Dice Throne Rules

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This is an official rules reference for Dice Throne.

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Turn Phases

1. Upkeep Phase: Resolve any Upkeep Phase maintenance (generally specified by Status Effects or Passive Abilities).

2. Income Phase: Gain & draw card from your deck. Start Player skips their first Income Phase.

3. Main Phase (1): Spend to play Hero Upgrade cards or Main Phase Action cards. Sell (discard) unwanted cards for each.

4. Offensive Roll Phase: Roll any number of your dice in up to 3 Roll Attempts and activate a single Offensive Ability that your Final Dice Result meets the Activation Requirement for. Any player may play Roll Phase Action Cards.

5. Targeting Roll Phase: Skip this phase. Roll 1 die… Target any player. However, you receive a bonus card if you Attack the Leader.

   1–2

   Target the opponent on your left.

   3–4

   Target the opponent on your right.

   5

   Your opponents choose which of them you target.

   6

   Choose either opponent as your target.

   1–2

   Target the opponent on the left.

   3–4

   Target the opponent in the middle.

   5–6

   Target the opponent on the right.

   1–4

   Count around the table moving clockwise starting with the closest opponent on your left.

   5–6

   Choose an opponent as the target.

   Any player may play Roll Phase Action Cards.

6. Defensive Roll Phase: If you activated an Attack during your Offensive Roll Phase, your opponent activates their Defensive Ability with a single Roll Attempt. Any player may play Roll Phase Action Cards.

7. Main Phase (2): Identical to Main Phase (1).

8. Discard Phase: Sell (discard) cards for each until you have or fewer cards in your hand.

Heroes

• Artificer
• Barbarian
• Cursed Pirate
• Gunslinger
• Huntress
• Krampus
• Monk
• Moon Elf
• Ninja
• Paladin
• Pyromancer
• Samurai
• Santa
• Seraph
• Shadow Thief
• Tactician
• Treant
• Vampire Lord

Learn more about the heroes at dicethrone.com

Tokens

• Accuracy
• Back Strike
• Barbed Vine
• Bleed
• Blessing of Divinity
• Blind
• Blinding Light
• Blood Power
• Bonus Damage
• Bounty
• Burn
• Chaos
• Cheer
• Chi
• Cleanse
• Coal
• Concussion
• Constrict
• Crit
• Cursed Doubloon
• Delayed Poison
• Dominance
• Dryad Spirit
• Egg Nog
• Entangle
• Evasive
• Fire Mastery
• First Strike
• Flight
• Gift
• Heal Bot
• Hex
• Holy Presence
• Honor
• King’s Hand
• Knockdown
• Life Siphon
• Loot Chests
• Mesmerize
• Nanite
• Nanobot
• Ninjutsu
• Nyra
• Nyra’s Bond
• Parasite
• Parlay
• Poison
• Portal Shards
• Powder Keg
• Protect
• Rejects
• Reload
• Retribution
• Salve
• Sapling Spirit
• Seedling Spirit
• Shadows
• Shame
• Shock Bot
• Silence
• Smoke Bomb
• Sneak Attack
• Stun
• Synth
• Tactical Advantage
• Targeted
• Wellspring
• Wither

Damage Table

• Damage Types
• Final DMG Total

Note: Damage that occurs outside of an attack (via Status Effect or Defensive Ability) does not have a damage type. That damage can be avoided, but you can’t use an Attack Modifier to enhance it or use a Defensive Ability against it.

Game Setup

Each player should place all of their chosen hero’s components in front of them:

1. Hero Board

2. Hero Leaflet

3. Tokens: Stack your Status Effect and Companion tokens on your leaflet in their associated places.

4. Health Dial: Set your starting Health to 50 (for a 1v1 game).

5. Combat Points Dial: Set your starting CP to .

6. Deck: Shuffle your cards to create a deck. Draw the top cards from your deck. This is your starting hand.

7. Dice: Roll 1 . The player who rolls the highest number is considered the Start Player and gets to go first.

8. Additional Setup: Some heroes require unique setup steps. If applicable, these steps will be located on the back of your Hero Leaflet.

Frequently Asked Questions

Note: Each Hero has more rules clarifications.

What is Dice Throne Adventures?

Dice Throne Adventures is a genre-bending cooperative expansion for Dice Throne. You can take 1 to 4 Heroes and delve into randomly generated worlds, beautiful environments, intense boss battles, innovative Diablo-inspired loot, and non-destructive legacy elements.

If it is ever unclear what choice a Minion or Boss should make, what happens?

The Active Player should make the most effective decision for the Minion or Boss.

Can a Hero Heal above their starting Health?

Yes. Like standard Dice Throne, a Hero can Heal up to above their starting Health.

Can I spend Bonus Damage tokens after my opponent has already activated their Defensive Ability?

Yes. Bonus Damage tokens are Attack Modifiers, which may be spent before or after the opponent Activates their Defensive Ability.

During a campaign, what is the stack limit for King’s Hand ?

Infinity.

Do I go directly into the Boss Battle after going through the Boss Portal tile?

No. First you go to Rosella’s Shop and you have to reset your Hero board.

Can the King’s Hand dice roll be manipulated with applicable Hero’s Roll Phase cards?

Yes.

Are my Hero’s upgraded Ability cards and Equipment cards carried over from scenario to scenario?

No, you always return all cards to your deck after each session.

If my team was victorious and had Salves remaining, would they carry over to the next scenario?

Yes.

If my team lost and we had Salves remaining, do these carry over when we replay the scenario?

No, these are not added to your Starting Salves for your replay of the same scenario.

What happens if I run out of cards in a Loot deck?

Draw from the next highest rarity Loot deck instead.

Action Cards

Action cards (identified by a icon) are single use cards that provide a benefit. Action cards may be played at different times, depending on their color.

To Play an Action Card

1. Spend the required (shown on the left side of the card).
2. Perform the described action and then place the card onto your Discard Pile.

Instant Action Cards

• Identified by a red border and a icon.

• May be played at any time, during any player’s turn (as indicated by the icon on the left side of the card).

• May be played to interrupt actions or abilities (except other Instant Action cards), and are resolved immediately. The interrupted action or ability completes afterward.

• Instant Action cards cannot be interrupted.

Main Phase Action Cards

• Identified by a blue border and a icon.

• Only playable on your own turn, during Main Phase (1) or Main Phase (2) (as indicated by the icon on the left side of the card).

Roll Phase Action Cards

• Identified by an orange border and a icon.

• May only be played during an Offensive Roll Phase, Defensive Roll Phase, or Targeting Roll Phase (as indicated by the icon on the left side of the card).

• May be played during any player’s turn.

Attack Modifiers

Any card or Status Effect that modifies an Attack is considered an “Attack Modifier.”

They can be played before or after the Defensive Ability is activated.

Damage added by Attack Modifiers is considered to be of the same damage type as the original damage being dealt.

Attack Modifiers can only be used on Attacks (i.e. an Offensive Ability that targets an opponent with at least dmg).

Combat Points

• Combat Points (CP) are spent to play cards and Activate abilities from your Hero Board.

• You can have a maximum of . If you gain CP while you are already at , do not increase your CP Dial.

• At the start of your Income Phase, increase your CP Dial by .

Important: In a 1v1 game, the Start Player must skip their first Income Phase.

Companions

Some heroes have Companions, which are represented by tokens, dials, or other custom components. Companions are not Status Effects, and are therefore immune to cards and abilities that alter Status Effects.

Companions feature custom rules on the Hero Leaflet. They cannot be removed, transferred, or destroyed, unless otherwise specified in the Companion’s ruleset.

Damage Types

• Damage Table
• Final DMG Total

The current amount of damage waiting to be dealt to a player is considered “incoming damage”.

There are 5 damage types: normal (denoted as simply “dmg”), undefendable, pure, collateral, and ultimate.

Damage Type Attributes

Each damage type has one or more of the following attributes:

• Defendable - If the damage is the result of your opponent’s Offensive Ability, you may perform your Defensive Ability.

• Avoidable - Can be reduced, prevented, avoided, or interrupted by cards and/or Status Effects.

• Enhanceable - Can be improved with Attack Modifiers.

• Special Targeting Rules - The player to receive the damage is specified in the description. No Targeting Phase is necessary to determine who will receive this damage.

Normal Damage

• This is the most common type of damage, denoted by a black circle with a number in it (e.g. ) followed by “dmg”.

• Defendable, Avoidable, and Enhanceable.

• No Special Targeting Rules

Undefendable Damage

• Another common type of damage denoted by a red circle with a number in it (e.g. ) followed by “undefendable dmg”.

• Not Defendable, but it is Avoidable (with cards / Status Effects).

