How did the gods decide?

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How did the gods decide?

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We all know: No matter how good we are, success and failure of our everyday tasks are determined by the roll of a d20. Whoever holds this millennial old die will never fail a task.
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Nice to know the D20 has been with us for a while. I wonder how Ancient Greek gamers knew what they'd rolled, did the letters of their alphabet have a numerical value as well perhaps?
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I think the ceasar cypher works somehow similar. Every letter stands for a number.
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Possibly Ancient Hebrew did as well, hence the number of the beast 666 for the Emperor Nero?
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I think that one is different. In Hebrew numerology the letters are assigned to a number but in a similar way as in Roman numerals. Only that there are more than seven numerals (I,V,X,L,C,D,M). Every letter in the Hebrew alphabet is tied to a number. From 1 - 10 from Aleph to Jod and the next group is from 20 to 100 and than from 200 to 900 so that every word in Hebrew is also a number.
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Cheers Zvezda, I wondered how it worked.
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