In some role-playing game systems, the dice pool is the number of dice that a player is allowed to roll when attempting to perform a certain action.
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Pastoral terrors of youth still in the man,
Torsions of sleep, in emblematic verse
Rattling like dice unless the verse shall scan
All chance away....”
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