Buttonmen Wiki

## Welcome to the Button Men Wiki!

Welcome to the Buttonmen wiki, the wiki that hosts all known information about the Cheapass game Button Men and likes to beat people up.

## About Button Men

Button Men is a clever little dice game published in 1999 by Cheapass Games. It originally came on pinback badges in sets of two for about $5 each, with no dice included. Since 1999, hundreds of buttons were released by Cheapass and other companies. By the time 2018 came around and the new Button Men set was released, this time featuring cards instead of buttons for the characters, information on most of these old sets had became difficult to find. Thus, this wiki decided to beat up that lack of knowledge.

In the upcoming weeks, each official Cheapass set will be added, and as many licensed sets as possible. Some information may be hard to find, so if you have the original documents for obscure sets like Sluggy Freelance, Nodwick, or High School Drama, take a scan and add it to their page!

Please note, much of this initial information will come from Cheapass's official Button Men site, http://www.beatpeopleup.com

Button Men has its own online game play site at http://www.buttonweavers.com. For more about Buttonweavers, see the Ephemera section.

If you know someone who might enjoy Button Men, let them know about this wiki! After all, as James Ernest said himself, "I would love to get new players into this game, though it's hard. The game is so simple that it's hard to see how deep it is without playing it. So I hope that the current fans will do their part to bring the game to new players.”

## Button Men RULES

A full rules page will soon be here as "Button Men Rules." The page is not fully finished, but is the most complete repository of the rules of Button Men currently online. Any errors will be corrected as soon as they are found.

Also, by Ashedox, Button Men En Espanol

## Button Men Strategy

For strategy articles published by Cheapass Games, please visit beatpeopleup.com/strategy ; if the beatpeopleup.com site goes down, the articles will be archived here on the wiki.

## Quick-link Reference

### Cheapass Games released sets

please see https://buttonmen.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Cheapass\_Sets

### Licensed Sets

please see https://buttonmen.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Official\_Sets

### Convention Buttons and Sets

please see https://buttonmen.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Convention\_Sets

### Unofficial Sets

please see https://buttonmen.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Fan\_Sets

### Unknown Status

Unknown Sets and nearly-lost Button Men. Most of these are from the original (1.0) Button Men Online site by Dana Huyler.

## Web Links

Beat People Up- Previously, this was the Official Cheapass Games Button Men (and BRAWL) website. As of March 2023, it was redirected to the Greater Than Games shop page for Cheapass Games. Currently includes Button Men base set.

Crab Fragment Labs - James Earnest's website that houses some of the older Cheapass Games as well as new projects.

Buttonmen Online - Former winner of "Best play-by-mail" award at Origins. One turn can take a while, so join a dozen games! Not as exciting as a one-on-one match, but you can use any size dice much more easily and nearly every button made is available.

Swing Die Size Calculator - A tool for helping calculate appropriate swing die values.

Button Filter - A button sorting website by BMO user Bagels.

Button Men Online Facebook group - The Facebook group for Button Men players.

Sailor Moon Crystal Dice Challenge - Official Sailor Moon Crystal large expansion site.

Button Men Blog - ElihuRoot's Button Men Blog

Online Dice Roll Generator - If need be, you can use this with pen & paper to play Button Men!

Dice Stats Generator -Very useful for comparing twin dice vs regular dice.

## Ephemera

#### Button Men: The Book

A limited press of 23 hardcover books made by Reah H. Shelley. Read more about it on its own page!

#### Button Men: The Poster

A poster showing all buttons produced in 1999. Featured the button man Gordo on one corner and a non-button men button on the other. Both licensed and Cheapass Original sets were included, including the two different versions of Zeppo.

#### Button Men: The Phone Games

There have been at least three distinct versions of Button Men for mobile devices. Nokia versions by Bridge and Tunnel with several exclusive buttons, a version for iOS from Thrust Interactive featuring six exclusive functionally reprinted buttons and all-new artwork, and a generic unlicensed one called "Dice Brawl." In addition, an ICQ-plug in was also briefly available for user-to-user play via the website Flipside Games.

#### Button Men: The Online Game

Originally created by Dana Hurler, the new reboot of Button Men Online (sanction by James Ernest) is at buttonweavers.com

#### Cosmic Domination

Cosmic Domination is a print-and-play board game that uses the Button Men mechanic as its battle mechanic.

#### Buttonweavers Wiki

The Buttonweavers Wiki is a place for documenting Button Men play on the Buttonweavers Button Men Online site. On it can be found various trackings of tournaments held on the site, Swing Die Strategy, and a few game variations such as This Risk Tribute.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.heraldbulletin.com/community/entertainment/button-men-dice-game-making-comeback/article\_34bfdaa6-38b4-11e7-b5cb-1bef6784ca3a.html
2. ↑ https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1424649/cosmic-domination-sci-fi-game-using-button-men-rul