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In ancient times mad mage by the name of Galifir performed a ritual at the cost of his own humanity, shattering the old sigil that kept creatures of pure evil away from our world. At first monsters infested far away ruins and old monasteries in lands abandoned long time ago. As the time went by, the number of monsters grew, and new dungeons started to appear around Liuraan. Age of man was almost finished, but nine great heroes from across time and space appeared, saving our world from the horde, creating the Radiant Brotherhood.
Nowadays, statues of the nine brave heroes decorate every city across Liuraan. People created songs and told stories of their bravery across the world, some even praise them as gods that came to save them.

You were given the name Geoffrey the Sentinel, a paladin from the order of Eternal Gem. You are just a simple mercenary, for years you were patrolling empty dungeons, sometimes bringing home treasure that someone forgot about. But recently monsters started to appear again, you’ve tried to warn the Ten, but you’ve never even got the audience. You have decided that if no one will believe you then you might as well clear those dungeons yourself.

DIE!geon is a Hack&Slash, Roll&Write game where you will fight through legions of various monsters to get to the most powerful boss of the dungeon and defeat it once and for all. You will take the role of one of the heroes brave enough to face the danger and get stronger as you get further through the rooms of this monster lair. Explore dungeons, defeat monsters and grow in power. Travel through twisted corridors and make your own path to the hearth of the dungeon. Grab your sword, string your bows and gather your mana. You are not the first that tried to save this world but you might as well finish the job.

Provided components:
- Paladin hero sheet,
- Skeleton King dungeon sheet,
- rulebook

Needed components:
- Dice (10 pcs.)
- Pencil

Expansions for this game:

» DIE!geon: Hero Call
» DIE!geon: Infestation - Research Station
» DIE!geon: Veil of Madness
» DIE!geon: The Eternal Masquerade
» DIE!geon: Goblin Bastion
» DIE!geon: Golem Stronghold

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User reviews (3)

Latest reviews:

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Roufus (2026-08-23):

PnP Difficulty: Easy

Materials Required: D6s (up to 8), pen (or dry erase if you prefer to laminate)

Players: Solo

Playtime: Quick (10–15 minutes)

Die!Geon is a roll-and-write game where you take the role of an upgradable hero fighting through three waves of monsters and bosses.

Your hero sheet tracks health, a signature ability available from the start, three row [read more] of unlockable abilities purchased with experience, and an experience track that periodically grants additional dice.

The main mechanism is dice manipulation. Your options are dictated by your rolls and whatever manipulation/bonus abilities you’ve unlocked.

This also creates an emergent push-your-luck element. You may decide to gamble on a tougher monster early to earn enough experience for a particularly useful unlock.

Game flow:

1. Roll dice.

2. Choose an enemy to encounter.

There are three levels of enemies worth 1–3 experience each. Based on your roll, you choose one you think your dice + abilities can handle.

3. Use abilities and rerolls to arrive at your final result.

Enemy defense requirements might be a straight total (“above 11”) or a specific sequence (“two pairs,” “a run of three,” etc.). Tougher enemies get much more exact. A level-one enemy may simply require two odd-numbered results, whereas a level-three enemy may require a pair, a run of three, and only allow dice showing 1s, 2s, and 3s. Nasty.

You also have an innate reroll ability. Each time you use it, you must “lock” a die and the enemy’s attack value increases by 2. You can keep rerolling until you run out of dice to lock, but your opponent gets stronger every time.
But not to fear! Your hero has abilities to help. You begin with their signature ability and unlock more as you gain experience.

4. Assign dice.

Dice assigned to the enemy are used to overcome its defense requirement. Any remaining dice become your defense value.

5. Apply results.

If your defense meets or exceeds the enemy’s attack value—a static number and/or D6 result—you take no damage. If it doesn’t, you take 1 damage regardless of how badly you defended. If you didn’t defend at all, take 2 damage instead.

Just like in the modern day, if you run out of life—your game is over.

If your attack succeeds, mark off the enemy, gain its experience value (stars), and spend those stars toward abilities on your hero sheet.

Whether you succeed or fail, however, you mark off that round on the enemy sheet. Time has marched on. A failed attempt earns you nothing, and wasted rounds become future problems.

6. Start a new round. If you’ve filled the turn track for that level, fight the boss instead.

Hero abilities are arranged across three rows and cost 1–4 experience each. Each row must be unlocked from left to right—no jumping straight to your ultimate abilities—but you can freely move between rows as you gain experience. Different enemies may encourage you to rush toward certain abilities.

Abilities come in two flavors: those usable once per encounter and those with a limited number of uses for the entire game. One hero may have only one or two limited-use abilities while another has a veritable arsenal of ammunition you’re trying to conserve until the end.
Abilities range from familiar dice-manipulation fare—adding/subtracting one, changing two dice while preserving their combined total, flipping a die to its opposite face—to more exotic tricks like adding a virtual die of a specific value, defending without spending dice, or killing an enemy outright.

To defeat bosses and higher-level monsters, you’re going to need more dice and more abilities. Most heroes begin with only three dice, making some requirements literally impossible. No matter how lucky you are, you aren’t making a run of five with three dice.

Sometimes you need to take risks early to grab that extra experience.

Because no matter how menacing the enemies look, your true nemesis is the time track itself.

It doesn’t matter how prepared you are or how many enemies you’ve slain: you get only 8/6/4 rounds before bosses 1/2/3 come looking for you. Playing too slowly and steadily can leave you hopelessly unprepared.

Thoughts:

I’m surprised how much I like this game. I’m a sucker for dice manipulation and placement anyway, and the emergent push-your-luck aspect makes it even better. It does what it does, does it well, and doesn’t overstay its welcome.

I have found that some heroes take several attempts at certain dungeons while others steamroll them. I’m not sure whether this is an imbalance, some heroes simply functioning as “easy mode,” or certain dungeons being poorly equipped to handle particular heroes.

There also isn’t really a way to adjust difficulty beyond changing the hero/dungeon combination—or deliberately avoiding particularly OP abilities until later.

All in all, I think this is one I’ll add to my regular solo rotation. Setup and play are quick enough that it works perfectly as something to unwind with or squeeze in before/after another game.

Score: 8.5 goblins out of 10 boxes of ammo

5,0

Eldicor (2025-10-09):

This one provides an enjoyable dice fighting experience where you must opportunistically beat down the strongest enemies you can as you build up your own powers, all without keeling over dead. It plays in 3 acts, and while acts 2 and especially 3 may look impossible as you are first reading the rules, with the right approach I assure you that the takedowns can be done.

I am als [read more]

5,0

dicepen#4412 (2025-08-25):

Demanding right from the beginning - one wrong move and you are in real problem! The good news: if you know how to use your skills, you will somehow manage to survive. Nearly died two times but managed to save myself. The dice manipulation is so rewarding and forces you to really test your skills - changing 3 dice value, adding 1 to two of them and flipping 4 dice is only a brie [read more]

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