• Enhanceable.

• No Special Targeting Rules.

Pure Damage

• A special type of undefendable damage denoted by a red circle with a number in it (e.g. ) followed by “pure dmg”.

• Not Defendable, but it is Avoidable.

• Not Enhanceable.

• No Special Targeting Rules.

Collateral Damage

• A special type of undefendable damage denoted by a red circle with a number in it (e.g. ) followed by “collateral dmg”.

• Not Defendable, but it is Avoidable.

• Not Enhanceable.

• Has Special Targeting Rules (specified on the ability/card).

• Does not qualify as an Attack since it does not directly target.

• When dealt to multiple players of the same team at the same time, reduce the Health Dial by the combined total dealt.

Ultimate Damage

• A special type of undefendable damage dealt by your Ultimate Ability.

• Denoted by a red circle with a number in it (e.g. ).

• Not Defendable or Avoidable.

• Enhanceable.

• No Special Targeting Rules.

Defensive Roll Phase

• Dice Throne Turn, Phase 6

If the Active Player’s Offensive Roll Phase results in an Attack, then the Defender now begins the Defensive Roll Phase.

1. Resolve any effects from the Offensive Ability that require a target and are not damage related (e.g. gain Evasive , inflict Bounty , steal , etc).

2. If the Offensive Ability results in an Attack and if that Attack’s damage type is defendable, the Defender may activate their Defensive Ability.

   Note: Most heroes only have 1 Defensive Ability. However, if a hero has 2, they must choose one now.

3. Defender performs one Roll Attempt with the indicated number of dice (e.g. means roll 1 die).

4. Based on the dice results, the Defender resolves all non-damage effects (e.g. gain Synth , inflict Shame , gain CP, etc).

5. There is one last opportunity for any player to spend Status Effects or play cards.

6. Finally, all damage, prevention, and/or healing effects are accumulated and are applied simultaneously at the conclusion of the Roll Phase.

   Note: If all remaining players are simultaneously reduced to 0 health, the game is a draw.

Discard Phase

• Dice Throne Turn, Phase 8

1. Sell cards from your hand, until you have or fewer cards.

2. Increase your CP Dial by for each card sold (more expensive cards are not worth more ).

3. Place any sold cards onto your Discard Pile.

Final DMG Total

Occasionally, calculating a Final Total of damage (the amount you reduce your health dial by at the conclusion of the roll phase) can become complex when the Incoming Damage of the attack is affected by your Defensive Ability, cards, and status effects played by you and your opponent.

Luckily, you can easily calculate the Final Total by following the steps below, in the order shown, after both players are completely finished taking actions:

1. Determine incoming damage

   Incoming Damage is the amount of Damage that is waiting to be dealt to you at any point during the game. Most frequently this damage comes from Offensive and Defensive abilities, but Incoming Damage can also come from status effects like Pyromancer’s Burn or Shadow Thief’s Poison .

2. Add & Subtract (subtotal)

   We now apply anything that used addition or subtraction to affect Incoming Damage. Defensive Abilities, status effects, or cards that would subtract (prevent) or add a specific amount of damage are applied to Incoming Damage during this step. The result is called the Incoming Damage Subtotal.

3. Multiply & Divide (Final Total)

   Finally, calculate anything that affects Incoming Damage using multiplication or division. All division and multiplication is applied at the end, regardless of what order cards, status effects, or Defensive Abilities were activated.

   Also, in the case that you need to calculate more than one multiplier, each multiplier is calculated independently using the original Incoming Damage Subtotal determined by Step 2.

   Anything else that uses Incoming Damage as part of a multiplication or division calculation (e.g. Paladin’s Retribution status effect) is also calculated at this time.

Barbarian vs Paladin Example

Below is an example of a series of events that transpire during the Offensive and Defensive Roll Phase between the Barbarian (attacking) and the Paladin (defending).

1. Barbarian activates his Overpower Offensive Ability, which will deal damage to the Paladin.

2. Paladin spends his Retribution status effect, which will deal half of the Incoming Damage back to the Barbarian.

3. Paladin spends his Protect status effect, which will prevent of the Incoming Damage.

4. Paladin activates his Divine Defense III ability, which will prevent dmg. He also gains another Protect .

5. Barbarian plays his Get Some Attack Modifier card which inflicts Concussion and adds dmg.

6. Paladin plays Absolution card which will prevent dmg.

7. Paladin spends his other Protect status effect which again will prevent of the Incoming Damage.

A lot of stuff just happened. Let’s calculate damage:

1. Determine incoming damage

   Incoming Damage from Barbarian’s Overpower (Event 1, above).

2. Add & Subtract (subtotal)

   Incoming Damage (Event 1 - Overpower)

   − dmg (Event 4 - Divine Defense III)

   dmg (Event 5 - Get Some)

   − dmg (Event 6 - Absolution)

   ---

   Incoming Damage (Subtotal)

3. Multiply & Divide (Final Total)

   Determine the value of each multiplier simultaneously and independently (Note: all division in Dice Throne is always rounded up):

   Event 2 (Retribution ) = (Subtotal) ÷ 2 = dmg
   Event 3 (Protect ) = (Subtotal) ÷ 2 =
   Event 7 (Protect ) = (Subtotal) ÷ 2 =

   Then apply all of this to the Subtotal:

   Incoming Damage −− = −1 Incoming Damage

Using Protect twice, Paladin prevents all damage, which means the Final Total of damage the Paladin receives is .

Additionally, the Barbarian will receive dmg in return since the Paladin spent his Retribution token (Event 2).

Other Game Modes

King of the Hill

Apply the following rule changes:

• Your starting Health depends on the number of players:

  • 3 Players — 35 Health each
  • 4 Players — 25 Health each
  • 5 Players — 20 Health each

• Roll to determine the Start Player.

• Players take turns in a clockwise order.

• When Attacking, you may target any player desired. However, you receive a bonus card if you choose to Attack the Leader.

• The player(s) with the most Health remaining are considered the Leader(s).

• If you target a Leader with an Attack, you draw card from your deck. The card draw happens immediately after choosing your target (before any other effects occur).

• If you Attack an opponent who is tied with you for the lead, (e.g. you and another player both have 30 Health), you still draw bonus card.

• If you are the only Leader (i.e. you alone have the most Health), you cannot earn a bonus card.

2v2 Teams

When playing with 4 players, apply the following rule changes:

• The game is played in teams of two.

• Teammates sit next to each other and are encouraged to view each other’s hands & strategize.

• Roll to determine the Start Player.

• Turn order alternates between teams in a zigzag pattern.

• Teammates share one Health Dial beginning with 50 health.

• The Start Player skips the Income Phase of their first turn.

• When one teammate receives damage, reduce the shared Health Dial by the corresponding amount. If both teammates take damage at the same time, reduce the Health Dial by the combined total of damage taken by both teammates.

• Teammates still have their own individual CP Dials. A player’s may only be spent on their own cards and abilities.

• Players cannot intervene to reduce their teammate’s incoming damage unless specified by a card/status effect (e.g. the card ‘Not This Time!’ can be played on teammates because it refers to “A chosen player”).

• Players may alter dice to prevent a teammate from taking damage in the first place or to improve their dice outcome.

Targeting Roll Phase

When selecting a target for an attack in Targeting Roll Phase, determine the Defender who will be receiving the damage based on the result of your die roll:

1–2

Target the opponent on your left.

3–4

Target the opponent on your right.

5

Your opponents choose which of them you target.

6

Choose either opponent as your target.

3v3 Teams

When playing a 3v3 game with 6 players, apply the following rule changes to a 2v2 team game:

• The game is played in teams of three.

• Teammates sit next to each other and are encouraged to view each other’s hands & strategize.

• Roll to determine the Start Player.

• Turn order alternates between teams in a zigzag pattern.

• Teammates share one Health Dial beginning with 50 health.

Targeting Roll Phase

When selecting a target for an attack in Targeting Roll Phase, determine the Defender who will be receiving the damage based on the result of your die roll:

1–2

Target the opponent on the left.

3–4

Target the opponent in the middle.

5–6

Target the opponent on the right.

2v2v2 Teams

When playing a 2v2v2 game with 6 players, apply the following rule changes to a 2v2 team game:

• The game is played in teams of two.

• Teammates sit 3 seats away from each other and are encouraged to view each other’s hands & strategize.

• Roll to determine the Start Player.

• Player 1 from from each team completes their turn followed by the Player 2 from each team.

• Teammates share one Health Dial beginning with 50 health.

Targeting Roll Phase

When selecting a target for an attack in Targeting Roll Phase, determine the Defender who will be receiving the damage based on the result of your die roll:

1–4

Count around the table moving clockwise starting with the closest opponent on your left.

