpsday<\/em>, all you GURPS-heads and gamers!<\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular Game Geekery posts from 2015 was the exhaustive peek inside &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/my-gm-kit\/\">My GM Kit<\/a>.&#8221; Since that time, lo&#8217; these 11 months, I have picked up more than a few bits and bobs, gadgets and such. Here are the three worthy of use at the gaming table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Dice.<\/strong> The first are some new dice, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/doublesixdice.com\/\">Doublesix Dice<\/a>. Like many gamers, I have a ton of dice in a wide array of colors and sizes, but these still caught my eye. They are 12-sided, numbered 1 through 6 twice. Thus, the probability curve doesn&#8217;t change (each die will still only generate a number from 1 to 6), so they are still perfect for the 3d6 of our beloved GURPS, but they roll a bit nicer and just look sweet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2494\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/doublesixes.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2494 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/doublesixes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"doublesixes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/doublesixes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/doublesixes.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who let those dirty Fate dice in here?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I got mine through the Kickstarter, but their <a href=\"http:\/\/doublesixdice.com\/\">web store<\/a> is now open for all (and I&#8217;ve already ordered a few more in colors I was missing the first time around).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dice Shaker.<\/strong> Speaking of dice, I grabbed this great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00NX0BN4Q\">dice shaker<\/a>\u00a0off of Amazon for 8 bucks. As a bonus, our pooch Einstein von Furbrow makes a cameo in the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dice Shaker\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RsnFKfslNyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is perfect for convention games (or board games) &#8212; you&#8217;ll never have to worry about the dice going off the table or smashing into minis (or game pieces).<\/p>\n<p>There is a thin slit on the top red cap that widens enough to slip the dice out by just squeezing the tube &#8212; you can add\/remove dice in just a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>I went with 6d6 made up of\u00a0the following\u00a0as a baseline, which is pretty much all ya need for running GURPS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1d6: blue<\/li>\n<li>2d6: orange<\/li>\n<li>3d6: white<\/li>\n<li>4d6: white + blue<\/li>\n<li>5d6: white + orange<\/li>\n<li>6d6: all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The materials are sturdy, and the design well thought out. The bottom of the tube isn&#8217;t just spongy foam, it&#8217;s like a little trampoline. They call it the &#8220;Dancing Dice\u00a0Shaker&#8221; because the dice\u00a0really hop around in there once\u00a0you give it a shake or two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luck Timer.<\/strong>\u00a0And lastly, one of my favorite gadgets ever. It just so elegantly fits a perfect niche for me, I can&#8217;t help but love it. (I actually thought I had posted it before, but didn&#8217;t see it in a search).<\/p>\n<p>When I run a convention game, 90% of the time two things are true: there are four pre-gen PCs, and they all have the Luck advantage. Now, sure, I\u00a0<em>could<\/em> just jot down a note on a character sheet when someone uses their Luck and track the time until\u00a0it resets by the clock, like a savage.<\/p>\n<p>Or, I could use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006OK7RRO\">kitchen timer<\/a> that separately tracks four different times (which means I\u00a0can seat each PC&#8217;s timer to 15, 30, or 60 minutes based on the\u00a0level of Luck they have).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/timer.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2495\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/timer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"timer\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/timer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/timer.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It even has a little whiteboard and attached marker for writing in the PC names, and a kickstand on the back so you can keep it horizontal. Set everyone&#8217;s time at the start, activate the timer if someone uses Luck, and then just&#8230; ignore it. When a player&#8217;s Luck can be used again, an alarm will beep and that PC&#8217;s timer will blink. As you can tell, I love it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And those of my favorites from the past few months. Honorable mention shout-out to the magnetic battle mats from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamenightlife.com\/\">Gaming Night Life<\/a>. Their Kickstarter hasn&#8217;t quite shipped yet, but these mats look really, really great, and I can&#8217;t wait to have &#8217;em in my mitts so I can give you a review.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any favorite gaming doodads to share,\u00a0I&#8217;m always on the look-out for more paraphernalia!<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post and others like it, might you consider the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TheMookNet?ty=h\">Game Geekery Patreon<\/a><em>?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Precis<\/b> &#8211; New useful items for the GM Kit: 12-sided d6, dice shaker, and multi-timer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Happy Thurpsday, all you GURPS-heads and gamers! One of the most popular Game Geekery posts from 2015 was the exhaustive peek inside &#8220;My GM Kit.&#8221; Since that time, lo&#8217; these 11 months, I have picked up more than a few <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/my-gm-kit-appendix-1\/\" title=\"My GM Kit &#8211; Appendix 1\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,6],"tags":[27],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gming","category-gurps","category-rpgs","tag-gamer-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}