This game is good for three things. 1 your 5 year old might like it. 2 Your adult friends may like it for a short goofy break; this is best if you are/have a few dramatic friends who will act out the roles really bring out the cheese (if your friends arn't cheesy best to try another game) 3. for $2 at a Goodwill you can elicit an ear to ear grin from your geek.

Raging champions appears to be a spoof on cartoon and comic book style heroes, without super powers. To add drama each comes with a bio.

Players are trainers who recruit (think select) champions to train to be the raging champion. Each champion is placed on the board matched with another champion. What follows is a series matches and promotion until there is only one champion remaining.

The match
Each player in a match rolls two dice. A D12 dice indicates the score of the champion in the fight. The other dice is a D6 with a green, purple, and black side. Each color indicates which randomizing card the player must draw and play. Though the cards are color coded to match the die, it does not seam to matter much which if any is drawn since almost all of them simply add to, subtract from the rolled score. The player with the highest score wins the match and is promoted to the next match, the looser is removed from the game.

This game requires slightly more play than chutes and ladders, and there is a strategy section of the rules. Really. Is it worth buying? The ear to ear grin my geek gave me and 10 minutes of playful puffery about taking each other down it was well worth the $2.