5–6

Choose an opponent as the target.

Health

• The moment your health is reduced to 0, you have been defeated.

• If all remaining players are simultaneously reduced to 0 health, the game is a draw (an opponent cannot be ‘more dead’ than you).

• You may heal a maximum of 10 points above your starting health.

Heal

Increase your Health Dial by the specified amount (e.g. Heal ).

Hero Board

Offensive Ability

• May be Activated at the end of your Offensive Roll Phase.
• You may only activate a single ability as the result of your Offensive Roll Phase.

Activation Requirement

The Final Dice Result required to activate an Offensive Ability.

• 

  Offensive Abilities generally require a specific set of symbols to activate.

• 

  Small Straight abilities require any 4 sequential numbers in a row (e.g. 2,3,4,5) and are represented by 4 escalating dice.

• 

  Large Straight abilities require any 5 sequential numbers in a row (e.g. 1,2,3,4,5) and are represented by 5 escalating dice.

Passive Ability

• Always active and/or available for use.

Ultimate ability

Your hero’s most powerful attack! If activated, the effects are completely unstoppable.

Important: The damage and effects of an Ultimate Ability can be enhanced, but cannot be reduced, prevented, avoided, responded to, or interrupted by anything (e.g. cards, Status Effects, Companions, etc). Opponents may take no action of any kind from the time it is Activated until the conclusion of the Roll Phase. The only way to prevent an Ultimate Ability is to alter a die roll before its activation.

Ability Description

• The effects to be resolved when an ability is Activated.
• Dice rolled as part of the ability’s effects may apply multiple times during the resolution of the ability.

Defensive Ability

• Activated when you are Attacked by an opponent.
• If you have the choice of more than one Defensive Ability, choose one before rolling your dice.
• The Defensive Ability is not activated if the incoming damage type is undefendable, pure, collateral, or is the result of an opponent’s Ultimate Ability.

Defensive Dice

• The number of dice you roll when activating your Defensive Ability.
• For example, means the Gunslinger rolls 1 die during her Defensive Roll Phase.
• These dice are only rolled a single time.

Hero Cards

There are two types of cards: Hero Upgrade cards and Action cards.

During your Income Phase, you draw a card from your deck. If you need to draw a card, but your deck is empty, shuffle your Discard Pile to create a new deck first.

Playing cards costs Combat Points . This cost is indicated on the left hand side of the card. Cards costing are free to play.

You must conclude your Discard Phase with no more than cards in your hand. If you reach the Discard Phase with more than this, you must sell cards until you have or fewer. To sell a card, discard it and increase your CP Dial by (all cards are worth when sold, no matter how much it costs to play).

The phase during which a card may be played is indicated by the symbol on the left hand side of the card.

Hero Leaflet

1. Status Effects and Companions: Rules for your hero’s Status Effects & Companions.

2. Dice Key: The symbols on each face of the hero’s dice.

3. Complexity Rating: A value between 1 and 6 that measures how difficult a hero is to play. Higher complexity heroes often take more time to master and require good strategy to play effectively.

4. Hero Setup: Some heroes require additional setup steps before the game begins.

5. Frequently Asked Questions: The answers to questions about complex rules for this hero.

Hero Upgrades

Hero Upgrade cards permanently upgrade the space with the same name on your Hero Board. Identified by a icon on the left side of the card.

Hero Upgrade cards…

• may only be played during your Main Phase (1) or Main Phase (2).

• may not be sold after they have been played.

• may be upgraded directly to level III. If upgrading an already upgraded ability (i.e. upgrading from level II to level III), play the new card over the top of the previous Hero Upgrade and pay only the difference in cost between the upgrades.

To Play An Upgrade Card

1. Spend the required (shown on the left side of the card).
2. Place the card onto the space of your Hero Board with the same name.

Income Phase

• Dice Throne Turn, Phase 2

1. Increase your CP Dial by (skip this step if you already have the maximum of ).

2. Draw card from the top of your deck and add it to your hand. If your deck is empty, shuffle your Discard Pile to create a new deck.

Important: The Start Player skips the Income Phase of their first turn except for Minion Battles, Boss Battles, and Boss vs Many mode.

Main Phase

• Dice Throne Turn, Phases 3 & 7

Perform any of the options below in any order, and as many times as you like:

1. Sell any card

   • Place card from your hand onto your Discard Pile.

   • Increase your CP Dial by (all cards are worth when sold, no matter how much it costs to play).

2. 

   Play Main Phase Action cards

   • Reduce your CP Dial by the cost shown on the left side of the card.

   • Perform the described action(s).

   • Place the card onto your Discard Pile.

3. 

   Play Hero Upgrade cards

   • Reduce your CP Dial by the cost shown on the left side of the card.

   • If you are upgrading from level II to level III, only pay the difference in cost.

   • Place the card onto the correspondingly named space on your Hero Board.

Offensive Roll Phase

• Dice Throne Turn, Phase 4

During this phase, any player may choose to play Roll Phase Action cards after any step listed below.

1. Perform up to 3 Roll Attempts:

   • Roll all 5 of your dice.

   • Optional: reroll any number of dice.

   • Optional: for a second time, reroll any number of dice.

2. When you are satisfied with your roll, you may either:

   • Announce the Offensive Ability that you intend to Activate (your Final Dice Result must meet its Activation Requirement). Ask your opponent if they would like to alter your dice or allow the ability to activate successfully.

   • Announce that you are not going to Activate an Offensive Ability at all.

     Tip: Activating a weak Attack against an opponent with a powerful Defensive Ability is not always advisable.

3. If you, a teammate, or an opponent have altered any of your dice at this point (e.g. someone played ‘Twice As Wild’), you may either:

   • Announce a different Offensive Ability based on the new Final Dice Results.

   • Return to step of the Offensive Roll Phase and use any remaining unused rerolls.

4. Activate the Offensive Ability (if one was chosen):

   • Determine its variable effects (some abilities require additional steps to determine their full effects).

   • Resolve any effects that do not require a target (e.g. gain Evasive , gain Back Strike , Heal , etc).

Resolving Text

“Roll [#] ”

Roll the indicated number of dice a single time, then resolve the effects that follow. Dice rolled previously cannot be used to resolve the listed effects.

Multiplication (e.g. “4 × ”)

Multiply the [number] by the [quantity] of your dice displaying the symbol to determine the total.

“On [symbol]”

If your roll contains the symbol shown , you get the listed benefits . However, you only get these benefits once, even if your roll contains the required result multiple times.

“Then”

You may spend Status Effects and play Instant Action cards or Roll Phase Action cards at the point of a ‘Then’ statement. The effect following a ‘Then’ statement is performed after the effects that came before it.

“Or”

When statements are separated by an “or”, you may resolve only one of the options.

“Steal”

Take the indicated resource from your opponent and give it to yourself.

When stealing Health/, increase your Health/CP Dial and reduce their dial accordingly.

If your opponent does not have the specified amount, Steal as much as they have.

Additionally

Statements following an “Additionally” resolve after the other listed effects.

Status Effects

Each hero has a unique set of Status Effects listed on their hero leaflet, represented by tokens. If you need more tokens than are provided, represent them with something else.

Positive or Negative Status Effects can be gained or inflicted on yourself or other players. Status Effects are usually gained or inflicted through cards or Offensive Abilities.

When you gain or inflict a Status Effect, take the corresponding token from your Hero Leaflet and place it in the middle of the receiving player’s Hero Board. This Status Effect is now considered to be “in play”. If a player is defeated, Status Effects they inflicted on other players remain in play.

Removing Status Effects

When a Status Effect is removed, return the token to the appropriate space on its Hero’s Leaflet. When using cards or abilities that remove a specific number of Status Effects, remove that many tokens.

Spendable Status Effects

Some Status Effects are removed when you spend them. Unless otherwise specified, you may spend these status effects at any time during any phase of any player’s turn and their effects are immediate.

Persistent Status Effects

A Status Effect marked as “Persistent” remains in play until the end of the game, or until a card or ability causes its removal.

Stack Limits

Many Status Effects can be applied multiple times to a hero, creating a stack of them. The Stack Limit represents the maximum number of tokens of a particular Status Effect that can be on a single Hero Board at a given time (e.g. a Status Effect with a Stack Limit of 2 can have a maximum of 2 tokens on each Player).

Increasing Stack Limit

If a player increases the Stack Limit of a Status Effect, the increase only applies to that player, and lasts for the duration of the game.

Unique Status Effects

These fundamentally break the standard Status Effect rules (explained in their description). Unique Status Effects often have a custom shape and/or size.

Interrupting Status Effects

If a Status Effect is spent, its effects cannot be interrupted.

