Only works from 1-3. 4 has 5 strokes (6 lines), for example.
ZDL
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Ah. I wasn't aware of this. I'll pay attention to which program was used in the future. :D
... horses only run faster than humans ...
It's weirder than that.
Humans outrun any land animal on the planet. In the long haul. In the short haul we're among the slowest of large animals, but nothing beats us for endurance racing. Nothing.
Ancient peoples hunted horses and bisons and other such animals by just ... running them to the point of exhaustion. There's a herd of horses. Let's run after them. They tear off multiple times our speed. But we KEEP COMING (like a zombie horde in a movie) implacably and before they have a chance to recover from the fatigue of their high-speed run we're on them and they have to run again and again and again.
Sure it may take a few days, but we will eventually outrun them. Then we have our pick of the herd to slaughter as they lie helplessly immobile from fatigue.
It wasn't (just) our brains that let us survive pre-civilization.
I sort of see his point, but I ... still don't like Vancian/D&D magic. (Partially perhaps because I didn't like Jack Vance's stories much either.)
I'm not sure what "attitude" you're projecting onto me.
I owned Valley of the Pharaohs. I tried to get people to give it a shot. Nobody took me up on it.
Where's the "attitude"?
Why is it so hard for people to read the blurb on the right?:
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I got it from a shop on Taobao. (Along with the dice you see there including the skull-face D6s, the ancient Chinese d18, the Chinese Chess dice, ...)
From way back in the days, Valley of the Pharaohs. While not my first game that attempted to be historically accurate (that honour falls to Chivalry & Sorcery) it was the first such game I found that not only tried to be historically accurate but also supplied loads of supporting material for it. (This was more important pre-Internet than it is now because it was both time-consuming and hard to find good, solid historical information that was usable in play.)
But I could never interest anybody in playing it.
Buy. I wouldn't even know how to begin cutting stones.
They're called Arch'd4¹ and can be found in various online venues if your local purveyor won't stock them.
¹Link is representative. I'm not recommending this particular site because I can't buy from any western source.
I have a combination dice tower, dice try and dice storage system that I would fight tooth and nail to keep.
And the die uses the old form of 5: 伍