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December 03, 2003
Romanus Ludens
If you've got 4-6 thousand dollars to spare, I suggest you enter your bid now. The catalog entry notes: "Several polyhedra in various materials with similar symbols are known from the Roman period. Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used. " Well, I think *we* all know what game it was used for! But my question is, before the fantasy Middle Ages, in what setting did the Romans play D&D? Ancient Egypt? Biblical times? Babylonian? [Many thanks to Stephen for the link!] Posted by jane at December 03, 2003 12:00 PMComments
Maybe they played the parts of heroes from their own mythology, although at the time it would've been considered a 'modern' d20 game... They might have just played games set in the Middle Ages and called it sci-fi roleplaying. It would be really neat if scholars determined the actual game they played. Then Chessex (or some dice company, anyway) could reproduce these dice and supply rules for the game. Besides, who wouldn't want a Roman-style die like this? Posted by: Avenging Dentist on December 3, 2003 04:54 PMMy guess is it was either used for roleplaying or for oracles and psychics. It probably goes at least as far back as the Greeks since Romans took most of their culture anyway. It sounds like a Greek idea when I think about it. Homers epics. The dramatists. ...but 4 to 6 thousand? ugh! Try priceless! It should be in a museum if it really is authentic. Posted by: Draigon on December 3, 2003 04:56 PMEgo volo sagittam magicam contendere! Posted by: William on December 3, 2003 05:08 PMWilliam, nerdus maximus es! Posted by: jane on December 3, 2003 05:21 PMHoc verum absurdum est. Latinane lingua mortiis non est? Scio se gaudere nimis... Posted by: Avenging Dentist on December 3, 2003 06:27 PMMaybe they 'threw lots' for the clothes of christ. Posted by: Kuchen on December 3, 2003 07:09 PMalea virumque cano... Posted by: jane on December 3, 2003 09:44 PMona eakspa igpa atinla Posted by: mal on December 4, 2003 12:07 AMThe best history I've been able to find speculates that the Romans played a role-playing game set in some distant future when people would fly in shining birds, talk to each other with their fingers, and hold small sea-shells into which they could speak & hold conversations at a great distance with others holding similar shells. Like that. Posted by: Rob Wittig on December 4, 2003 09:01 AMLast time I was in Italy, it seemed they were doing a lot of communicating with their fingers, without any magical technology being used at all. Likewise New York, now that I think about it. Posted by: William on December 4, 2003 11:33 AMIt would be cool if there were a game based on Roman science fiction. i.e., a game with "advanced technology" as the Romans would have seen it. (Si alea Romanam sciendam fabulam oriatur, sit bonus. Id est alea cum "altis machinis" ut Romani spectaverit.) It's really hard to write in Latin when most of the words you know are just the words you'd see in the Aenead or the Gallic Wars because those are the types of things you translated in high school. Posted by: Avenging Dentist on December 4, 2003 04:54 PMIn response to Avenging Dentist, check out this novel: Celestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle. It's ancient Greek and Chinese science fiction, rather than Roman, but still a fun read. Everything in the universe really is made of four elements, and so on. Posted by: Philip Tan on December 4, 2003 11:42 PMAs neat as it may sound, do you really think role playing is the only game that can be played with a D20? Posted by: dengame on January 9, 2006 02:40 PMjpb ppyt psycholog zdrowa żywność nieruchomości projektowanie stron agencja reklamowa soczewki kontaktowe nauka angielskiego agroturystyka opony klimatyzacja domy opieki akupunktura hydraulik projektowanie wnętrz soha jpk paa ki wypadki tfrd jh sw jft pp fdr Posted by: outsider on April 11, 2006 08:05 AM性教育片 两性知识 性爱图片 激情电影 免费黄色电影 最新电影 成人性爱电影 免费小电影 免费性电影 免费成人电影 免费电影在线观看 宽带电影 经典电影 恐怖电影 免费影片 免费影院 最新大片 十八电影网 美女写真 人体艺术 美女图片 美女走光 美腿图片 三级片 强奸电影 美女祼体图片 美女自拍 黄色电影下载 免费色情电影 激情图片 激情小电影 性感美女图片 漂亮妹妹图片 做爱图片 美少女图片 av女优 情色电影 同志电影 激情视频 明星露点图片 写真电影 阴部图片 乳房图片 明星裸照 性爱视频 偷拍图片 美眉图片 泳装美女 美女内衣内裤 做爱电影 性福联盟 人体摄影 明星裸照 裸女图片 黄色小说 成人小说 乱伦小说 强暴电影 轮奸视频 性虐待电影 迷奸图片 妓女日记 汤加丽写真集 全裸美女 淫荡小说 淫乱小说 淫书 性爱贴图 情趣内衣图片 性生活图片 作爱图片 艳情小说 性交姿势 舒淇写真 美女脱衣图片 裸体女人图片 人体写真 女性手淫图片 波霸美女 淫水美女鲍鱼 阴户阴道臀部阴毛 美女图库 口交肛交图片 A片下载 毛片 偷窥图片 裸体视频聊天室 成人网站 成人论坛 性爱论坛网站 性变态图片 淫女图片 日本女学生 美女下阴图 女性生殖器 操逼图片 美女激情 Posted by: kuwang on September 19, 2006 01:01 AMstrony www wrocław, tworzenie stron, ślub, hale namiotowe, rozdzielnice, flash lite games development, adidas nike puma, buty nike Posted by: pppp on June 3, 2008 01:19 AM
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