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Written by Adam Katz on 2024-11-05 at 20:53

Dice go way back. Some of these appear to meet today's standards for precision and fairness (all dice should have opposite sides add up to 1+sides. The d6's sides add to 7). The Greek stone d20 may be 2200 years old.

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Descendants

Written by spiegelmama on 2024-11-05 at 21:20

@adamhotep That is super cool!

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Written by 🚲 on 2024-11-05 at 21:51

@adamhotep dice towers, too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vettweiss-Froitzheim_Dice_Tower

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Written by Adam Katz on 2024-11-05 at 22:26

@dx that's a neat yet odd concept since a cup works just as well 😉

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Written by 🚲 on 2024-11-05 at 22:33

@adamhotep I generally don't use either, but I prefer dice towers to cups. They're more fun. Cups are great for games like Liar's Dice where you need to keep your roll secret, though.

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Written by David Raygoza Gómez on 2024-11-05 at 21:57

@adamhotep what material are the transparent ones made of? Glass? Quartz?

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Written by Abe Massry on 2024-11-05 at 21:58

@adamhotep so you’re saying Dungeons and Dragons goes back to a time when there were actual Dungeons and actual Dragons

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Written by Adam Katz on 2024-11-05 at 22:45

@abemassry there were dungeons and there was a fear of dragons, but they didn't really exist until recently:

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Written by Martin Schlegel on 2024-11-05 at 22:05

@adamhotep is there any shop selling replicas of these?

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Written by Adam Katz on 2024-11-05 at 22:37

@martinschlegel of course! Just search for something like replica ancient polyhedral dice and you'll find things like these:

https://www.artisandice.com/order/ptolemaic-d20/

https://www.etsy.com/market/roman_dice_replica

(Though note that most hits will be for ancient-themed dice, non-replicas, or even less applicable hits)

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Written by Em :official_verified: on 2024-11-05 at 22:07

@adamhotep @dalias Wow! Can't believe they played DnD even back then! 🙃 :d20:

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Written by Janet on 2024-11-05 at 22:23

@Em0nM4stodon @adamhotep @dalias They had real dungeons then, but we need to go back a few more years to get to real dragons… 😊

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Written by Em :official_verified: on 2024-11-05 at 22:24

@Janet_52square @adamhotep @dalias Hahahaha yes 😁 :dragon_heart:

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Written by Adam Katz on 2024-11-05 at 22:56

@Em0nM4stodon @dalias 😄

D&D is really just formalized play-pretend, so I'd generally say it did, but these dice were primarily used by oracles and fortune tellers for astragalomancy (aka cubomancy, "a form of divination that uses dice specially marked with letters or numbers").

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Written by Em :official_verified: on 2024-11-05 at 22:59

@adamhotep @dalias I have so many dice already, I should start this too.

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Written by Adam Katz on 2024-11-06 at 14:56

@Em0nM4stodon @dalias my dice agree.

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Written by Evan Light on 2024-11-05 at 22:22

@adamhotep @futurebird Wait... you mean they were playing D&D back before the settings existed for D&D?

... 🤔 I wonder if they used Babylon or Phoenicia in their settings.

Dragons... 🤔 Well, they had their violent gods. Though evidently everyone's favorite, Tiamat, is unlikely to have resembled a dragon so... 🤷‍♂️

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