This, combined with Roman graffiti and the shitposts they’d carve into the lead balls they slung at enemies, makes me feel a strange kinship to the ancient world.
Yes. Throughout history we really haven't changed, we've always been cursed little dickheads. Taking the piss, laughing about dicks and shitting, dunking on plebs. There's real beauty in that. 😂
I remember reading some of the carvings on those lead sling balls. IIRC, one was just a phallus carved into it. Absolutely hilarious to imagine some slinger giggling to himself over the fact that he was about to blast some dude in the knee or head with something like that. EDIT: Spelling mistake.
@@DieNextInLINE my favorite has to be the one that just says “catch.” It feels like something you’d see written on an artillery shell in the vietnam war. Almost makes me wonder if any Roman conscripts wrote “return to sender” on their helmets.
It's everywhere, and at anytime, people will always be people! I think for me that's what got me into history (and my 10th grade History teacher, shout out to Mr Rivas) the idea that no matter at what point and time, and no matter the location, you'll always find people just being human. Personally, that's what gets me closer to the people of the past. That they really weren't all the different from us despite our technological and social advancements. Hell, sometimes you'll even be able to relate with their hardships. It's beautiful :)
@@tonkbutsmaller8008 Julius Caesar rolled a lot of Nat 20s in his entire luck. He had so much luck that Octavian once insulted his rival Mark Antony by alluding that he (Mark Antony) didn't had the luck of Julius Caesar.
Showing them Warthunder and seeing them lose their shit after discovering that a Tank is basically an Armored Elephant without Organs and a Plane is basically the next Bane enemy of a Dragon would be funny
@@christopherg2347 In the 10 000 BC in Europe there was game to hunt everywhere, the problem was not dying from them because a simple broken femur back in the day meant you were dead
@@ommsterlitz1805 there is plenty of archaeological evidence of people in the distant past suffering even very severe injuries and surviving. A broken leg wouldn't be a death sentence unless you were ill or unlucky, and in a tribe was very much survivable.
The dice used by the Romans have a small, but rather funny role in the "I, Claudius" miniseries. In one episode, Claudius receives from his friend Herod Agrippa some old lucky dice that presumably belonged to Alexander the Great. Later, Claudius gives his nephew Caligula these dice after beating the Crazy Emperor several times at gaming. As soon as he got a good score with just one throw, Caligula came to the conclusion that fate wanted these dice to end up in the hands of a God like him for eternity Just moments later, Caligula is gruesomely murdered.
I wrote a history paper on roman board games. There are chess-like boards inscribed into many battlements across the empire where it is thought that a strategic game was played called Ludus Latrunculorum or "game of little soldiers." This game was also enjoyed by the Roman upper classes, some of whom took pride in their skill, and others of whom were mocked for spending too much time playing and not enough time working.
Watching Ancient Rome gaming wakes me up "Vietnam Flashbacks" ever since I watched the BBC documentary series "Ancient Rome: the Rise and Fall of an Empire". For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the son of the ex-emperor Licinius was playing dice with his father just before the assassins hired by his uncle Constantine cruelly kill them in front of his mother. Truly traumatizing 😖
Sounds like mild compared to other killings in ancient rome. Like emperor Commodus was killed. 1st was poison but he vomited it up, so they paid his favorite wrestling partner to strangle him in his bath.
@@Amantducafe The traumatizing thing here is not they way he's killed, but the fact the victim was just a child who was happily playing with his family. Kids shouol never pay for their parents' mistakes. Commodus deserved his fate, by the way
Nameless Roman soldier: “The die is cast” Crickets Julius Cesar: “the die is cast” Historians for 2000 years: gushes Nameless Roman soldier: “hey I said it first!” Cesar: “you can keep the jeep”
Interestingly, the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus gambled the belongings of the condemned with dice. In fact, there is a 1953 movie called "The Robe", whose protagonist is the Roman centurion who won the robe that Jesus wore. Something that amuses me a lot about said film is the extremely casual way in which the protagonist behaves while playing next to the crucified Jesus and then takes charge of finishing him off without showing much importance in it. In fact, when his slave, who converted to Christianity as soon as he saw Jesus and noticed his divine aura, yells at him furiously for having killed the son of God, the centurion is basically like: "Yeah, dude. What a tragedy. Could you please give me that damn robe at once? My balls are freezing..."
