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Sunday, August 28th, 2005 01:59 pm
The other day I asked you guys if I was geeky or not because whenever I hear "AD&D Insurance" I always think of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, not Accidental Death & Dismemberment.1 The consensus then was that I was not geeky (although, as one person pointed out, I was asking, perhaps, the wrong crowd if I wanted objective opinions); that was, indeed, what it must mean.

I now present to you the next stage of my geekiness. I found a website the other night that has gaming dice for sale. Very nice gaming dice. My paltry 26 dice
simply are not enough to keep the geek lobe of my brain happy. I ordered their Cloth Skull Bag with Dice. It's a pound of dice in a nice cloth skull bag (I could have gotten the leather, but that seemed a bit over-the-top, even to me). You can see the skull bag, full of dice, in that picture up above.

Now, however, my geek lobe is sighing contentedly. I went from having 26 dice to

197. :) Actually, four of those dice are my souvenirs from Las Vegas last April. The four huge, red 6-sided dice are from The Bellagio gift shop.

For those interested, that breaks down to 14d4, 89d6, 35d8, 21d10, 17d12, 21d20.

Some of you just upped my geek quotient in your minds to "Oh My God It's Moving Towards Me" or perhaps even "*backs away slowly*." And some of you just outed yourselves because you're thinking of counting yours and comparing. You know who you are. :)
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Thagnor the Half-Troll Fighter: "Okay, I'm going to open the door." [screen caption: Thagnor, policy holder since the 18th year of Emperor Kharkon's Dark Reign]

GM: "How are you going to open it?"

Thagnor: "I'm just going to reach out my hand and turn the--"

Eigenar the Half-Elf Mage: "Uh, Thagnor, I don't think that's such a great--"

GM: "ZORCH! A 50-die fireball just fried you both to a crisp!"

Eigenar: "Oh, way to go, asshole! All that development time...." [rips character sheet in half, gets up from table, fuming, and leaves room]

Thagnor: [Facepalms] "Damn. Well, thank Loki I had Mutual of Mordor's AD&D Insurance! Now my NPC henchmen won't be faced with my 'final costs'--"

GM: "Uh, your body is ashes, Thagnor. There's really nothing left to bury. In fact," [rolls d20] "a brisk wind comes along and disperses--"

Eigenar: [indistinct cursing from next room]

Thagnor: "--'final costs' alone. Mutual of Mordor: Just Leave Everything to Us.™" [small print: Because we'll murder, rape, and pillage until we get it, anyway.™]

GM: [Looks around] "Who the hell are you talking to?"
[fade to black just as a ripe avocado comes sailing out of the next room towards Thagnor's head]

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