Roll For Initiative, Claudius

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 19 Comments

This is quite possibly the coolest museum piece ever.

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  • http://duocenti.blogspot.com Laura

    At $17 925, imagine the chaos if it rolls off the table…

  • http://indigospot.com Ian Parker

    So, who wants to bet that “Lord British” will be the winning bidder on that? Would make a nice trinket for his castle.

  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com Bonedead

    I hope by castle you mean spaceship castle.

  • Soulflame

    I guess the D20 ruleset is a lot older than we thought.

  • syncaine

    So we can blame the Roman’s for all stat-heavy MMO’s now! It all makes sense…

  • Yeebo

    “Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.’

    Pure awesome.

  • http://wowpanda.blogspot.com wowpanda

    It looks good! The surface finishing looks very smooth. It is either roman technology or the sand dust over 2 thousand years.

  • http://www.CircumReality.com Mike Rozak

    “Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.” – In the original AD&D Dungeon Master’s guide. there was a cartoon of a wizard, fighter, and priest sitting at a table, rolling dice. They were playing “Pencils and paychecks” a role playing game based in an modern industrial society (forget the exact words). That must be what the Romans were playing.

  • http://blog.somniusonline.com VPellen

    So very awesome.

  • blachawk

    It probably involved a convict and twenty articles of clothing.

  • Chris

    They also found an 1800 year old Chick Tract, which scholars believe early Christians passed to young Roman D&D players. The Romans subsequently fed these Christians to the lions.

  • Njal

    Totall awesome

  • Njal

    or perhaps totally awesome.

  • Axecleaver

    I always assumed 20 sided dice were invented just for D&D, or at least went no further back in time than modern wargaming. Neat.

  • http://squidoo.com/buywebkinzcheap CarmenVj

    Cool. And What Gorgeous antiques. So original. Romain Glass is very special anyway. Great job.

  • yunk

    Or their RPGs went back further in time, like Titans and Towers.. or Cavemen and Carnivores ..

  • blachawk

    Romans start playing D&D. A hundred years later their society degenerates and Rome falls to the barbarians. Coincidence? I think not my satanic friends.

  • Zarithar

    That’s great! Maybe now we really know what Nero was doing while Rome burned.

  • http://www.popehat.com Ken

    I’ve seen this in about 30 places, but this was by far the best title.