🎲 Board Game Night: Deck & Dice Builders
​Welcome back, gamers! This month, get ready to draft, craft, and dominate with your favorite Deck and Dice Builders. In the spotlight we’ll have Dominion (Base set + Intrigue), the archetypal Deck-Builder where players assemble a synergistic deck of cards from a shared pool, and Dice Forge, a colorful and innovative Dice-Builder that sees players adding and removing faces from their six-sided dice to create unique and powerful combos.
​All are welcome — whether you’ve played these games a million times, just once, or never at all. As always, we’ll go over the rules together, but links are below for those who want to dig in ahead of time.
​But Indy Hall is only as strong as it’s community, so we strongly encourage you to Bring Your Own Game (BYOG). If you have something that fits the theme, great — But even if you don't and just want to play your current faves, you are more than welcome to.
​We’ll kick things off officially around 6:30, but we encourage you to swing by anytime after 6:00 to call dibs on a spotlight game or set up something you’d like to run.
​Dominion
​Host: TBD Players: 2-6
​You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner.
​But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury.
​In Dominion and the popular expansion Dominion: Intrigue, each player starts with an identical, very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them. Through their selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end.
​How to Play Dominion (2:55)
​Dice Forge
​Host: Wally Players: 2-4
​Heroes, stand ready! The gods are offering a seat in heaven to whichever hero defeats their rivals. Your courage and wits will be your most precious allies as you use divine dice to gather resources along the road to victory.
​Your divine dice are exceptional, with removable faces! Customize your dice to make them more powerful as the game progresses. Sacrifice gold to the gods to obtain enhanced die faces. Upgrade your dice to produce the resources you need. Overcome ordeals concocted by the gods to grow in glory and earn rewards. Skillfully manage the luck of the dice and take charge of your destiny. Only the greatest will ascend to the heavens!
​Dice Forge is a development game featuring innovative mechanics based on dice with removable faces. In this dice crafting game, players build their own dice. Roll your dice, manage your resources, complete ordeals before your opponents and explore multiple winning strategies.
​How to Play Dice Forge (5:45)