Baldur's Bones

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Baldur's Bones is a novel about a dice game.

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This book is redolent with the enticing smell of paper and ink.

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  • Books
  • Rarity: Common
  •  Weight: 0.5 kg / 1 lb
  • Price: 14 gp


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[Oddly enough not a novel about necromancy, but rather a dice game that has clattered across thousands of tables in the city of Baldur's Gate. The rules involve making a pirate (most ape Balduran the sailor, but you can invent your own) and rolling thirty-seven-sided- dice called Unfortunables. These are rolled against a chart of outcomes, the interpretation of which is controlled by one player who has not made a pirate, titled Unfortunate One. These fictional pirates tend to have grisly ends, because the chart is cruel, and the dice, oh, the dice are worse...]