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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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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 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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Toot

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

@Em0nM4stodon @dalias my dice agree.

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