Curse of Scotland Gurney Benham's book about playing cards, in describing the game of Pope Joan he gives his own explanation for why this card is known as the Curse of Scotland: "The crown of Scotland contained only nine stones, as they never could afford a tenth". Eric Partridge's "Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang" considers: “the various theories are as interesting as they are unconvincing”. "Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland" says for "Curse of Scotland" "This is usually taken to be the nine of diamonds playing card, though explanations differ". The 19th century Tarot of Marseilles is one of the standard designs for tarot
Curse of the Azure Bonds Curse of the Azure Bonds Curse of the Azure Bonds is a role-playing video game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc (SSI) in 1989. It is the second in a four-part series of Forgotten Realms "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" Gold Box adventure computer games, continuing the events after the first part, "Pool of Radiance". An adventure module of the same name, coded FRC2, was written based on the game. There is also a prequel novel, "Azure Bonds", that was written by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb, and is the first book of the "Finder's Stone" trilogy. A party of