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The Book of Treasure Maps is a supplement which contains five short dungeon scenarios that the player characters find using treasure maps. Each of these dungeons includes a hand-drawn map to be given to the players as well as a complete map of the dungeon for the gamemaster to use.
According to the description inside the game's boxtop, the game takes place in an ancient pharaoh's tomb, which has a three-level pathway scattered with jewels. Using a single die, and directed by a voice - presumably that of the pharaoh's mummy - the players (called "Explorers" in the instructions) travel up and around the steps surrounding a sarcophagus collecting jewels, in an attempt to be ...
The 60-year-old New Jersey man has published several table-top games, runs the board game blog “GameTek,” and even teaches a class on board game design at New York University.
Ludus latrunculorum, latrunculi, or simply latrones ("the game of brigands", or "the game of soldiers" from latrunculus, diminutive of latro, mercenary or highwayman) was a two-player strategy board game played throughout the Roman Empire. It is said to resemble chess or draughts, as it is generally accepted to be a game of military tactics ...
The second and third English edition rules use a system based on Damage Effect Factors (DEF). [clarification needed] The fourth edition, Kult: Divinity Lost, has less focus on combat than previous editions. The magic rules in Kult are loosely inspired by real-world occult practices, such as Hermeticism, in order to heighten the setting's ...
Accompanying the game was an instruction booklet, describing the game's purported origins in Tonkin, and claiming that according to legend Brahmins at a temple in Benares have been carrying out the movement of the "Sacred Tower of Brahma", consisting of sixty-four golden disks, according to the same rules as in the game, and that the completion ...
The reader plays as a wandering adventurer who is recruited by the good wizard Yaztromo (who previously appeared in The Forest of Doom) and tasked with locating the five dragon artefacts (bone, crystal, ebony, gold and silver) which are hidden in the lost city of Vatos. Gameplay takes the form of a campaign: the player must determine a means of ...
The Dragons of Glory pack consists of: a stiff, double cardboard cover with tables and text on the inside so that they can be used during the game, a large two-sectioned map displaying the continent of Ansalon and the islands which surround it, 400 die-cut counters with a resealable plastic bag in which to store them, an eight-page rule booklet, and a 16-page campaign and scenario booklet.