Dice system for Master of Orion

Heya Larienna!

Sounds like fun :)

I like how each dice roll effects each player ragardless of city side - that's a nice way of giving the random element of not quite knowing which track will be improved.

Will this bew different for each players or the same roll for all? How will one player rolling "credits" and one player rolling "science" actually effect the win condition? I don't think players would like to lose for the fact that one other player is just rolling luckier than he - would there be anyone of mitigating rolls or defining your game strategy elsewhere in the game in order to adapt for each roll.
"Because I did X, Y, Z, any of these rolls except pollution will be god for me!"
"Wheras I chose P Q and R meaning that if the dice rolls expansion - I will be in a really strong position!"

I think if this is the case, you need another gameplay element somewhere else in the game eg: something like a repleneshing set of three "building cards" or "empire cards" or "governement cards" where each one would help a player go down a certain route (eg: wanting to favor his win condition around the pollution roll) but only a choice of three at a time,
"Shoot, I started going really heavily into Morale to help out with my morale victory, but all of the the [morale synergy cards] have been taken or havent come up, perhaps I should try and invest some strategy into production..."

Also right at the start I don't quite follow the "each player rolls x specil dice and they reroll it" or something?

let me know your thoughts :)

Yes in which case it is essentially giving people a certain "occurance" in a standard game turn with a random element. Yes that sounds perfectly cool :)

Nice and simple, also nice dice rolling addition to add to the game concept.

Is there anything really nifty and clever you could do with the dice roll on OTHER players turns? If I am active player, I roll it into science (or whatever) and do my science thing, but that roll that I made actually allows other people to do / see / act a certain way? For a very active example it could be something like "when an opponent rolls a Pollution turn, you may look at the top card" or something?

Alternatively you could go all the way and have it where a scince roll means one thing for active player and another thing for non-active players. "On a science roll, the player increases 4 points on their sceicen track, and all other players advance 1 piont" - just an idea to try and limit downtime with your dice roll system?

:)