• BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    they (and the Egyptians) invented

    So you mean the Egyptians invented it and the Greeks/Romans simply appropriated it like they did everything else.

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        8 months ago

        We know that Plato and co did a lot of chatting about the shape at least. Since the period of Egypt that these old dice come from is the Greek-influenced Ptolemaic, and Rome was pretty big on its Greek culture anyway, I wonder if it started use there?

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    8 months ago

    I mean… You can play D&D with 6-sided dice, 4-sided dice, a deck of cards, matchsticks, rock paper scissors, /dev/random, bones with symbols carved onto them, and leaves in the wind.