[SCA-BMDL] The Baronial Game Boxes

[Dani Zweig]

Many of you may not know that the Barony has a period-games
collection.  It's kept with the larder, alongside pots and serving
dishes and other useful-for-events stuff.  I've just been inventorying
it.

There are two boxes.  The small box is easily transported and contains
two or three sets each of nine-man morris, alquerques, tablero,
hneftafl, fox and geese, and shove-groat, as well as one or two sets
each of backgammon, checkers, chess, cards, and goose.  Each game has
a board, pieces, dice if needed, and rules.

So if you are organizing an SCA activity at which there will be, or
may be, period games, be aware that the small game box is there to
serve as an instant-period-gaming solution.

(The other box is huge, and should only be used if you're planning
extensive gaming activities.  It contains spare chess and backgammon
sets, lots of poker chips, components (cloth boards, glass chips) for
another 3-4 of each period board game, a tiddly-winks set (don't ask
me why), and spare odds and ends.  (E.g., it has the leftover handouts
- with rules, etc. - from the gaming event for which these sets were
made.)  It used to have an extra Goose board too, but I couldn't find
it.)

- Dani