You pull twelve cards to set up what I’ll call “on-deck” piles. At game’s start you assemble a randomizer deck drawn from all the other cards in the three games. Additional cards are introduced in a two-step system. With four players, though, you’re going to be bumping into each other more.Įveryone begins with a QfED starter deck and the market also starts with the six base game choices. With two or three players this means a lot less potential for blocking (since explorers cannot pass through each other) each player can head for a different temple to start with and generally avoid each other. This scavenger hunt breaks with the linearity of the base game, allowing players to decide which temple to visit first. Each temple is two-sided, which (as one has come to expect from this series) provides for plenty of variety in terms of what you need to enter them. The biggest change is that before entering the final crypt hex (thus clinching the game), players must first visit three temples to acquire a gem from each. Now the standalone-and-sequel The Golden Temples ( TGT) has dropped. Players also had the opportunity to stop off at the Tavern to hire from a selection of OP heroes that allowed for further deck customization. HaH also added some asymmetry by starting each player off with their own unique Familiar card in their deck that gave you decent utility until you decided to trash it later in the game for one last glorious boost. But never fear, there were several allies and items which could deal with those if you took the trouble to acquire them. Expansions please! Luckily the first one, Heroes and Hexes ( HaH) came out only a year later, adding new map tiles riddled with nasty demon hexes that required explorers to take on curses upon entry.

The only downside was that all possible cards were eventually available in every game.

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