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XIA: Legends of a Drift System

BGG Rank: 192

Players: 3 - 5, Recommended: 5+, Best: 5+

Playing Time: 180 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.19 / 5

Mechanisms: Action Points, Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, Map Addition, Modular Board, Pick-up and Deliver, Race, Roll / Spin and Move, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Category: Adventure, Exploration, Fighting, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Transportation

Family: Components: Gems/Crystals, Components: Map (Interplanetary or Interstellar scale), Components: Miniatures, Components: Polyhedral (not D6) dice, Components: Polyominoes, Crowdfunding: Kickstarter, Crowdfunding: Verkami, Digital Implementations: TableTop Simulator Mod (TTS), Game: Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Misc: Made by Panda, Players: Games with expansions that add solo play

Designer: Cody Miller

Artist: Cody Miller, Steve "Coolhand" Tyler, Peter Wocken

Publisher: Far Off Games, Lavka Games, Maldito Games

Categories: Economic, Wargame

Xia: Legends of a Drift System is a 3-5 player sandbox style competitive space adventure. Each player starts as a lowly but hopeful captain of a small starship. Players fly their ships about the system, completing a variety of missions, exploring new sectors and battling other ships. Navigating hazardous environments, players choose to mine, salvage, or trade valuable cargo. Captains vie with each other for Titles, riches and, most importantly, Fame. The most adaptive, risk-taking and creative players will excel. One captain will rise above the others, surpassing mortality by becoming Legend! Customize: Each player begins the game by choosing and customizing a Tier 1 starship. Invest all your money in engines and be a rapid, yet fragile, explorer. Put all your credits into an uber missile and watch other players flee in terror. Get a small engine and save space and credits to invest in buying and selling cargo. Or create a well rounded ship, ready for anything. In Xia, the choice is always yours. Adapt: The goal of Xia is to become the most famous captain. Completing missions, besting ships in combat, purchasing higher tier ships, selling Cargo Cubes and claiming Titles are all ways that players can earn Fame Points. The best pilots will adapt to their surroundings, making snap judgments and changing plans on-the-fly. If you can think on your feet, you'll do well in Xia! Sandbox: The real fun of Xia is that each game will be different. There is no set direction of play - players may choose to be peaceful traders, fierce pirates, workers, miners, opportunists, etc. The game board is randomly laid out and explored each time you play. Players might choose not to explore at all, creating a tiny arena for swift and deadly combat, or explore all 19 sectors and have a large play-scape to exploit. It's up to you! Modding: Xia is very open to modding, and the community has already created loads of stuff. See BGG's Unofficial Xia:LoaDS mods and expansions wiki.

Average Playing Time	2-4 hours
Best Player Count	3 Best
Collection	Kevin
Difficulty	Standard
Played	Played
Recommended Player Count	2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players

Players: 3 - 5, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 180 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5

This promotional Event Card was created for the 2020 Dice Tower Kickstarter campaign. It adds a dexterity element to the game. Three plasma cubes are stacked on the card. When buying cubes, a player may also take a cube off the card. When selling plasma, the cubes are added to the stack. If the stack is six or more cubes high and does not fall, the player earns a Fame Point.

Players: 1 - 5, Recommended: 5, Best: 4

Playing Time: 0 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.92 / 5

Xia: Missions and Powers is a mini-expansion for Xia: Legends of a Drift System. It includes 54 cards: 21 new ship powers, one for each existing player ship, offering players a choice each time they acquire a ship. The new powers are balanced with the existing powers, but offer greater reliability and can be used multiple times per turn. 32 new missions, with 8 missions of 4 new types: Transport, Assist, Counterfeit, and BOOM! These missions can be started more easily than most other existing missions, since they require only a sector type (e.g. Ice Asteroid) instead of a specific sector. Furthermore, these missions end at players, making them more interactive and easier to complete in the early game, when missions are often difficult. There is also one rules/credits card that is included. Overall, this mini-expansion offers Xia players many new permutations for ship powers, and more interactive missions. —description from the publisher

Players: 1 - 5, Recommended: 5, Best: 5+

Playing Time: 180 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.49 / 5

This is the first expansion for the game Xia: Legends of a Drift System. In its meandering across the galaxy, the drift system of Xia has come into orbit with a dying star. Once habitable worlds now sit desolate waiting to be ransacked by opportunists, and an unknown cold fills the void. New dangers, hidden treasure, and adventure await in this abandoned system. Uncover the mystery in: Embers of a Forsaken Star This expansion adds: New Sector tiles New Mission cards New Ships A solo campaign And much more!

Players: 3 - 5, Recommended: 4, Best: 5

Playing Time: 120 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.90 / 5

Available in blue as an exclusive add-on during the 2013 Xia: Legends of a Drift System Kickstarter campaign. The 2016 Xia: Embers of a Forsaken Star Kickstarter campaign would see the Mk II: same miniature in yellow, with the addition of the components required to make it playable as a player's ship ("Void Wasp" ship mat and ability card, RK-5 Blaster outfit piece). The Mk II was reissued (in a box this time) as an add-on for the 2018 Xia: Embers of a Forsaken Star + Xia: Missions and Powers campaign.

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Kickstarter Project http://kck.st/15SamI2 - Backed: 05/20/2013 - Funded: 06/22/2013 - Pledge Level: Pledge $100 or more: "[SELLSWORD - USA]" - Payment: $100 - Survey: 9/30/2013 - Projected Delivery: 10/2014 - Shipped: Status: DELIVERED

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Kickstarter

smtudor rated: N/A/10

*****

Francescopela rated: N/A/10

Cantina

larienna rated: N/A/10

Note: Moddable game, gives interesting potential. After a video review: Very interesting concept that feels like an open world game. There is a lot of path to victory and the game can be played very different. I feel this should have been playable as a solitaire game. Still, there is a lot of mods out there that could just do this. I don't like much the tile design for space map and ships. I would have preferred area to area movement, rather than individual hex. It reminds me of Merchant of Venus and Firefly but using a different approach.

gruescher rated: N/A/10

Rating based on reading a comment of a post of a video of a rough description of the rules.

Amuk rated: N/A/10

Backed on Kickstarter (Sellsword edition).

Caudill rated: N/A/10

Kickstarted.

LesPatatas rated: N/A/10

Owned: - Kickstarter Sellsword edition - Kickstarter Embers of a forsaken star

Azurith rated: N/A/10

Kickstarted Xia: Embers of a Forsaken Star Xia: Missions and Powers

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