Targeting Roll Phase

• Dice Throne Turn, Phase 5

If you have more than one opponent, you must determine your target.

In King of the Hill variants, simply choose an opponent to target. In Team vs. Team variants, roll 1 to determine the target.

Note: Targeting an opponent still applies even if you have activated an ability that does no damage, but has effects that must be reconciled (e.g. ‘Mark the Target’ inflicts Bounty ).

Timing Conflicts

When multiple players perform Instant Actions that cause confusion as to whose action is resolved first, the player whose turn it is has priority, regardless of who initiated their action first. And remember, spending a status effect token is considered an Instant Action.

For example, if your opponent wants to avoid your Attack by spending an Evasive token, and then you play a Buh Bye (Instant Action card) to remove your opponent’s Evasive , your card would resolve first, because it’s your turn.

Conversely, if your opponent has a Reload token when they Attack you, and you attempt to play a Buh Bye card to remove it, they may still spend that Reload token successfully (because it’s their turn) and your Buh Bye card may not be played to remove that token or any other tokens played by the Attacker.

The player whose turn it is takes precedent regardless of how many instants a player desires to use during an interaction.

Cards/abilities that are not considered “instant” are interruptable. For example, when you play a What Status Effects card (Main Phase Action), your opponent may still spend valid status effects before the card resolves completely (e.g. Tactical Advantage , Nyra’s Bond , etc).

Note: When playing with more than two players, the player whose turn it is has first priority, followed by subsequent players in turn order. After all interruptions are complete, the previous order of play continues normally.

Upkeep Phase

• Dice Throne Turn, Phase 1

1. Determine if any of your Status Effects or abilities activate during your Upkeep Phase. Then resolve these effects (note: this will not be applicable for most heroes during the beginning of the game).

2. If there are multiple effects, the Active Player may choose the order in which they are resolved.

3. All damage and/or healing effects are accumulated and are applied simultaneously at the conclusion of the phase.

2/3/4/5-of-a-kind

When the dice show the same number (not symbol) 2/3/4/5 times.

Ability

An Ability is printed on the hero board, minion card, or boss board. See each different ability description for more information.

• Defensive Ability
• Offensive Ability
• Passive Ability
• Ultimate Ability

Activate

Some Abilities, Status Effects, and Companions may be activated when their Activation Requirement is met.

Activating Offensive and Defensive Abilities

Once a Final Dice Result is determined, a player may activate an Offensive or Defensive Ability.

1. Determine its variable effects (some abilities require additional steps to determine their full effects).

2. Resolve any effects that do not require a target (e.g. gain Evasive , gain Back Strike , Heal , etc).

Activation Requirement

This term is used in several places throughout Dice Throne. In regards to board abilities, the Activation Requirement is the die faces required to Activate the ability. In regards to status effects or companions, the Activation Requirement will vary based on the description of each. Please read each ability, status effect, or companion description carefully to understand each Activation Requirement.

Active Player

The player who’s turn it currently is.

Attack

An Attack is an Offensive Ability that deals at least dmg that targets an opponent (i.e. not collateral dmg).

Defender

The player who is being targeted by an Attack.

Defensive Ability

• Ability
• Hero Board
• Boss Board
• Minion Card

Abilities that can be activated by a hero during their Defensive Roll Phase if their opponent has activated an Offensive Ability that deals Normal Damage.

Defensive Abilities are denoted by an ability name and number of dice used for the ability over a green shield background.

Final Dice Result

• Activation Requirement

The result of your five dice after all Roll Attempts and dice modifications are finished.

Gain

For Status Effects, take the corresponding token and place it on the middle of your Hero Board. For Health or , increase your Health or CP Dial by the specified amount.

Inflict

Take the Status Effect’s corresponding token and place it in the middle of the receiving player’s Hero Board.

Large Straight

5 of your dice show a sequence of numbers (i.e. 1,2,3,4,5 or 2,3,4,5,6).

Offensive Ability

• Ability
• Hero Board
• Boss Board
• Minion Card

Abilities that can be activated by a hero, minion or boss during their Offensive Roll Phase.

These abilities are denoted with an ability name and the Activation Requirement (Final Dice Result) needed to activate that ability.

Only one Offensive Ability can be activated during a player's Offensive Roll Phase.

Passive Ability

• Ability
• Hero Board
• Boss Board
• Minion Card

Some characters have a Passive Ability, denoted on the board with an ability name and the effect of the ability. Passive abilities will describe their effects on the ability, and vary in how they are used. Please read each passive ability carefully.

Roll Attempt

A dice roll performed by the player to Activate an Offensive or Defensive Ability.

Roll Phase

Any or all of: Offensive Roll Phase, Targeting Roll Phase, and Defensive Roll Phase.

If an ability references “the conclusion of the Roll Phase,” this occurs just before Main Phase (2) begins.

Sell

Take a card from your hand, place it onto your Discard Pile, and then increase your CP Dial by .

During a Main Phase, you may sell any number of cards from your hand.

During the Discard Phase, you must sell cards from your hand, until you have or fewer cards.

Small Straight

4 of your dice show a sequence of numbers (i.e. 1,2,3,4 or 2,3,4,5 or 3,4,5,6).

Spent/Spend

If a Status Effect is Spent, you discard the token and receive the benefit. This has no cost. You may gain this Status Effect token again later in the game.

Ultimate Ability

• Ability
• Hero Board
• Boss Board

Each hero and boss has an Ultimate ability that can be activated only during the Offensive Roll Phase, requiring five 6's to activate.

Opponents can use dice-modifying cards to prevent the Ultimate from being activated, but may take no other actions of any kind if the activation is successful. This means that no cards may be played, no status effects may be used, no companions may be activated, no Defensive Rolls may be taken, or any other action.

Portal Crawl Turns

During the Portal Crawl, you will engage in battle with various Minions. The first 3 steps of your turn, Move & Explore, are only performed if you are not engaged with a Minion at the beginning of your turn. If you are engaged with a Minion at the beginning of your turn, skip the Move & Explore steps, and immediately proceed to the Minion Battle (steps 4–7).

Move & Explore (only if not engaged)

1. Spend Salve : Refer to the Scenario Card.
2. Move: Move any distance across explored Environments to an unexplored Environment or ongoing Minion Battle.
3. Explore: If you moved to an unexplored Environment during the Move step, reveal it and Resolve all its effects. If a Minion icon is shown, setup & engage the new Minion and proceed to Minion Battle.

Minion Battle (only if engaged)

4. Spend Salve : Same as above.
5. First Strike : If applicable, complete Minion Step before Hero Step (below).
6. Hero Step: Perform a complete Dice Throne turn.
7. Minion Step: The Minion performs a complete Dice Throne turn (with a few exceptions).

Boss Battle Turns

During a Boss Battle, players will take turns in clockwise order until the Boss or your team is defeated. On your turn…

1. Spend Salves (optional): If desired, spend to Heal on the shared Health dial (may spend multiple).
2. Hero Step: Perform a complete Dice Throne turn.
3. Boss Step: The Boss performs a complete Dice Throne turn (with a few exceptions).

Dice Throne Adventures Setup

When beginning a new campaign, choose a Difficulty Level card (we recommend “Normal” if you are new to Dice Throne) and fill in the following on the Campaign Scoring sheet:

1. Difficulty Level

2. Your Team Name

3. Your Names

4. Your Chosen Heroes: You will continue with the same Hero for the whole campaign.

5. Scenario Score: Indicated on chosen Difficulty Level card.

Game Area Setup

When starting or continuing a campaign, place the following components on the table within reach:

1. Token Tray

2. Loot Table

3. Card Caddy Tray: Make sure the Loot cards are separated into their 4 decks, as indicated by their Loot icons (Common , Rare , Epic , Legendary ), and shuffle each deck.

   If playing a Portal Crawl, also make sure each Level of Minion cards is separated into its own deck and shuffled. Keep Minions and Loot cards in the vac tray.

4. Scenario Card: 4 Scenario cards exist for each Portal Crawl scenario. Randomly choose one to determine your Portal Crawl map. If you are setting up for a Boss Battle scenario, simply take the associated Scenario card.

Player Setup

1. Set Health Dial: See Scenario card to determine starting Health value as part of Hero setup.

2. Take 1 Loot Die

3. Take 1 Turn Order Card

4. Set up your Hero’s remaining components: As per a normal Dice Throne match, gain and draw .

5. 

   Distribute starting salves: For session one, distribute the Starting Salves indicated on the Scenario card.

   For all other sessions, reference the Starting Salves indicated on the Campaign Scoring sheet. You may distribute Salve tokens amongst your team in any fashion.

   

Next, set up the scenario depending on type — Portal Crawl, or Boss Battle.

