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 at the beginning of the game. SSI received criticism for this decision, and had to come up with new solutions to balance play in future games. According to GameSpy, ""Azure Bonds" was a more than worthy addition to the series, and was, in many ways, superior to its prequel". 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