Welcome to 5 Dice of Fate.

Grab your dice. Call your friends.

I have been building and refining this engine for four years. It did not start as a commercial product. It started as a way to role-play with my own neurodivergent family. I needed a game for people who do not have weeks to read a textbook. I wanted a system for players who love the sharp, unexpected connections that happen between the people sitting at the table.

5 Dice of Fate™ is a collaborative storytelling game for two to six people. You play flawed heroes trying to survive whatever fate throws at you. One player acts as the Master of Fate. They play the monsters, they pull the strings of the plot, and they make the final calls. The rest of you push your luck.

Here is the whole engine in one move. Say you want to leap a gap with a guard on your heels. You grab a die for trying it, a die for being fast, a die for your rogue's nerve, and you throw the three. A six is a legend in the making, and it hands you a Fate Point back. A one is a flub, and the Master of Fate turns it into the worst possible second for that ledge to give. You read the dice, you live with them, and the story lurches forward. That is a turn. You will have it down in a hand or two, no textbook required.

Failing well is a feature, not a bug.

The first book is locked. 5 Dice of Fate: The Silver Age™ goes live, with a little luck from the gods, in September 2027. After that, you choose what comes next. Horror, Cyberpunk, Space, and Vampires are all coming, and the community votes on which one we build first. That community is free and built for new fans, so come help us decide. Preregister here.

Right now, though, we need something more dangerous than fans. We need people to break our game. We are looking for Masters of Fate to playtest it, the ones who will push it until it cracks, and we will load you up with free extras just for testing the limits. If that is you, fill in the form HERE!.

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 and life's responsibilities feels like a thing under the floorboards waiting to pull me down. That is why I let the machines help, they enchance, not create. Artificial intelligence acts as a tireless assistant and editor. I use it to iterate on rough text faster, double-check my game mechanics, and spit out placeholder art for the free content. For me and my demons, 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

Five Dice of Fate, the Silver Age, and all related settings, characters, names, stories, art, and text are the property of William Kavan. Five Dice of Fate™ and 5 Dice of Fate™ are trademarks of William Kavan, whether or not marked as such. Distributed under license by Lil Plastic Monster, LLC.

Game mechanics and systems are not subject to copyright. The expression of those rules, including the wording, layout, art, and all setting and story material, is protected. No part of this work is offered under any open or Creative Commons license at this time, and all rights are reserved. Any future open license will be announced explicitly and will apply only to the specific materials it names.