www.roger-pearse.com
www.enworld.org
So does this fall under the category of thread necromancy like was just discussed on this thread?This has come up about twice a year for the last 20 years or so!
Here it was back in 2003!
For the love of God, we know about the Roman d20!
For the d20 player who has everything... http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LOTDETAIL.ASP?intObjectID=4205385 (not my auction, BTW)
There are some stone dice out there.Some more Roman polyhedral dice
A little while ago I wrote here about a Roman crystal twenty-sided dice in the Louvre, and about one ancient oracle book here, the Homeromanteion, which might have been used with it in order to pre…
Thus is so cool. D&D could put out their own version of this die.
No, it's the opposite of thread necromancy. It's a new thread.So does this fall under the category of thread necromancy like was just discussed on this thread?
Thread cloning then?
Well, we do know that dice were used in religious rituals in the Mediterranean world from textual evidence (such as the Hebrew Bible, where throwing dice for decision making is an acceptable form of divination), and one of these dice has Egyptian Deity names on them. There is no evidence of statistics based dice games, but there is plenty in regards to divination.There are some stone dice out there.
What's always funny to me is that whenever we find something and we don't know it's purpose, it's always "well this was probably used for some sort of religious purpose". Really? No one ever just made things they thought were cool or for entertainment? I mean, some people get religious about their D20s at my game table, but that doesn't mean the D20s in the article are being used for divination.
Maybe long ago someone had a story telling game that resolved uncertain events with the roll of a dice.
