So, you can hear about this two places, the first being the 10 Minute Marvel Podcast, and then of course here. I could have just left it in the podcast, but I love Dice Throne so much that I knew I had to write about it. And there have been a long series of clues coming out, 17 in total, that have led up to this moment of announcing Marvel Dice Throne.

What Is Dice Throne?

So before we get into what Marvel Dice Throne is, it’s probably worth knowing what Dice Throne is. Dice Throne is a competitive board game where players take characters into battle. Each character plays and fights differently than the other ones, though the basic mechanics of the game stay the same.

Turns are pretty easy to follow in the game. First off you have a chance to play cards, then you roll dice, Yahtzee style up to 3 times keeping dice along the way. The rolling of the dice is how you attack your opponent and they can roll defense, maybe. The cards are used for a number of things, manipulating the dice, but also improving your attacks and defense.

You can read more about it here. And my Top 10 favorite characters here.

Checkout GloryHoundd’s playthrough for even more information on the game.

What Is Marvel Dice Throne?

So Roxley is taking their Dice Throne system and taking it to Marvel. We are going to get Marvel characters fighting other Marvel heroes in this game. Right now we know that we’re getting Captain Marvel and Black Panther as one of the duel boxes. And that’s what we’re going to be talking about, what characters do I hope that we’ll get in Marvel Dice Throne?

What Heroes Do I Want?

Let’s start with putting out some ground rules. The first is that I think right now we’ll only be getting heroes. We might get, eventually, a Dice Throne Adventures style game with Villains. I’ll talk about that game soon, but for now let’s just say we’re going to do heroes in this first round.

Who we know thus far are Black Panther and Captain Marvel. What other characters do I think/hope will be in there?

Duel Box 1: Black Panther and Captain Marvel

We know it’s coming. I think Black Panther should have a lot of upgrades, probably more upgrades than some other characters, except for one that I expect to see and will talk about later. But his upgrades should make a bigger jump than most as well.

Captain Marvel, I think flight should play into it. She should be able to get a flight token which should boost her defense. It could be something like evasion where she has a chance to avoid some damage or all damage if the roll is right on her defense. Beyond that, I think it should be a big blast attacks with a bit more all or nothing to what she does.

Duel Box 2: Spider-Man and Hulk/Bruce Banner

Spider-Man seems like an obvious choice, and extremely popular character. What I think would work well for Spider-Man is the idea of slowing down other characters. He has the webbing so he should be able to sling that around and reduce how much a character can attack and play defense.

I paired him with an interesting character idea I saw online. The Hulk should be like the Cursed Pirate, in some ways, the Cursed Pirate starts on one side and then flips to the other which does more damage. You can do the same with Hulk. But you can flip back and forth depending on triggers. Do over 5 damage as Banner flip to the Hulk, less than 5 as the Hulk, you’re Banner again.

Duel Box 3: Iron Man and Black Widow

This is the dead box, I mean, is that too soon? But two popular characters. I’ve heard that it might lean more into what is coming up, but I think there’ll be a box of characters who we might not see again.

Iron Man is obviously very popular with the movies, and he’s going to be a character who can have a lot of upgrades. I think there might be some fun stuff you can do with him. Again it’ll be about upgrades for him, the one who might have more than Black Panther would. Or maybe even different suits of armor that allow for freer upgrading, like you start with some basic stuff, but you can upgrade anything over anything.

Black Widow is going to be one where it’s less upgrades. She’d still have moves that she can upgrade, but she’s a character in the movies and comics who can take advantage of a situation. So stronger or more interesting dice manipulation. Or maybe it is more attack modifiers. Either way, she can adapt better to a situation than most.

Duel Box 4: Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch

We’ll call this one the magic box. Obviously both going up against each other in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Doctor Strange could be about time manipulation. Forcing opponents to reroll dice more. Or even putting out tokens that he can use to make them reroll their whole offensive phase, though that’d be hard to get.

Scarlet Witch would pack a wallop and also be able to alter the reality of the game. I don’t know how to balance it, but maybe have her ultimate do less damage and have it remove an upgrade. Or give it two different paths on what you can do. Something that is just game breaking, but not because it’ll slow down how fast she can hit you. It’d be an interesting choice to have to make.

Do I Really Expect These Heroes?

I think that some are more likely than others. I think that Doctor Strange and Spider-Man are the two most likely out of all of them. But there are a ton of characters out there. I’m guessing they won’t dip into X-Men yet. And I fully expect that there will be additional “seasons” of both this and regular Dice Throne to come out over the years. So like CMON did with Marvel United, a second season could be the X-Men.

What Heroes Do You Want To See?

It’s really going to be what we speculate on until October 25th. There are a ton of options, and right now I’m just guessing that the X-Men might come later. And of course the Fantastic Four are an option as well. That’d be two boxes right there if you wanted to get them all.

Though, with the Fantastic Four, my dream would be to get all of them in a Dice Throne Adventures style box, it makes it cooperative against a villain. For me, I would love to see Fantastic Four as heroes that come with that Kickstarter, when/if that happens. And then Doctor Doom as the main bad guy creating a Battleworld type situation. And do some interesting villains as the henchmen beneath him. I’d be a good way to have the Fantastic Four come out at once.

Let me know your top pick in the comments below for a character.

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