#dice stack

My first experience with a ttrpg group was playing Pathfinder 1st Edition, which is pretty crunchy for newbies and combat turns tended take a while. To kill time we got mildly obsessed with making dice stacks, it involved a lot of shouting at our dice and constantly retrieving errant die from under furniture- a great time was had by all.

When I am making ttrpgs with a journaling component I like to include an end point. I know that I’m the kind of person who has trouble starting something without an end (I end up getting analysis paralysis) and in High-Rise Tales I figured a game themed about tall buildings having an end point that revolved around gravity was fitting.

The mechanic works as such- you’re rolling a d6 dice pool to generate prompts about the people, events, and organizations in the high-rise. Any time you roll a 1, it’s removed from the pool and added to the physical dice stack in front of you- the game session ends when your pool is depleted or your dice stack falls!

Got some new dice!!