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Dungeons & Dragons On The Microsoft Surface

Mark Wilson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:25:21 +0000

For thousands of years, none of us quite understood the point of the Surface. Then, a few Carnegie Mellon students armed with but blades and wits developed this D&D game, and they lightning bolted the naysayers away. [Microsoft via Kotaku]

D&D Soda Is Really Your Parents’ Shameful Tears, Bottled

Mark Wilson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:40:00 +0000

You’re walking through a dark cave, clutching your enchanted bow when you realise, CRAP, you’re really just in the back of a comic shop with some friends. And you’re thirsty.

Jones feels your pain (and recognises that severe geekdom is akin to any other profitable addiction), so they’ve started making D&D Spellcasting Soda.

Coming in flavours Potion of Healing, Sneak Attack, Bigby’s Crushing Thirst Destroyer, Illithid Brain Juice, Dwarven Draught and Eldritch Blast, you can pick up a sixer for $US11 or an even dozen bottles for $US19.

And while we’re not exactly sure what those prices translate to in real world money (gold pieces), we do know that our charisma level of 20 (technically 18 along with a +2 ring) means that we won’t be paying full price. [Jones via technabob via neatorama via Geek Dad]

Tomy’s Piggy Bank Comes With Built-In RPG

Jason Chen — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:30:00 +0000

Japanese kids and otaku need slightly more motivation than the rest of us to save money, and to that end, Takara Tomy has made a piggy bank with an RPG game built right on there. It’s called Bank Quest (was Final Bank Fantasy taken?) and you can buy weapons and armour for your dude from the savings you place inside. That reminds us of the RPG Toilet we saw in Japan one time that rewarded us for the size, weight and consistency of he deuce we dropped. Wait, that might not have happened. [Akihabara News via Boing Boing Gadgets]

Hacked Wii Fit Board Lets You Stumble Around Azeroth

Gizmodo US Edition — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:00:00 +0000

The Germans who hacked a Wii Balance Board from Wii Fit to surf Google Earth have found a much more fun use for the peripheral – running around World of Warcraft. In this follow up video, Simon and Mattieu control a low level gnome exploring Ironforge, avoiding wolves and slamming into tree trunks. Now all they need to do is hack the Wiimote and Nunchuck to understand macros and I will be the fittest WoW player EVER. [Technabob]

Self-Contained RPG Game Solely in a Mint Tin

Seamus Byrne — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:20:42 +0000

If you thought putting your iPod nano in an Altoids tin was impressive, check out what Greg Sanders got inside a Penguin mints tin. It’s a self-contained RPG game whose parts all fit inside the tin. All you have to do is plug in a Sega Genesis controller and a TV and you’re set. Yes, but does it tell you how old your brain is? [MAKE via Play Gadgets]