First of all, using alternate dice and badges will help, but those won't be introduced to you until later in the game. When rolling standard dice, you should avoid scoring single fives.

You often find them in chests, available from vendors, from looting enemies, and sometimes as rewards from quests or winning games of dice. At first glance, it's not really clear what badges are ...

Badges are special tokens that grant the player using them a special ability to help them win. Dice with badges allows higher bets but is inherently less predictable and not all opponents are ...