A Song of Dice & Ire

When your dice fail you, make them fight as retribution.

You, the Lord of the Horde, face a most sordid challenge. One betrayal after another has led to your dice jails overflowing with poor excuses for random number generators. But you've had a brilliant idea: pit the outcasts against one another! The set that rolls best will be liberated as your champion once more.

What Is This Game?

A Song of Dice & Ire is a gladiatorial dice combat game where your physical dice sets battle each other for the right to return to active tabletop duty. This game transforms the real-world properties of your dice into combat abilities and tells the dramatic story of redemption through polyhedral bloodsport.

How It Works

• Bring Your Dice Sets: Each complete 7-piece polyhedral set becomes a champion
• Die vs Die Combat: Dice battle in descending order from d12 to d4, with a d20 sudden death tiebreaker!
• Physical Properties = Powers: The opacity, color, and special features of your dice grant unique combat bonuses and abilities in combat
• First to 4 Wins: Win 4 rounds to claim victory 

Your Dice Are Unique Warriors

Every die tells its own story through its physical form:

• Translucent dice are Elementals with Essence Flare
• Red dice wield Fire magic (+2 vs Ice)
• Glittery dice are Swift and win all ties
• Sharp-edged dice are Honed and can maximize one roll per bout
• And dozens more combinations...

No two dice sets fight exactly the same way!

Perfect For

• Dice collectors who want their collection to DO something
• Groups looking for a quick and fun pre-game warmup
• Anyone with "cursed" dice that need to earn their redemption
• Players who enjoy dramatic, over-the-top storytelling

What You Get

• Complete rules for gladiatorial dice combat
• Extensive tables for determining dice abilities based on physical properties
• Optional backstory generation system
• Character sheet template (fits perfectly in a Chessex dice box!)
• Enough drama to make your dice weep

Requirements

• 2+ complete 7-piece polyhedral dice sets
• Willingness to anthropomorphize your dice collection
• Melodrama

Created by Level Zero Gaming for Minimalist TTRPG Jam 4