The BYOB perspective: what were Roman dodecahedrons for?

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Finger Prince

Rolling barbarian hit dice.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2021 01:59

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 04:49

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Nosfereefer posted:

the romans never played barbarians tho?

DM has to roll them up. That's totally a DM dice.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2021 20:45

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Heather Papps posted:

also the antikythera mechanism is for porn in case you were wondering. celestial body tracking is a double entendre.

It was used to calculate where and when the next Olympic Games was occurring. You know, where the next big congregation of hot athletic dudes from around the med was going to be, getting all oiled up and wrestling nude, throwing heavy stuff around, needing massages... Basically it's for hookups.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 00:58

Finger Prince

Just as an aside that documentary where they talk about figuring out exactly what it was and how it worked is loving :psyboom:

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 01:03

Finger Prince

Heather Papps posted:

i know all those gears for porn, crazy to think about

Scuttled deliberately in that wreck, lest it be found and used by enemies, or Pervicus, especially after what he did with the last one. It took weeks of scrubbing to get the gears ungummed up.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 01:17