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TIL the Ancient Romans could have played D and D because they (and the Egyptians) invented the 20-sided die.
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We know that Plato and co did a lot of chatting about the shape at least. Since the period of Egypt that these old dice come from is the Greek-influenced Ptolemaic, and Rome was pretty big on its Greek culture anyway, I wonder if it started use there?