>Unfortunately, my original dice and the handmade red doubleknit bag
>they were in was one of the things taken when our apartment was
>burgled a good 25 years or more ago.

What a weird thing to take. Did the thieves think it was a bag of unset gems, or gold nuggets, or something, do you suppose? Bizarre.

That reminds me tangentially of the time that the GweepCo apartment got broken into, late one night during the '91-'92 school year. Whoever it was got in late at night, while everyone who was at home was asleep. One of the guys, and I can't remember which one, had his girlfriend sleeping with him; she woke up while the intruder was in the room and whispered to her boyfriend about it, and his only response was to mumble, "It's just someone who broke in to steal all our stuff." (He claimed the next day that he thought it was just his roommate, who was out that night and who he assumed had forgotten his wallet or something.) The next morning, a bunch of things were missing, including—simultaneously a bit chillingly and a bit hilariously—a pile of Canadian money that had been on that guy's bedstand.

(A Canadian dollar was worth about 60 U.S. cents at the time, so I'm guessing that was one disappointed thief when he got someplace where the light was better. He also took the keyboard from Derek Bacon's PCjr—approximately the most worthless keyboard ever issued with a personal computer. Not, I think it's safe to speculate, one of the underworld's leading citizens.)

>or the 30-sider that was surprisingly useful at times.

Oh wow, I remember 30-siders. I can't remember if I had one myself, or if one of the others in my little gaming group did, but somebody had one, back in the day.

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