Variant II: Random Additional Powers
There are twelve additional powers or capabilities to be assigned to the players randomly. These are distributed as follows: After each player has been assigned a side, take all of the character cards and shuffle them, dealing three to each player. Each character corresponds to a power as listed below. After each player's additional powers have been noted, return the character cards to their rightful owners.

The Powers

Additional Spice

The player begins the game with 10 spice rather than 6.

Instead of moving by die rolls in the normal way, the player may subtract one die from the other and move one token a number of spaces equal to the result. If the subtraction makes the number negative, the token is moved in a counterclockwise direction. Note that this allows a token to move zero spaces in the event of doubles; if the player decides to do this, the token still applies the effects of the space it is in.

The player may invest in Diamonds which pay off when a "2" or a "12" is rolled. The rate of payoff is 5:1.

When collecting spice from a harvest, the payoff is equal to 1.5 times the number of harvesters owned, with fractions rounded up.

All of the player's characters always roll an extra eight-sided die in combat, even if already rolling six dice.

When a character lands on the Training space, strength is increased by two instead of one. Maximum strength is still six however.

To temporarily increase guile, the owning player need only pay two spice per guile point added.

The player may buy four cards rather than just three.

The player may exchange cards among his characters just before buying cards.

The player may play two cards instead of just one.

The player's tokens may end in any Castle Space without paying any spice.

The player's ornithopters are only damaged on a roll of six.

Variant III: Assigned Additional Powers

Instead of assigning additional powers randomly, give each player the powers corresponding to his own characters.