Monsters Over Pancakes
A downloadable game
Purchase a Monsters Over Pancakes dice set here: https://www.deluxeplayset.com/product/monsters-over-pancakes-dice-set
Embark on a thrilling adventure filled with monsters, bravery, and, of course, pancakes in 'Monsters Over Pancakes'! Assemble your party, choosing from a range of themed characters like the spicy Fired Up Rat or the goopy Slime Cube, and dive into the treacherous dungeon. With strategic dice battles and clever use of items, players must defeat a series of monsters while ensuring at least one party member remains standing to savor the victory feast of pancakes.
GOAL
Defeat the last Monster with at least one Party Member still conscious. Someone needs to be awake to eat those pancakes after all.
Setup
- Create Your Party: Shuffle the Monster Cards and draw the top 3 or manually select 3 Monsters. Place them in front of you face up. Choose 1 to be the Active Party Member. Place a Health Token at the top open spot of each of your Party Members.
- Draw an Item Card: Shuffle the Item Cards and draw the top card.
Setup the Dungeon: Place 9 Monster Cards face down in one of the following configurations: Diamond Shape or Dual Lanes
How to Play / Phases
- Flip
- Battle
- Repeat Flip and Battle until you are defeated or you have defeated the final Monster.
Flip
- Choose the next Monster in the Dungeon to flip over. Progress in the Dungeon is made horizontally, determined by columns. There will ultimately be 5 Monsters to battle in the Dungeon.
- Flip over the Monster card face up.
- Place the Dungeon Marker on that Monster card. The current face up Monster will be known as the Active Monster.
- Place a Health Token at the top open spot on the Active Monster.
Battle
- Gather the corresponding dice matching your Active Party Member and the Active Monster.
- Roll the dice and arrange them matching the order of your Active Party Member and the Active Monster. Do your best to not arrange them to any one’s advantage. Just line them up in order.
- Compare the values from top to bottom and resolve damage. For every point of damage, move the Health Token down one.
- If neither the Active Party Member nor the Active Monster are defeated, Battle again.
- If the Active Monster is defeated, draw 2 Item Cards and choose 1 to keep. Place the other at the bottom of the Item deck. Continue to the next Flip phase.
What are Dice Cards?
Don't have the means to create a bunch of custom dice? Download the "Dice Cards"! These cards offer you 2 sets of the 4 dice, so you can at least do one dice battle at a time.
Download
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Development log
- Mini expansion released!Jul 03, 2024
- Expansions #02 - Traps - Released!May 24, 2024
- New Expansion Released!Apr 12, 2024
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I'm a bit confused with this part of the rules: "Gather the corresponding dice matching your Active Party Member and the Active Monster." I played your video multiple times but must be really thick. Can you explain "corresponding dice"? Is that what the numbers and symbols under each monster picture are? If so, how do I interpret this?
I can see why this is confusing for multiple reasons!
So your Active Party Member has a bunch of symbols beneath it. They correspond to different dice, which are also colored on the right side. So if you see a white, blue, and blue - that means the dice this monster uses is a white die, a blue die, and a blue die.
Does that make sense?
Ah, it sure does! Thank you! Now if one didn’t have dice, how would one use the dice cards, please?
So the card backs correspond to the dice that match (e.g. green back = green card). Since they're to match dice, you'd print out 6 cards for each die because there are 6 sides on a die. The difference of the pancake backs and blank backs is so you could separate your cards from the monster cards.
If you look at the single sheets, you'll see the distribution of faces to the backs.
What happens when you are on the last monster, roll two fires, and are both on your final hitpoint? I assume that's a loss?
Good question! It's a double KO and yes, it's a loss.
It would be nice to just be able to purchase the custom dice faces and stick them on our own dice.
That's a really great idea! I may do that. It's definitely a lot easier for me to produce than sticking them on for you.
Can this game be played solo? If so, would I be playing 1 monster or playing the party of 3 monsters? I already donated, downloaded and printed the game. Just wondering if I am going to be 1 person or pretend to be multiple persons. Thanks.
yep it’s a solo game! You have a party of 3 monsters with 1 active at a time.
Awesome! Thanks for the prompt reply.