The bones : us and our dice

This isn't about math. It's about unlucky breaks and victory against all odds. This isn't about percentiles and probabilities. It's about late-night game-ending rolls where everything hinges on that climactic moment when one single die skitters across the table and determines the fate of a hero, a city, an empire... The Bones gathers writing about fandom and family―about gamers, camaraderie, and memories― and ties them together where they meet: our dice. These are essays and anecdotes about the ways dice make us crazy, about the stakes we play for and the thrill we get from not knowing what the next roll will bring. Step back and look at how we play with dice. Contributors include game designers Mike Selinker, Kenneth Hite, and Keith Baker, writer/actor Wil Wheaton, writers Ray Fawkes and James Lowder. (Subject to change.) Published in conjunction with GamePlayWright.net Table of Contents Foreword by John Kovalic Introduction by Will Hindmarch A Random History of Dice by Kenneth Hite A Brief History of Gaming by John Kovalic My Astragal! An Interview with Irving Finkel Randomness: Blight or Bane by Greg Costikyan A Hobbit's Chances: An Interview with Cardell Kerr One Point Three Million: An Interview with Scott Nesin A Glossary for Gamers by Will Hindmarch Wonderbones by Wil Wheaton The X Factor by Mike Selinker Daryl Hannah's Dice Saved My Marriage by Matt Forbeck Rolling in the Aisle by Jess Hartley The Dice They Carried by Russ Pitts How Dicelessness Made Me Love the Dice by Fred Hicks Gott Wuerfelt Nicht... But the Devil Does by Jesse Scoble The Die of the People: A Six-Sided Manifesto by Jason L Blair Totally Metal: It All Comes Down To A Roll by Jeff Tidball The Unrollable by Pat Harrigan Who Am I To Say No? by Paul Tevis 1d20 Places I Found My Dice by Jared Sorensen Make A Wish: Dice And Divination in Gaming by Monica Valentinelli Damage Dice: The Die is Cast by Chuck Wendig Fortune's Tyranny by Ray Fawkes The Double-Bladed Axe by James Lowder Monkey In My Bag by Kenneth Hite A World Without Dice by Keith Baker About the Authors Things We Think About Games What are these small, insignificant things-these dice-and why do they disturb us so, with their vertiginous surplus of meaning?