@@Simon-jr9km And when I said what happened in the movie is true? I am just commenting why the movie is funny to me and that's it. Stop whining and mature a bit, ok?
@@maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa Dude, I state in my comment it's from a movie. If I didn't specify it was a ficticious plot, I wouldn't even have mentioned the title of the film
Not just sleight of hand; they recently found a very advanced weighted die, which had an internal hollow and a bead of mercury within, which allowed a skilled user to control which side was temporarily heavier for better control over a "random" die roll.
Ok legionnaires ill be your dungeon master for today. Places down a 36 by 24 inch tray with a 1 inch lip filled with sand and a wood carved miniature. Before you stands a minotaur roll for initiative!
It’s nice to know that even though it’s been centuries the boys in uniform never change ❤dice, cards and shooting the shit from then till the end of time
Backgammon was/is a Roman game. The spread of the Empire spelled the end of the popularity of 40 Squares (aka the Royal Game of Ur) as the games were similar but apparently people preferred the Roman game which was balanced more toward skill while RGU leaned more into chance
Romans also enjoyed painting their chariots and Galeae with far eastern depictions of young women. They did not talk the language. They just enjoyed the paintings.
My mind has been blown away. Yes I knew about ancient games with dice and marbles but I never knew the dice tower is a creation of the past and not from recent
Weird timing I was just thinking about this tonight, like what'd the easiest way back before machines would be the quickest and fastest way to mass procude them with consistency.
As a marine can confirm this tradition is still strong into the 21st century. A lot of the times we will just pick a spot and see who can throw the most rocks closest or hit the object the most times in a row, or we will play cards, or just throw rocks to throw rocks
About that "Stick Dice" Game; you can simulate that with D6 and D4s. It is played with any number and Value of Dice which are rolled. Goal of that Game is to get more Points in the End than the other or come closest to the Average Value of all Dice (I prefer seconds) The one who rolled first is also allowed to pick first one Die that is removed from the Table and its Points added to the players count. Then, the other is allowed to pick one dice *or* to reroll *without* picking a Die. If the Dice are rerolled by everyone subsequently, you either are forced to pick one or the Game ends - again, rule discussions about that here as well but I prefer the "forced draw" and the Game ending when no Die is left.
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Did the Romans played something similar to D&D?
This, combined with Roman graffiti and the shitposts they’d carve into the lead balls they slung at enemies, makes me feel a strange kinship to the ancient world.
Yes. Throughout history we really haven't changed, we've always been cursed little dickheads. Taking the piss, laughing about dicks and shitting, dunking on plebs. There's real beauty in that. 😂
I remember reading some of the carvings on those lead sling balls. IIRC, one was just a phallus carved into it.
Absolutely hilarious to imagine some slinger giggling to himself over the fact that he was about to blast some dude in the knee or head with something like that.
EDIT: Spelling mistake.
@@DieNextInLINE imagine getting killed with a rock that has a dick carved into it
@@DieNextInLINE my favorite has to be the one that just says “catch.” It feels like something you’d see written on an artillery shell in the vietnam war. Almost makes me wonder if any Roman conscripts wrote “return to sender” on their helmets.
It's everywhere, and at anytime, people will always be people! I think for me that's what got me into history (and my 10th grade History teacher, shout out to Mr Rivas) the idea that no matter at what point and time, and no matter the location, you'll always find people just being human.
Personally, that's what gets me closer to the people of the past. That they really weren't all the different from us despite our technological and social advancements. Hell, sometimes you'll even be able to relate with their hardships.
It's beautiful :)
Roman's also made 20 sided dice. Ancient Roman dnd games confirmed.
Playing D&D with the ancient Egyptians.
They knew about the platonic solids, so they easily could've had all 5 dice
I guess Julius Caesar rolled a nat 1 💀
@@tonkbutsmaller8008 Julius Caesar rolled a lot of Nat 20s in his entire luck. He had so much luck that Octavian once insulted his rival Mark Antony by alluding that he (Mark Antony) didn't had the luck of Julius Caesar.
