Catbus: ancient crystal d20 on display at the Louvre, proof nerds have always been with us

ancient crystal d20 on display at the Louvre, proof nerds have always been with us

Caesar "I want to enter the Senate, do I notice any danger?" DM: Roll a perception check. Caesar: "4!" DM: "It's probably fine."

With a perception check of 4 you assume everyone is participating in "Bring Your Knife to Work" Day, a holiday you've never heard of.

Yeah I feel like for a perception check the DM should roll the die for you and not tell you the number, only the outcome of the check 😛

Counterpoint, it's fun to make them squirm.

"A group of senators approach you on all sides appearing to present you with petitions" .... "Roll for initiative"

Dm: You roll a critical failure, you get a great deal on the high quality copper ingots. Ea-Nasir: Great, I'm going back to Mesopotamia to sell them at a big markup.

*rolls a natural 1 and gets cursed by god*

And not just a d20, but a d20 that works with a TABLE of effects!

Used for actual dungeons and dragons.

I hate when I roll 2S when I need backwards E arrow up symbol for critical

Are those letters and Roman numerals?

Each face has a Latin letter on it, and also the corresponding Roman numeral. The ten lateral faces bear the letters A to K, and the numerals 1 to 10. The upper five triangles bear the letters L to P and the numbers 11 to 15. The lower five triangles bear the letters Q to V, and the numbers 16-20

That's a quote from here. I literally had to remove the quotation marks and the period at the end to get under the character limit, lol. www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2020/...

or you can check the alt text

On my phone, the alt ends with an ellipsis after “letter and…” but I think on desktop it all comes through. It’s a very cool thing, regardless.

Thank you! What a wonderful artifact.

History's lowest initiative roll finally revealed

Damn!!!

I attempt to steal it Security Guard “ sigh, roll for initiative “

Neat! Who did they steal it from?

I think the difference is that, back then, the d20 die was used for fortune-telling not game-playing.

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