"Roll a Saving Throw against Invading Visigoths, please."

The ideal Christmas present for the role-playing game addict in your family is now being auctioned at Christie's: this glass twenty-sider.



What's the big deal with this? Why on Earth would you pay that much for a twenty-sider that was made of mere glass?

Because it was made in the Second Century AD and used by gamers in Ancient Rome.

What's cool is that according to the Christie's auction info, modern scholars have not been able to determine just what game the Romans used such dice for.

(via the Dead Parrots Society)