@@santigamerprogamer6493 yeah, but when he died? Bro got stabbed like, 23 times, that's a lot of failed death saves
“Roll for initiative.”
It seems I wasn't the only one thinking of DND
The commander of the battalion turns out to be a forever dm
going back in time and introducing D&D would be fun
How about warhammer fantasy?
@@frogjog8822 one classic at the time
Showing them Warthunder and seeing them lose their shit after discovering that a Tank is basically an Armored Elephant without Organs and a Plane is basically the next Bane enemy of a Dragon would be funny
The already had dice towers and d20s!
"Humans invented games when they realized there was nothing to do between hunting and sex."
@Gray Jedi Most ages people did not have food anywhere in this abundance.
@@christopherg2347 In the 10 000 BC in Europe there was game to hunt everywhere, the problem was not dying from them because a simple broken femur back in the day meant you were dead
I don't get to do either.
@@ommsterlitz1805 there is plenty of archaeological evidence of people in the distant past suffering even very severe injuries and surviving. A broken leg wouldn't be a death sentence unless you were ill or unlucky, and in a tribe was very much survivable.
@@kapitankapital6580 A broken hip or femur meant 90% chance of dying in the following days before ww1 no matter the Era now it's 90% of survival
D&D got at least something right with fighters kits.
Finally a fellow player
The dice used by the Romans have a small, but rather funny role in the "I, Claudius" miniseries. In one episode, Claudius receives from his friend Herod Agrippa some old lucky dice that presumably belonged to Alexander the Great. Later, Claudius gives his nephew Caligula these dice after beating the Crazy Emperor several times at gaming. As soon as he got a good score with just one throw, Caligula came to the conclusion that fate wanted these dice to end up in the hands of a God like him for eternity Just moments later, Caligula is gruesomely murdered.
_"Unlucky in games, lucky in love."_ Caligula shouldn't have made sex right before playing game with his new dice.
"Hold up, I just stabbed you, roll a d20 for damage"
"The barbrian squad unsheathes their swords and clubs, Legumbros, you go first"
"I throw my shield at them"
"By the emperor, we talked about this!"
"I cast fireball"
"Roll a strength check to see how far you can throw it first"
Can't wait for a Roman Gaming Channel x)
Hearing the words "the Romans were quite avid gamers" hit me like a sack of bricks
Suppose you could say a lead rock with "octavius can suck it"
Imagine Roman soldiers playing dungeons and dragons
Romans having a DND session between battles
I wrote a history paper on roman board games. There are chess-like boards inscribed into many battlements across the empire where it is thought that a strategic game was played called Ludus Latrunculorum or "game of little soldiers." This game was also enjoyed by the Roman upper classes, some of whom took pride in their skill, and others of whom were mocked for spending too much time playing and not enough time working.
i was saying to myself "wouldnt it be funny if they also had roman dice towers" and i come to find out they had roman dice towers
Yeah the dice towers that we use for Dungeons & Dragons were originally used for games like backgammon, they have just never gone out of fashion
Watching Ancient Rome gaming wakes me up "Vietnam Flashbacks" ever since I watched the BBC documentary series "Ancient Rome: the Rise and Fall of an Empire". For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the son of the ex-emperor Licinius was playing dice with his father just before the assassins hired by his uncle Constantine cruelly kill them in front of his mother. Truly traumatizing 😖
Sounds like mild compared to other killings in ancient rome.
Like emperor Commodus was killed.
1st was poison but he vomited it up, so they paid his favorite wrestling partner to strangle him in his bath.
@@Amantducafe The traumatizing thing here is not they way he's killed, but the fact the victim was just a child who was happily playing with his family. Kids shouol never pay for their parents' mistakes.
Commodus deserved his fate, by the way
"Dice pieces came in a variety of shapes and sizes."
So, Romans were the first RPG players.
"Looked for ways to spend their free time"... does a field sobriety test
Roman gamers be like: in societāte vīvimus
A very underrated comment.
