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Collectable Dice Games[chuckpint, rouven gehm, Lester Smith, randomfandom, dicemania, trolltq] Dragon Dice (TSR) was one of the first collectable dice game, that set off a (small) range of other collectable dice games. Just like collectable trading cards, you start off buying a starter set, with a fixed number of dices, but randomly inserted (usually containing commons, uncommons & rares). As for all collectable games, each player needs his own set of dices. Although you have 'zones of play', you usually don't need much more than the dices. In addition you can buy (blind) booster packs. Besides "dragon dice", a (small) number of collectable dice games were released. As a matter of facts, Lester Smith who first designed dragon dice released a second collectable dice game called "chaos progenitus". Below find a limited number of collectable dice games that I am aware off:
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 | Fire Fiend (red plastic/yellow ink)
| Frost Fiend (blue plastic/yellow ink) | Death Fiend (black plastic/yellow ink) | Lash Fiend (blue plastic/red ink) | Blood Fiend (red plastic/black ink) | Fester Fiend (yellow plastic/red ink) | Rot Fiend (black plastic/red ink)
| Stench Fiend (yellow plastic/black ink) | Stone Fiend (ivory plastic, various ink colors)
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Each player builds a fiend out of various dice representing items and body parts. Then those fiends do battle in a contest of deadly combat.
In addition, ivory colored dice (stone) were released (promotional) in different countries. All share one specific power, based upon their ivory color and particular color of ink (colors: yellow, blue, red, gray, green, orange, brown, black).
Each basic pack appears to have 4 Fire fiend dice, 4 Frost, 3 Death, 1 Blood and 1 Lash. The booster box has 3 Fester, 2 Rot and 1 Stench, plus 2 basic breeds.
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Expensions: Cities of Doom, Wilds of Doom, Doomcubes
Produced by Iron Crown Enterprises.
[taken from
chuckpint:]
In Cities of Doom (COD), you play a character who is questing in the
lands of Doom. As you travel from place to place you will be competing with your
opponent as you try to become the first to gather the six tablets required to
summon the lost Book of Ulingit. Cities of Doom is just your starting
point for adventuring in the lands of Doom. Your playing experience can be
enhanced by expansion products, including: the Wilds of Doom and Doom
Cubes. The Wilds of Doom (WOD) is a boxed set of supplemental dice.
In order to play, each player must have a copy of Cities of Doom (COD),
but only one copy of Wilds of Doom is needed. Each pack of Doom Cubes
contains eight dice randomly selected from a set of over a hundred different
dice: random action dice, special fighting dice, etc. Each player may expand his
pool of Dicemaster dice; however, in any given game each player
may only use up to a fixed number of these dice. Which dice you choose to use
becomes an important element of the game.
This game is currently DEAD. You can buy starters / boosters / expensions from Ebay or private persons.
Marvel Super
DiceReleased by TSR, taken over by WotC. No further support for this game. Only a starter set was released.
[free
from box text] "New York City
is under attack- and the X-Men can save it wi1h your help! Wolverine,
Nightcrawler, Storm and the othr X-Men clash with their enemies in an all-out
battle for New York City- but they need you! The Marvel Super Dice Game is a
fast-paced action game for two or more players, based on characters from Marvel
Comics. This box contains enough randomly-assorted dice for one player to join
the battle, and win!"
Box
includes: 18 randomly sorted dice- three rare, six uncommon, and nine common;
Full-color Area Cards to form the streets of the city, creating the clobberin'
zones for your game and easy to learn rules- all you need to play the game.
This game is currently DEAD. You can buy starters / boosters / expensions from Ebay or private persons.
Star Trek The Next Generation Released by Five Rings (1996)
Collectible Dice Game. This game comes with a game board.
In
the game, the players take the role of captains of starships in the futuristic
universe of the 24th century. Each player commands one ship. The starships in
the game are drawn from those depicted in the television series STAR TREK: The
Next Generation, and STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, the motion picture. The objective
of the game is to engage the opposing ships in battle, outfight them, and
ultimately destroy them.
During the game, the players allocate available power from the Engineering system to activate and use various ship systems. These systems include weapons, damage repair, sensors, shield reinforcement, and special options. As ships take damage, their abilities become reduced, until they become so damaged that the ship suffers a warp core breach and is destroyed and removed from play. The last player in the game is the winner.
This game is currently DEAD. You can buy starters / boosters / expensions from Ebay or private persons.
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E Starter Set contains:
| 25 assorted 20mm polyhedral dice designed especially for the 1701E (three
6-sided, five 8-sided, six 10-sided, seven 12-sided and four 20-sided). The
dice control your ship's warp core, reserve power, shield strength, weapons,
damage control, impulse power and more!
| A full color ship Bridge/Control panel from which you command ship systems
and personnel.
| A full-color ship shield and icon chart
| A 24 page Basic Training instruction book and rules | |
Borg
Sphere Starter Set contains:
| 25 assorted 20mm polyhedral dice designed especially for the Borg Sphere
(one 6-sided, six 8-sided, seven 10-sided, seven 12-sided and four
20-sided). The dice control your ship's warp core, reserve power, shield
strength, weapons, damage control, impulse power and more!
| A full color ship Bridge/Control panel from which you command ship systems
and personnel.
| A full-color ship shield and icon chart
| A 24 page Basic Training instruction book and rules | |
This game is currently DEAD. You can buy starters / boosters / expensions from Ebay or private persons.
Throwing
Stones Published by Gamesmiths (1985), taken over by prism-games, developed by Jason Siadek.
'throwing
stones' is not a game on itself, it's more a D&D variant to fast-create
characters. But hey, they are (were) collectable. Games comes with commons ($2),
uncommons ($4) and rares ($8) As the company disolved, a new company (prism-games)
will re-release the game in non-collectable form later, including a
miniature (see picture). This game will be called 'fantasy stones'.
This game is currently DEAD. You can buy starters / boosters / expensions from Ebay or private persons. Game is about to be revived.
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