Post #1252698
2026-04-10 19:05 UTC
“Probability, chance, randomness — these aren’t just ideas,” Madden told Hyperallergic. “They’re real features of the physical world, and through these games the dice bring randomness out into the open, they clean it up, they make it so that you can see these patterns.”
Dice are more than 12,000 years old
#gaming #dnd #ttrpg
https://hyperallergic.com/dice-are-6-000-years-older-than-previously-believed-study-says/
Replies (3)
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@bedirthan@dice.camp 2026-04-10 19:14
I'm using that quote the next time I give my natural hazards prep RPG talk
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@erikcats@dice.camp 2026-04-10 22:05
@bedirthan enjoyable article, love how the paradigm of culture starting in the old world is overturned or at least given some scrutiny here Also, this Professor Eerkens is referred to as she, but as sure as my brother is called Jelmer, the name Jelmer is definitely an unequivocally masculine name.
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@Printdevil@dice.camp 2026-04-11 11:45
@bedirthan I want them to find something akin to the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir now except about an initiative system.