History TabletopGame / DragonDice

* ColorCodedElements: Each of the elements are associated with a color. Red represents fire. Blue represent air. Gold represent Earth. Green represent water. Death is black.
* ElementalPowers: Races’ magic is limited to the elemental colors inherent to dice of that race, with most races able to cast two colors of magic -- Undead only get black, and Amazons can cast magic based on the colors of the terrain they’re standing on.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Larger dice are generally representative of leaders of their race, and have the greatest raw number of combat results on any given die. The fact that they also have special abilities that are more powerful than the basic results found on smaller dice is just gravy.
** Possibly related to AsskickingEqualsAuthority -- this is a world in a constant state of war, so it's sensible that capable warriors and war leaders rise to positions of power.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Dwarves are one of the core races and, as expected, are [[HornyVikings Viking-helmed]], [[AnAxeToGrind ax-swinging]], long-bearded, [[PlanetOfHats master craftsmen]].

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Dwarves are one of the core races and, as expected, are [[HornyVikings Viking-helmed]], [[AnAxeToGrind ax-swinging]], [[BadassBeard long-bearded]], [[PlanetOfHats master craftsmen]].

* AmazonBrigade: The Amazons, largely inspired by Myth/ClassicalMythology appear as an army in their own right. It’s entirely possible to construct an entire army of them, or to include them as an elite ranged combat/maneuver unit in a larger force.

** Possibly related to AsskickingEqualsAuthority – this is a world in a constant state of war, so it’s sensible that capable warriors and war leaders rise to positions of power.

* ElementalPowers: Races’ magic is limited to the elemental colors inherent to dice of that race, with most races able to cast two colors of magic – Undead only get black, and Amazons can cast magic based on the colors of the terrain they’re standing on.

* GiantFlyer: And how! Examples below.
** Dragons, of course - see Our Dragons Are Different, below.

* TheFairFolk: Scalders were the final race produced in the original run of the game, under the Creator/{{TSR}} imprint. They are a race of fairies who either failed to get to their sanctuary before it was sealed off, or were simply having too much fun in the material world to want to be sealed away from it. After succumbing to the corruption and war all around them, they now exist primarily to burn and/or drown anything that can be burned and/or drowned.
* TheUndead: They are a playable race in the game created solely by Death using his magics to animate the corpses of the war dead, and come in many flavors - everything from {{Dracolich}}es, [[OurLichesAreDifferent Liches]], and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]], down to lowly [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]], [[DemBones Skeletons]], and [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Ghouls]].
* WaterIsBlue: Averted. Water is represented by green.
* WindIsGreen: Averted. Wind is presented by blue.
* WhenTreesAttack: One of the [[http://www.sfr-inc.com SFR]] created and released races is the Treefolk - a race of sentient, mobile trees and their [[NatureSpirit Naiad]] and [[NatureSpirit Dryad]] allies.

Dragon Dice is a collectible game in which players compose armies of dice representing the units of various fantasy races, their magic items, dragons, and the terrains that they battle over. The game itself is a strategy game with two or more players constructing armies using a point build system and subsequently attempting to either outmaneuver each other and capture the eighth face of two eight sided dice representing the terrain of the world or eliminate all units in opposing armies.

The story of the world is fairly succinct – the game takes place on a world called Esfah, where [[MotherNature Nature]] and [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Tarvenehl]] had five children who individually represented and had power over each of the four classical elements and a fifth who represented and had power over death. The first four children, Ailuril ([[BlowYouAway Air]]), Aguarehl ([[MakingASplash Water]]), Eldurim ([[DishingOutDirt Earth]]), and Firiel ([[PlayingWithFire Fire]]) began collaborating in various combinations to create mortal beings for their own amusement, and eventually got around to creating the sentient races. The fifth child, Death, inevitably got jealous of all of the creation going on and, having no one to collaborate with and being unable to create life on his own, began to assault his siblings in order to use their elemental essences to create his own twisted forms of life. Nature and her children obviously took a dim view of these antics and, while Nature hid her other children away, the various races that had been created began to make war on one another for various reasons. Tarvenehl also took notice of the conflict and created a race completely of his own accord – the Amazons – before taking off, never to be heard from again.

* OurElvesAreDifferent: Two subspecies – the Coral Elves, first sentient race of Esfah and {{expies}} of High Elves, and the Lava Elves, {{expies}} of Dark Elves.

* OurElvesAreBetter: Two subspecies – the Coral Elves, first sentient race of Esfah and {{expies}} of High Elves, and the Lava Elves, {{expies}} of Dark Elves.

* [[GameBreaker/TabletopGames GameBreaker]]: The most egregious example is a former mechanic called "Charge" that has been removed in later revisions of the rules due to it being considered generally overpowered.

The story of the world is fairly succinct – the game takes place on a world called Esfah, where Nature (MotherNature) and Tarvenehl (HaveYouSeenMyGod) had five children who individually represented and had power over each of the four classical elements and a fifth who represented and had power over death. The first four children, Ailuril ([[BlowYouAway Air]]), Aguarehl ([[MakingASplash Water]]), Eldurim ([[DishingOutDirt Earth]]), and Firiel ([[PlayingWithFire Fire]]) began collaborating in various combinations to create mortal beings for their own amusement, and eventually got around to creating the sentient races. The fifth child, Death, inevitably got jealous of all of the creation going on and, having no one to collaborate with and being unable to create life on his own, began to assault his siblings in order to use their elemental essences to create his own twisted forms of life. Nature and her children obviously took a dim view of these antics and, while Nature hid her other children away, the various races that had been created began to make war on one another for various reasons. Tarvenehl also took notice of the conflict and created a race completely of his own accord – the Amazons – before taking off, never to be heard from again.

