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How did the gods decide?
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:43 pm
by Zvezda
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.
Re: How did the gods decide?
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:14 am
by Linden
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?
Re: How did the gods decide?
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:11 am
by Zvezda
I think the ceasar cypher works somehow similar. Every letter stands for a number.
Re: How did the gods decide?
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 10:13 am
by Linden
Possibly Ancient Hebrew did as well, hence the number of the beast 666 for the Emperor Nero?
Re: How did the gods decide?
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:47 pm
by Zvezda
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.
Re: How did the gods decide?
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:04 pm
by Linden
Cheers Zvezda, I wondered how it worked.