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Give me a fruit, I'll turn it to pieces,
A turn of bad luck, and your plan ceases.

Mistaken for death, if I'm without friends,
Bringing with a breath, success will I send.

Let's not forget, the adventurer's quest,
Eyes of the snake, and they'll become the best.

What am I?

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You are

A die (or several dice)

Give me a fruit, I'll turn it to pieces,

Dicing a fruit (or a vegetable) is cutting it into pieces.

A turn of bad luck, and your plan ceases.

"No dice" is an expression meaning there is no possibility of something.

Mistaken for death, if I'm without friends,

A die (the thing we throw) can be mistaken for the word die (the thing about dying). When there are several, we talk about dice, which clears the misunderstanding.

Bringing with a breath, success will I send.

Some people like to blow on dice they're about to throw for "good luck".

Let's not forget, the adventurer's quest, Eyes of the snake, and they'll become the best.

In role-playing games, dice are more than often a central part of the gameplay mechanism. A "snake-eye" is the worst result you can have (it's basically two 1).

Also,

The first letter of each line spells out "Gamble"

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  • $\begingroup$ Great job, I saw you post first. The third line isn't quite what I had in mind. It was in reference to a common phrase. $\endgroup$ – Joe-You-Know Jun 22 '18 at 15:20
  • $\begingroup$ Since you already got it, the phrase I was thinking of was, rot13(Ab qvpr) for the third line. $\endgroup$ – Joe-You-Know Jun 22 '18 at 15:27
  • $\begingroup$ I didn't know that expression, fixed it ;) $\endgroup$ – Keelhaul Jun 22 '18 at 16:38
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    $\begingroup$ The title also describes the answer, and rot13(gur svefg yrggre bs rnpu yvar fcryyf tnzoyr). Moved from a separate answer as it should have been a comment to start with (I have a better idea of how the site works now lol $\endgroup$ – samm82 Jan 21 at 22:23

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