Cover art for Button Men

Button Men

1999 · BGG
Avg rating
6.36
Bayes rating
5.72
Weight
1.52 (Light)
Players
2
Playtime
5 min
Ratings count
827

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Description

This game gained a quick following after one of the major gaming conventions of 1999. It features several characters, represented on actual stickpin buttons, that each have a unique allowance of polyhedral dice. These dice endow each character with fairly unique combat abilities. Players roll the dice against each other and take their opponents' dice as casualties. The object of the game is take out the most die 'sides' during the combat. It's quite simple, quite inventive, and deeper than it would seem at first.



Mechanics

Dice Rolling Push Your Luck

Themes

Fighting

Publishers

(Unknown) Atlas Games Cheapass Games Five Rings Publishing Group Guardians of Order Looney Labs Slag-Bla entertainment (now XXXenophile Books) Studio Foglio Truant Spiele

Designers

James Ernest