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by littlekey 881 days ago
>probably for a magical or divinatory purpose rather than determining whether your wizard made her saving throw.

From a certain point of view these are the same thing

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I had that possibility in mind, yes :-)
To add onto this, the dodecahedron was considered a mystical object, the encapsulation of the highest conceivable realm, that of the etheric or eternal. [1]

[1] https://www.math.lsu.edu/art/quantum-connections/pythagoras