Last issue introduced some fun dice board games. This issue continues to bring some of the best dice game with dice as the protagonist.
1.Dice Throne Season
While this is not a pure dice game, it is one of the games that uses dice most frequently. You roll them like a speedboat every round in order to hit your opponent and reduce their health faster than they reduce your health. Interestingly, a straight or a four-in-a-row. This may mean that each character has a different type of attack. The pyromancer may set someone on fire so that they will take more damage over time. The shadow thief may steal the CP (combat points) of other players and cause more damage as a result. If you are really lucky, or can manipulate the dice roll. Finally get all six points, then you can launch a great ultimate attack. Then, assuming that the damage can be defended, the defending player will make a defense check. This may block the damage, fight back a little. Or do something else, depending on the character. The game shines because of the cards, but in some ways, because you can improve your attack or defense by fading upgrade cards. So if you get a great combat upgrade. You might be able to get more or have more options for what you can do in combat. It’s a really fun game and it plays quickly.
2. Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition
Mansions of Madness is also a best dice game that uses dice to check everything. If you need to see if you know the lore of something and aren’t going to get even crazier, look at your lore skill. Grab that many dice and roll them. If you need to fight monsters from the depths of the ocean, it tells you to look at your strength and roll that many dice. The only things that don’t use liquid core dice are puzzles, because puzzles are handled by the app. Or simple things that anyone can do. But Mansions of Madness makes good use of dice, as do many games in the Arkham series in Fantasy Flight. There are ways to mitigate the effects of the dice by rerolling. Or you can spend clue tokens to turn clue rolls into successes. I think this is a good example of having enough mitigation on the dice to not feel too lucky. But you always want to get the perfect dice when you need better dice with fewer resources later in the game. Often, it adds pressure.
3. T.I.M.E. Stories
For what is essentially a complex “choose your own adventure” with a dash of escape room thrown in, you get a fun game. There is a lot of dice rolling. Some might say that this is too much dice rolling as you test your skills to see if you can get enough agility. Slip a key off a chef’s belt. Or fight off crazy monsters in a tunnel. You never know what you’re going to encounter and you’ll need to fight for it. Now, as I said, the rolling isn’t some people’s favorite part of the game. It can be random or pretty shaky. So you might get through a couple tough encounters easily. And then an easy encounter might completely blow you away and have you start your run over again. But for me, that’s some of the fun of the game. You don’t get swapped into the best ship of that era or location in the game, so you won’t always be the perfect team. Plus, there’s time to die. This gives you some variation on the time it takes to count down, which can also cause you to have to make another run. It’s a controversial choice, but I like it.
4.Betrayal At House on the Hill
In the game, you use dice for combat, but more importantly for hauntings. This happens when the game changes from cooperation to a battle of survival and one character becomes the betrayer. And has their own winning goals compared to the other players. This roll is called the “haunting roll” and you need to try to roll more than a certain number of dice to prevent it from happening. Therefore, a bad roll early in the game may cause ghosts to appear faster. While this may be a problem for some, I like the fact that it is not like a standard horror movie because you never know when the haunting will happen or whether you are ready to win.