Components

• 70 Environment tiles: 22 level I/II/III and 4 level IV Environments
• 1 Gold dial
• 2 Portal Tiles: 1 Crimson Sands and 1 Boss Portal tile
• 20 Scenario cards: 4 level 1,3,5 and 7 and 1 per Boss
• 4 Enemy dials: Health tracked on one side, Combat Points tracked on the other
• 160 Boss cards: 40 cards per deck
• 1 Campaign Scoring sheet
• 4 Legacy packs
• 2 Difficulty cards
• 10 Chaos dice
• 4 Loot dice
• 4 Boss leaflets: 1 for each Boss
• 4 Boss boards: 1 for each Boss
• 1 Loot table: Regular Loot on one side, Boss Loot on the other
• 52 Minion cards: 17 level I, 17 level II, 13 level III, and 5 level IV
• 16 Hero Standees and 16 Standee Bases: Barbarian, Treant, Samurai, Gunslinger. Not pictured here: Artificer, Cursed Pirate, Huntress, Monk, Moon Elf, Ninja, Paladin, Pyromancer, Seraph, Shadow Thief, Tactician, and Vampire Lord. If you’d like to play with highly detailed, premium miniatures visit dicethrone.com!
• 140 Loot cards: 41 Common, 38 Rare, 31 Epic, and 30 Legendary
• 1 Shopkeeper leaflet
• 4 Turn Order cards
• 1 Token Tray - After punching out the tokens, load them into the tray according to the above diagram
• 1 Card Caddy Tray: For instructions on how to load this tray, see “The Card Caddy”
• 1 Leaflets & Boss Boards Tray: This tray comes preloaded with all the leaflets and boss boards
• 1 Dials, Dice, & Figures Tray Place standees and miniatures into this tray before playing your first game

Status Effects and Tokens

• 4 Back Strike
• 4 Barbed Vine
• 8 Bleed
• 4 Blind
• 4 Bounty
• 4 Burn
• 8 Chaos
• 4 Concussion
• 4 Entangle
• 5 Evasive
• 3 Flight
• 4 Knockdown
• 4 Parasite
• 8 Poison
• 2 Shadows
• 1 Stun
• 6 Wither
• 8 Double-Sided Damage +1/+2
• 8 Double-Sided Damage +3/+4
• 11 King’s Hand
• 10 Salve
• 2 Life Siphon
• 4 Dominance
• 4 Hex
• 4 Silence
• 4 Double-Sided 1/2 Loot Chests
• 4 Double-Sided 3/4 Loot Chests
• 5 Double-Sided 0/1 CP tokens
• 3 Double-Sided 3/5 CP tokens
• 3 Portal Shards
• 2 First Strike Markers

Achievements!

When someone in your gaming group performs one of these feats, have them initial the box to be remembered forever in your Great Charter!

Download at: achievements.dicethrone.com

Boss Battle

For each Boss Battle scenario, you will be working together to fight a Boss. You and your team will take turns operating the Boss the same way you did for the Minions. Some preparation is necessary.

Refer to the Boss Battle scenario card:

Boss Battle Setup

1. Choose 1 Health dial for your team and set it to the amount indicated on the Boss Battle scenario card. When you face a Boss, your team shares a common pool of Health.

2. In the center of the table, place the following (as you would arrange them for a normal Dice Throne player):

   • Boss’ board , leaflet , Status Effect tokens , and card deck
   • Enemy dial - Health side up
   • Enemy dial - side up
   • 5 Chaos dice
   • King’s Hand tokens of the quantity indicated on the Boss Battle scenario card

3. Separate the Boss’ cards into two decks and shuffle each deck:

   • Action deck - Action cards used by the Boss during the battle. All Action cards can be identified by an action star () on the left side of the card.

   • Upgrade deck - Upgrade cards used only for Boss Setup. Upgrade cards can be identified by the upgrade arrow () on the left side of the card.

4. Set the Boss CP dial to the “Upgrade CP” value indicated on the Boss Battle scenario card.

5. One by one, turn over the top card from the Boss’ Upgrade deck and place them on the matching Ability of the Boss’ board. For each card:

   
   • The Boss spends Upgrade CP according to the card’s cost.
   • When upgrading from a level 2 card to a level 3 card, only spend the difference in cost.
   • If it is a level 2 Upgrade card and the Boss already has the level 3 Upgrade card, discard it and draw another (no Upgrade CP is gained from discarding).
   • If the Boss could place the Upgrade card, but cannot afford the cost, discard it and stop drawing cards.

   Boss board Setup is now complete.

6. Upgrade cards remaining in the Upgrade deck or discarded can be set aside or returned to the box.

7. Set the Enemy dial ( side up) to the indicated Starting CP value shown on the Scenario card.

8. Set the Enemy dial (Health side up) to the indicated Health value shown on the Scenario card.

The Boss is now prepared for battle!

End of Battle

Whether you are victorious or are defeated in battle, you will receive some reward and your journey will continue. (see Scenario Conclusion)

Note: In the rare situation that you and the Boss are reduced to Health at the same time, your team is victorious.

Boss Loot

Whether you’ve won or lost a Boss Battle, you will now gain Boss Loot. Turn the Loot board over to the Boss Loot side and perform the following steps a number of times equal to the quantity of chests shown under “Boss Loot” in the Conclusion section of the Boss Battle Scenario card.

1. Each player rolls their Loot die .

2. Examine the Boss Loot table and take the top card from the corresponding Common/Rare/Epic/Legendary Loot deck according to the result of your die roll.

3. Examine the drawn card and choose to either:

   • Immediately add the card to your deck.

   • Discard the card. For each card discarded in this fashion your team will gain 1 Scenario Point, which should be recorded on your Campaign Score sheet (in the “Unclaimed Boss Loot” row).

If your reward is a Loot card of a lower level than one already in your deck, place the lower level card on the bottom of its Loot deck and draw a replacement card from the top. Repeat this as many times as necessary.

Boss Step

During step 3 of a Boss Battle turn the teammate before you now performs the Boss’ turn, which is a standard Dice Throne turn with a few exceptions:

1. Upkeep Phase

   Resolve applicable status effects.

2. Income Phase

   

   • Increase the Boss dial by . Like Dice Throne Heroes, Bosses can have a maximum of .

   • Draw a card from the Boss Action deck (flip it over and place it back on their deck).

   • The Active Player immediately gains the Hero Bonus shown in the top right corner of the card.

3. Main Phase (1)

   • If the card drawn during the Income Phase was a Main Phase Action card, the Boss plays it by spending CP equal to the cards CP cost. After resolving the card, place it in the discard pile.

   • If the Boss cannot afford the CP cost of the card or the card would have no effect, the card is sold (discarded), increasing the Boss dial by .

   • If the drawn card is a Roll Phase Action card, ignore it until the Offensive Roll Phase.

4. Offensive Roll Phase

   1. Roll the 5 Chaos dice :

      • 

        Re-roll any dice that do not match the Roll Objective shown on the last drawn card.

      • Re-roll dice a second time if the Roll Objective has still not been met.

   2. 

      Activate an Ability: The Boss then Activates the ability with the highest priority number that it has fulfilled the Activation Requirement for, regardless of what the original Roll Objective was.

   3. Resolve Roll Phase Action cards: If the Boss had drawn a Roll Phase Action card, they now spend CP equal to the cards CP cost and resolve the card’s effect.

      If the card would have no effect, or the Boss cannot afford to play it, it is sold (discarded) at the conclusion of the Defensive Roll Phase for (the card may still be useful if the Boss performs another Offensive Roll Phase due to a successful King’s Hand roll).

      

      

      

      When the Roll Objective is Straights, adhere to the following rules when choosing which dice to re-roll:

      • Keep exactly one of each 2, 3, 4, and 5 result.

      • Only keep a 1 or 6 value if it is already part of a Small or Large Straight.

      Remember: If the Boss fails to activate an ability on its turn, they will spend one or more King’s Hand tokens in an attempt to start another Offensive Roll Phase.

5. Targeting Roll Phase

   The Boss targets you (the Hero whose turn it currently is).

6. Defensive Roll Phase

   If the Boss’ Attack is defendable, activate your Defensive Ability.

7. Main Phase (2) - Skip this phase.

8. Discard Phase - Skip this phase.

Campaigns

A campaign consists of 8 scenarios which alternate between two different game modes:

• Portal Crawls (scenarios 1, 3, 5, and 7)
• Boss Battles (scenarios 2, 4, 6, and 8)

If your team successfully completes a scenario, you will receive rewards, scenario score, and then advance to the next scenario. If your team fails to complete a scenario, you will be required to repeat it until you finally achieve victory (unless otherwise specified by your Difficulty card).

