Hey, I have a question to run by you since you're much more in the know
of the RPG scene than I am. Heck, maybe you have a product that can help
me out.
The hardest thing for a blind RPGer such as myself to overcome is the
dice problem--specifically, the only kind of dice readily available in Braille
are six-siders. Now, I'm not so limited as all that; I don't need
Braille dice. I found two very cool d10s with pips, and the pips make up
different shapes so when your finger touches them you can tell what number was
rolled. Similarly, I've been able to find an oblong d4, with one number
on each side, thus making taht number large enough and clear enough to discern
with fingertips. The main problem comes into play with the d20. I
have searched and searched, and not as of yet been able to find a decent d20
that is either made with pips (admittedly a difficult task) or with numbers
that are large enough and deeply-engraved enough to be readable with
fingers. Plus, all these ... unusual dice are somewhat inconsistent;
it'd be nice to have a unified set of dice, one that isn't so cobbled-together
from scrounging through lots of different places. I just wondered if you
knew of any possible solutions to the dice problem. I do have a computer
program that is a random-numbers generator, but lugging a computer around
isn't all that practical for me, and PDAs with screen-reading technology are
around $1200, which is a pretty high price to pay no matter how good the game
is.
I've determined that if all else fails, I'll just take some random scraps
of paper, Braille numbers on them and put them into a container ... but
there's something special about being able to roll dice, absent-mindedly
letting them bounce around as you play, for no apparent reason ... and ya just
can't get that with paper-scraps.
Thanks for any and all help you can give on this. And thanks for
renewing my desire to roleplay. I've got a couple friends who aren't as
into Westerns as I am, but they love Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series, so I
hooked 'em with Deadlands anyway.
<Grin>