The Ancients Played RPG's

[Battlehawke]

How freaking cool is this?

Loooks like RPG's were around way before Gygax and Arneson!

Can you imagine a bunch of Egyptions gathered around the table?

http://m.cnet.com/news/ancient-d20-d...-time/57547697

Thanks
B

[Battlehawke]

Ps I got this from a post on the OTG forums by Spatz. I had to share I with everyone in DDO!

[Nospheratus]

That is actually a D20 used by Gary and Dave. Now that they have ascended and gained Divine Ranks they developed the Time Travel spell and went back to play some D&D in hopes the game would be even better these days.

Apparently it didn't go according to their plan and D&D geeks only started appearing "recently".




True story!

[Battlehawke]

Nos. That's funny.... or maybe they did and the Pharoh's made it a Royal priveledge only!

[Silverleafeon]

Woot!

+1s....

[Musouka]

This was posted a couple months ago...

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=397782

[bradleyforrest]

This article is about 4 years too late.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/06/what-version-of/

I found reference to a Christie's auction of a die like this from 2003, but didn't look too deep for it.

TL;DR
This article is hardly the first to bring attention to ancient d20's

[Battlehawke]

@ Bradly ......or 5000 years too late.

...wish I had seen it when first posted. I think its so cool...

[Hoglum]

The Mayan calendar makers - they were fired when they were caught reading the Forums at work.

RPG's - nothing new.