What makes Dune an enduring strategy game is its foundation on four interlocking design principles: Cost, Scarcity, Minimums, and Deduction. These “pillars” create the tension, fairness, and strategic depth that define the experience. Remove or weaken one, and the whole structure falters.
Explore our articles on these principles, plus tournament-ready Stronghold cards, the Ixian fix, and our newly rebalanced Richese faction.
What makes Dune an enduring strategy game is its foundation on four interlocking design principles
A breakdown of the changes
of the Richese Treachery Deck
Do expansion Treachery cards make
the deck better or worse?
Is the base 33 card deck suitable
for higher player count games?
This Fix is quite simple and it
makes IX feel like a classic faction.
An overhaul of the Richese
expansion faction
for the upcoming
Dice Tower West 2026 tournament.
What does each Stronghold need on an individual level?
Here is a list of our changes and why we made them.