Fifth Fantasy: The Chancer (PDF)

Fifth Fantasy: The Chancer

Some gamblers study odds, count cards and carefully manage risk.

Chancers smile, throw the dice and trust that reality likes them.

They have been touched by the Lady: the strange embodiment of luck which appears beneath countless names and faces across countless worlds. Her favour is fickle, occasionally spectacular and never entirely safe, but it ensures that things go right for a Chancer rather more often than probability—or common decency—should permit.

Fifth Fantasy: The Chancer presents a complete gambler-inspired character class for compatible Fifth Edition fantasy games, drawing upon the lucky rogues, card-throwing heroes and cheerfully irresponsible risk-takers of classic Japanese roleplaying games.

Lady Luck Knows Your Name

A Chancer’s abilities are unpredictable.

The Chancer’s luck is not.

Their powers may introduce random effects, disrupt an orderly battlefield or produce results nobody around the table expected. Most of the time, fortune tilts matters in the party’s favour.

Most of the time.

The class rewards players who enjoy improvisation, uncertainty and finding opportunities inside apparent disasters. A Chancer can turn failure aside, improve the fortunes of nearby allies and transform an otherwise routine encounter into a rapidly escalating sequence of improbable events.

Careful tactical planning remains possible.

It simply becomes something everyone else does.

A Fortunate Companion

Chancers are useful far beyond the gaming table.

Their supernatural good fortune benefits those around them, helping companions overcome obstacles and survive situations which should have ended badly. They are also capable social characters, particularly when bluffing, gambling or persuading somebody that the last astonishing result was entirely legitimate.

This makes the Chancer well suited to players who want to:

• Manipulate luck rather than conventional magic

• Support the entire adventuring party

• Gamble with random but potentially powerful abilities

• Bluff, charm and talk their way through trouble

• Disrupt enemies and alter the shape of a battle

• Win money quickly

• Lose friends even faster after winning money quickly

A Chancer may be welcomed as a lucky mascot, feared as a cheat or banned from every respectable gaming house within several days’ travel.

These assessments are not mutually exclusive.

Gambling Rules

The booklet also includes rules for games of chance, allowing gambling to become part of play rather than being dismissed with a single roll and a vague statement about somebody losing ten gold pieces.

Chancers naturally excel at such contests. Their unusual fortune and talent for bluffing can provide wealth, information and useful social connections.

It can also produce angry losers, accusations of cheating and invitations to continue the discussion in an alley.

Adventure, in other words.

Inside

• A complete Chancer character class for compatible Fifth Edition games

• Luck-based abilities inspired by classic JRPG gambler archetypes

• Random effects capable of disrupting an otherwise orderly battlefield

• Powers which assist both the Chancer and nearby companions

• Strong options for social situations, bluffing and games of chance

• Gambling rules

• Chancer-themed equipment

• Magical items suited to characters favoured by fortune

• Several excellent reasons never to allow the Chancer to hold the party’s travelling funds

The Fifth Fantasy Series

Fifth Fantasy brings the character types, unusual peoples and exuberant abilities of Japanese computer roleplaying games and anime into Fifth Edition fantasy campaigns.

The Chancer can be used beside conventional characters or combined with other Fifth Fantasy options to create a party of alchymists, chronomancers, animal-folk and gamblers whose adventures require increasingly elaborate musical accompaniment.

Requirements

The Chancer is a character supplement, not a standalone roleplaying game.

You will need the rules for a compatible Fifth Edition fantasy game.

Format

Digital PDF download.

No printed book, loaded dice or inexplicably favourable hand of cards will be posted.