D20 For Sale - $18k Or Nearest Offer!

[jaerdaph]

It would probably be worth more if it were made by Luius Zocchius....

 

[coyote6]

Suuure, it was for fortune-telling. Could be.

Or maybe a time traveling gamer taught the locals his or her favorite RPG, though they had to make dice locally.

Which is really more plausible?

 

[weem]

I want that shield that is down the list on the left a bit.

Good find tho - been passing that around to a few people now

 

[Oryan77]

Who's the guy on ENworld that collects all the dice and knows everything there is to know about dice? I'm wondering if he's the one that bought this

 

[Herschel]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has two of these d20 on display - one is glass and one is faience, if I recall correctly - in their Greek and Roman exhibit (upstairs from the chariot, in a glass case on the west wall). They have letters on the faces, and the museum catalog says they were used as oracles.

Makes sense. When I pull out my D20s I see the death of many NPCs in their facets.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Who's the guy on ENworld that collects all the dice and knows everything there is to know about dice? I'm wondering if he's the one that bought this

It was a gamer that bought the die when it originally came up for auction.

I don't mean to diminish the coolness of the story or to undermine the OP, as it is an engaging story. That said, this story was the subject of a prior thread on EN World several years ago at the time the die came up for auction. I don't recall the exact identity of the purchaser - but it WAS a gamer who bought it.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

It was a gamer that bought the die when it originally came up for auction.

I don't mean to diminish the coolness of the story or to undermine the OP, as it is an egnaging story. That said, this story was the subject of a prior thread on EN World several years ago at the time the die cane up for auction. I don't recall the exact identity of the purchaser - but it WAS a gamer who bought it.

I must have missed that thread at the time. And I don't think you are undermining me, or diminishing the story at all.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Mistwell]

This story was so famous here a couple years ago that relatively recently Morrus contemplated making a replica give-away of this die for EnWorld, and we were discussing how it's unclear what's on the other sides of the die.

 

[N0Man]

I had no idea that the D20 had such a long history. I bet their version of D&D was really brutal. ;-)

 

[Vegan Kid]

Very Cool. Not $18k, but very very cool...