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Only Nat Z for me, fml π
[says that out loud in American English]
Yeah this all checks out
Damn, rolled Ο again
Third time
So close to landing on π
mmmm die pie
This doesn't make sense.
Zeta isn't the last letter of the Greek alphabet, Omega is. And Upsilon is the 20th if they could only fit twenty letters on a twenty sided die.
I was able to find a source from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. it seems that it would've actually gone up to the 20th letter.
A number of polyhedral dice made in various materials have survived from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, usually from ancient Egypt when known. Several are in the Egyptian or Greek and Roman collections at the Museum. The icosahedron β 20-sided polyhedron β is frequent. Most often each face of the die is inscribed with a number in Greek and/or Latin up to the number of faces on the polyhedron.
Thanks for doing the work! I appreciate you
The Greek alphabet, which is the earliest known script to systematically include both consonants and vowels, is generally believed to have added vowels when it was adapted from the Phoenician script during the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.
Sorry, that paragraph is AI written but I was asking about something I know and too lazy to rewrite it myself.
The Phoenician alphabet which influenced the greek script had 22 letters afaik. Still doesn't match the sides but it's closer
Here's another thing that doesn't make sense about that post:
If you play Dungeons & Dragons, this object probably stops you in your tracks.
If you just play Dungeons & Dragons, then it looks like the hundreds or thousands of other d20s you've seen. Barely worth a look.
On the other hand, if you just like dice, like a lot of TTRPG people do, then it might catch your attention.
The Venn diagram of people who play D&D and people who get excited about fancy D20s is practically a circle
If I saw this in The Met, which Iβve visited but this wasnβt on display at the time, it would have stopped me in my tracks even as a TTRPG player. It would feel very anachronistic amongst most of the displays.
Except for the post title I didn't see any implication that zeta would be the highest value in the text.
Yeah that immediately set off the bullshit detectors. Everything else in this post looks stupid but that sounded like utter crap
Itβs likely all fake. Olympos is in Greece, not Turkey.
Another comment in this thread has a link to a source confirming the die is real, doesn't mention the pillar tho
Nah uhh i watched Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Olympos is in America.
Seriously though I keep getting pulled out of the show because it's so American when it's Greek mythology.
... "is a tool for something much more serious... Divination."
The Divination Wizzard:
Wouldn't divination be more accurate if it is a Loremaster Cleric?
Donβt tell the our divination wizard thatβ¦ they already broke out their βspecialβ d20.
I just suggested it, as I played in a campaign as a Dweomersmith/Wizard with a Loremaster/Cleric, and a Psionic Monk. We were pretty much unstoppable, even without our followers.
That sounds like a fun team.
The div in our party plays like an idiot-savant. Total himbo, except occasionally useful. (It is fun, donβt get me wrong.)
Ok Ok Cool Cool Cool
Whereβs the kickstarter for one ?
This was essentially an ancient Magic 8-Ball
Wait until you find out what's inside a Magic 8-Ball!
I just love the word "faience". Not sure why, it's just so nicely balanced.
i'm pronouncing it like science with a lisp i don't care if that USED TO BE wrong ITS RIGHT NOW.
Needs more jpeg
"... a tool for something much more serious"
"an ancient Magic 8-Ball"
So, not too serious then.
I wonder if tabletop was popular before d&d brought it to the mainstream.
I am sort of amazed that between Charles Dickins and other serialized writers' zeal for selling stuff and the Goths' tendency to love superstitious parlor games somehow nobody in 1800s era ever managed to come up with a tabletop storytelling dice game (at least that I've ever heard of)
So Romans actually rolled for initiative?
I dunno. But i find it funny that even back then the divination wizards needed their special hard-to-read dice.
Like, bro. I have a chart with all your symbols on it.
Iβm wondering if these have anything to do with the dodecahedron that they find in Roman areas in northern europe
the hollow bronze things with the studs?
probably not some for of die- divination or otherwise. They just wouldn't roll well. There's a few uses for those things that seem likely. Rangefinding (mount it on a staff and peep through the holes, , some sort of symbolic use, or simply just being some sort of decorative weirdness.
(I mean, really. Think about all the jangly things people have on, like backpacks or purses or keychains. People have always been people.)
IIRC weren't those knitting implements/frames? idk the only thing i know to do with yarn is play with it :3
They can be used for that, but thereβs no evidence of wear on them from that usage and thereβs simpler tools for that job
well i posit the ones that actually got used wore down to filings and these were overstock because it was a fad anyways. like pet rocks i should go feed mine.
weird enough i'm more interested in the faience that's gorgeous
Sounds like a paper fortune teller, I wonder how serious they'd be taken
Honestly probably not that serious. Even in their myths/stories, the oracle would tell great doom and then no one would listen. I expect they got inspiration for that from somewhere.