d4ce debut discount!

Way back in January, I posted about working on d4ce, new role-playing game rules created especially to celebrate Black Oak Workshop’s dice designs. Especially their “mini fig” four-siders, such as that stand of mushrooms in the upper left corner of the photo above.

The d4ce rpg is now available on DriveThruRPG, currently at a “debut discount” of half price. Get it here.

I’ve been a fan of Black Oak Workshop for ages now. Have long admired their inventive d6s, their “six-shooters,” for instance, depicting a revolver cylinder on each face, in which you count the number of bullets remaining.

But coming upon their campfire d4 while visiting their convention booth, I was taken aback. How was I supposed to read the thing, what with a campfire face up on all three visible sides? Then I turned it to the bottom, saw those numbers, and asked myself, “Why didn’t I think of this?!?”

The trouble is, of course, that d4s are treated as the redheaded stepchildren of role-playing games. The ones 1st-level D&D mages were stuck with. The ones people complain about stepping on.

Black Oak Workshop’s d4s clearly deserve more love than that, so I set about designing a new RPG in which “d4s rule and d20s drool!” The d4ce rpg has gone through a few months of testing and revision, went over wonderfully at Gary Con a couple of weeks ago, and has been serving as the default system for a weekly campaign based on the Fairyland Confidential solo card game.

I believe the d4ce rpg rules pretty much match the inventiveness of those amazing d4s. The rules are simple on the surface, hiding mathematical precision below. All in a trifold pamphlet whose back panel is your character sheet. Need a new character? Just print out a new pamphlet, and you’ll always have the rules right there at hand.

This is a system I’ll be running quite a bit at upcoming conventions, right along with the Bookmark HP, D6xD6, and D13 RPGs. I’d love to have you join me.