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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

BGG Rank: 122
Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4+, Best: 4
Playing Time: 120 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.37 / 5
Mechanisms: Area Movement, Campaign / Battle Card Driven, Cooperative Game, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Map Addition, Modular Board, Narrative Choice / Paragraph, Role Playing, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Solo / Solitaire Game, Storytelling, Variable Player Powers
Category: Adventure, Exploration, Fantasy, Mature / Adult, Medieval, Miniatures, Mythology, Travel
Family: Components: Miniatures, Crowdfunding: Kickstarter, Game: Tainted Grail, Mechanism: Campaign Games, Misc: Eastar Game Manufacturing, Players: Games with Solitaire Rules, Theme: King Arthur / The Knights of the Round Table / Camelot
Designer: Krzysztof Piskorski, Marcin Świerkot
Artist: Piotr Foksowicz, Piotr Gacek, Patryk Jędraszek, Ewa Labak, Michael Peitsch, Andrzej Półtoranos
Publisher: Awaken Realms, Albi, Arclight Games, CrowD Games, Delta Vision Publishing, Edge Entertainment, Giochi Uniti, Kilogames, Maldito Games, MeepleBR, Pegasus Spiele, Summon Games, YOKA Games
Categories: Campaign/Legacy, Storytelling Tag: Awaken Realms
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Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon is an unforgettable, solo or cooperative adventure experience for 1-4 players. Blending Arthurian legends and Celtic mythology with a unique vision, it allows you to impact the game world in deep and meaningful ways. A deep, branching storyline allows you to tackle problems in different ways, ensuring no two games play alike. Difficult decisions or harrowing choices wait behind every corner and seemingly minor tasks may reverberate with major long-term consequences. In a land slowly sinking into the Wyrdness and torn apart by conflict; surviving each day is a challenge on its own. Starvation, sickness, violent weather, and random incidents all conspire to end your journey. Guardian Menhirs, that ensured safe travel throughout the realm, are slowly going dark turning simple logistics into an involving puzzle. To overcome these challenges, your character develops along several conflicting lines, such as Brutality / Empathy or Practicality / Spirituality. These traits unlock a rich choice of mutually exclusive skills and lead to different deck-building strategies, making character advancement meaningful and deep. The character you develop is going to be tested during dozens of combat and non-combat encounters. Sometimes you will need to brute force your way, but often diplomacy might be a better option. Regardless whether you fight with your strength or your wits, our unique dice-less encounter system makes resolving each conflict fun and exciting, while keeping you immersed in the game. In Avalon, there’s a legend waiting behind every stone and every tree. All locations have their own rich stories and secrets to discover. Places and characters are often much more than they seem. As you slowly put all the pieces of the larger puzzle together, the land will always have a surprise waiting for you just around the corner. Many secrets can be discovered only after several games. Created by one of the best Polish fantasy authors, Krzysztof Piskorski, the story of Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon aims to push the boundaries of non-linear narrative, building upon the rich experience. —description from the publisher

