Dicea

Dicea is a fictional framework for probabilistic modeling designed for use in tabletop and digital game design. Conceived as a modular system built around dice-based randomness, Dicea provides a formal vocabulary for representing dice types, roll rules, and outcome aggregation.

Core components include a set of dice definitions (faces, weights, and special faces), a rule engine that interprets roll sequences, and a result compiler that aggregates outcomes into distributions. The system supports expressions for combining dice results, rerolls, modifiers, and conditional effects, enabling designers to simulate complex mechanics with explicit probability accounting.

Applications: In game design, Dicea is used to model combat resolution, skill checks, resource generation, and event triggers. It emphasizes transparency of probabilities, allowing players and designers to inspect distributions and expected values. It is intended as a conceptual tool rather than a single software product.

History and influence: Dicea originated in collaborative design discussions and has been described in design notes and speculative theory articles as a way to formalize dice-driven mechanics. Variants and implementations remain hypothetical and experimental.

Notes: The term Dicea is fictional in this article. For real-world dice mathematics and probability theory, see standard references on probability and combinatorics.