House of Dice

The House of Dice throws out the warmage convention of meticulous, deliberate spellcasting in favor of wild, chaotic magic that presses the odds. Everything from their magical bursts to their enchanted sets of dice can fail horribly, so it’s auspicious that they often keep their fingers on the scales of fate. These warmages have mastered not only a repertoire of cantrips, but also techniques to manipulate fortune itself, allowing them to risk everything, and more than often come out on top. BONUS PROFICIENCIES Starting when you choose this house at 3rd level, your light fingers and unscrupulous tactics help you win the day. You gain proficiency in the Sleight of Hand skill and with the dice set, if you don’t already have it. DICE OF FATE At 3rd level, you gain four Dice of Fate, which are d6s. Whenever you make an ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or damage roll, you can expend one Die of Fate and add it to the roll. Once you expend a Die of Fate, it goes to the GM, who can use it to add it to a roll made by an NPC or monster. Once the GM has used a die, it passes back to you, and so on. When you finish a long rest, you regain all of your expended Dice of Fate, whether or not the GM has used them. Beginning at 7th level, you have an additional two Dice of Fate, and you can add two Dice of Fate to your damage rolls with warmage spells. CHAOS ROLL Also at 3rd level, you can expend two of your Dice of Fate as an action, rolling them on the table below to create a chaotic surge of energy.  

2d6	Effect
2	You castFireball, centered on yourself
3	Your AC is reduced by 2 until the start of yoru next turn.
4	You fall prone
5	Each creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you can speak only in a babbling nonsense lkanguage for the next minute, and can't perform the verbal components of spells.
6	A 5-foot-radius sphere of butterflies, insects, or doves fills a location you choose within 60 feet of you, heavily obscuring the area until the start of your next turn.
7	You gain 7 temporary hit points, and keep the Dice of Fate instead of giving them to the GM.
8	You become invisible until the end of your next turn, as per the Invisibility spell.
9	A random object within 60 feet of you explodes, dealing no damage to you or your allies, and dealing 3d6 fire damage to one creature caught in the blast chosen by the GM.
10	You teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Each creature within 5 feet of the destination must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or take 2d6 force damage.
11	Choose a creature you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature takes 4d6 necrotic damage, and you regain hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt.
12	You cast Lightning Bolt and can add the Dice of Fate to the damage roll.

 

Level 7: Loaded Dice

You can subtly cheat your dice. Once on each of your turns when you roll a d6, you can flip the die upside down. Note that on a balanced d6, the top and bottom numbers add up to 7, so you can determine the bottom number by subtracting the top number from 7.

 

Level 10: Twisted Fate

The winds of chance follow your die rolls, rather than vice versa. When you make an attack roll or ability check with disadvantage on your turn, you can attempt to invert fate as a bonus action. Expend a Die of Fate and roll it; on a 5, you ignore disadvantage on the roll, on a 6, you instead have advantage on the roll.

 

Level 15: Roll the Bones

You can channel the chaotic energy of your dice in an instant. As a reaction when you take damage from a creature you can see, you can expend two Dice of Fate to make a Chaos Roll.

 

Level 18: Steal Luck

When you roll initiative, roll a d6. You steal that many Dice of Fate back from the GM.