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Giant dice -- Boing Boing Flickr pool

Cory Doctorow at 12:29 am Thu, Feb 17, 2011

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From the Boing Boing Flickr pool, 8one6's snap of the enormous comedy-dice on the floor of RPG convention GenCon, taken back in 2007. I'm thinking these'd make a great outdoor playground set.

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  • Xul Solo

    They would be a great addition to a playground set, though they’d have to be nice and soft. I can just imagine my 5-year-old self throwing the point of that 4-sider right into my little brother’s eye.

  • Anonymous

    “Comedy-dice” my butt. Those dice are serious business.

  • bobthecitizen

    Notice the few people in the picture?

    No matter how large your dice, D&D is the antidote to socialization, a vaccine for friendship, an aquired immunity for coolness.

    • dragonbait1

      Funny. D&D (and other role-playing games) were one of the few socializations I had growing up.

      I met two lifelong friends solely because of RPGs. It gave us a common ground to start from. Perfect strangers with a common interest. There are communities of RPGers. In my experience it builds tight-knit social groups.

      Hardly a “vaccine for friendship.”

      RGB

  • MooseDesign

    I believe this is how the royalty played D&D during the reign of Louis XIV.

  • bobthecitizen

    I guess that’s just how they roll.