Does that mean we live in a society? I didn't take Latin in school sorry lol
@@East16 yes, yes it does.
vivimos en una sociedad
Damn, throwing dice is a thousand year old tradition
Thousand? It goes back much further than that.
Nameless Roman soldier: “The die is cast”
Crickets
Julius Cesar: “the die is cast”
Historians for 2000 years: gushes
Nameless Roman soldier: “hey I said it first!”
Cesar: “you can keep the jeep”
I like how these roman soldiers had very modern fades.
Interestingly, the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus gambled the belongings of the condemned with dice. In fact, there is a 1953 movie called "The Robe", whose protagonist is the Roman centurion who won the robe that Jesus wore. Something that amuses me a lot about said film is the extremely casual way in which the protagonist behaves while playing next to the crucified Jesus and then takes charge of finishing him off without showing much importance in it. In fact, when his slave, who converted to Christianity as soon as he saw Jesus and noticed his divine aura, yells at him furiously for having killed the son of God, the centurion is basically like: "Yeah, dude. What a tragedy. Could you please give me that damn robe at once? My balls are freezing..."
It's not a fact. It's a myth from a movie 1953...
@@Simon-jr9km And when I said what happened in the movie is true? I am just commenting why the movie is funny to me and that's it. Stop whining and mature a bit, ok?
@@TetsuShima you literally said in fact, in the movie ect.. you weren't saying the movie was fact... -_- sorry people are stupid lol
you said it like it happened. You didn't specify it's the plot of a mobie
@@maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa Dude, I state in my comment it's from a movie. If I didn't specify it was a ficticious plot, I wouldn't even have mentioned the title of the film
Roman DnD campaign is now something that I want to run!
"We gamers man that's what we do" - random legionnaire
It's great that they got video tapes out of the roman time. Always thought they all burned or got destroyed.
Thanks for this
Not just sleight of hand; they recently found a very advanced weighted die, which had an internal hollow and a bead of mercury within, which allowed a skilled user to control which side was temporarily heavier for better control over a "random" die roll.
Imagine Romans playing cards against humanity
"I can't please my wife without thinking of_________"
"A carthaginian baby sacrifice"
The soldiers playing the game: 😮😂😨🤣
Those are rear fotege from that era. As the camera was not popular back then. True story
Julius Caesar saids Roma Gaming.
Ok legionnaires ill be your dungeon master for today. Places down a 36 by 24 inch tray with a 1 inch lip filled with sand and a wood carved miniature. Before you stands a minotaur roll for initiative!
Some call me a roman soldier, others call me a gamer
"titus this is what they call a gamer move"
"amongst the most common pieces we can find a wooden Nintendum Switch with Mario kart IV"
Roman soldiers were gamers 😂
"hey julius wanna 1v1 me?
"aight bet"
**takes out dice**
I wonder if they had an ancient version of TTRPGs.
So, the Romans were gamers…? We should’ve seen this sooner.
Now I'm imagining a legionary with a RGB gaming setup in his barracks.
The OG dice tower
"soldiers in particular were quite avid gamers"
Could you imagine if they had cell phones back in them days
Wouldn't get anything done, I reckon, Garry
Someone would have livestreamed the Ides of March incident.
When you want to play Legionnaire of Duty 5, but you still haven't got the Dice Tower 2 yet.
Imagine shooting dice for Jesus’ bloody rags
They once played dice to get owner ship of Jesus clothes
Roman Soldier A: Yo man whatchu bring?
Roman Solder Chad: My RTX MMMXC
That has completely blown my mind
Thank you SO much for uploading!
It's official, ladies and gentlemen, Roman legionaries were hardcore gamers.
It’s nice to know that even though it’s been centuries the boys in uniform never change ❤dice, cards and shooting the shit from then till the end of time
Little bit of cool historical context. The Roman’s gambled over the clothes of Jesus using dice.
Backgammon was/is a Roman game. The spread of the Empire spelled the end of the popularity of 40 Squares (aka the Royal Game of Ur) as the games were similar but apparently people preferred the Roman game which was balanced more toward skill while RGU leaned more into chance
Different types of dice? Dice towers? Long hours rolling them? Did the Romans invent D&D?
