Where did Bahamut come from?

[the Jester]

Apparently some people are now taking D&D to be the original source (look at Table 2-2):
http://home.utah.edu/~rfs4/jkm02.htm

That... is rad.

 

[John Morrow]

Ink? I thought he needed a crayon.

No. You didn't color in the numbers (which weren't inked on those soft plastic dice). You actually colored in the face of the die so that half the triangles numbered 0-9 were the color of the die and the other half of the triangles, also numbered 0-9, were a different color. If you used crayon, it wouldn't last. I used perminent magic marker, myself. I still have some black and green soft plastic d20 from that period somewhere that aren't golf ball rounds (OK, so I played more Traveller than D&D). Basically, you treated "0" as "10" and if the face of the die was colored in, you added 10 to the result. I also seem to remember some dice where half the faces had a "+" in front of the 0-9 to indicate that you should add 10 if you were using it as a d20. Of course this was all before those irregular new-fangled d10 things so people were still using their d20 as d10s.