Shields: The Dice Game 2015

Two players pool dice, attack, shield and use potions and polish.

Desription from the publisher: Shields Dice

I love polyhedral dice. While many games utilize them, the special ones like d4s, d8s and d12s are only rolled a few times in the course of many gaming sessions (such as with tabletop roleplaying games).

Rolling dice is an activity that is enjoyable in and of itself. And the excitement that builds when people try to get a certain number, against all odds, is contagious.

But I also love strategy games. Shields is a dice game I created that combines the joy of probability with the calculation of strategy. It’s quick to set up and easy to play. It’s a two-player game about breaking through your opponent’s shields with your colored attack batteries.

What you’ll need Shields is played entirely with dice. No cards, no boards, no markers. The following is the list of dice you will need. You can swap colors if that makes it easy to get all the dice (as long as everybody is clear what each color represents). [...] 34 dice total, 24 unique die and color sizes.

Shields is played one-on-one.