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Dice Throne: Season Two – Cursed Pirate v. Artificer

Game ID: GID0094480
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2018
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Description

Dice Throne is a game of intriguing dice, tactical card play, powerful heroes, and unique abilities.

It's a fast-paced 2-6 player combat game (1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 2v2v2, or free-for-all). Select from a variety of heroes that play and feel completely distinct from one another. Attack opponents and activate abilities by rolling your hero's unique set of five dice. Accumulate combat points and spend them on cards that have a large range of effects, such as granting permanent hero upgrades, applying status effects, and manipulating dice directly (yours, your teammate's, or even your opponent's).

Dice Throne: Season Two introduces a roster of new heroes and intriguing new matchups.

A stand alone game supporting 2 players. Additional heroes required to play with more than 2 players.

Description

Dice Throne is a game of intriguing dice, tactical card play, powerful heroes, and unique abilities.

It's a fast-paced 2-6 player combat game (1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 2v2v2, or free-for-all). Select from a variety of heroes that play and feel completely distinct from one another. Attack opponents and activate abilities by rolling your hero's unique set of five dice. Accumulate combat points and spend them on cards that have a large range of effects, such as granting permanent hero upgrades, applying status effects, and manipulating dice directly (yours, your teammate's, or even your opponent's).

Dice Throne: Season Two introduces a roster of new heroes and intriguing new matchups.

A stand alone game supporting 2 players. Additional heroes required to play with more than 2 players.

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Video RU87oDZvhxA Board Games UnLocked Playthrough at 0:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Complex character
  • Having bots and comboing off with those bots is fun
Cons
  • May have been a draw issue
Thematic elements
  • Science vs. Faith
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Heal Bot — Activates up to two times after being attacked with at least six damage. Rolls a die to heal one or two health.
  • Nanites — Deals damage based on the number of tokens. One deals one damage, two deals three, and three deals five. Detonates all nanites on the opponent.
  • robots — Can be basic or advanced. Basic bots require two tokens to activate, advanced bots require one.
  • Shockbot — Activates upon attack to increase damage by three.
  • Synth Tokens — Used to activate robots. Spend two tokens to build a basic bot, three to upgrade to advanced. Has a stack limit of seven.
  • Ultimate: Maximum Power — Gain two synth, inflict nanite, deal 10 damage, and activate up to two different bots ignoring normal activation requirements.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • science versus faith who shall come on top
  • the probability of your demise is written in the schematics
  • the artificer slaps this guy blows
  • battle of god blows science
  • that was easily the most one-sided fight
  • this game is still amazing though it is a fun game
  • the biggest point gap we've ever had 25 to zero
  • it does not help that i was i popped off maximum power twice
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • Can inflict persistent poison damage.
  • Shockbot can increase attack damage.
  • Heal bot can recover health.
  • Nanobot can inflict nanites for damage over time.
  • Can upgrade bots for reduced costs.
Cons
  • Nanite bot activation can be useless or stupid.
  • Shockbot cannot be activated twice in one turn.
  • Activating nanobot multiple times requires specific conditions.
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Building Bots — Can build three types of bots: nanobot (applies nanites), shockbot (increases attack damage), and heal bot (heals damage).
  • Nanites — Tokens placed on the opponent that cause damage when the nanobot is activated.
  • Scrap Collector — An upkeep ability that allows inflicting a nanite on an opponent by spending synths.
  • Synth — A resource used to build bots and activate abilities.
  • Upgrading Bots — Bots can be upgraded to advanced versions, reducing activation costs.
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  • josh josh oh i i'm changing it uh maybe yes are you sure yes because i'm gonna play same z's i'm just gonna turn this to a one so now i got five with spanner strike
  • josh i'm sorry you should be i kinda am only sort of
  • i don't like any of that
  • i know my devilish good looks do it to you it does i'm just this old pedo over here
  • that gets him the shadow thief moves on shadow shadows to fight the pyromancer and the artificer goes down to fight the cursed pirate
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Has powerful abilities like Pirates Touch that deals significant damage and inflicts multiple negative effects.
Cons
  • Cursed Doubloons have a negative effect where they are removed each turn, potentially flipping the board if none are left.
Thematic elements
  • Pirate
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Cursed Doubloons — Unique tokens with a stack limit. At the conclusion of the turn, one is removed. If none are available, the board flips. Receiving damage unless in pirate form. Persist and cannot be moved or removed except by pirate abilities. Player may choose not to gain one.
  • parlay — Deal no damage when attacking a player afflicted with parlay. Player may not deal any damage during their offensive roll phase. Token is removed at the conclusion of the roll phase.
  • Pirates Touch — Deal 12 undefendable damage, gain two cursed doubloons, inflict parlay and powder keg.
  • Powder Keg — Negative effect. Roll one die during upkeep. On a 1 or 2, take 3 unpreventable damage. On a 6, pass it to somebody else. Stack limit of two.
  • Wither — Negative effect. Player deals negative damage per amount of token stack on them. Reduces damage dealt. Persistent.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Only victory is sweeter than blood
  • Whatever it takes the booty will be mine
  • This one should be pretty good
  • Vegas baby
  • dear god
  • I don't think I'm winning this
  • Vampire Lord is out Cursed Pirate is a
  • Yeah you got me
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