Once you defeat the Mad King, your team has successfully completed the campaign!

Campaign Score

After defeating the Mad King and recording your final session score, total your campaign score by adding up all the “won” and “lost” session scores. This is a great tool when comparing different campaigns of Dice Throne Adventures.

Go to myscore.dicethrone.com to share your score see how others have fared in their conquest for the Throne!

You can download and print more copies of the score sheet from scoresheet.dicethrone.com.

Card Caddy

Loading the Card Caddy

Dice Throne Adventures includes a functional Card Caddy. Before playing your first game, you must first load all the game’s cards and Environment tiles into it. Behind each deck of cards, place the associated divider. Make sure all content is faced with the card backs toward you and the Minion cards closest to you.

Watch a video demonstration of how to load the Card Caddy.

1. Level I Minion deck and divider.

2. Level II Minion deck and divider.

3. Level III Minion deck and divider.

4. Level IV Minion deck and divider.

5. Scenario cards and divider. Behind the Scenario card divider, place Legacy pack A (do not open).

6. Fallen Barbarian Boss deck and divider.

7. Fallen Gunslinger Boss deck and divider.

8. Fallen Monk Boss deck and divider.

9. Mad King Boss deck and divider.

10. Legacy packs C & D (do not open). Behind the Legacy packs place an “Other cards” divider. This area is also handy for storing your Hero’s extra unused card sleeves.

11. Common Loot cards and divider.

12. Rare Loot cards and divider.

13. Epic Loot cards and divider.

14. Legendary Loot cards and divider.

15. Turn Order Player aids and Difficulty cards. Behind these cards place an “Other cards” divider.

16. Legacy pack B (do not open).

17. Place each stack of Environment tiles. Each Level of Environments should be together. Also place the Crimson Sands and Boss Portal Tile here.

Assigning a Banker

We recommend that before starting the game, assign the duty of “Banker” to one player at the table. The Banker should give cards directly from the Card Caddy to players when necessary.

Explore

Exploring new Environments promises many rewards for adventurers, but also grave danger… and unless a fellow Hero arrives to help later on, you will face these alone.

After moving to an unexplored Environment, collect any items present on the face-down tile:

• Place collected Portal Shards on the Boss Portal .
• Place collected Salves on your Hero board.
• Open Loot Chests , with all players rolling their Loot die to receive a reward.

Next, you must flip over the Environment tile. The tile may show multiple features, which (if present) are dealt with in the following order:

1. Increase your dial by the indicated amount.
2. Increase the Gold dial by the indicated amount.
3. Deal with mandatory actions or optional choices. Unless otherwise specified, these only apply to you.
4. Draw and reveal a new level I/II/III/IV Minion card from its deck, perform the Minion setup steps, and then engage it in battle!

Note: Instant Action cards or spendable status effects may still be used to alter any dice rolls. You cannot use Main Phase or Roll Phase cards outside of battles.

First Strike

• Tokens

Any Minion with First Strike will always Attack the Hero first in a Portal Crawl turn. So, if the minion you're engaged with has First Strike , perform the Minion Step before (instead of after) the Hero Step.

Note: If a Minion with First Strike is defeated during its turn, you still get your full turn afterwards. Even though there is no longer an enemy, you might still activate an ability which provides other benefits.

Other DTA Game Modes

Boss vs Many Mode

Boss vs Many is a 3–5 player alternate game mode that allows you to play a Boss Battle with one player playing as the Boss! All standard Dice Throne rules apply, with the following exceptions:

Heroes Setup Changes

• Heroes share a Health dial, which starts at .

Boss Setup Changes

• Boss starts with Health + Health per Hero.
• You shuffle together both the Boss’ Upgrade deck and the Action deck.
• Boss starts with cards & .

Start Player

• Boss is always the Start Player.
• Boss does not skip his Income Phase.

Turn Order

All players, including the Boss player, take turns in clockwise order performing a standard Dice Throne turn.

King’s Hand

King’s Hand tokens are a Unique Status Effect (Stack Limit: 5): Cannot be removed or transferred by any means.

• Boss gains a King’s Hand during every player’s Upkeep Phase (his own and every Heroes).
• Boss may spend at any time to gain a King’s Hand token (Stack Limit: 5).

When a King’s Hand token is spent, roll a Loot die :

• On 1–10, gain .
• On 11–15, do one of the following:
  1. Force your opponent to re-roll one of their dice.
  2. Gain 1 additional Roll Attempt.
• On 16–20, change the value of any one die.

Targeting Phase

The Heroes always target the Boss.

The Boss, however, must roll for the Targeting Phase. Who they Attack is determined by rolling 1 Chaos die .

2 Heroes vs Boss

• 1–3, Hero on Boss’ Left
• 4–6, Hero on Boss’ Right

3 Heroes vs Boss

• 1–2, Hero on Boss’ Left
• 3–4, Hero in the Center
• 5–6, Hero on Boss’ Right

4 Heroes vs Boss

• 1–4, 1 being Hero on Boss’ left and continuing clockwise
• 5–6, roll again

Boss vs Boss Mode

Boss vs Boss is a 2-player alternate game mode that allows you and an opponent to square off in a normal 1vs1 Dice Throne duel! All standard Dice Throne rules apply, with the following exceptions:

Setup Changes

• Start with Health.
• You shuffle together both the Boss’ Upgrade deck and the Action deck.
• Draw and gain .

King’s Hand

King’s Hand tokens are a Unique Status Effect (Stack Limit: 5): Cannot be removed or transferred by any means.

• Gain a King’s Hand token during every Upkeep Phase.
• Either Boss may spend at anytime to gain 1 King’s Hand token (Stack Limit: 5).

When a King’s Hand token is spent, roll a Loot die :

• On 1–10, gain .
• On 11–15, do one of the following:
  1. Force your opponent to re-roll one of their dice.
  2. Gain 1 additional Roll Attempt.
• On 16–20, change the value of any one die.

Hero Step

Perform a complete Dice Throne turn (see your Hero’s Turn Order card).

1. Upkeep Phase: Resolve applicable status effects

2. Income Phase: Gain and draw

3. Main Phase (1)

   • Play ability upgrades
   • Play Main Phase Action cards
   • Sell cards (gain per card)

4. Offensive Roll Phase: Perform up to 3 Roll Attempts to activate an ability

5. Targeting Roll Phase: Your target is the Boss or the Minion that you are currently engaged with

6. Defensive Roll Phase: The Boss or Minion performs their Defensive Ability

7. Main Phase (2): Identical to Main Phase (1)

8. Discard Phase: Sell cards until you have or fewer cards in your hand

Legacy Content

When you beat the game for the first time you will unlock Legacy Content! This is as much as we are willing to say on the subject, as you will discover it on your own, and it will guide you in how to use it when it is revealed.

Loot Cards

In Dice Throne Adventures, you are able to upgrade your Hero with powerful Loot cards. These cards:

• Feature icons at the bottom based on rarity: Common , Rare , Epic , and Legendary .

• Feature a crystal border at the bottom of the card colorized to match its rarity.

• May be discarded from your hand at any time to draw a replacement card from your deck.

Equipment Cards

Some Loot cards are classified as Equipment (indicated in the center of the card). When playing an Equipment card:

• Pay its required CP and place it face-up next to your Hero board.

• All effects of the card are active at all times and the card remains in play for the duration of the scenario.

• If you wish to play an Equipment card, but already have 2 in play, you must first discard one (no CP is gained).

Upgrading loot Cards

Many Loot cards you find will be a higher level version of a card you might already have in your deck.

Important: You cannot have two Hero Action or Equipment cards of the same name in your deck. For Example: you cannot have both “So Wild!” and “So Wild III!” in your deck.

Any time you would like to add a Loot card of a higher level than one already in your deck, you must remove the lower level card from your deck. If the lower level card is a:

• Loot card, place it at the bottom of its Loot deck.
• Non-Loot card (cards that do not have a crystal border), return it to your Dice Throne Hero’s tray, keeping it separated from your Hero’s deck. It will not be used in any future session during this campaign. Loot cards featuring a Swap icon indicate it replaces a non-Loot card. If you are using card sleeves, we recommend placing the Loot card in front of the non-Loot card within the sleeve.

Deck Size Limit

You can have a maximum of 50 cards in your deck. If you go above this amount you must remove a Loot card from your deck before the start of the next scenario, returning the card to the bottom of the appropriate Loot deck.

Custom card sleeves from dicethrone.com come in packs of 50, which helps you keep track of how many cards are in your deck.

If you do not use sleeves, you may need to count your cards as you advance to higher scenario levels to stay at/under the 50 card limit.

