Ed

Ed
Ed
Set	Cowboy Bebop
Designer	Jota
Artist	Unknown
Publisher	Button Men Online
Release Date	Unknown
Dice	(4) f(8) (8) (12) (Y)? +t(10)
Tournament Legal	No

Ed's Skills

Auxiliary

Button Notation:	+
BMO Notation:	+

Before each round, both players decide whether or not to play with one of their Auxiliary Dice. Usually, either both players use one, or both players don’t.

If you fight against a player who has no Auxiliary Dice, and you wish to use your own, chivalry dictates that you offer your opponent the option to use an Auxiliary equivalent to your own. “Equivalent” means a die of the same size and type. In the case of an Auxiliary variable die, such as a Swing Die, each player’s die can vary independently.

Auxiliary Dice appear in the Pendragon Button Lords set of Button Men, published by Green Knight publishing.

Focus

Button Notation:	Black frame, f
BMO Notation:	f

Focus Dice help characters go first. After the starting roll, if you are not going first, you can reduce the values on your Focus Dice so that you are going first. Your opponent can respond by reducing their Focus Dice, and so on until both players are ready to begin, or can’t reduce their dice any farther.

If you go first, you can’t make an attack with any of the Focus Dice that you turned down. The second player has no such restriction.

Focus dice were introduced in the Legend of the Five Rings set.

Mood Swing

Button Notation:	?
BMO Notation:	?

Before the round, a Mood Swing can be any size in the allowable range. During the game, whenever you re-roll a Mood Swing it will randomly change size. Mood Swings always choose from among all common die sizes (not all integers) with equal probability. The definition of “common” die sizes is 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 20. For a "Y?," add 1, 2, and optionally 16 as selections, for a "Z?" add an optional d16 and d30, and for a "P?" add a 1, 2, 16, 24, and 30.

Button Men Online omits the d16 from the Y? and Z? swing dice based upon precedent set by the original BMO site. Using a d16 in live play is thus optional as long as all players agree. A Moody P-Swing did not exist until after the current Button Men Online site and thus uses the d16 and d24.

Trip

Button Notation:	Strikethrough through the number
BMO Notation:	t

Trip Dice do not count for going first.

Trip Attack: Choose any one opposing die as the Target. Roll both the Trip Die and the Target, then compare the numbers they show. If the Trip Die now shows an equal or greater number than the Target, the Target is captured. Otherwise, the attack merely has the effect of re-rolling both dice. Trip Dice cannot make an attack that could not possibly result in a capture (e.g. a t1 attacking a (4,4) Twin Die cannot win, so the attack would be illegal).

Trip Dice were introduced in the Lunch Money set.

Y Swing Dice can be any die between 1 and 20. Swing Dice are allowed to be any integral size between their upper and lower limit, including both ends, and including nonstandard die sizes like 17 or 9. Each player chooses his or her Swing Die in secret at the beginning of the match, and thereafter the loser of each round may change their Swing Die between rounds. If a character has any two Swing Dice of the same letter, they must always be the same size.