@rl_dane Loosely related. In the absolutely terrible Lord of the Rings board game, one of the players gets stuck in the mountains. Every turn, they roll 1d6 and 1-3, they insult the lembas bread and lose a turn.

The entire game was designed that those two characters have to be in a certain location before another player gets there.

But, due to random dice roll, I insulted the bread twenty-two times in a row and ended up dead-locking the entire game. No one could advance forward because I couldn't get out of the mountain and the event that another player had to be at when I finally escaped the mountain couldn't be resolved because they had already passed and were locked on me.

It was a really bad game.

@dmoonfire

That's hilarious. I'll send a link to your toot to my friend that loves, collects, and even designs board games.

@rl_dane Every time we end up driving in the mountains, Partner or I will look at each other and say "whatever you do, do not insult the bread!" and then we start laughing.

The kids have no context for the joke.