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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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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.
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.
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.”
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I believe this is how the royalty played D&D during the reign of Louis XIV.
I guess that’s just how they roll.
“Comedy-dice” my butt. Those dice are serious business.