acoriano3 asked in the other thread:
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Hi, lads, here are some thoughts about the colored dice we use in our community:

The colored dice gives us the opportunity to adjust much finer the balance between weapons, weaponskill and outer influences like rust, jagged blades and so on.

As stated before, monsters and especially big bosses throw blue dice for the better defence:


With their 2 black shields, they give the shaman or warlord a better chance to cast at least 2 of the four or six spells he owns befor he gets fucked. Lets face it, the heros are stronger (in most cases) and are better equipped. With the blue dice, the bad guy lives longer.

Also we've got the green ones. These dice are mainly for defence purposes and to decrease weapon effictivity or skill:


The green dice are having 3 white shields but only two skulls. Perfect dice for a wizard, who shall have better defence but shall not hit harder than a Barbarian.

Last but not least there are the black ones:

4 skulls and 2 white shields, THE powerdice for brutal attacks.

Here are a few examples, what we do with the dice:

1.  Unarmed Battle

A Hero with no weapon fights with only one green dice. A wizard has no dice, he is no good fighter. The Barbarian ALWAYS has a extra (white) dice, which make im a good fighter without arms.

2.  Rust

A hero searches for treasures an find rust. Immediately his weapon is decreased in its effictivity, the hero has to use grenn dices for the rest of the quest. After that he has to to the blacksmith and pay 100.

3. Jagged Blade

A hero picks up a card or searches a furniture. The cards name is "Jagged blade". From then on, he has to replace
one of his white dice with a green one.

4. Magic weapon oil

You buy a magical weapon oil and you pay 150 gold. It lasts for one quest. With this oil you can replace one of your white dice with a black one. If you face rust or jagged blade, the weapon oil avoids the green dice but looses its power, you are again playing with white dice.

5. Spells

With the colored dice I have more (and different) ways to adjust power of casted spells.

http://www.hq-cooperation.de/zubehoer/gildenzauber/gildenzauber_3.jpg

With this spell, the wizard gets two extra green dice. The spell lasts until the wizard looses one body point.

http://www.hq-cooperation.de/zubehoer/gildenzauber/gildenzauber_6.jpg

With the "Staff of Dragonfire" you can attack a monster with 4 black dice. Can be casted once in a quest.

These are just 2 examples, I have plenty more. You see, it is not turning all dice into green or black its more changing one ore two or even three.

6. Potions

The heros can buy a potion before the quest. For example the barbarian drinks his potion and can now make an extra attack with only black dice, or he can (with an other potion) gain one black dice extra, as long as there are monsters in sight. Another example is a defence-drink, 1 green extra or maybe two. Or a reroll. There are a million combinations

My players love the colored dice. They give the game a deeper spirit and more logic. How can a Barbarian with a longsword attack with the same effectivity as an Elf ?

That are my thoughts about our dice. I love them as well  
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Edit on May 268th, 2008

There are new combat dice available:

The purple dice:

Purple dice are sort of special magical supllement for a special potion or weapon. I would suggest to replace one white with a purple one. The symbols on the purple ones are: :

2 skulls
1 double-skull (new: loss of 2 bodypoints with one die)
1 white shield
1 double-white-shield (new: 2 defences with one die)
1 black shield



The orange dice:

Orange dice are also sort of special magical supllement for a special potion or weapon. Additional they are a very good defence dice for the "evil wicked" with their double-black-shield. The faces on the symbols are:

1 skull
2 double-skull (new: loss of 2 bodypoints with one die)
1 double-white-shield (new: 2 defences with one die)
1 double-black-shield (new: 2 defences with one die)
1 black shield

This is a GREAT idea!!! Now you make me want to go create my own colored dice!

Let me get this straight.

BLUE
2 skulls
2 white shields
2 black shields

GREEN
2 skulls
3 white shields
1 black shield

BLACK
4 skulls
2 white shields

I recall seeing some RED dice. What is their ratio?

Also, what kind of dice did your starting weapons and armor use so we can compare it to what we're used to? Did the shield simply ADD another white dice in defense, ADD a green dice in defense, or did it CHANGE a white dice to a green? Did the wizard's starting dagger use 1 white or did you change it to green to show his low effectiveness in melee combat?

What we really want of course, is a new rule book written by flint.

It's a very common mistake... even in the US.

And I would not know the first thing about the geography of other countrys... so it's really not even worth mentioning.

@ Ogre: I'm sorry, and thank you for your kind words. That's only, because Arkansas has no ML- Baseball-Team, or do they ?

*outing mode*
I LOVE baseball
*outing mode off*

Your still welcome

Jason, are you kidding ? Its all written in german  

Who the fuck might be interested in this over-complicated language ?


@ Magic system: I warned you....you are going to kill me.

I do an ROUGHLY information tomorrow.

The new Magic-system has something to do with this:






Like I told you...a bit complicated.

My Guess:

The rings are related to the spell types that can be cast.  As you cast spells you move them from the pile to the post meaning they are no longer available.  So you can use a spell as often as you choose, but if you run out of mana you are out of spells.

Red - Fire
Blue - Water
Green - Earth
Invisible - Air
Black - Chaos?

Plow, I did not make them, I bought them. One of our HQ-Mates (Jack) has a shop and sells toys. He once sended the pictures to a dice-factory and they made him 1000 each. He started selling them.
You could buy them as well, but the money transfer from outside of europe is very expensive. Sending the dice would not be the problem. If 10 or so guys would work together and one would order the lot, there would be no problem. Jack sends the package to one adress and that guy send the dice to the other people.

What to do, if you have no clored dice ? Easy. Take normal white ones an do the following:

For Green dice in attack: The Hero succeeds with white shield
For Green dice in defence: The Hero succeeds in defence with Skulls
Blue Dice in Defence: The Monster succeeds in defence with white shields
Black Dice in attack: Throw a W6 and hit the monster on a 3+ (3-6)

If you have to mix dice, like in 3 green dice and one white (barbarian with a rusted blade plus one extra dye, you have to seperate the throws.

berend_jan wrote on 12/20/07 at 12:59am:


That's very true, but I really like the rounded edges on the HQ dice.  Does anyone know if they even make dice like that?

dunno. I'm going to ask, but I believe not.