Diceland (dice game)

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Diceland is a tabletop game played with collectible sets of dice designed by Toivo Rovainen and James Ernest and released in 2002 by Cheapass Games. Players roll paper cut-out octahedral dice into a combat arena. The dice are then used in the same way as miniatures - they can be moved around the arena and attack other dice.

The original Diceland set was Diceland: Deep White Sea, released in 2002. It was followed in 2003 by three more sets: Diceland: Ogre, Diceland: Space, and Diceland: More Space, and in 2005 with Diceland: Cyburg and Diceland: Dragons. There is also a Diceland set of Button Men. In addition, there are promotional dice; the 2005 summer promo die features characters from the world famous webcomic Penny Arcade.

There is the possibility of another expansion to the original Deep White Sea set, featuring a new army consisting of neutral characters. There is speculation that these additions will consist at least partially of characters from a short lived fan fiction written by Zipp Dementia that circulated around the net for a while.

In 2003, Diceland won the Origins Vanguard Award 2002.