The Former Dungeon Master's System
-Roll the Dice and Pay the Price. Cross-posted on Royal Road under the name - Luck of the Dice, and it is ahead there. If you want to read in advance, go to Royal Road and follow me there. No romance, straight action
Miles Jorden has always been unlucky. In his everyday life, disaster seems to stalk him—jobs fall apart, accidents find him at every turn, and even the simplest plans go awry. Yet, there’s one place where luck never fails him: the gaming table. As a Dungeon Master for his group of friends, Miles rolls dice with uncanny precision, his natural 20s earning him a reputation as a force to be reckoned with in the tabletop world.
After a particularly bad day—fired from his job and dumped on the same afternoon—Miles decides to lose himself in preparing his next campaign. While crafting an elaborate world for his players, he finds a peculiar set of dice tucked away in an old box. The dice glow faintly when he touches them, and before he can think twice, he rolls them. The numbers light up, and suddenly, Miles finds himself pulled into a world eerily similar to the one he created for his game.
Miles is isekaied into the very fantasy realm he designed, but there’s a twist: he’s not a hero or adventurer—he’s the Dungeon Master, wielding immense power to influence the world but unable to directly intervene. His dice-rolling luck becomes his greatest weapon, allowing him to manipulate reality through the same rules he used in his games. Yet, the world is in chaos, with factions rising, monsters running rampant, and an ominous evil threatening to consume everything.
To survive and save this world he inadvertently made, Miles must master his newfound role, gather allies, and navigate the very tropes and pitfalls he once used to torment his players. For the first time, his flawless dice rolls aren’t just a party trick—they’re the only thing standing between order and total destruction. In a twist of fate, Miles’ unlucky life has given him the ultimate chance to prove himself in a world where the stakes couldn’t be higher