I love Rory's Story Cubes. I find them to be a great catalyst for pulling together a storyline, they provide a spark of inspiration without being constraining. I generally use the 9 dice and break them into subsections of 3 each for the intro, development, and climax/resolution.
I use them for telling on the spot stories for the kids, developing ideas for written stories, and also for more abstract concepts. When looking at a set of data and trying to tell a story with it, I find the dice to be helpful when I put the images in some sort of context with the data. It's not a perfect fit but it facilitates the process of building narrative.
Currently only the mainline set story cubes are available in the US(available from Amazon) I came across the other sets while in the UK. I find them to be marginally more useful, particularly the actions ones as they are the best blend of abstract but definable. The other 2 sets, actions and voyages, are available for mail order through the designers website.
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