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Average Playing Time

4-8 hours

Best Player Count

Solo Best, 2 Best

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Kevin

Difficulty

Standard

Played

Played

Recommended Player Count

Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players

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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 0 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
This pack of 22 cards contains alternative Encounters that you can use to upgrade 22 Encounters present in Age of Legends and Last Knight campaigns to Guardians.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 3, Best: -
Playing Time: 120 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.50 / 5
Niamh is different from all our other Characters. Born on the streets, raised by thugs and grave robbers, this is a woman with a thousand faces and a real jack of all trades. She has no basic deck. Instead, she can use any of the basic decks, picking any of four general archetypes, and enter any campaign. She gives you more flexibility when putting your party together, and can close any gameplay gaps you have. She also comes with her own board, and 30 unique upgrade cards for combat and diplomacy. Her Streetwise ability is just as useful, letting her slip in and out of Settlements unmolested, as long as she’s alone. Of course, there’s also a drawback. Niamh is quite notorious in many places. As such, she has a significant Reputation penalty that extends to everyone who travels with her. —description from the publisher (edited)
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 4
Playing Time: 120 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 1.89 / 5
An add-on during the Tainted Grail Kickstarter campaign. It contains a personal achievement sheet for each character from all three campaigns, including Niamh. This sheet lists 9 special conditions that trigger 9 unique Memories – if you fulfill any condition during the game, you can mark it off and read an appropriate Memory from the “Echoes of the Past” brochure. These memories have a small gameplay effect (sometimes positive, sometimes negative). But as you progress through the game, and your Character progresses in their story of self-discovery or reconciliation, you will also gain some interesting rewards. Every time you complete a block of three achievements, you receive a Legendary Action card that you keep by your Character Board – you can use it once to perform a single action so epic that bards will sing stories about you in the years to come. Then, the Legendary Action card is discarded from the game. If you manage to trigger ALL basic memories, you progress to the final, tenth entry in the brochure that contains a personal side-quest where your hero will confront their worst fears, weaknesses, or a personal nemesis. Should they emerge victoriously, they receive a special golden Legendary Action card that gives your character permanently a second gameplay action! The sheets can be used as a legacy element, allowing your hero to start a new game with a part of their story and some Heroic Feats cards already unlocked. Effectively, this add-on introduces interesting personal objectives for each of the characters, and a small legacy element, at the same time reinforcing the character backstories and providing a deeper look into the world of Tainted Grail. Contents: 52 Legendary Action cards (4 for each of 13 Characters) 52 Achievement Sheets (4 for each of 13 Characters) Echoes of the Past booklet (24 pages)
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 2
Playing Time: 120 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.60 / 5
With the Red Death add-on campaign, you now have another option. You may play it after finishing any of the other three large campaigns, and take your favorite heroes on a last, one-way mission to mysterious Homelands. Their ship will slip into the mists separating Avalon from our reality, and spend many weeks traversing the border between the worlds. Finally, it will emerge back in Homelands, many years after the plague, where answers to some ultimate questions lie buried under the rubble of desolated cities. What happened here after most humans departed for Avalon? Is it safe to return? What caused the plague? How did Arthur learn about the island of Fore-dwellers? What secrets did he leave behind? Red Death is an expert-level expansion campaign for Tainted Grail. It contains 32 dangerous Location cards that allow you to visit a part of a kingdom ravaged by plague, where unspeakable horrors still lurk among the ruins. These horrors won’t be your only problem! The ancient undersea empire of Fomoria already surveys the lands abandoned by humans, while brutish Picts of the north, who somehow built resistance to the disease, raid the ruins looking for treasure, magic – and something more sinister. Then, there are solitary survivors who outlasted the plague. They’re often mad and dangerous, but their knowledge may help heroes survive. Pick your allies and enemies, solve difficult riddles, navigate ruins of the old world and face some of the hardest Encounters created for Tainted Grail. And if you survive, learn things that will put the main storyline of three campaigns in a new light. This add-on campaign will contain approximately 15-30 hours of gameplay grouped into an 8-chapter story. Just like our base campaigns it offers multiple endings and branching paths, so you can try to solve it in a different way multiple times! Extended Character Advancement Naturally, a large amount of additional gameplay meant we had to extend the Character progression. That’s why the box also includes new and exciting Advanced Abilities that can help you upgrade your Attributes even further! Not to mention that many artifacts or items found in Homelands are much more powerful than anything found on Avalon. —description from the publisher
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 3
Playing Time: 180 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.30 / 5
The stretch goals, Age of Legends and Last Knight are packaged together in one box. Last Knight: Set 400 years after the main story, the Last Knight is brimming with new interactions, choices, secrets, and long-term consequences of actions made 400 years ago, during the previous campaign. You will now travel a cold, desolate landscape of apocalyptic Avalon in search of answers and - perhaps - salvation. This expansion to the base game adds an additional campaign with 15 new Chapters, representing an additional 30-40 hours of gameplay. The campaign includes 4 new travelers (Mabd, Dagan, Sloan, and Fyul), 280 new cards, 64 oversized location cards, and a 220-page Campaign Journal. Age of Legends: Go back 1,000 years, and be one of the first humans to set foot on Avalon. Discover the truth behind the legends. Join the Knights of the Round Table in their quests and trials. This time, you will join the first humans to set foot on Avalon, 600 years before the events of the first campaign, and see the Fore-dweller empire at the height of its power. This expansion to the base game adds an additional campaign with 15 new Chapters, representing an additional 30-40 hours of gameplay. The campaign includes 4 new travelers (Naazer, Thebalt, Caolin, and Duana), 280 new cards, 64 oversized location cards, and a 220-page Campaign Journal.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 3, Best: 1
Playing Time: 120 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5
Originally available as part of the Dice Tower 2020 Kickstarter Campaign (Adventurers Pack). Tainted Grail: Forever Autumn: This promo deck adds a new side quest to the first Campaign: Fall of Avalon! Broken circle of seasons threatens your home, Cuanacht Farmhold, with starvation! Find out what has happened in the village of Glumfair and uncover its secret... Contents: 1 Rules card and 9 new Story Event cards with a new side quest which may be completed before you start Chapter 8 of the main story!
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Players: 0 - 0, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 0 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
These new miniatures will serve exactly the same purpose the original Monsters of Avalon had. Includes Tainted Grail: Past And Future Alternative Encounters Card Pack. The Past: Apart from several Guardians from the first Monsters of Avalon box, the Age of Legends campaign will use these additional 10 Guardians. Some of them are creatures that were already planned, but who now got a promotion to a Guardian, and some are brand new. Pale Lady Kelpie Dearg Due Manipede Wyrmlings Corrupted Druid Bean-chioch Horned Warden Doomwing The Future: Gigelorum Orphaned Heart Fachan Aillén Trechend Glastig Mad Warrior Hooded Crow Torch Bearer Allfather’s Inquisition
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 3
Playing Time: 120 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 3.32 / 5
Kings of Ruin is a new stand-alone story campaign from the team behind the acclaimed Tainted Grail board game, set in the same universe. Playable with a brand new set of exciting characters, it continues the stories of Fall of Avalon, Last Knight, and Age of Legends while also providing a perfect self-contained entry into the saga for new players. During your experience with the game you will explore new land (with a totally changed system of traveling through Wyrdness), solve encounters with force or diplomacy with unique puzzle card system, and develop your heroes with new passive skills, cards and powerful items. Most importantly, you will discover a dark immersive story of abandoned land at the wrong side of Avalon and Kings of Ruin ruling there: Claudyne, the Unknighted. Amberqueen Veneda. Nonus, Bishop of the Deep.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 120 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
Originally available in Pack Cleric from Dice Tower 2023 Kickstarter campaign. Requires Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin and is compatible with all other Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin expansions. It introduces new secret cards called Treasure Seeker Cards that can be obtained during the game. There is a legend about a treasure hidden by a sly and slightly mad scholar. It is said that to find it, you must gather all pieces of a puzzle guided only by the unclear, twisted visions of Avalon places. Only an adventurer of unmatched courage and wit will be able to do so. To add this mini-expansion to the game, find Secret card 501 in this deck and place it face up in the play area. Then take all remaining parts of Treasure seeker cards and add them to the Secret deck. While playing the game, pay close attention to both the Location cards and the revealed Treasure Seeker Secret card, as you may find some resemblance between them. When you are certain that you are in a Location that matches your Treasure Seeker card, you may perform the Search for Treasure Action visible on the revealed Treasure Seeker card.
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Players: 0 - 0, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 0 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 1.00 / 5
Make a home away from home with the upgradable camp for your Characters. Compatible with both Kings of Ruin and Fall of Avalon and its SG campaigns. Components: 3-piece Campsite Miniature 4 Kings of Ruin cards 4 Fall of Avalon cards This adds alternative Modular Campsite rules for Fall of Avalon and its Stretch Goal campaigns as well as Kings of Ruin. The first stage is just a campfire with some sharpened stakes to ward off dangers. In Kings of Ruin, it boosts your Terror regeneration during the night and may be upgraded to the second stage with an Action. The second stage adds many important camp necessities, such as a pot of boiling stew, provisions, healing herbs, and even musical instruments. In addition to the effects of the first stage, in Kings of Ruin it also boots the Health regeneration. Naturally, you can upgrade it to the third state with an Action. Finally, the third stage of the camp adds some shelter, secured by runes and wyrdcandles. As expected, this final stage provides some protection against Wyrdness in Kings of Ruin, helping players on deeper forays into the wyrd-covered side of the map, or allowing them to survive better if for some reason all waystones were extinguished. Since Location cards in Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin are only removed when you travel from one major part of the island to another, the Campsite will stay in place until you decide to tear it down. But since getting it to the final stage is quite an investment, better be sure where you want to build it. And remember, an unattended camp may be destroyed or looted by roaming guardians!
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 0 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
Additional companion (Goat of the Moors) expansion with high-quality miniature and with its own small personal side story. Contains: - Black Goat of the Moors Story Entries - Miniature - Rules Card -description from campaign

