[Rol] ¡Los romanos usaban D20!

Holmes · #1 (**permalink**) 23-jun-2008, 17:55

Parece increible, pero es cierto. Se ha encontrado un poliedro de 20 caras que se ha vendido a un exorbitante precio. Bueno, con el debastecimiento, todo es exorbitantemente estúpido hoy en día.
Les dejo la noticia sacada de Wired:

Cita:

Many of us geeks take great pride in the ability to recite the history of role-playing games based on the 20-sided die, but what about the history of the die itself? Apparently it predates the original Dungeons and Dragons by almost two millenia.

Christie's, auctioneer to the rich and famous, sold a glass d20 from Roman times. It was included in a collection of other antiquities that sold in 2003. The markings on the die don't appear to be either Arabic or Roman numerals, but it's probably a safe bet that it was used in a game of chance. As the auction catalog notes that several polyhedral dice are known from the Roman era, but remarks, " Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used."

I wonder - how do you say "critical hit" in Latin? (Ed. note: "maxima plaga")

The seller acquired this die from his father, who picked it up in the 1920s in Egypt. Sounds like the beginning of an Indiana Jones movie, doesn't it?

Como rolero, he oído muchas veces la frase que supuestamente dijo Dios un día: "Vamos a jugar rol. Yo mastereo". Ahora, viendo semejante evidencia, tengo que tirar para irracionalidad. ¿Qué les parece?

Me he puesto a buscar más información al respecto, pudiendo encontrar la descripción exacta y varios detalles adicionales, que no pecan de resultar menos interesantes. En exclusiva para AF:

Cita:

A ROMAN GLASS GAMING DIE

Price Realized(Set Currency) $17,925

A ROMAN GLASS GAMING DIE
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Deep blue-green in color, the large twenty-sided die incised with a distinct symbol on each of its faces
2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm.) wide

Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A
MARYLAND FINE ARTS PROFESSOR

Provenance
Acquired by the current owner's father in Egypt in the 1920s.

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.

Root:Christies

Au`revoir,

Holmes.

ark · #2 (**permalink**) 24-jun-2008, 14:24

jajaja, no sera un invento de alguno para ganarse unos pesos???
seguro antes jugaban dyd=P

Azrael · #3 (**permalink**) 24-jun-2008, 19:27

que zarpado!
aunqe ahora todo tiene logica
la iliada, la odisea y la batalla de las termopilas no fueron reales
ERAN MODULOS! XDDDD
(sisi, le robaban modulos a los griegos 8-))

djibril · #4 (**permalink**) 24-jun-2008, 20:26

para mí es un hoax... o sea, los pitagóricos guardaban con sumo celo el secreto del dodecaedro (mataban a los que divulgaban el secreto)... cómo mierda obtuvieron un d20 los romanos??

es todo fake, hasta que no le hagan el carbono14 o alguna prueba seria

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