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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Today I learned@lemmy.ml ·
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TIL the Ancient Romans could have played D and D because they (and the Egyptians) invented the 20-sided die.

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TIL the Ancient Romans could have played D and D because they (and the Egyptians) invented the 20-sided die.

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A Roman rock-crystal icosahedron (20-sided dice) in the Louvre
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Here’s a pretty image that floats around the web: It’s ancient, and an icosahedron – a 20-sided dice. The Musée du Louvre twitter account (@MuseeLouvre) posted further images of w…

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    they (and the Egyptians) invented

    So you mean the Egyptians invented it and the Greeks/Romans simply appropriated it like they did everything else.

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      Conveniently forgets the whole dynasty when Egypt was ruled by Greeks

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      Um, its from when Egypt was Greek.

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      Possibly. The article doesn’t make clear which is older.

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        We know that Plato and co did a lot of chatting about the shape at least. Since the period of Egypt that these old dice come from is the Greek-influenced Ptolemaic, and Rome was pretty big on its Greek culture anyway, I wonder if it started use there?

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    The Egyptians also invented the five-sided dice but they were too huge to roll.

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    I mean… You can play D&D with 6-sided dice, 4-sided dice, a deck of cards, matchsticks, rock paper scissors, /dev/random, bones with symbols carved onto them, and leaves in the wind.

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