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[Chance] Item - Liar's Dice

Added 2023-04-17 14:03:00 +0000 UTC

Liar's Dice is already a popular game among sailors, but that didn't stop the designers of these dice. Followers of a deity of trickery or mischief wield these dice as a weapon against agents of wealth or luck.

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Liar's Dice
Wondrous item, uncommon

This set includes 6 dice: a four-sided die (d4), a six-sided die (d6), an eight-sided die (d8), a ten-sided die (d10), a twelve-sided die (d12), and a twenty-sided die (d20). After you or a creature within 30 feet of you rolls a die that matches one of your dice, you can use your reaction to roll your corresponding die and replace the target's result with your own. You can use this reaction after you learn the result of the roll.

Once you have rolled one of your dice this way, that die becomes a non-magical die and can't be used again.

Common Variant. The common variant of this item includes only 1d3 of the 6 dice rather than the full set. The GM can decide which dice are present or roll to randomly choose.

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DESIGN COMMENTARY

Not much to say about the stats. The visual design though, was a process. I initially intended for everything to be wood, but later realized it'd look more interesting if they were another pretty material (marble, obsidian). The agate die came later as a alternate realization of tree ring patterns. The cup (part of a regular liar's dice game equipment) has a sea monster to imply its nautical origins.