1,800 year old D20.
Posted: 2008-06-13 06:58pm
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1,800 year old D20.
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Posted: 2008-06-13 08:19pm
I'd love a glass die with roman numerals on it.
Posted: 2008-06-13 08:40pm
Look more like astrological/alchemical signs. The big zero is remiscent of the zodiac sign for 'Sun'.
Posted: 2008-06-13 09:43pm
Awesome.
"I'm telling you a gladius does at least a d8, not a d6 like the scroll says."
Imagine the luck contained in that die. A small glass item surviving for almost 2,000 years. Fantastic luck!
"I have one hitpoint left, armed with a rusty dagger, in a dark cavern, fighting an adult dragon and I need a crit. Time for THE DIE!"
D&D First Edition of course!Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.
"I'm telling you a gladius does at least a d8, not a d6 like the scroll says."
Imagine the luck contained in that die. A small glass item surviving for almost 2,000 years. Fantastic luck!
"I have one hitpoint left, armed with a rusty dagger, in a dark cavern, fighting an adult dragon and I need a crit. Time for THE DIE!"
Posted: 2008-06-13 11:45pm
Shit... I'd be afraid to roll it...
Posted: 2008-06-15 05:35am
What makes them think it was used for a game rather than as a fortune telling tool?
Honestly though, if I had $20,000 to burn... I still probably wouldn't buy it.
Honestly though, if I had $20,000 to burn... I still probably wouldn't buy it.
Posted: 2008-06-15 12:37pm
Well, fortune telling is best viewed as a game tooJaepheth wrote:What makes them think it was used for a game rather than as a fortune telling tool?
Honestly though, if I had $20,000 to burn... I still probably wouldn't buy it.
It also means you can class religion as a form of LARPing 
Posted: 2008-06-15 12:43pm
Roman divination was mostly astrology, augury (taking omens through birdwatching), haruspicy (examination of the organs of sacrificed animals), and the reading of other "natural" omens.
My bet is that the D20 was used in some sort of drinking game.
My bet is that the D20 was used in some sort of drinking game.
Posted: 2008-06-15 04:06pm
Or some kind of gambling game, which may or may not (though probably did) involve drinking. We know the Romans had those. For instance, a quote by a certain Gaius Julius Caesar: "Alea iacta est" (The die is cast.)
Posted: 2008-06-15 08:07pm
I wonder if it'd be difficult to make one of these with some clay, broken glass, and a blow torch.
Posted: 2008-06-15 08:11pm
I see our time travel campaign was a sucess, eh Nit?
Posted: 2008-06-16 12:28am
I want this original die. Just so that whenever it comes to something that needs a good roll, I get a +10 bonus for possessing the very fabric of history!
Posted: 2008-06-16 05:48am
But you don't know which face is which number.loomer wrote:I want this original die. Just so that whenever it comes to something that needs a good roll, I get a +10 bonus for possessing the very fabric of history!
Posted: 2008-06-16 06:28am
Psh, not too hard to work out a system.