Comment on Nat 20
milkisklim@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
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 I’ve visited but this wasn’t 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
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
Akshually en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_peaks_named_Olympus several are in turkey as well.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I’d guess the Romans who came up with it selected the letters arbitrarily. It wasnt the alphabet they used in day to day life, so maybe they just omitted some of them to make it work.
milkisklim@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thanks for doing the work! I appreciate you
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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