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alea jacta est

Jun 13, 2008
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Art, Boardgames, Gaming, Geekery

Roman d20It seems that laying out 18 KDollars at Christie's will score this lovely artifact of ancient geekage. They should've thought twice before playing the Barbarian Expansion module.

Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.

Heh….

Thx to BoingBoing and Critical Hits.

Last 5 posts by David

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  1. Ken  •  Jun 13, 2008 @11:35 am

    Here I thought you hung on my every word.

  2. David  •  Jun 13, 2008 @11:46 am

    Who are you?

    Besides, maybe this is the other die….

  3. Ken  •  Jun 13, 2008 @12:03 pm

    The lucky one? Because that would be just like those damn Romans, take the one that always rolls 20 and leave the unlucky die to, I don't know, the Huns?

  4. w  •  Jun 14, 2008 @12:30 am

    urm. D&D?

  5. David K. Lambert  •  Jun 14, 2008 @3:35 pm

    ego venatus proinde ego sum

  6. The M  •  Jun 16, 2008 @8:12 am

    There are cheaper alternatives. (I only know of them becuase I recently spent $40 to have, shipped, a set of 7-polyhedral 16mm solid metal dice — not for use with my to-be-shipped 4E D&D rules, but to add extra levels of geekitude to our weekly poker games — the d10 and the d10*10 are to become my new card protectors and play selection randomizers; undoubtedly a future forum post will chronicle the success of the resulting geek-out.)

    Full bonus points to the person who diagrams that parenthetical statement. (Do kids learn how to diagram sentences anymore?)