6 Sided Heroes is a cooperative dice-rolling dungeon crawler for 1-4 players.
Ages: 10+
Playtime: 25min +

The Game

6 Sided Heroes is a tabletop game for 1-4 players. The goal of the game is to make it through a number of random enemies with increasing difficulty until you reach and beat a final boss. Along the way you will get access to new equipment and more dice to fight your battles with.

The core gameplay mechanic is that you roll dice, which you can then use to activate certain pieces of your equipment which in turn deal damage, heal you, or apply certain status effects. The enemy then does the same, some dice are rolled and they use their abilities according to the dice that were rolled. This mixture of luck and strategy makes for a fun experience with a lot of replayability.

Inspiration

The basic idea for the game is based on the video game Dicey Dungeons by Terry Cavanagh.

Development

The idea for the game came to me when I was bored in quarantine with Covid-19. I scribbled down some of the equipment cards I remembered from Dicey Dungeons and tried to come up with an idea of how the AI controlled enemies in the game could work on the tabletop. I quickly had my first playable prototype ready. I have been to multiple events with the game, talking to publishers and getting a lot of playtesting.

The game has developed and changed a good bit since its rough beginnings, however it did fall a bit flat because other priorities came up. It was always on my todo-List however, so I finally sat down and cut it up into smaller pieces and prepared the files to make the game print'n'play ready. And here it is, for all of you to enjoy, provided you are not afraid of sitting down and cutting out a good few cards!

Tokens

The game comes with a bunch of tokens which can be very tedious to cut out and rather flimsy to handle. So I encourage you to use the provided health tracker boards for keeping track of your health.

As for the other tokens (Shields, Fire and Ice) I recommend using either colored wooden cubes or glass stones. Both are usually easy to come by and not very expensive.

Disclaimer

The game is still under development. If you play it I would greatly apprechiate any feedback you might have. Anything regarding wordings, balancing and other ideas. Especially clarity of rules is a topic I feel quite unsure about still.

Terry Cavanagh is aware of this games existance and has given me greenlight in the pursuit of it.

License

6 Sided Heroes is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This means you are free to share, copy, and adapt the game, as long as you give appropriate credit, do not use it for commercial purposes, and distribute any modified versions under the same license. For more details, please refer to the official Creative Commons website.