"Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used."
I think we can guess though :)
So maybe this is why Caesar and Brutus fell out? Caesar favoured the old-school 3rd Edition of his favourite roleplaying game and Brutus wanted to switch to 4th and they couldn't come up with some reasonable compromise homebrew system?
Much is now explained.
Okay, that's just awesome. :)
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"Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used."I think we can guess though :)
So maybe this is why Caesar and Brutus fell out? Caesar favoured the old-school 3rd Edition of his favourite roleplaying game and Brutus wanted to switch to 4th and they couldn't come up with some reasonable compromise homebrew system?
Much is now explained.
That is. Truly. Awesome.
No way. dXX rules d20 any day of the week. Hail Caesar!!! ;-)
17thou for a old d20. Wow, just wow.
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It's an older shape than that. Plato was big on our dice.
(Except the d10. That die is a bastard sword.)
I'm so witty.
My guess would be that these dice might have been used for some religious ceremony, like divinations - the symbols that can be seen on it might point in that direction. The circle with the point in the lower left could be a sun smybol. "Alea iacta est", as Caesar is reported to have said before he crossed the Rubicon. This is interpreted as being a saying of gamblers at that time, but it could as well be seen as tempting fate.
I think the history behind the auction is interesting as well: "Acquired by the current owner's father in Egypt in the 1920s." Am I the only one that thought of an Indiana Jones-like story behind that? Egypt in the 1920s surely is quite a legendary time and place of its own right.
Stefan
"So, when Julius Cesear said that the die is cast, I guess he was rolling for initiative!"
Stefan
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I'm so witty.It's an older shape than that. Plato was big on our dice.
(Except the d10. That die is a bastard sword.)
Ow. My head.
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Brutus must have had a higher Dexterity."So, when Julius Cesear said that the die is cast, I guess he was rolling for initiative!"
Stefan
Well, he had him flat-footed, that much is sure. But he had an element of surprise there, because Caesar did not expect an attack from that direction.
Stefan