Forges of Ravenshire

2024-07-02T10:17:09-04:00

Vendor: B.A. Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Designer	Sam Stockton
Publisher	B.A. Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	50-100 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	367833/forges-ravenshire http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367833/forges-ravenshire/forums/63

Grab a hammer and some steel, it’s time to forge! The Blacksmiths Guild of Ravenshire is in need of a new Forgemaster. You and your fellow smiths are competing to see who can make the most money and become the new Forgemaster.

Forges of Ravenshire is played over 4 seasons or rounds. Each season starts with the gathering phase where players will acquire contracts, recruit guild members, and gather resources. Players roll their dice workers and place one of them on an available location to gather resources. Then retrieve a different dice worker to gather even more resources. However, the various workers are from different guilds and when retrieved will activate the guilds you have invested in. All players will take turns placing one of their workers and retrieving another worker 3 times.

After the gathering phase is the production phase. Take those 3 dice workers you have taken and now place them on different areas of your forge to gather more resources, make charcoal or steel, and forge contracts to make money.

At the end of every season, check to see if any special titles have been earned. Titles bring prestige and hard-earned money.

Finally, roll your 3 dice workers again and prepare the county of Ravenshire for the next season.

—description from the publisher

Cult of the Deep

2022-07-04T07:07:02-04:00

Vendor: B.A. Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designer	Sam Stockton
Publisher	B.A. Games
Players	4-8
Playtime	45-75 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	324641/cult-deep http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/324641/cult-deep/forums/63

You are a cultist, trying to establish your faction's rise to power. Fight over rituals and mythical monsters as you seek victory and control of the cult.

Roles

Each player is given a role that will remain hidden throughout the game, except the High Priest. This role will determine your win condition:

High Priest - Root out corruption in the cult. Kill all Cabalists, the Heretic, and survive.
Cabalists - Seek to take control of the cult. Kill the High Priest.
Faithful - Protect the High Priest from threats to their power. Kill all Cabalists, the Heretic, and the High Priest must survive.
Heretic - Burn the whole cult to the ground. Kill the entire cult, yourself included if necessary.

Extra abilities

Each player will also be given a:

Character card that determines their starting health, special ability, and a power symbol that provides an additional way to gain life from the dice.
Secret sigil card, which gives each cultist a once per game power, will also be given to each player.

Mechanics

A player will take a turn by first rolling their dice up to 3 times. They then decide where to commit their dice: to rituals to gain altar effects to temporarily empower themselves, finish a ritual in order to gain its powerful effects permanently, stab other cultists, gain life, or give life to other cultists.

If a player is killed, they are not eliminated. Instead, they become a wraith. They will roll dice on their turn still, just less. They cannot commit dice like normal but instead haunt the dice of enemies and allies by giving, replacing, or discarding dice.

-description from designer

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