PvPOnline, the geeky webcomic, did a strip the other day about Christie's auctioning off a gaming die from the Roman era. The obvious punchline for geeks being that Romans played roleplaying games. I immediately headed over to Christie's web site to see if this was a joke. Sure enough though, there was posted the aution details for a 20-sided glass die dated at 1,800 years old. The symbols have been identified as Roman but the game for which such dice were used in unknown. It has been suggested that the dice were used by Roman soldiers for the grizzly pastime of divying up the goods on dead enemies. Fun...