d20's ancient heritage
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Joël of the FoS
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Cool.
heh heh ...Lot 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.
"A full set of (game) rules is so massively complicated that the only time they were all bound together in a single volume, they underwent gravitational collapse and became a black hole" (Adams)
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Nikolas of the Mists
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I expect wotc will hear from Roman lawyers soon.Joël of the FoS wrote:Cool.
heh heh ...Lot 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.
They incorrectly filled out their GSL content, and as such they will be required to remove 4e from circulation.
"I wouldn't worry too much about the Vistana with the pistols --
If he wanted to kill you, he'd have done it already."
If he wanted to kill you, he'd have done it already."
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ewancummins
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The were the True Old School gamers, obviously.. Romans staged very realistic battle simulation games for the amusement of the public, after all. 
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
-from Moby Dick (Hermann Melville)
-from Moby Dick (Hermann Melville)