Baldur's Bones
[Oddly enough not a novel about necromancy, but rather a dice game that has clattered across thousands of tables in the city of Baldur's Gate. The rules involve making a pirate (most ape Balduran the sailor, but you can invent your own) and rolling thirty-seven-sided- dice called Unfortunables. These are rolled against a chart of outcomes, the interpretation of which is controlled by one player who has not made a pirate, titled Unfortunate One. These fictional pirates tend to have grisly ends, because the chart is cruel, and the dice, oh, the dice are worse...]