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Welcome to the Button Men Wiki!
Welcome to the Buttonmen wiki, the wiki that hosts all known information about the Cheapass game Button Men and likes to beat people up.

About Button Men
Button Men is a clever little dice game published in 1999 by Cheapass Games. It originally came on pinback badges in sets of two for about $5 each, with no dice included. Since 1999, hundreds of buttons were released by Cheapass and other companies. By the time 2018 came around and the new Button Men set was released, this time featuring cards instead of buttons for the characters, information on most of these old sets had became difficult to find. Thus, this wiki decided to beat up that lack of knowledge.

In the upcoming weeks, each official Cheapass set will be added, and as many licensed sets as possible. Some information may be hard to find, so if you have the original documents for obscure sets like Sluggy Freelance, Nodwick, or High School Drama, take a scan and add it to their page!

Please note, much of this initial information will come from Cheapass's official Button Men site, http://www.beatpeopleup.com

Button Men has its own online game play site at http://www.buttonweavers.com. For more about Buttonweavers, see the Ephemera section.

If you know someone who might enjoy Button Men, let them know about this wiki! After all, as James Ernest said himself, "I would love to get new players into this game, though it's hard. The game is so simple that it's hard to see how deep it is without playing it. So I hope that the current fans will do their part to bring the game to new players.”



Rules
A full rules page will soon be here as "Button Men Rules." The page is not fully finished, but is the most complete repository of the rules of Button Men currently online. Any errors will be corrected as soon as they are found.

Also, by Ashedox, Button Men En Espanol

Dice
At the heart of Button Men is the wide variety of special dice that are used to add special abilities to the game. A full list of the dice used is can be found on the Dice page.

Strategy
For strategy articles published by Cheapass Games, please visit beatpeopleup.com/strategy ; if the beatpeopleup.com site goes down, the articles will be archived here on the wiki.

Sets
Cheapass Games Released Sets

Button Men Originals

Official Sets

Convention Sets

Fan Created Sets

Unknown Sets

Officially Released Joke Buttons  

Web Links
Beat People Up - Previously, this was the Official Cheapass Games Button Men (and BRAWL) website. As of March 2023, it was redirected to the Greater Than Games shop page for Cheapass Games. Currently includes Button Men base set.

Crab Fragment Labs - James Earnest's website that houses some of the older Cheapass Games as well as new projects.

Buttonmen Online - Former winner of "Best play-by-mail" award at Origins. One turn can take a while, so join a dozen games! Not as exciting as a one-on-one match, but you can use any size dice much more easily and nearly every button made is available.

Swing Die Size Calculator - A tool for helping calculate appropriate swing die values.

Button Filter - A button sorting website by BMO user Bagels.

Button Men Online Facebook group - The Facebook group for Button Men players.

Sailor Moon Crystal Dice Challenge - Official Sailor Moon Crystal large expansion site.

Button Men Blog - ElihuRoot's Button Men Blog

Online Dice Roll Generator - If need be, you can use this with pen & paper to play Button Men!

Dice Stats Generator -Very useful for comparing twin dice vs regular dice.

Ephemera
Button Men: The Book A limited press of 23 hardcover books made by Reah H. Shelley. Read more about it on its own page!

Button Men: The Poster A poster showing all buttons produced in 1999. Featured the button man Gordo on one corner and a non-button men button on the other. Both licensed and Cheapass Original sets were included, including the two different versions of Zeppo.

Button Men: The Phone Games There have been at least three distinct versions of Button Men for mobile devices. Nokia versions by Bridge and Tunnel with several exclusive buttons, a version for iOS from Thrust Interactive featuring six exclusive functionally reprinted buttons and all-new artwork, and a generic unlicensed one called "Dice Brawl." In addition, an ICQ-plug in was also briefly available for user-to-user play via the website Flipside Games.

Cosmic Domination is a print-and-play board game that uses the Button Men mechanic as its battle mechanic. 