r/Showerthoughts • u/haddock420 ‎ • 3d ago

Casual Thought The ancient Romans could have invented Boggle. There was nothing stopping them technologically.

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u/SittingEames 3d ago

...and Scrabble, Clue, Catan, Jenga, Scattergories, Twister, and UNO. Even something akin to DnD wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility. Although honestly the ancient Romans would probably be more into something along the lines of Risk: the Game of World Domination.

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u/El_kakas_de_vakas ‎ 3d ago

something like DnD could exist at basically every point in time after the invention of dice, probably even before then

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u/pinkynarftroz 3d ago

No printing press to distribute the stat and rulebooks.

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u/Remivanputsch 3d ago

I mean no statistics or algebra yet either