Initially created by Lester Smith and published by TSR in 1995, Dragon Dice transferred ownership when Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and its assets in 1997. Wizards of the Coast produced the last expansion that TSR had developed for the game beyond the starter set and seven expansions that had previously been published. After producing this final expansion, Wizards of the Coast shelved the game indefinitely in 1999 and made plans to dispose of their remaining product inventory in a German landfill. Shortly after Hasbro acquired Wizards of the Coast, the new parent company entered negotiations to sell the rights to Dragon Dice to a group of gamers with business experience who organized a new company to carry on the game – the game is still owned and published by the company that was formed to save it, [[http://www.sfr-inc.com SFR]].

* TheFairFolk: Scalders were the final race produced in the original run of the game, under the TSR imprint. They are a race of fairies who either failed to get to their sanctuary before it was sealed off, or were simply having too much fun in the material world to want to be sealed away from it. After succumbing to the corruption and war all around them, they now exist primarily to burn and/or drown anything that can be burned and/or drowned.

* AmazonBrigade: The Amazons, largely inspired by ClassicalMythology appear as an army in their own right. It’s entirely possible to construct an entire army of them, or to include them as an elite ranged combat/maneuver unit in a larger force.

* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Goblins in this setting are not the low-level Mook of DungeonsAndDragons, but are just as strong as members of any other race.

* WhenTreesAttack: One of the [[http://www.sfr-inc.com SFR]] created and released races is the Treefolk - a race of sentient, mobile trees and their [[NatureSpirit Naiad]] and [[NatureSpirit Dryad]] allies.

* WhenTreesAttack: One of the [[http://www.sfr-inc.com SFR]] created and released races is the Treefolk - a race of sentient, mobile trees and their Naiad and Dryad allies.

* TheUndead: They are a playable race in the game created solely by Death using his magics to animate the corpses of the war dead, and come in many flavors - everything from Undead Dragons, Liches, and Vampires, down to lowly Zombies, Skeletons, and Ghouls.

** Lava Elves, not to be outdone, have a cavalry unit that rides a Wyvern.

* OurElvesAreBetter: Two subspecies – the Coral Elves, first sentient race of Esfah and Expies of High Elves, and the Lava Elves, Expies of Dark Elves.

The story of the world is fairly succinct – Nature (MotherNature) and Tarvenehl (HaveYouSeenMyGod) had five children who individually represented and had power over each of the four classical elements and a fifth who represented and had power over death. The first four children, Ailuril ([[BlowYouAway Air]]), Aguarehl ([[MakingASplash Water]]), Eldurim ([[DishingOutDirt Earth]]), and Firiel ([[PlayingWithFire Fire]]) began collaborating in various combinations to create mortal beings for their own amusement, and eventually got around to creating the sentient races. The fifth child, Death, inevitably got jealous of all of the creation going on and, having no one to collaborate with and being unable to create life on his own, began to assault his siblings in order to use their elemental essences to create his own twisted forms of life. Nature and her children obviously took a dim view of these antics and, while Nature hid her other children away, the various races that had been created began to make war on one another for various reasons. Tarvenehl also took notice of the conflict and created a race completely of his own accord – the Amazons – before taking off, never to be heard from again.

* Giant Flyer: And how! Examples below.

Initially created by Lester Smith and published by TSR in 1995, Dragon Dice transferred ownership when Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and its assets in 1997. Wizards of the Coast produced the last expansion that TSR had developed for the game beyond the starter set and seven expansions that had previously been published. After producing this final expansion, Wizards of the Coast shelved the game indefinitely in 1999/2000 and made plans to dispose of their remaining product inventory in a German landfill. Shortly after Hasbro acquired Wizards of the Coast, the new parent company entered negotiations to sell the rights to Dragon Dice to a group of gamers with business experience who organized a new company to carry on the game – the game is still owned and published by the company that was formed to save it, [[http://www.sfr-inc.com SFR]].

Initially created by Lester Smith and published by TSR in 1995, Dragon Dice transferred ownership when Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and its assets in 1997. Wizards of the Coast produced one expansion for the game beyond the starter set and seven expansions that had previously been published by TSR before shelving the game indefinitely in 1999/2000 and making plans to dispose of their remaining product inventory in a German landfill. The rights to the game, however, were purchased by a group of gamers with business experience who organized a new company to carry on the game – the game is still owned and published by the company that was formed to save it, [[http://www.sfr-inc.com SFR]].

* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Goblins in this setting are not the low-level Mook of DungeonsAndDragons, but are just as strong as members of any other race.

* ElementalPowers: Races’ magic is limited to the elemental colors inherent to dice of that race, with most races able to cast two colors of magic – Undead only get black, and Amazons can cast magic based on the colors of the terrain they’re standing on.

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Initially created by Lester Smith and published by TSR in 1995, Dragon Dice transferred ownership when Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and its assets in 1997. Wizards of the Coast produced one expansion for the game beyond the starter set and seven expansions that had previously been published by TSR before shelving the game indefinitely in 1999/2000 and making plans to dispose of their remaining product inventory in a German landfill. The rights to the game, however, were purchased by a group of gamers with business experience who organized a new company to carry on the game – the game is still owned and published by the company that was formed to save it, [[www.sfr-inc.com SFR]].

* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Goblins in this setting are not the low-level Mook of DungeonsAndDragons, but are just as strong as members of any other race.