Nat 20

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• FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fuck yeah, natural A

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  • Antagnostic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Only Nat Z for, fml 😭

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    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      [says that out loud in American English]

      Yeah this all checks out

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• four@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Damn, rolled π again

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Third time

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So close to landing on 𒀗

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    mmmm die pie

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• milkisklim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • milkisklim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks for doing the work! I appreciate you

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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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    • nightlily@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Except for the post title I didn’t see any implication that zeta would be the highest value in the text.

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  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s likely all fake. Olympos is in Greece, not Turkey.

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    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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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    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Akshually en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_peaks_named_Olympus several are in turkey as well.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  … “is a tool for something much more serious… Divination.”

  The Divination Wizzard:

  Image

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t divination be more accurate if it is a Loremaster Cleric?

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t tell the our divination wizard that… they already broke out their “special” d20.

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• TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ok Ok Cool Cool Cool

  Where’s the kickstarter for one ?

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• 4PHEUS@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This was essentially an ancient Magic 8-Ball Wait until you find out what’s inside a Magic 8-Ball!

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• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I just love the word “faience”. Not sure why, it’s just so nicely balanced.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i’m pronouncing it like science with a lisp i don’t care if that USED TO BE wrong ITS RIGHT NOW.

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• anakin78z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “… a tool for something much more serious”

  “an ancient magic 8 ball”

  So, not too serious then.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  weird enough i’m more interested in the faience that’s gorgeous

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• troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Needs more jpeg

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• Nima@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I wonder if tabletop was popular before d&d brought it to the mainstream.

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  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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 table top storytelling dice game (at least that I’ve ever heard of)

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So Romans actually rolled for initiative?

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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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• anthropomorphized@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sounds like a paper fortune teller, I wonder how serious they’d be taken

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  • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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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• lil_tank@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When I ask the oracle if I’ll have a gf and she rolls critical failure

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