Beatnik Turtle

Beatnik Turtle
Beatnik Turtle
Set	2004 Origins
Release Date	2004
Dice	wHF(4) (8) (10) vz(20) vz(20)
Tournament Legal	No

Beatnik Turtle's Skills

Fire

Button Notation:	Glowing frame, F
BMO Notation:	F

Fire Dice cannot make Power Attacks.

Before making a Skill or Power Attack, you may increase the value showing on any of the attacking dice, and decrease the values showing on one or more of your Fire Dice by the same amount. For example, if you wish to increase the value of an attacking die by 5 points, you can take 5 points away from one or more of your Fire Dice. Turn the Fire Dice to show the adjusted values, and then make the attack as normal. Dice can never be increased or decreased outside their normal range, i.e., a 10-side die can never show a number lower than 1 or higher than 10. Fire Dice cannot assist attacks other than normal Power or Skill Attacks. They are indicated by a flaming appearance to their dice ovals.

Fire Dice were designed for the PolyCon button set.

To use Fire Dice on Buttonmen Online, pick the dice other than the fire dice needed for the attack, then click the [Beat People Up!] button to go to the Fire Die screen.

Fire Dice/Queer Dice FAQ: You cannot use a Fire die to adjust a Queer die so it can swap from a power to skill attack. James Ernest ruled that to use Fire with a Power attack you'd need to add two to the die, as otherwise it would make the attack illegal. Button Men Online does not require this, however, as the attack type is 'locked in' before changing the Fire dice.

Mighty

Button Notation:	H
BMO Notation:	H

Mighty Dice grow one available die size larger every time they are re-rolled. Mighty Dice first officially appeared in the Space Girlz set exclusive to the first Button Men Online site and the Button Men Mobile app. It was originally created on the original Button Men Online site by user Santiago.

Slow

Button Notation:	w
BMO Notation:	w

Slow Dice do not count for going first.

Slow Dice were originally used by Dana Huyler for the rare BROM button Giant on the original Button Men Online site. It was later used in the official promotional set at Origins on the Beatnik Turtle button.

Value

Button Notation:	v
BMO Notation:	v

Value Dice when captured are worth the value currently rolled on the die instead of the size of the Value Die as normal.

If a Value Die is part of an attack, the dice captured gain the Value ability.

Value Dice were created by Zomulgustar on the original Button Men Online site.

Other Information

Beatnik Turtle is the mascot for the band of the same name.

According to Randy Chertkow:

"We had made the Cheapass Album, and were at the conference releasing the new album, and we put together a button for it to promote it at Origins. We were avid players of both Cheapass Games as well as Button Men so we were excited to have a button for our band mascot. We are gamers and the origin of that album was pretty funny as well. The short version is that one day, after playing Deadwood, we got inspired by a card in the game and created a demo "Were All These Beer Cans Here Last Night". We sent it to James, and he liked it so much he posted it to cheapass.com. That got tens of thousands of downloads so we pitched doing an entire album inspired by the games. The best part was getting our cover art done by one of my favourite artists, Phil Foglio. We didn't have our own booth, but what we did do is create a "Cheapass Listening Booth" at the Cheapass table with a CD player and headphones, and people would come by the booth and listen. It was pretty funny, and people loved it and bought disks.

We Illustrated it ourselves as it's the same mascot we use on all of our websites and materials. Technically, Jason Feehan created it."