Loot Chests

• Tokens

You will find Loot Chests while exploring Environments and from defeating Minions. They contain many possible rewards but what you receive comes down to fate.

To discover your reward, Heroes gaining Loot should roll their Loot die and compare the result with the relevant row of the Loot Table ( ).

Loot table

Gain Bonus Damage Token: Take 1 corresponding Bonus Damage token.

Gain CP : Increase your CP dial by the indicated amount.

Draw Cards : Draw the indicated number of cards from your deck. If this causes you to have more than 6 cards, do not discard any until your Discard Phase.

Gain Health : Increase your Health dial by the indicated amount.

Gain Gold : Increase the Gold dial by the indicated amount.

Gain Unidentified Loot Card : Take the top card from the Common/Rare/Epic/Legendary Loot deck. Without looking at it, tuck it face-down under the corresponding column of your Hero board. This will keep track of the rarity level of the card.

Important: You cannot use cards or abilities to re-roll or change the result (even if the card says ‘any dice’), unless the card specifically mentions the Loot die.

Minion Battle

If you become engaged, or begin your turn already engaged with a Minion, you must battle and defeat the Minion before you may move again.

With a few exceptions, battling Minions is no different from battling regular Dice Throne opponents.

Follow steps 4–7 of a Portal Crawl turn when battling a Minion…

4. Spend Salve : Refer to the Scenario Card.
5. First Strike (if applicable): Complete Minion Step before Hero Step.
6. Hero Step: Perform a complete Dice Throne turn (see your Hero’s Turn Order card).
7. Minion Step: The Minion completes a Dice Throne turn (with a few modifications).

End Of Turn

If you and the Minion are still alive, the next player takes their turn.

You remain engaged with the Minion on your next turn, unless another Hero defeats it before the start of your next turn.

If You Defeat The Minion

When this Minion is defeated, the Active Player receives any non-Loot Chest rewards. However, Loot Chests always have something in them for all Heroes (i.e. all Heroes roll a Loot die and receive a reward from the Loot Table based on their roll).

Place the defeated Minion card at the bottom of its deck.

If The Minion Defeats You

• A teammate must immediately spend a Salve to restore you to Health. You cannot revive yourself. Status effects are not removed when you are revived.
• If you cannot be revived, then the whole team loses the Portal Crawl (see “Scenario Conclusion”).

Minion Step

During the Minion’s Offensive and Defensive Roll Phases, the teammate who’s before you in the turn order should roll the Chaos dice for the Minion.

Perform a complete Dice Throne turn with the following exceptions:

1. Upkeep Phase: Resolve applicable status effects and Passive Abilities.

2. Income Phase: Skip this phase.

3. Main Phase (1): Skip this phase.

4. Offensive Roll Phase

   Roll the 5 Chaos dice and:

   • Re-roll any dice that do not match the Minion’s Roll Objective or which exceed the required quantity of a symbol.

   • Re-roll dice a second time if the Roll Objective has still not been met.

   When the Roll Objective is Straights, adhere to the following rules when choosing which dice to re-roll:

   • Keep exactly one of each 2, 3, 4, and 5 result.

   • Only keep a 1 or 6 value if it is already part of a Small or Large Straight.

   The Minion performs the best ability that it has fulfilled the Activation Requirement for, including any Passive Abilities.

5. Targeting Roll Phase: The Minion targets you (the Hero whose turn it currently is).

6. Defensive Roll Phase: If the Minion’s Attack is defendable, activate your Defensive Ability. Spend any applicable status effect tokens.

7. Main Phase (2): Skip this phase.

8. Discard Phase: Skip this phase.

Minions

When exploring a new Environment, you may become engaged with a Minion .

Before you begin the Minion Battle, you must draw a random Minion card from the appropriate Minion deck and perform the following setup steps:

1. 

   Take 1 Enemy dial and set the Health side to the indicated starting Health.

2. Take 5 Chaos dice .

3. If the Minion displays a King’s Hand symbol, the Minion begins the battle with a King’s Hand token. Read the King’s Hand tokens section of the Scenario card before continuing.

Minion Cards

1. King’s Hand

2. First Strike

3. Starting Health

4. Starting

5. Offensive Ability

6. Activation Requirement: Just like a standard Dice Throne Hero, all Minions have one or more Offensive Abilities used to Attack you during their Offensive Roll Phase.

7. Passive Ability: Some Minions have a Passive Ability which should be carried out every Minion turn when possible.

8. Defensive Ability: Defense works the same for Minions as it does for Heroes. When the Minion is Attacked, the player rolling on behalf of the Minion will roll the indicated number of Chaos dice to determine the Minion’s defense results.

   Note: Some Minions have a Unique Defense which is activated against all damage types apart from Ultimate Abilities unless stated otherwise.

9. Minion Rewards: When this Minion is defeated, the Active Player receives any non-Loot Chest rewards. However, Loot Chests always have something in them for all Heroes.

   Example: when the Raging Berserker is defeated, the team is rewarded a Legendary Loot Chest , which allows each player to roll their Loot die and receive their reward.

10. Roll Objective: Roll Objective indicates what the Minion is trying to achieve during their Offensive Roll Phase. As per standard Dice Throne rules, the Minion will have 3 Roll Attempts, using the Chaos dice, setting aside any dice that match their Roll Objective (see “Minion Step”).

Move

When moving, your Hero Standee must travel any distance through a chain of previously explored (face up) Environment tiles until you reach one of the following destinations:

An Unexplored Environment

Travel to an unexplored (face down) Environment tile which you then explore.

An Ongoing Minion Battle

Join a teammate who is currently engaged with a Minion on an explored Environment tile. You also become engaged with this Minion and immediately proceed to the Minion Battle.

You cannot:

• Move between Environment tiles diagonally.
• Travel through unexplored Environment tiles.
• Travel through a teammate who is currently engaged with a Minion.
• Move to a previously explored Environment tile unless you have a teammate on it who is engaged with a Minion.
• Choose not to move. You must move on your turn if you are not already engaged with a Minion.

Minions & Bosses are Players

• Minions and Bosses are considered to be “players” and “opponents” and may be affected by any card, status effect, or ability that refers to these.

• Cards and abilities that affect multiple opponents may be applied to multiple Minions, regardless of who the Minions are engaged with.

• Only you and your teammates are considered to be a Hero.

• You may always apply card and ability effects to teammates and Minions, regardless of whether you are in the same Environment or not.

• All Boss & Minion cards should be read from the perspective of the Boss or Minion. So when a Boss ability or card refers to an “opponent”, it is referring to a Hero or Boss of the opposing side.

• If it is ever unclear what choice a Minion or Boss should make, the Active Player should make the most effective decision for the Minion or Boss.

Portal Crawl

To complete a Portal Crawl, players must explore the Boss Portal tile and defeat the Level IV Minion guarding it. The Boss Portal may not be explored until all 3 Portal Shards have been collected from the map.

To collect Portal Shards, Heroes must explore an Environment with a Portal Shard on it, adding that Portal Shard to the Boss Portal tile.

Along the way you will discover helpful Loot Chests and Salves , but each step is fraught with danger as the Mad King’s Minions lie in wait, ready for battle…

Setup

After finishing the Game Area setup, place the following components on the table within reach:

Now, build the Portal Crawl map following these steps:

1. Place the Crimson Sands starting tile. Then place face-down the Boss Portal , and randomly drawn Environments , as indicated on the Scenario card.

2. Place the 3 Portal Shards , Loot Chests , and Salve tokens on the indicated tiles.

3. Place your Hero Standees on the Crimson Sands tile.

Set your team’s Gold dial to the “Starting Gold” value indicated on the Scenario card.

Start Player

To determine the starting player, all Heroes must roll their Loot die . The player who rolls the highest number goes first.

You are now ready to begin your adventure!

Completing The Portal Crawl

If a Hero’s Health was reduced to 0 and could not be revived by any teammate, your team has lost the scenario.

Once you defeat the Level IV Minion revealed after exploring the Boss Portal tile and all Heroes are not engaged with a Minion, your team has won the scenario.

Proceed to Scenario Conclusion.

Scenario Cards

A campaign alternates between Portal Crawl and Boss Battle scenarios. Scenario cards provide setup and and other details.

Portal Crawl Scenario Cards

1. Scenario Number: Each campaign consists of 8 scenarios. This is an example of the first scenario.
2. Game Mode: A scenario is either a Portal Crawl or a Boss Battle.
3. Map Layout: Refer to this when you set up a Portal Crawl.
4. Salve: The effects of Salve during this scenario.