Martynapoole rated: N/A/10

This game reminds me of 7th Continent in the way the map cards lay out. That are where the similarities end. This is 7th continent on steroids. The story has aspects of Knights of the Round mixed in with other stuff, which plays a massive part in the game. Minis dont feel out of place and are also important to the story, the art is great. The combat is card based where you have to match symbols. I could go on and on about this game but I am a huge fan after just one demo play 😀

HON_BG rated: N/A/10

Grail Pledge. All in!!!

jonashu rated: N/A/10

https://boardgamegeek.com/geekmarket/product/2661414

Fribian rated: N/A/10

Gotta watch some vids, etc.

johnb4bgg rated: N/A/10

Rahdo loves. Combo of 7th Con + Gloomhaven. Too Grindy, even if correct paths taken. Story good but mechanics boring? UK Sale 20 Pounds.

evkefalas rated: N/A/10

-ks King's pledge (all in) including all SGs and Tainted Grail Core Box All unlocked Stretch Goals Monsters of Avalon miniature expansion Red Death expansion Echoes of the past expansion Plus 4 Upgrade packs from Kings of Ruin campaign a. 2.0 Upgrade Pack b. Updated Exploration Journal (Fall of Avalon Core Box) c. Updated Exploration Journals (Fall of Avalon Stretch Goals) d. Updated Exploration Journal (Red Death)

kukugames rated: N/A/10

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cronogenesis rated: N/A/10

Solo

HonorBlade rated: N/A/10

Kickstarter

Melodie707 rated: N/A/10

Delivery Q2 2020

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