Nod's Way [Paperback]

Robert Stikmanz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 27, 2007

Drawing upon his skills as a poet, storyteller, illustrator, and designer, author Robert Stikmanz has produced a potent companion book to his Lands of Nod series.
Nod's Way, an oracle of the Dvarsh, is a fully interactive work that comes as a boxed set including a wisdom book, a journal, and three custom dice that allow readers to divine deeper meaning from the book than what is solely printed on the pages.
Nod's Way does not fit handily into familiar categories. It can be read as an authority or guide, like the Tao Te Ching, or it can be consulted as a fortunetelling tool, like the I Ching. Fleshing out the fictional world of the Dvarsh, a non-human people who have developed in tandem with homo sapiens, this central artifact of their culture represents the ancient wisdom and distilled values of the Dvarsh way of life.

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About the Author

Robert Stikmanz no longer endorses this version.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Dalton Publishing (October 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974070394
• ISBN-13: 978-0974070391
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,441,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Austin, Texas, resident Robert Stikmanz is an author and illustrator charting new territory in his genre-bending cycle of novels, The Hidden Lands of Nod. More information may be found at his website: www.robertstikmanz.com

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nod's Way Oracle, October 8, 2008

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Robert "enduser" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nod's Way (Paperback)

Length:: 2:07 Mins

No brainer to say, if you're a true fantasy fanatic eventually you will read some Stikmanz like Prelude to a Change of Mind: The First Book in the Lands of Nod (The Lands of Nod). But his "Nod's Way" has broader appeal than literary.

I think diviners and interpreters of synchronicity will enjoy this work independent of his novels. It classifies random arrangements of symbols in the traditions of I Ching, Tarot and Jungian philosophy. You receive a book of thirty-six oracles to match up with three special dice. The book recommends three tosses per oracle reading. Dice are jet black with nine different white symbols marked in their faces. They have a nice tossing weight. Uniquely, two dice are octahedrons the other a traditional cube. A few times I've personalized the symbols and oracles for direct relevance to an occurrence in my life.

Gamers who read science fiction and fantasy need to order one of the "Hidden Land Of Nod" books. Then get the "Nod's Way" set. Creates an interactive fiction adding depth of meaning as you read the five-novel series. Literary fiction where toss of the dice reveals hidden relationships between yourself and the subtler aspects of Stikmanz's mysterious Land of Nod. I think this set and the five book series will appeal to any science fiction boardgamer who gets off on rolling dice to determine action.

My attached video shows the three dice.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars simple, straightforward, and totally convoluted, November 26, 2007

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freefall (austin, tx usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nod's Way (Paperback)

consisting of:
3 dice - two octahedra and one cube
1 copy of Nod's Way
1 blank page book

what we have here is a riddle game disguised as a
pattern recognition system or maybe the reverse.
an oracle just the same. fun too. simple,
straight forward and totally convoluted.

you cast the dice three times denoting
how things seem, what is not apparent,
and possibilities. at which time you
refer to the pronouncements in the oracle.

the thing has immediate traction. if you've been
playing the market too much lately, play this awhile
and chill. the inter-relationships are as complex.

released as a companion to the land of nod series,
this certainly great glue for the series.
the up side is a cool dice game with a
mythical/mystical guide book of semi-riddles.
the down side is that you'll get extras for friends.

that's my story, and i'm sticking to it.
- felix random

5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid oracle, August 24, 2009

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R. Stikmanz "rbot" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nod's Way (Paperback)

Length:: 1:43 Mins

The most interesting new divination tool to appear on the market in recent years. Appropriate for all varieties of role-playing your actual life. Brings to life the fictional cultures of /The Hidden Lands of Nod/ cycle of novels by Robert Stikmanz. Sleeper Awakes