Tyrants of the Underdark: Board Game (2021)
Playtime: 90
Min. Age: 14
Number of Players:
2 - 4
Publisher:
Across the Board,
Hasbro,
Lavka Games,
Wizards of the Coast,
Gale Force Nine, LLC
Designers:
Andrew Veen,
Rodney Thompson,
Peter Lee
Artists:
Klaus Pillon (I),
Emily Fiegenschuh,
James Zhang,
Sam Burley,
Lars Grant-West,
Matias Tapia,
McLean Kendree,
Kieran Yanner,
Tyler Walpole,
Francis Tsai,
Marco Nelor,
Milivoj Ceran,
Olga Drebas,
Jim Nelson,
Aaron J. Riley,
Eric Belisle,
Rob Alexander,
Jason Engle,
Eva Widermann,
Richard Whitters,
Ilich Henriquez,
Arnie Swekel,
Héctor Ortiz,
Vance Kovacs,
Julie Dillon,
Bryan Syme,
Marc Sasso,
Carlos Nunez de Castro Torres,
Marcel Mercado,
Raymond Swanland,
Alex Aparin,
Howard Lyon,
Todd Harris,
Daren Bader,
Damien Mammoliti,
Conceptopolis,
Wayne England,
Tyler Jacobson,
Sławomir Maniak,
Adam Paquette,
Ralph Horsley,
John-Paul Balmet,
Tomasz Jedruszek,
William O'Connor,
Stephen Tappin,
Craig J. Spearing,
Ryan Pancoast,
Rick Hershey,
Claudio Pozas,
Steve Ellis (I),
Jacob Masbruch,
Brian Hagan,
Ben Wootten,
Jason Juta,
Jesper Ejsing,
Guido Kuip
Mechanics:
Deck, Bag, and Pool Building,
Area Majority / Influence
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Tyrants of the Underdark is a territory control game with a deck-building element.
Each player leads a house of Drow in a section of the Underdark below the Sword Coast. The Drow house is represented by a deck of cards, with each card being a minion in that player's deck. Each minion belongs to one of five aspects of Drow society, and those aspects correspond to different strategies in the game, e.g., malice minions excel at assassinating opponents' troops, while ambition minions are best at recruiting additional minions and promoting minions to your "inner circle", which is a special zone that increases their value at the end of the game.
When you set up the game, you create an 80-card deck by shuffling two 40-card half-decks together, with the half-decks being Drow, Dragons, Demons, and Elementals.
A central marketplace has new minions that can be recruited through influence, one of two resources in the game; purchased cards are placed in your discard pile, then shuffled together with other cards in your deck when needed. The other resource is power, which allows you to place troops on the game board, expand your forces across the map of the Underdark, manipulate happenings in the city, and assassinate enemy troops.
Players gain points by controlling sites, recruiting valuable minions, promoting minions to your inner circle, and assassinating troops, and whoever ends the game with the most points wins.
NOTE: This 2021 printing includes the Aberrations & Undead expansion.
Each player leads a house of Drow in a section of the Underdark below the Sword Coast. The Drow house is represented by a deck of cards, with each card being a minion in that player's deck. Each minion belongs to one of five aspects of Drow society, and those aspects correspond to different strategies in the game, e.g., malice minions excel at assassinating opponents' troops, while ambition minions are best at recruiting additional minions and promoting minions to your "inner circle", which is a special zone that increases their value at the end of the game.
When you set up the game, you create an 80-card deck by shuffling two 40-card half-decks together, with the half-decks being Drow, Dragons, Demons, and Elementals.
A central marketplace has new minions that can be recruited through influence, one of two resources in the game; purchased cards are placed in your discard pile, then shuffled together with other cards in your deck when needed. The other resource is power, which allows you to place troops on the game board, expand your forces across the map of the Underdark, manipulate happenings in the city, and assassinate enemy troops.
Players gain points by controlling sites, recruiting valuable minions, promoting minions to your inner circle, and assassinating troops, and whoever ends the game with the most points wins.
NOTE: This 2021 printing includes the Aberrations & Undead expansion.
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