Dice Realms

Build a thriving medieval empire by physically reconstructing your dice mid-game in a brilliant, fast-paced resource optimization strategy game that utilizes customizable, pop-out plastic die faces and a simultaneous rolling engine for the ultimate kingdom-building showdown.

Dice Realms (designed by Tom Lehmann, the legendary creator of Race for the Galaxy, and published by Rio Grande Games) acts as a mechanical evolution in the "pool-building" tabletop genre. Rather than buying separate cards or whole new dice to add to a bag, this innovative game lets you physically alter the faces of the dice you start with. The core objective is a lightning-fast race for economic and architectural dominance: players simultaneously roll their custom dice to harvest grain, hoard gold, field mighty armies, and invest in prestigious infrastructure projects to score maximum victory points before the shared pools run dry.

The primary strategic hurdle lies in optimizing your economy while defending against global disasters and managing the physical, mechanical limits of your die-face configurations. Every round, all players roll their personal pool of dice simultaneously, using free rerolls to pivot away from bad luck. Your rolled faces generate immediate resources used to upgrade your kingdom or buy completely new, more powerful plastic faces—such as swapping a baseline 1-grain face for a massive 4-gold face. However, you must carefully balance this economic growth with defensive preparations; winter conditions and hostile neighboring raids require you to roll enough grain to feed your peasants and enough shields to avoid heavy point penalties. True tactical mastery requires exploiting the game's randomized setup cards, picking the absolute perfect moment to transition from resource gathering into raw victory point collection across a smooth, tightly wound 30-to-45 minute session.

Game Specs at a Glance:
Age Range: 14+ Years
Publisher: Rio Grande Games
Play Time: 30-45 Minutes Per Run
Player Count: 2-4 Players
Complexity: Medium (Customizable Dice-Crafting, Simultaneous Action Resolution, Resource Management, Variable Setups)

What's in the Box?

• 1 Central Resource and Upgrade Tracking Board
• 36 Plastic Die Frames
• 650+ Removeable Plastic Die Faces
• 4 Plastic Die Face Removal Tools
• 80+ Cardboard Victory Point, Grain, and Fate Tokens
• 30+ Randomized Setup and Scenario Cards
• 4 Player Reference Sheets
• 1 Internal Storage Organizer
• 1 Rulebook Booklet