Oct. 30th, 2013

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tesserarian (tess-uhr-AIR-ee-an) - adj, of or pertaining to dice or gaming with dice.


A gambling word. Or just rolling the bones. Some older dictionaries have entries for the tesserarian art, meaning the art of gambling. By the root, it's specifically square, six-sided dice, but I can't see any reason not to use it for table-top RPGs. From Latin tessera (plural tesserae), a die, originally something four-sided, from Greek téssares, four.

---L.

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