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Post by legacyofthesword on Sept 18, 2019 4:31:34 GMT
The obvious answer is, the Romans were hardcore D&D players.
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Post by MOK on Sept 18, 2019 10:56:09 GMT
There are actual dodecahedral dice (as well as the other Platonic solids in common gaming use today) from Roman and Hellenic contexts, and apart from the basic shape they don't look like this. For one, they tend to have numbers on them... Also, the Romans were clearly RuneQuest (Avalon Hill, 3rd edition) players.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Sept 19, 2019 0:17:31 GMT
There are actual dodecahedral dice (as well as the other Platonic solids in common gaming use today) from Roman and Hellenic contexts, and apart from the basic shape they don't look like this. For one, they tend to have numbers on them... Also, the Romans were clearly RuneQuest (Avalon Hill, 3rd edition) players.
Interesting. I had no idea that they had any dice other than the basic d6.
And I'm ashamed to say I've never played RuneQuest....
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Post by MOK on Sept 19, 2019 5:32:23 GMT
Yeah, d6 are the most common by far (probably because they're by far easier to make than any of the other shapes). But there are a couple of Greek and IIRC one Sumerian d12, at least one Roman d20, a Chinese d14...
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Post by legacyofthesword on Sept 19, 2019 18:21:53 GMT
Yeah, d6 are the most common by far (probably because they're by far easier to make than any of the other shapes). But there are a couple of Greek and IIRC one Sumerian d12, at least one Roman d20, a Chinese d14... Cool! Makes me want to make myself a set of bone dice.
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Post by MOK on Sept 19, 2019 20:03:10 GMT
Speaking of, I once found a bone dragon d6 lying in the middle of a rural dirt road, miles from anywhere and likely hundreds of 'em from the nearest RPG player besides myself...
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Post by legacyofthesword on Sept 20, 2019 4:36:34 GMT
Speaking of, I once found a bone dragon d6 lying in the middle of a rural dirt road, miles from anywhere and likely hundreds of 'em from the nearest RPG player besides myself... That's awesome. Did you notice any strange noises in your house at night after you took it home? Any odd lights, or strange shadows seen out of the corner of your eye? 😆
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Post by MOK on Sept 20, 2019 9:51:44 GMT
Not more than usual, no.
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Post by christain on Sept 20, 2019 10:41:39 GMT
That's really weird, you finding that in the middle of a road. I think the Roman objects really were used for some type of gambling game, as they were often found with coins. Or, maybe they were a type of currency themselves..... ?
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Post by MOK on Sept 20, 2019 11:20:06 GMT
Or maybe a type of piggybank, if some holes are large enough to let coins through and the others aren't? Or a gauge for standard coin sizes, as an anticounterfeit measure. Or some kind of stand or holder for something that came in a variety of slightly differing sizes, perhaps.
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Post by christain on Sept 21, 2019 0:42:20 GMT
There are so many different ones of different sizes though. And, there are no markings. Seems like if they were made to measure coins, there would be some monetary note on each hole. The little knobs on all the corners, to me, point to an uncontrolled, random roll or toss...like a dice. Maybe whoever rolled, the other players had to put in a coin that would fit into whatever hole was on top, and the roller got to keep them. Pure speculation........ ? ? ?
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