UPDATE 12/25/2006: Have you got a slew of old polyhedral "D+D" gaming dice (8-siders, 10-siders, 20-siders, etc.) that you don't know what to do with? Want to play a fun, simple game with them? Look no further than Hedronism!

The game itself only exists in 23" by 35" poster form for the prototype (unfortunately no longer available for sale as of 2017), requiring only itself and your old dice to be played. Click on the image of the poster at right to see a very large preview image, with all the rules printed right on it. Feel free to enlarge it and endeavor to print it out on your own if you want to take it for a trial run. This game is free for personal use only, of course! :-)

Hedronism is a basic board game, where your dice are the actual markers used. Try and get two markers all the way to the End Space. There are strategies involved; mostly regarding how a roll will be split among your two markers, similar to what happens when you roll a "7" in the game "Sorry." In Hedronism, every roll can be split this way.

But the really nifty thing about this game is the ability to use any kind of weird-shaped die at all (d14, d24... d100?). Each player can bring up to three special dice like these to the game, like marbles, and place them on any specially-marked "Star Space" on the board. If you can land on that space, you can use that die!

This game was designed specially for dice collectors or for anyone who wants a really unique game that can use a variety of different-shaped dice.

(by the way... the game board is a compound of five tetrahedra, created using an astounding mathematical model-making program called Stella: Polyhedron Navigator, by my friend Robert Webb!)

Copyright © 2006 David C. Lovelace