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Button Men What's New with Phil and Dixie
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This game gained a quick following after one of the major gaming conventions of 1999. It features several characters, represented on actual stickpin buttons, that each have a unique allowance of polyhedral dice. These dice endow each character with fairly unique combat abilities. Players roll the dice against each other and take their opponents' dice as casualties. The object of the game is take out the most die 'sides' during the combat. It's quite simple, quite inventive, and deeper than it would seem at first.
Dogfight was a precursor of Button Men .
Button Men
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Cheapass Games Print and Play Edition
Publisher: Cheapass Games
Artist: Gerald Brom, Brian Snoddy
Year: 2011
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Button Men
Publisher: Mario Truant Verlag
Artist: Gerald Brom, Larry Elmore, Ryan Kinnaird
, Brian Snoddy more»
Year: 2003
Product Code: 5311
Size: 8.90 x 6.38 x 0.75 inches
German
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Button Men Freaks
Publisher: Cheapass Games
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Year: 1999
Product Code: CAG 319
Size: 4.50 x 3.00 x 0.38 inches
0.05 pounds
English
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Button Men
Publisher: Cheapass Games
Artist: Brian Snoddy
Year: 1999
Product Code: CAG 306
Size: 5.00 x 3.00 x 0.50 inches
0.05 pounds
English
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Button Men Vampires
Publisher: Cheapass Games
Artist: Brian Snoddy
Year: 1999
Product Code: CAG308
Size: 4.75 x 3.00 x 0.50 inches
0.05 pounds
English
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Button Men roster
A roster from 2002, containing nearly all Button Men that were available at the time. It was put together by the creators of the unlicensed Blademasters Button Men set.
2011-12-21
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PDF to print as cards, Soldiers and Vampires
PDF to print the characters as cards, sleeve them and you are good to go to kill 5 minutes anytime.
2011-06-30
46
Rules, special rules and characters
The basic rules, rules for all of the special dice as well as a roster of each of the characters that has ever hit the shelves - apart from 80 fellas, that are still missing and that I don't know of :(
2009-04-07
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Button Men Rule Summary v.4 DRAFT.pdf
Rule Summary -- Draft (v.4); comments and corrections please (questions indicated with brackets)
2007-03-26
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