Welcome to 5 Dice of Fate.

Grab your dice. Call your friends.

Designed for Neurodivergent gamers (like myself), people who don't have weeks to read new rule books, and those that love the connections between the players and stories. 5 Dice of Fate is a collaborative storytelling game for two to six people. You play flawed heroes trying to survive whatever the dark throws at you. One player acts as the Master of Fate, playing the monsters and making the final calls. The rest of you push your luck.

The engine runs fast. You build a pool of up to five dice based on your character's abilities. You throw them. A natural six makes you a legend and refunds a Fate Point. A rolled one is a flub. A flub means the Master of Fate introduces a nasty complication that makes your life harder. Failing well is a feature, not a bug.

Here is what you will find on the site.

Core Rules

The bare metal of the game. This page holds the exact math and procedures you need to run a session. The engine is completely genre-agnostic. Run a neon corporate heist or a gritty horror western. The rules get out of your way so the story can breathe.

Character Sheets

Download the paper you need to track your health and gear. Building a character takes almost no time at all. Pick your traits in under two minutes, or let fate decide by rolling a die.

Source Books

This is where we keep our books, tomes, and purchasable content. Here is where you will find 5 Dice of Fate: The Silver Age. A mythic, weathered dungeon fantasy setting.

A Note on the Tools We Use

Games exist to bring people together. They are a shared light in the darkness of our lives. I build Five Dice of Fate basically by myself. Most days, the sheer volume of work feels like a thing under the floorboards waiting to pull me down. That is why I let the machines help. Artificial intelligence acts as a tireless assistant. I use it to iterate on rough text faster. It spits out placeholder art for the free content. It keeps the dark at bay.

But an algorithm cannot hold its breath before a critical dice roll. It cannot write a story that actually bleeds. The final art and the adventures you play belong exclusively to living minds. The software just sweeps away the dead leaves. I use it so we can build a much bigger fire.

Bill