<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/3f/Tanahome%27s_Dice.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/61/Isashi_Arima_Live.png)</div><strong>Tanahome Smith</strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337106.msg16009816#msg16009816)<br/><br/>"Do you really play?" Tanahome asked, sincerely curious.  "I mean...  Off the job?"<br/><br/>He blushed and shook his head, "Sorry...  You probably don't want to share personal information.  Here...  May I share some of mine?"<br/><br/>Tanahome took the dice bag and poured dice really big dice of some kind of green and cream speckled stone.  "These dice are called dwarven stones.  You can get them at pretty much any specialty gaming shop if you're willing to spend 30 or 50 dollars on a set of fancy dice.  I have jade, bronze, hematite, and even amethyst, but they're all really tiny so I don't really use them.<br/><br/>"You see, I always roll on the table and I want everyone to see the rolls.  When we role play, we set it up so that there's a drama riding on the roll of the dice.  Part of the fun is telling a story.  Part of the fun is manipulating the situation so that we're more likely to succeed.  Part of the fun, though, is that we might fail."  He rolled the twenty in his hand.  "One turn of this dice an unexpected direction and the whole story can change.<br/><br/>“That's exiting.  That's like Vegas!  With no need for alcohol or fortunes changing hands.  I want everyone to see the dice roll and share that moment with me.<br/><br/>"The guys and gals I run for put together to get me these for my birthday--lucky dwarven stones but so big that you can see them across a big table."<br/><br/>He chuckled and shook his head.  “So I'm a nerd, right?”<br/><br/>*   *   *<br/><br/>Tanahome turned to the barkeep, “Evening.  What's good for the start of the night?  Nothing strong but something good.”