The Dice

While the rules are written using cards as the base mechanic, DCA can be played with D6 (D6 are dice with 6 faces).

You need to have 5 different colours of D6 dice. You’ll use four types to represent each of the four suits, and the fifth to represent the jokers.

Playing with Dice
Whenever a rule establishes that you should do something with a card, instead you’ll do it with a die.

Playing with dice follows the same rules as playing with cards, with the difference that they add another step to resolve a confrontation.

Whenever a rule says card, you should read it as dice. When it says the hand of cards, read it as your dice pool; and read the deck as the reserve instead.

The Reserve
Similarly, to what happens with the cards in the deck, there are dice that are not in any player’s pool. This is called the reserve, and it is shared among all players.

For every 3 players using dice, you need one set of 25 dice, 6 in each colour plus one to represent the joker in a different colour. It is best if the dice are of the same size and texture and cannot be distinguished by touching them.

The reserve of dice should be put in a place easily ac-cessible to all the players but that somehow doesn’t let them see the dice themselves, such as an opaque bag that prevents players from knowing which die they are drawing.

Whenever a die is used it is put back in the reserve, and whenever a die is drawn, it is taken without looking from the reserve. When a rule asks to “play a card from the deck” instead, draw a random die from the re-serve and roll it.

The Pool of Dice
Similar to the hand of cards, players using the dice rules have a pool of seven dice. If you are playing with dice and a rule refers to your hand of cards, consider it refers to your pool of dice instead.

Every time you would need to draw a card to your hand, draw a die from the reserve and add it to your dice pool instead.Every time you need to play a card, choose a die from your pool and roll it.

After a die has been rolled, it goes back to the reserve (which could trigger a rule that allows you to draw another one).

The main difference between playing with cards and dice is that with cards you know the value of what you are playing beforehand, whereas with dice you have to roll it at that moment and see. During confrontations, this is balanced out with the dice-only step that allows you to flip the dice you roll.