Mechanism: Campaign Games

Earthborne Rangers is a customizable, co-operative card game set in the wilderness of the far future. You take on the role of a Ranger, a protector of the mountain valley you call home: a vast wilderness transformed by monumental feats of science and technology devised to save the Earth from destruction long ago. The story of Earthborne Rangers is presented as a branching narrative campaign consisting of a main storyline and a multitude of side stories. In it, you can choose to follow the critical path or to strike off on your own to discover the Valley's many engaging characters, mysterious ruins, and beings both familiar and strange.

You begin by building a deck that reflects your Ranger's interests, personal history, and personality. Then, as you explore the open world and your story takes shape, you augment your deck with improved equipment, refined skills, and the memories of your journey.

Each game session represents one day in the Valley, and you'll pick up in the same location on the map where you rested the night before. Your goal is to either complete one of your available missions or to explore the open world. The session ends when you're either forced to rest (through either fatigue or injury), or you choose to rest for the night.

An individual game session is played in rounds, and those rounds consist of turns. On your turn, you perform one action: either play a card from your hand, or choose an action from a card on the table. Each action allows you to interact thematically and narratively with the world, and each time you take an action, the world comes to life around you. Predators stalk their prey, rain pours from the sky, rocks tumble down the mountain to block your path, and much more.

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It’s 1929. You are Captain Sofi Odessa and her crew lost at sea in a strange world. Aboard the steamship Manticore, you must work together to survive by exploring mysterious islands, battling creatures, and meeting the world’s inhabitants. Along the way, seek out the totems of the gods. Wake the gods and perhaps you’ll be able to return home.

Sleeping Gods: Primeval Peril is a short standalone campaign for one or two players, but will include a variant for playing with 3-4, set in the world of Sleeping Gods and using the same rules.

Primeval Peril is set on a dangerous river that winds through lush jungle. It includes new characters and stories so that nothing from the Sleeping Gods base game is spoiled.

It was first offered as a free print-and-play to all backers of the Sleeping Gods Kickstarter.

This first retail edition is revised and expanded with new stories and quests, streamlined gameplay, and an atlas with new maps.

Exploration, gold, treasure, upgrades, minions, boss battles, and even a shopkeeper named Rosella? Welcome to the latest addition to the Dice Throne universe!

Dice Throne Adventures (DTA) is a cooperative expansion that allows up to 4 players to use the heroes you already own in a brand new way. Work together over a series of game nights to travel from the Crimson Sands all the way to the Mad King's throne room. Your heroes will gain permanent deck upgrades with each session, but don't become overconfident. The King hasn't lost a single battle in a thousand years and he's eager for a real challenge.

Requires season 1, season 2, or marvel characters to play.

In Everdell Duo, you either compete against your single opponent or play co-operatively with another player to earn the most points. You accomplish this by placing workers to gather resources, then use those resources to play cards face up in front of you, creating your own woodland city.

Cards may be played from your hand or from the face-up area on the board called the meadow. However, only cards touching the sun or moon token may be played from the meadow, and players move these tokens each time they perform a turn. Therefore, planning for and timing which cards you play is critical.

Each game you try to achieve various events, the requirements of which differ from game to game, making certain cards and combinations more important to pursue.

The game lasts for four seasons, then players add their scores to determine the winner. If you're playing co-operatively, check the requirements for the chapter you are playing to see whether you have won.

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Dungeon Legends is a cooperative, standalone card-based game set in the world of Chronicles of Avel. Throughout the game, you'll take on the roles of heroes embarking on a dangerous mission deep into the dark dungeon. A fully replayable campaign of 5 engaging chapters awaits you, where you must reach the deepest depths and defeat the evil lurking there, whilst preventing monsters from reaching the Castle.

What's it about?

The game is divided into 5 chapters, each describing the party's expedition into the dungeon. They must brave searing flames, unravel the enigma of ancient machinery, explore forsaken mines rich with magical Dust, outrun torrents of molten lava, and ultimately confront an ageless evil. We encourage experiencing the chapters in order, as that will provide you with an engaging campaign of increasing difficulty, however, each chapter provides a stand-alone challenge that can be approached repeatedly.

Each player embodies a hero with a unique deck, reflective of their individual style. As the game unfolds, you'll discover new cards that will expand your abilities. A player's turn consists of playing cards from their hand, applying their effects, attacking monsters, and using areas to their advantage. The basic rules remain consistent across all chapters, but each one introduces new cards, special rules, and unique goals for achieving victory.