https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/collections/all.atom vaibhavhospital 2020-01-16T16:44:15-05:00 vaibhavhospital https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/4426590683187 2020-01-16T16:44:15-05:00 2020-01-16T16:44:15-05:00 Nētā-Tanka Board Games La Boîte de Jeu

Vendor: La Boîte de Jeu
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.49

Designer Hervé Rigal
Publisher La Boîte de Jeu
Players 1-4
Playing Time 90 mins
Suggested Age 14 and up

The Frostrivers tribe dwells along the Great Frozen River. Its members live in harmony with Nature. The tribe obeys the laws of the Four Elders, themselves guided by the most venerable of the Elders, the Neta-Tanka. When the Neta-Tanka enters the twilight of life, the Frostrivers gather at the Sacred Grounds to designate a successor. During this ceremony, each clan presents a young leader who will need to demonstrate generosity and the ability to provide for the tribe in order to become the new Neta-Tanka.

Gameplay:
When it is your turn, place a worker on the board. All the players place their workers, one at the time, until everybody has placed all their workers.

Then, in the order of the turn, the players trigger all their workers.

Think ahead, because some actions require other actions to be triggered beforehand! For example, if you want to get pelts, the "Hunt" action must have been triggered earlier in the turn. And when you skin the game to get the pelts, then the meat becomes available for the other players. It is crucial to remember the turn's order when you place your workers, or they might have nothing to do when you resolve your actions!

Another key point of the game is that the spots on the board are linked with each other. Triggering 2 actions that are linked with each other gives you a boost (by improving those actions, or giving you extra resources, ...).

There are different ways of scoring points in the game. You score points by:

Building tents for your tribe
Feeding your tribe
Handcrafting objects
Raising the highest Totem for the deities
Showing generosity to your opponents




The player with the most points at the end is declared Nētā-Tanka!

—description from the publisher

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https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/7777104065 2016-09-04T23:02:00-04:00 2016-09-04T23:02:00-04:00 Shakespeare: Backstage Board Games Ystari Games

Vendor: Ystari Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.99

Designer Hervé Rigal
Publisher Ystari Games
Players 1-4
Playtime 20-90 mins
Suggested Age 13 and up
Expands Shakespeare

Description from the publisher:

You can find everything you need in the backstage: Lord Chamberlain to get additional stunning actors, a prompter for those who forget their lines, a milliner for a costume with a panache, an architect to redesign the frontage of your theater...

Prepare for success and a new theater season with Shakespeare: Backstage, the first expansion for Shakespeare! New actors, new objectives, new costumes, and an innovative stage set allow you to shine when the curtain rises and all the lights are on you. Backstage cards allow players to utilize unwagered cylinders by placing them on the deck and spending them on special abilities, such as placing fewer rest tokens, adding hats to actors, or increasing ambiance.

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https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/3530447809 2015-11-14T07:17:00-05:00 2015-11-14T07:17:00-05:00 Shakespeare Board Games Ystari Games

Vendor: Ystari Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.49

Designer Hervé Rigal
Publisher Ystari Games
Players 1-4
Playtime 20-90 mins
Suggested Age 13 and up
Honors 2015 Tric Trac Nominee
Expansions Shakespeare: Backstage

The theaters of London are abuzz. In one week, her majesty the Queen will attend their new shows and will grant her support to one of the troupes. It's the chance of a lifetime for the young authors who are inflaming the populace with ever more audacious and motley plays. But how do you create a masterpiece in such a short time? Whoever has the answer to this thorny question will probably enter the rolls of history!

In Shakespeare, players are theater managers who must recruit actors, craftsmen, jewelers and others in order to assemble everything needed for the play's performance at week's end.

In more detail, the game lasts six days and on each day players recruit one new character — starting with five at the beginning of the game: four identical ones on their individual player board and one that they've drafted — and take 1-5 actions with the characters they have. Characters and their actions are:

  • Actors: Rehearse one or more acts in the three-act play; the more you rehearse, the more benefits you receive during the dress rehearsals on days four and six.
  • Costume mistress: Take costume elements to enhance your actors; if they lack a complete costume, they can't participate in the dress rehearsals.
  • Set dresser: Build the set. The more elaborate the set you build, the more rewards you receive — but the set must be symmetrical!
  • Handyman: Set them to work on whatever you need. These joes can assemble both costumes and sets, but they're not very good at it.
  • Assistant: Increase the power of your craftsmen, i.e., the three roles described above.
  • Jeweler: Take a gold costume element or set piece to dazzle the crowd.
  • Queen: Earn money by giving her an early peek, or gain an objective to win her favor on the final day.

After players take actions, they check the individual ambience level in their theater, gaining or losing points or rehearsal time depending on the atmosphere. Dress rehearsal on the fourth and sixth days provide another chance for fully-dressed actors to perform, and those who are well-rehearsed earn points or money.

On all but the final days, players must allow characters who performed to rest, with only one of those characters being able to work the next day. Thus, the more you put them to work today, the less you'll be able to do tomorrow — but those who don't plan to do as much act before other players, so that might be a good thing.

In the end, players must pay their actors, with each unpaid actor blemishing your reputation and costing you points. Whoever finishes with the most prestige points wins.

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https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/373401781 2014-10-31T22:38:00-04:00 2014-10-31T22:38:00-04:00 Caméléon Board Games Blackrock Games

Vendor: Blackrock Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 8.95

Designer Hervé Rigal
Publisher Blackrock Editions
Players 2-7
Playtime 10 mins
Suggested Age 5 and up

The Caméléon deck includes 54 combination cards, each with a number, a color and an object, along with a single wild chameleon card. Each player starts the round by drawing one of these cards and laying it face up on the table.

A randomly chosen dealer then turns over cards from the deck one by one, and any player who wants the card on the top of the stack must cover it with his hand, then name the three elements on the card. If he's correct, he claims the card; if he collects three cards, each with one of the three elements on his target card, he wins the round. The first player to win two rounds wins the game.

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