Hi Dark, Interesting. I've never heard of the Hero's Maze game you speak of but it sounds darn cool. The dice with swords and shields on them sounds similar to the game I have, but is called something else. Sounds to me like there are more games with picture die than I first thought.
Cheers! On 4/20/13, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi tom. > > oddly enough when i was little we used to play a game called heroes of the > maze. It was like a proto rpg, where you played knights invading a maze to > battle an ogre and win magic rings. once you defeated the ogre, you got to > play as him and hunt down other players, and for every win you got a knew > ring, with the first to three winning the game. > > the board was interesting too, since rather than move set spaces, the board > > had a raised maze on it, and everytime you turned a little spinner under the > > board it moved the walls. Everything was tactile, so it was a very playable > > game, though not designed for blind people at all. One of the tactile > elements were the dice, which had swords, shields and blanks on them, and in > > combat rolling different things got wins, losses or draws, and all the > symbols were quite tactile. > > If however a certain game had pictured dice, you could either A, lable them > > with something noticeable, ---- eg, s for sword, k for skull, or B, use a > standard dice and draw up a result table, though that would naturally be > more trouble since you'd need to look on the table yourself. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
