{"id":52,"date":"2003-12-02T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T09:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-06-23T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T16:15:17","slug":"roman-d20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/12\/02\/roman-d20\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman D20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christie&#8217;s in New York is auctioning a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\/LotFinder\/search\/LOTDETAIL.ASP?intObjectID=4205385\">2nd century ad Roman dice that looks suspiciously like an RPG d20 dice<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/roman_dice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-465\" title=\"roman_dice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/roman_dice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n[Link courtesy of Philip Tan.]<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody know the history of the d20? I was pretty convinced that it was of newer origin.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I know, I placed this in the &#8220;games&#8221; category even though I claim that RPGs aren&#8217;t really games.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christie&#8217;s in New York is auctioning a 2nd century ad Roman dice that looks suspiciously like an RPG d20 dice: [Link courtesy of Philip Tan.] Does anybody know the history of the d20? I was pretty convinced that it was of newer origin. (Yes, I know, I placed this in the &#8220;games&#8221; category even though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/12\/02\/roman-d20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roman D20&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}