5. Hero Setup: Details the starting value of players’ Health dial(s) and the team’s Gold dial, depending on whether there are 1/2/3/4 Heroes. If you are just starting out on your adventure, it also indicates the number of Salves to be distributed amongst your team.

   e.g. In a 2-player game each Hero will start with 18 Health and the Gold dial will be set to 10.

6. Conclusion: Details what to do upon your team’s victory or defeat.

7. King’s Hand Tokens: Should be referred back to when you face powerful Minions who use these tokens.

Boss Battle Scenario Cards

1. Scenario Number: Each campaign consists of 8 scenarios. This is an example of the second scenario.
2. Game Mode: A scenario is either a Portal Crawl or a Boss Battle.
3. Boss: This is the Boss the heroes are battling!
4. Salve: The effects of Salve during this scenario.

5. Hero Setup: Heroes share a Health dial, which starts at 50.

6. Boss Setup: Starting values of Boss's Health, Upgrade CP, and Starting CP during setup, depending on whether there are 1/2/3/4 Heroes.

   E.g., in a 2-player game this Boss will start with 70 Health, 8 Upgrade CP, and 2 Starting CP.

7. Conclusion: Details what to do upon your team’s victory or defeat.

8. King’s Hand Tokens: Refer to this during setup and when the Boss uses these tokens.

   Here in a 2-player game, the Fallen Barbarian starts with 2 King’s Hand tokens.

Scenario Conclusion

After completing a game session of either a Portal Crawl or a Boss Battle, you must perform the 3 conclusion steps below (which are also described on your Scenario card). Before performing conclusion steps, first clean up all of your Hero’s components except for unidentified Loot cards. But keep your deck handy as you will be adding Loot cards to it.

1. Shop / Boss Loot

Permanently upgrade your deck by adding Loot cards. If the current scenario is a Portal Crawl, see “Shop”. Otherwise, see “Boss Loot”.

2. Record Win / Loss & Increase Starting Salves

Record the results of your session on the Campaign Scoring sheet.

Recording A Win

Record win on Score sheet - record the following in the green boxes (when applicable):

1. Scenario #: In the top left corner of the Scenario card.

2. Remaining Salves: 1 Scenario Point for each remaining Salve your team didn’t use.

3. Starting Salves for next session: Record the total number of Salves your team still has in the Starting Salve box for next session.

4. Unspent Gold (Portal Crawl Only): 1 Scenario Point for every 5 unspent Gold your team has remaining after the Shop Phase has concluded.

5. Unclaimed Boss Loot cards (Boss Battle Only): 1 Scenario Point for each Boss Loot card your team chose not to keep.

6. Explored All tiles (Portal Crawl Only): 5 Scenario Points if your team explored every tile during a Portal Crawl.

7. Scenario Score: Points equal to the Scenario Score (in the top right of your Scoring sheet).

8. Session Score: The total of the above values.

Recording a Loss

When your team is defeated, you will repeat the scenario. When you repeat it, your team will be given 3 more Starting Salves than you began the previous session with.

Record loss on Score sheet - record the following:

1. Scenario #: in the top left corner of the Scenario card.

2. Starting Salves for next session: Add 3 to your current session’s Starting Salve value and record it in the Starting Salve box for next session.

3. Session Score: Write “–10” (negative 10).

Important: None of the green boxes on your Score sheet are filled in when your team is defeated.

3. Advance or Repeat the Scenario

After completing a scenario, any Boss cards, Environment tiles, and Minion cards used in the scenario should be shuffled back into their respective decks and placed back into the Card Caddy before setting up the next scenario.

If Your Team Won

Advance to the next scenario: Advance to the next scenario with any new Loot cards obtained.

If Your Team Lost

Repeat the scenario: Repeat this scenario (drawing a new Scenario card only if it’s a Portal Crawl) with 3 more Salves and any new Loot cards obtained.

Shop

After completing a Portal Crawl, it’s time to spend your hard-earned Gold at Rosella’s Shop.

1. Gold total per player

Round the amount on the Gold dial up to the nearest Gold, with all Heroes receiving this amount of Gold to spend in the shop.

Tip: Use your own Health dial to track how much Gold you have to spend.

Example: If the Gold dial shows 27 Gold, increase this to 30, and all Heroes have 30 Gold to spend.

2. Deal Shop Cards

Deal each player a hand of Loot cards of the amount and type indicated in the Conclusion section of the Scenario card.

Important: Players may look at these Loot cards, but not at any Unidentified Loot cards they gathered during the Portal Crawl.

3. Gain Cards

Perform any of the actions below, any number of times and in any order.

Buy: Spend Gold to add one of the cards dealt to you during Step 2 (“Deal Shop cards”) to your deck. See the Shopkeeper leaflet’s Price Tag for its cost.

• If you buy a Loot card of a higher level than one already in your deck (e.g. “So Wild II!”), pay only the difference in the two card’s costs. For example, if you want to buy an Epic card while you already have the Rare version of the same card, you only pay Gold.

• You may not buy lower level versions of Loot cards already in your deck. Place them at the bottom of the appropriate Loot deck and draw a replacement card from the top. Repeat this as many times as necessary.

Identify: Spend Gold to Identify an Unidentified Loot card. The identified Loot card is instantly added to your deck.

• If you Identify a Loot card of a lower level than one already in your deck, place the lower level card on the bottom of its Loot deck and draw a replacement card from the top. Repeat this as many times as necessary.

Sell: Unidentified Loot cards (or any Loot card currently in your deck), may be sold for Gold each.

• When a card is sold, place it at the bottom of its Loot deck.

• You cannot sell cards dealt to you during Step 2 (“Deal Shop cards”). These cards do not belong to you.

• You cannot sell non-Loot cards (cards that do not have a crystal border).

Clean Up

After finishing the Shop phase, all obtained cards are shuffled into your deck for use during the next scenario.

All Unidentified cards and Shop cards that were not bought or identified are returned to their respective Loot decks.

Note: Unidentified loot cards cannot be carried over to the next scenario.

Boss

• Boss Battle

Previously defeated in battle by the Mad King and now in his eternal servitude, they are found in the Boss Battle scenarios after each Portal Crawl.

Boss Portal

The final Environment you need to explore to complete a Portal Crawl. May not be explored until all 3 Portal Shards have been collected.

Chaos Dice

The 5 dice used by Minions and Bosses.

Difficulty

Dice Throne Adventures can be played at different difficulty levels. The difficulty card will tell you how many points each scenario win is worth, and will also tell you what adjustments to the base game need to be made (if any) to play at the higher difficulty.

Engaged

Whenever a hero is on an Environment tile with a Minion, they are engaged in battle. They remain engaged until the Minion is defeated, or the players lose the Portal Crawl.

A Hero can never be engaged with more than one Minion at a time.

Environment Tile

Your team moves across and explores these during a Portal Crawl.

Equipment Card

A special Loot card whose effects remain in play for the duration of the scenario.

Gold

Gold is gained during a Portal Crawl and spent at the Shop to buy new Loot cards.

Use the Gold Dial to track the amount of Gold gained by your team.

Loot Die

20-sided die that is rolled when you gain Loot. It can only be re-rolled or have its result changed by cards and abilities that specifically mention the Loot die .

Loot

The rewards gained from Boss Loot and Loot Chests:

• Bonus Damage tokens
• Combat Points
• Loot Cards
• Health
• Gold
• Unidentified Loot cards

“No Solo” symbol

Do not use if playing a solo game. Put on the bottom of its respective deck and draw another card.

Roll Objective

The dice results a Minion or Boss is aiming for to Activate an Offensive Ability.

Scenario Points

Used to calculate your Session Score and eventually your Campaign Score — which lets you compare your accomplishments with those of other teams.

In a Portal Crawl you gain Scenario Points for:

• Unspent Salve (1 point each)
• Unspent Gold (1 per 5 gold)
• Exploring all Environment tiles (5 points)
• Scenario Score (based on Difficulty)

In a Boss Battle you gain Scenario Points for:

• Unspent Salve (1 point each)
• Unclaimed Boss Loot cards
• Scenario Score (based on Difficulty)

Record the Scenario Points you gain during Scenario Conclusion.

Session Score

The total number of Scenario Points gained (or lost) from a Portal Crawl or Boss Battle. Used to calculate your Campaign Score, which lets you compare your accomplishments with those of other teams. Recorded during Scenario Conclusion.

Swap Icon

Indicates that a Loot card replaces a common Dice Throne card in a Hero’s deck.

Unique Defense

Activated against all damage types apart from Ultimate Abilities unless stated otherwise.

Unidentified Loot card

Any Common/Rare/Epic/Legendary Loot card gained from a Loot Chest and stored under your Hero board until the Shop Phase. Do not look at the card. You won’t discover what it is unless you pay Gold to identify it during the Shop Phase.