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Etherfields

BGG Rank: 609
Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4+, Best: 4+
Playing Time: 180 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.56 / 5
Mechanisms: Cooperative Game, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, Modular Board, Role Playing, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Solo / Solitaire Game, Storytelling, Variable Player Powers
Category: Adventure, Exploration, Fantasy, Miniatures
Family: Admin: Better Description Needed!, Components: Miniatures, Crowdfunding: Kickstarter, Game: Etherfields, Mechanism: Campaign Games, Misc: Eastar Game Manufacturing, Players: Games with Solitaire Rules, Theme: Dreams / Nightmares
Designer: Michał Oracz
Artist: Ewa Labak, Michał Sałata
Publisher: Awaken Realms, Albi, YOKA Games
Categories: Campaign/Legacy, Storytelling Tag: Awaken Realms
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Etherfields is a narrative, cooperative game for 1 - 4 (5 with the 5th player expansion). A series of unique Dreams await to be discovered through tense exploration and tactical encounters. Learn about the Dreamers, their forgotten past, and their desperate mission. Uncover the surreal, sprawling dreamscapes. Just don't be surprised when---just like dreams often do---they become a little disturbing... Prepare to be challenged by escape-room like riddles. Spot a clue in the image. See a hidden link between several pieces of information. Use your instinct as much as your logic. In the beginning, you'll explore the Dreamworld, trying to find out what this is all about and who you are – and you are there for a specific reason, but, at first, you can't remember too much. You'll have to restore your memories from scattered pieces. The rules are pretty straightforward at the beginning, but they will grow more and more complex during the campaign. New rules open new possibilities and, sometimes, may turn everything upside down. Deckbuilding in Etherfields applies to almost every deck in the game, not only the players' ones. If you want to know more, enter the Dreamworld. It may be dark here and there, but it certainly isn't gray. Then, look around and ask yourself: what if we all live in a vast, shared dream? —description from the publisher

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Average Playing Time

4-8 hours

Best Player Count

2 Best

Collection

Kevin

Difficulty

Standard

Played

Unplayed

Recommended Player Count

Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players

Special Mechanisms

Cooperative

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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4+, Best: 4
Playing Time: 180 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 4.00 / 5
The Harpy Campaign adds 30+ hours of game play and exploration and the Harpy miniature.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 180 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.00 / 5
The Thorn Knight is not a standard additional character, such as the 4 basic ones (Gambler, Specialist, Tough Guy, Free Spirit) or fifth with the 5-player expansion(Reaper). The Thorn Knight is an alternative and very specific character available to ALL players at any time. During any given game, any player may decide to play the Thorn Knight as his normal in-game character. During that particular game, the player will not be using his standard character. Instead, his character's soul will enter this empty shell and guide this soulless Golem into its next adventure. The Ether acquired by this player will be an Ether belonging to the Thorn Knight. After the game, you will be able to spend that Eather to buy additional cards for the Thorn Knight (from the overall Action cards). The same goes for The Action cards won by this player during this game - they will enter the Thorn Knight's deck. Players can take turns playing the Thorn Knight through different games, jointly and gradually expanding his starting deck, using his starting special abilities, and finally turning him into a powerful, full of combos, common weapon for special challenges. —description from the publisher
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Players: 1 - 5, Recommended: 3, Best: 2
Playing Time: 180 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.00 / 5
This expansion allows you to add a 5th player. This is not only a 5th player expansion, but also an additional character to choose from for any other player count game. We called this character archetype Reaper. This archetype will be based on wounds that this character has taken - the more, the better combos she will be able to execute. There will be multiple ways of using this to your advantage - either by full-on risky play or perhaps more focused on balance and getting a good healing deck build. The Reaper will provide quite interesting mechanics for the whole team! —description from the publisher
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 3, Best: 1
Playing Time: 180 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.00 / 5
The World of Dreams is vast and ever changing. In order to make your dreamy adventures easier, you have learned how to search for the tiniest of clues. The Search mini-deck will allow you to look deeper into your own dreams. But will you like what you will find? Contents: 1 Rules card and new Search mini-deck consisting of 8 cards. Available as part of the 2020 Dice Tower Kickstarter Contenders Pack.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 180 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.00 / 5
The Sphinx is one of the oldest cults and a symbol of wisdom and mystery. Since ancient times, this magnificent creature was a guardian of secret knowledge. In this campaign you will be on a quest to discover a deeply hidden mystery that will bring a revolution to the world ruled under the Sphinx entity... What will it be...? What answers will you need to find...? In this campaign, gameplay will be an endless maze that players will need to go through. From a components standpoint, you will have labyrinth tiles that you will be able to connect to one another in many different ways to try to pass through. However, if you end up at a dead end, you will need to go back to the start and try again. Secret knowledge will be very handy here as these tiles will have a lot of hidden mechanics of which you will have no knowledge at the start of the campaign. Only after unlocking some of the Sphinx mysteries, will you see a path in a place you previously thought was a dead end.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 180 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.00 / 5
Story Funeral Witch is a very mysterious and dark figure, representing, among other things, sadness, pain and regret after a loss. She can be moody, chaotic, temperamental but still seeks solace - at each encounter her behaviour changes completely from the previous one. Will we discover the key to these changes? If so, will it be easier for us to prepare for the next encounter with her? Fluctuation, but also cyclicality is the rhythm in which this campaign will be played. Will we drown in the depths of black sorrow, or will we find a ray of light that will lead us to a mysterious goal? In this story we will be accompanied by drabness, darkness and ruins. Gameplay In this campaign, one of the main attractions, distinguishing it from the others, is a special additional 48-page Book of Scripts. Normally, in Etherfields, all adventures, scripts, conversations, scenes, etc. are placed directly on cards and tiles, and the amount of text is heavily balanced by graphics. Here, much more is pure text, and it is mainly used to conduct very extensive dialogues with the characters of this campaign. Featured dream locations We will climb the stairs and ride up in the old elevator to the highest floors of a crumbling, half-broken, block of flats. We will come across a strange cemetery, located on the roof of a building. We will visit the Museum of Death and the Great Cathedral. We will struggle with the snow void. And we will take part in a game of hide and seek. —description from the publisher

sappy92 rated: N/A/10

mit Harpy expansion Lucid Dream expansion Riddler expansion She Wolf Expansion

dukepuccini rated: N/A/10

D incl 5th player exp, Thorn Knight, Funeral Witch Campaign, Sphinx Campaign

cedric18 rated: N/A/10

This looks really cool!

ryousuke rated: N/A/10

Etherfields: Creatures of Etherfield Etherfields: Funeral Witch Etherfields: Sphinx Campaign Etherfields: Thorn Knight

sizzling_roller rated: N/A/10

This game sounds like it will tickle many of my likes ... anxiously waiting to hear even more

supertoboh rated: N/A/10

kickstarter

Harteneck rated: N/A/10

Aber in Deutsch

Z3466 rated: N/A/10

Kickstarter 2020 JULY

Carter_Burke rated: N/A/10

Will be interesting to see if Kickstarter blocks this going live since Awaken Realms has other projects unfulfilled. Awaiting the hotness hype train, miniatures, women in bikini artwork, and many many add-ons ... aka. the Awaken Realms formula.

johnb4bgg rated: N/A/10

has minis so too $$$. way too fidly. rules too ambiguous. bad board layout and large footprint.

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