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2018/05/24 21:23:27
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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Stubborn Hammerer
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Courtesy of Bloodbeard, who shared this piece of news:
Archaeologist Ticia Verveer wrote:A Roman throwing tower found at Vettweiß-Froitz-heim in Germany. The sides have been worked open, so that the players could see the dice rolling. Invented to prevent cheating. Text on the back reads: utere felix vivas ('use it and live as a lucky man').
4th century
On the front it says Pictos victos hostis deleta ludite securi ('The Picts have been defeated, the enemy destroyed, play carefree').
The text refers to a Roman victory over the Picts in Scotland, north of Roman Britannia.
At LVR Museum, Bonn, Germany http://www.landesmuseum-bonn.lvr.de/en/startseite.html
https://www.wissenschaft.de/magazin/weitere-themen/roemer-und-kelten-im-museum/
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2018/05/24 21:30:10
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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Xeno-Hating Inquisitorial Excruciator
London
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I was totally expecting a Roman-themed dice tower by some contemporary manufacturer. Never imagined it would be a real ... Roman dice tower. Interesting. Thanks for posting this.
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2018/05/25 03:31:32
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Ok that is officially badass. Will we find little figurines and ancient texts declaiming that Brutus beith a rules lawyer?
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2018/05/25 13:30:18
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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That dice tower is in remarkably good condition. That is awesome, given how old it is. The restoration team that worked on it did a really good job no doubt.
Also, this was one super fancy dice tower. It even had bells that would ring as the dice passed through it.
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2018/05/25 21:00:27
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
avoiding the lorax on Crion
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That's cool.
2000 years old and dice games never change.
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Sgt. Vanden - OOC Hey, that was your doing. I didn't choose to fly in the "Dongerprise'.
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I have no clue how Dakka's moderation work. I expect it involves throwing a lot of d100 and looking at many random tables.
FudgeDumper - It could be that you are just so uncomfortable with the idea of your chapters primarch having his way with a docile tyranid spore cyst, that you must deny they have any feelings at all. |
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2018/05/25 21:37:42
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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Humming Great Unclean One of Nurgle
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They probably played Warhammer 4000
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Road to Renown! It's like classic Path to Glory, but repaired, remastered, expanded! https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/778170.page
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I try to view Warhammer as more of a toolbox with examples than fully complete games. |
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2018/05/26 01:08:28
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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More like Warhammer 38000.
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2018/05/26 12:06:31
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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Humorless Arbite
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Voxed from Salamander 84-24020
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2018/05/26 13:14:03
Subject: Re:Roman Dice Tower
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Longtime Dakkanaut
On a surly Warboar, leading the Waaagh!
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Looks like a grater...just saying.
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2018/05/30 10:57:44
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress
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Ok, we have to make those.
Other dice towers are no longer good enough.
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
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2018/05/30 18:53:03
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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 Orlanth wrote:Ok, we have to make those.
Other dice towers are no longer good enough.
I know right?
Without inspirational Latin slogans and silver bells, other dice towers now just seem so bland.
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2018/05/30 22:45:25
Subject: Roman Dice Tower
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Keeper of the Holy Orb of Antioch
avoiding the lorax on Crion
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 Iron_Captain wrote: Orlanth wrote:Ok, we have to make those.
Other dice towers are no longer good enough.
I know right?
Without inspirational Latin slogans and silver bells, other dice towers now just seem so bland.
Dice tower creap!
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Sgt. Vanden - OOC Hey, that was your doing. I didn't choose to fly in the "Dongerprise'.
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I have no clue how Dakka's moderation work. I expect it involves throwing a lot of d100 and looking at many random tables.
FudgeDumper - It could be that you are just so uncomfortable with the idea of your chapters primarch having his way with a docile tyranid spore cyst, that you must deny they have any feelings at all. |
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2018/05/31 03:55:08
Subject: Re:Roman Dice Tower
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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You never know, maybe they did play wargames with little toy figures.
@ the OP: Thanks for posting this, it's really cool!
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~15000 Astra Militarum: 
~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: 
~2000 | Sisters of Battle: 
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