Tag: tabletop

Sirius Dice Balurs Gate 3 Treasure Pack Review

Recently, Sirius Dice teamed up with the creators of Baldur’s Gate and created treasure packs. The description on the website reads as follows.

Step into the world of Baldur’s Gate 3 with this collectible Dungeons & Dragons Treasure Pack, packed with surprise and excitement worthy of your next campaign. 

Each blind pack includes:

  • 1 oversized D20 featuring icons from fan-favorite characters like Astarion, Gale, and the Dark Urge
  • 1 collectible coin with a Baldur’s Gate theme
  • 1 embroidered dice bag to store your treasure

40 Possible d20s
21 Possible Metal Coins
9 Possible Embroidered Dice Bags

With stunning Rare, Legendary, and Artifact dice designs hidden inside, every pack is a roll of the dice and a thrill to open. Plus, lucky adventurers may uncover an exclusive Replica Astral Prism, a limited prize item straight from the world of BG3.

They were kind enough to send me a few to check out, which I am always grateful for. The sets are honestly really nice. The bags feel nice, they don’t feel cheap, and they are all pull to close and have some sort of design on them, which changes depending on who is inside.

Forgive the not-so-great camera work with my phone

The collectable coins are solid. I’m not sure what they are made from, but they should stand up well as a collectible item. I wouldn’t recommend flipping them like a coin or anything like that, but they are definitely safe to handle.

The dice themselves are nice. I was lucky enough to get the Bloodless rare dice, and they are certainly usable. I wasn’t able to get a decent picture, unfortunately. It does look pretty cool, however, and I do want to purchase more of them. For collectors and fans of the game, the cost of less than $14 is worth it once they are back in stock. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Vaesen: Castle of Gyllencreutz

As some of you may be aware, not long Free League Publishing sent me a PDF of their Starter set for Vaesen. If you want more details about what is in that, you can read about it here. A few weeks after that, I got home from work to a package on my doorstep, and it was the physical version of that same starter set and the core rule book. Now it is an excellent starter set, but I got to wondering, can someone with no experience playing this game, truly get a group together and play this game? So I gathered the women in my life together, a case of our prefered alchol, and got started.

Beautiful cover art for the core rule book. I didn’t use this for my experiment

The first thing I did was have everyone blindly choose one of the 5 playable characters that the set came with. My daughter decided to play as a rugged Soldier named Fronz who couldn’t read. I don’t know why she decided he couldn’t read, but I just went with it. The other ladies chose the 2 ladies in the group; they have names, but admittedly, that isn’t important. By not important, I mean I forgot their names.

The starter set we used

Now, the Castle of Gyllemcreutz story that comes with the set is a great starting point that introduces you to the basics of the game. I don’t want to get too in-depth with what is involved with this story because it is easy to give too much away. Much of the story involves investigating a large castle to find clues on how to solve the mystery involving ghostly lights and missing people.

Dice rolls are all based on rolling a D6; players need to roll a certain number of 6’s to succeed. How many completely depends on how difficult the task is. There is also very little combat in this module, but the person running it could easily change that if they chose to. Nothing is stopping them, and all the information needed to do it is included.

But how did my players do? Well, they never were confused on how to play; they made their way through the castle with very little coaching besides trying to get them to stop goofing off, and the big finale of the whole thing was figured out before we figured out how to finish off a case of alcohol in 2 hours between the 4 of us.

I would absolutely say this starter kit provides everything you need to get you started playing Vaesen with limited or no experience. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.