Confirmed, Men has always been gamers.
So that's why D&D's Soldier background comes with a Gaming Set. Neat
20 ACE: Roman soldiers rolled dice.
2020: American soldiers roll dice.
Guess not too much has changed in 2000 years.
All right, Maximus. Now that you’ve made your character let’s kick this session off right… Our story starts in the Colosseum. Roll for initiative.
I hope the Romans were playing Caverns & Cavebears
Waiting for your next video!
I wish i could go back in time and show them jenga lol
I knew about the dice cups, but I had no idea dice towers are such an old invention
Imagine making dice out of your enemy's bones. The game of life
I didn't know they had dice towers back then, that's so cool!
finally trained my algorithm to show history vids
From dice pieces to PSPs and old 3DSs :)
Something's never change!
Im sure choking a chicken was popular af
Romans also enjoyed painting their chariots and Galeae with far eastern depictions of young women. They did not talk the language. They just enjoyed the paintings.
"Barbarians on me" "im down im down"
"Dude Julius is absolutely cracked at dice"
-Roman soldier probably
They need a card minigame.
Sweaty Roman gamers checking the rules for your army every time you move an inch 👌
Bored soldiers, a staple of history
My mind has been blown away. Yes I knew about ancient games with dice and marbles but I never knew the dice tower is a creation of the past and not from recent
Roman soldiers playing DND
they're roleplaying as themselves
Dice, darts, cards and board games as well as good ol faithful pebble, parchment and sheep shears. .
Everybody gangster till someone pulls up to the battlefield with a Nintendo DS
Legionary rolls for initiative and joins the fight.
"AYO THE XBONE 0.1 IS OUT"
-Some ancient person
Before he explained what it was I first looked at the dice tower and thought Damn they had Connect 4 back then?
nice, voice needs to be louder than the music though sir. Thanks for the vid!
“MARS’S SHIT, ADRIAN! YOU JUST HIT LEO WITH THAT XV!!!”
“don’t fret, Magnus… Adrian will get my…”
*rolls die*
“He’ll get my I…”
Gaming today: Playing a video game where you are a character playing with toys.
Bored infantryman doing stupid shit is a universal theme
lol I'm imagining roman solders playing dnd now!
Weird timing I was just thinking about this tonight, like what'd the easiest way back before machines would be the quickest and fastest way to mass procude them with consistency.
Nice fade bro
"Octavius, hop on fort"
As a marine can confirm this tradition is still strong into the 21st century. A lot of the times we will just pick a spot and see who can throw the most rocks closest or hit the object the most times in a row, or we will play cards, or just throw rocks to throw rocks
Imagine if we went back in time and introduced them to tabletop RPGs.
About that "Stick Dice" Game; you can simulate that with D6 and D4s.
It is played with any number and Value of Dice which are rolled.
Goal of that Game is to get more Points in the End than the other or come closest to the Average Value of all Dice (I prefer seconds)
The one who rolled first is also allowed to pick first one Die that is removed from the Table and its Points added to the players count. Then, the other is allowed to pick one dice *or* to reroll *without* picking a Die.
If the Dice are rerolled by everyone subsequently, you either are forced to pick one or the Game ends - again, rule discussions about that here as well but I prefer the "forced draw" and the Game ending when no Die is left.
And this is one of the reasons why in DnD the soldier background starts with proficiency in a Gaming Set.
"Loser has to bottom"
"Bet"
Imagine the roman-punk style arcades they had like you know there had to be something resembling the modern arcade with maybe steam devices
"...for My vesture, they cast lots".
Love the long dice
There was also a special game that would usually involve the smallest soldier in the group!
“Legionaries had gaming sets included in their kits”
“Ayo Aurelius wanna hop on Fortnite after our shift?”
RGB helmets
When they said gamers can't be soldiers but the best soldiers in history are gamers.
Who else thought he was going to say “creative ways to kill people”?
I think that people are more creative when it comes to doing as little work as possible while still being able to stay out of trouble 😂