Encounters: Bravest Warriors is a quick push-your-luck dice game set in the world of the Pendleton Ward cartoon. Players roll dice, assigning them to encounters to defeat those encounters and earn Heroic Points. After beating an encounter, the dice used are spent, and another encounter can be revealed, but the player must use only the remaining dice. Players can stop rolling any time they want, but if a player manages to use every single one of their dice, they can take all their dice back and keep going, with each encounter being worth double points! You can spend these points on later turns to buy item cards that can help you manipulate the dice.

If you fail, other players can leap at the opportunity to "assist" you (using their items to help you win in exchange for half the points, and you can't refuse!) or just let you fail and ride on your coat-tails, picking up where you left off.