Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed gnome

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the middle of the twentieth century, and the material remains stable for decades. Then, in a flash, they can dramatically decompose. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.

NecRomancer Dice Set

these are merely some highlights when i was going through it yesterday before i got lightheaded from laughing and had to make dinner

essentially its a piecemeal of mostly d&d 5e, with some pathfinder 2e and maybe savage worlds thrown in. largely seems to be a fairly dark dungeon delving / murderhobo (i hate that term but dont know an alternative) kind of game that assumes lots of gritty tactical combat and pc death

the most charitable reading of it i can come up with is that this is what d&d 5e would be if it existed in the neopets world?? like this is d&d 5e For neopets?? which i dont think is what anyone was expecting and absolutely no one wanted

there is also some sort of internal snafu happening with geekify (ofc) and according to reddit the reason the beta is so late is that they may have gone through several full teams who took all their work with them upon quitting. when the gdoc first dropped there was a whole tab with nothing there that only said the team hadnt been paid to write that

importantly it does not seem like anyone on the team is a ttrpg designer of any kind

some more important facts: the beta was just released - on google docs - with public comments turned on - a FULL YEAR after the physical books were meant to be shipped out. even with 85% of it being ripped right from d&d 5e its incredibly half baked and messy and full of errors

despite being a huge neopets guy growing up i looked at the kickstarter in 2024 and said. lol. thats a trainwreck. i've never seen a PDF copy or character sheet paywalled behind stretch goals before (these were the first two stretch goals, at 2.5x and 3x the original funding goal of 40k usd)