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Welcome to our first episode.
We are just a couple of nerds who enjoy the game. Ralph who has been running games and Conner who has watched his father run the games. Who has ventured out into the worlds to run some of his own. Together we talk about our passion for role playing and some of our adventures along the way.
Please enjoy this journey with us.
Episode #1 Notes
Click clack math rocks - Dice And Accessories, History and More!
The Any Faces of Dice!!!!! Notes
Ralph - gaming since 1982 - played consistently till 2012 - all iterations through 4th edition
The humble icosahedron
History
The object believed to be the world’s oldest d20 (found to date) is from Polemic Egypt (304-30 BCE). Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
The Egyptian d20 is about an inch tall and has Greek letters carved in to it (not surprising, considering the time period in which it was crafted). No one is certain what it was used for, though some have posited that the die might have been used in Senet, one of the world’s oldest known board games.
Another Egyptian die has full Greek words inscribed rather than individual letters,
A third d20, however, dating to the first century CE, carries Demotic (cursive representations of hieroglyphics) script, each side bearing the name of a different god.
Roman d20s were found by archeologists before those originating in Egypt, at least as far as we know. Because the markings on them were neither Roman nor Arabic numerals, many assumed that the dice were used for gaming – specifically games of chance.
https://theroarbots.com/roll-the-dice-a-brief-history-of-the-humble-d20/
Superstitions
https://nerdist.com/article/15-of-the-craziest-superstitions-about-dice/#
Schuler Rule
Don't touch another's dice!!!!!!!
D&D
My first set of dice I owned was from the red box set in 1984
Advantage and Disadvantage
The most expensive die ever sold was a single d20 said to have been made in the 2nd century. It is a deep blue-green d20 with a distinct symbol carved into each of its faces. This Roman glass gaming die sold at auction for $17,925 in December 2003.Aug 3, 2023
Cursed Dice add a sense of darkness, damage, disease, or evil power to your encounter. Remember, you can have your players Save vs. the effect of the curse, spell, disease, or grim environment. Those who fail roll with the Cursed Dice for a time, as determined by the DM.
Unfair dice are dice with nonuniform density distribution and unequal probability for each outcome of a die toss.
Exploding dice is a mechanic that appears in various tabletop games. It works like this: a dice is rolled, if it lands on its maximum values, it “explodes” — the dice is then rolled again, adding the new value to the max value of the dice. If dice again lands on its maximum, the dice explodes a second time.
Devil's Dice' is naturally formed in a rough cube shape and is deep brown to black in color. Limonite after Pyrite is formed when pyrite begins to decompose through chemical weathering and the iron present in the mineral starts to rust. Limonite is any impure hydrated iron oxide. .
Our rules/discussions
Hidden vs. open rolls
??????Closing
