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.
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LadyAutumn @lemmy.blahaj.zone - 7hr
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 – 20-sided polyhedron – 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.
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milkisklim @lemmy.world - 6hr
Thanks for doing the work! I appreciate you
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LOGIC💣 - 6hr
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.
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WolfLink @sh.itjust.works - 5hr
The Venn diagram of people who play D&D and people who get excited about fancy D20s is practically a circle
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markovs_gun @lemmy.world - 4hr
Yeah that immediately set off the bullshit detectors. Everything else in this post looks stupid but that sounded like utter crap
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Arcane2077 @sh.itjust.works - 5hr
It’s likely all fake. Olympos is in Greece, not Turkey.
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gAlienLifeform @lemmy.world - 4hr
Another comment in this thread has a link to a source confirming the die is real, doesn't mention the pillar tho
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Aussiemandeus @aussie.zone - 4hr
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.
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FuglyDuck - 9hr
... "is a tool for something much more serious... Divination."
Wait until you find out what's inside a Magic 8-Ball!
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Troy - 8hr
Needs more jpeg
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Nima @leminal.space - 9hr
I wonder if tabletop was popular before d&d brought it to the mainstream.
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gAlienLifeform @lemmy.world - 4hr
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)
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eestileib @lemmy.blahaj.zone - 8hr
I just love the word "faience". Not sure why, it's just so nicely balanced.
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.
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Boomer Humor Doomergod - 8hr
So Romans actually rolled for initiative?
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FuglyDuck - 8hr
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.
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Boomer Humor Doomergod - 8hr
I’m wondering if these have anything to do with the dodecahedron that they find in Roman areas in northern europe
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FuglyDuck - 7hr
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.)
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lil_tank [any, he/him] - 6hr
When I ask the oracle if I'll have a gf and she rolls critical failure
fossilesque in science_memes
Nat 20
Fuck yeah, natural A
Only Nat Z for me, fml ðŸ˜
[says that out loud in American English]
Yeah this all checks out
Damn, rolled π again
Third time
So close to landing on ð’€—
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.
Thanks for doing the work! I appreciate you
Here's another thing that doesn't make sense about that post:
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
Yeah that immediately set off the bullshit detectors. Everything else in this post looks stupid but that sounded like utter crap
It’s 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:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6a2372bf-b54b-4c01-98db-b659049f5293.jpeg
Ok Ok Cool Cool Cool
Where’s the kickstarter for one ?
Wait until you find out what's inside a Magic 8-Ball!
Needs more jpeg
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)
I just love the word "faience". Not sure why, it's just so nicely balanced.
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.
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.
I’m 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.)
When I ask the oracle if I'll have a gf and she rolls critical failure