Hero Power Levels

Dicey Dangers, Core Rule

Game by Joel Hills

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Hero Power Levels

Heroes do not advance through traditional numeric levels. Instead, a Hero's power grows through the quality of the items they carry. As Heroes adventure and acquire better gear, their overall power increases across five tiers: Beginner, Low, Medium, High, and Epic.

What Defines a Hero's Power Level

Each item a Hero carries can have up to four components that contribute to their overall power:

• Prefix Element: Adds elemental dice to the Hero's combat pool
• Prefix Material: Modifies the item's attack and defense dice
• Prefix Attribute: Boosts the Hero's Primary Attributes and Health
• Base Item
• Suffix Spell: Grants magical abilities and charged effects

A Hero's power tier reflects the combined strength of these components across all their equipped items. A Beginner hero will have few or weak prefixes across their gear, while an Epic hero has strong contributions from all four components working together.

The Five Tiers

Tier	Description
Beginner	Starting gear, few or no prefixes
Low	Early adventure rewards, light prefix bonuses
Medium	Well-equipped, mid-campaign hero
High	Veteran hero with strong gear across all slots
Epic	Rare, powerful items the peak of hero capability

Combat and Power Level

Monster difficulty automatically scales to the Hero via Brace and Cleave, so power tier does not determine how hard encounters feel it determines what loot Heroes can expect to find and use.