Tag: games
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Dungeons and Dragons: Passing the Torch
I got to be a witness to a sweet and rather manly nonchalant passing of the torch recently. The First Reader started playing Dungeons & Dragons in 1977, and he was gruffly instructing the Little Man in how to get started. This turned into him digging out his old books, magazines, character sheets, minis, and…
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Exploding Billiard Balls
Soon after the first billiard balls made with artificial materials went on the market, some unsuspecting fool (really, even ivory would have been damaged by this, so what was he thinking?) put a lit cigar end to a nitrocellulose ball whilst playing. The saloon keeper wrote to the manufacturer complaining that the ball had ‘gone…