Story Dice

Printable dice designs that combine characters, settings, conflicts, and twists into story prompts.

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The ten story dice in their colours, scattered on a wooden table in daylight — A photorealistic image generated with GPT Image from the dice renders. Some printed words are approximate; the renders below are exact.

Status: Designed and rendered, not yet test-printed
Tools: OpenSCAD, Phosphor icons
Links: Source and STLs

Ten 3D-printable dice that roll a story prompt. Each die fills one blank in a sentence: setting, character, object, action, conflict, emotion, want, twist and resolution. Roll them all and read it out.

Made from the renders in the repo: each die lights up in sentence order and its face fills a blank. The sentence is one roll.

Decisions

Fit the die to the vocabulary

Each category gets the shape that fits its word list, so no list is cut down to six faces. Emotion is a d12, Want a d10, and Conflict is split across two dice of four.

Renders of the ten story dice in different shapes and colours — Renders of the ten dice from the repository.

Two sets for two nozzles

A labelled set needs a 0.2 mm nozzle; an icon-only set prints on a standard 0.4 mm nozzle.

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