World's oldest d20

[Yogi]

http://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d42053/d4205385r.jpg

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

Found here (http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4205385).

[Player_Zero]

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

Holy crap!

RUN AWAY!

Someone is gonna' try and use the Millenium items to take over the world! Where the hell is The Pharaoh!? That guys gotta' save us or we're all f-ing dead!

[Thanatos 51-50]

Well, I predict a half-decent anime that gets completely butchered by 4kids showing the Role Playing Gmes, are, indeed, Serious Buisness (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeriousBusiness), now.
Pay no attention to the over use of commas.

[de-trick]

so... what edition did they play



but very cool

[nataka]

We should make an altar for it!

[Moff Chumley]

We should make an altar for it!

Indeed. Pre first edition is dated to about that time, is it not? :smalltongue:

[SurlySeraph]

Of course none of you kids know about Roman DnD. TSR ruined Carceri et Draconi when they came out with Dungeons and Dragons. You think 4th Edition is ruining things? Hah! The changes can't be any worse than what they did between 0.5th Edition and 1st Edition! Putting in monsters from the Middle Ages, including all sorts of "medieval" character classes instead of just the fur, milite, and sacerdos. As for all those prestige classes, Imperator and Pontifex Maximus are good enough to fit any character concept! :smallyuk:

[poleboy]

You tell 'em grandpa!

Heh... anyway, it looks cool. I wonder what they played with it?

[Izodor]

Of course none of you kids know about Roman DnD. TSR ruined Carceri et Draconi when they came out with Dungeons and Dragons. You think 4th Edition is ruining things? Hah! The changes can't be any worse than what they did between 0.5th Edition and 1st Edition! Putting in monsters from the Middle Ages, including all sorts of "medieval" character classes instead of just the fur, milite, and sacerdos. As for all those prestige classes, Imperator and Pontifex Maximus are good enough to fit any character concept! :smallyuk:

I could even see this being true, as in that they were actually used for RPG. Do any of you remember that scene from I Caudius, in which Augustus plays with his children some king of RTS board game? I really would love to play a game like that.