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Roman d20 was a thing (lemmy.world)
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Roman rock-crystal icosahedron (20-sided dice) used in fortune-telling. Each face has a Latin letter on it and a corresponding Roman numeral.

Such polyhedral dice were thrown to obtain a number, which was then matched with pre-prepared oracle answers in a divination handbook.

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[–] grue 4 points 10 months ago

In case anybody, like me, was wondering what all the sides looked like: