Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #89 - Rolling The Dice

Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !

I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀

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The prompt this week is - Rolling The Dice

Dice are one of humanity's oldest inventions. The oldest found so far date to around 5000 years ago, about the same time the first hieroglyphic and cuneiform writing systems were created. The earliest polydice (i.e. not six sided) found are from Ptolemaic Egypt, around 300 BC. People have probably been cheating at dice since they were first invented, but the earliest loaded ones found were from Pompeii, weighted with small and very well hidden pieces of lead. Dice have also been incorporated into figures of speech - Caesar famously said "Alea Iacta est" (the die is cast) when he crossed the Rubicon.

Tell me a story involving dice from your setting ! It might be literal dice used for gambling, gaming, decision making or reading oracles, or it might be a reference to dice when it comes to a discussion or some event where chance is a key factor.

Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.

This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.

Guidelines

I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....

• Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
• Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
• Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
• Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
• Prompt replies can be any length.

Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:

• Freewriters
• Scholar and Scribe
• Tabletop / DND
• The Ink Well

It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.