Take your favorite battle-tested champions out of the PvP arena and guide them through a cooperative, rogue-lite dungeon-crawling campaign that utilizes a randomized tile-exploration grid and an addictive, Diablo-inspired loot matrix for the ultimate fantasy dice-chucking showdown.
Dice Throne Adventures (designed by Nate Chatellier, Manny Trembley, and Gavan Brown, and published by Roxley Games) transforms the lightning-fast Yahtzee-style combat mechanics of the baseline Dice Throne series into an epic, fully cooperative campaign expansion. Moving away from the traditional head-to-head tournament setting where characters try to wipe each other out, this title unites up to four players against a brutal automated system. The core objective is a multi-session tactical descent: players take any heroes they already own across a series of shifting wilderness maps and intense arena encounters, systematically hunting down corrupted minions to eventually storm the stronghold of the legendary Mad King.
The primary strategic hurdle alternates beautifully between the localized grid positioning of Portal Crawl scenarios and the high-tension mechanical scripts of Boss Battles. During exploration phases, players spend movement points to flip over modular hexagonal environment tiles, managing incoming damage from environmental traps and fighting unique automated monsters. When a fight triggers, players step up to hit minion roll objectives using their classic combat boards, while the game retaliates by rolling custom Chaos Dice to activate punishing monster scripts. True tactical mastery requires balancing rapid economic gold drafting at Rosella's shop with your character's long-term deck building. Win or lose, every run yields randomly generated Loot Cards—ranging from common equipment modifiers to legendary stat boosts—permanently augmenting your character's ability deck across a highly addictive 90-to-120 minute campaign chapter.
Game Specs at a Glance:
Age Range: 8+ Years
Publisher: Roxley Games / Skybound Games
Play Time: 90-120 Minutes
Player Count: 1-4 Players
Complexity: Medium (Cooperative Campaign, Yahtzee-Style Dice Rolling, Modular Tile Exploration, Card-Driven Upgrade Tableaus, Automated AI Combat)
What's in the Box?
- 80 Cardboard Environment and Wilderness Tiles
- 16 Plastic Hero Standees and 1 Custom Gold Tracker Dial
- 50 Unique Automated Level 1 through 4 Minion Encounter Cards
- 4 Oversized Fallen Boss Player Boards, Leaflets, and Combat Dials
- 160+ Campaign-Specific Fallen Enemy AI Cards
- 160+ Distinct Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary Loot Upgrade Cards
- 10 Custom Swirl Chaos Minion Dice and 4 Polyhedral Loot Dice
- 1 Campaign Scenario Guide and Rulebook Booklet