Dragon Dice

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Dragon Dice
Sack with dragon cubes
Sack with dragon cubes
Game data
author Lester W. Smith
publishing company TSR , SFR
Publishing year 1995
Art Collective dice game
Teammates 2 to 6
Duration 60 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Awards

Origins Award 1995

Dragon Dice is a collectible dice game . It was originally developed and published by TSR . 1995 it won the Origins Award in the category Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame (Best Fantasy - or science fiction - board game ). Today the game is distributed by the company SFR.

The gameplay is reminiscent of trading card games like Magic: The Gathering . Instead of playing cards, players buy specially labeled cubes that represent units, terrain and objects. The aim of the game is to control two areas by fighting with the units or to completely eliminate the enemy army.

Four-sided dice are used for objects, six-sided for units, eight-sided for terrain, ten-sided for monsters and artifacts, and twelve-sided for dragons . The previous 13 peoples are composed of five basic colors for the elements air (blue), earth (yellow), water (green), fire (red), death (black):

- Coral Elves (green and blue)
- Lavaelfen (red and black)
- Fire Goblins (red and green)
- Dwarfs (yellow and red)
- Forest People (yellow and green)
- Goblins (yellow and black)
- Feuerbringer (blue and red)
- Frost Wings (blue and black)
- Feral (green and blue)
- Swamp Stalker ( green and black)
- Amazons (colorless)
- Eldarim (in all 5 colors)
- Undead (black).

Each of these races has one or two special abilities to further differentiate them. The colors of the dice determine which magic the dice can work when it is cast. In addition to the standard actions (close combat, ranged combat, maneuvers, magic, defense), the rarer dice usually have several special abilities (which are represented by symbols on the dice) to make the use of the rare dice more attractive.

The game was never as big a commercial hit as the trading card games that made it a success and was on the verge of extinction due to TSR's financial troubles before being sold to SFR. However, it is the longest-lived representative of its genre.

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