• Use a keycard to activate an action box, or
• Recall to produce resources and regain your keycards.

When you use a keycard, you activate the abilities of the keycard itself and the effects of the chosen action box. The chosen combination of keycard and action box will therefore determine what you get to do on your turn: populate the lands, move your followers, explore new regions, and build workshops, vaults, or monuments. During the game, you will improve your tribe by acquiring new keycards, upgrading your action boxes, or collecting ability stones and relics.

An important part of the game is searching dig sites for traces of ancient civilizations. These sites unlock access to the abilities and gadgets of ancient tribes, in addition to providing important scoring opportunities.

Three times during the game, players must choose one of two paths, with the chosen path providing an immediate bonus, as well as boosting one of the endgame scoring categories.

By using the optional digital companion website, players can archive their tribes at the end of their game, thereby making their tribes discoverable as ancient civilizations in other players’ games.

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As an adventurer in Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, you plan to explore Undermountain in search for treasure while navigating numerous traps and ominous monsters.

Following in the path of the other critically-acclaimed D&D board games, Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage features multiple scenarios, challenging quests, and gameplay designed for a single player or a cooperative group of 2-5 players. The game features new environment and bane/boon cards, as well as the trap and spell decks that premiered in Tomb of Annihilation.

Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage can also be combined with the other D&D Adventure System co-operative play board games, including Tomb of Annihilation, Temple of Elemental Evil, The Legend of Drizzt, Castle Ravenloft, and Wrath of Ashardalon.

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The Time Traveler Expansion, designed by Todd Walsh (Set a Watch) and inspired by his love of Sci-Fi, features a quirky survivor who is great at avoiding combat. With 12 monster cards, 8 time anomalies, 2 standees, 2 map tiles, and a 30 card Time Traveler deck, this expansion introduces you to tons of time hopping hijinks. Whenever the Traveler is played, you introduce their Time Pod, which you can use to teleport around the map. Of course when you rip through space time there are bound to be consequences. You will have to watch out for time anomalies as well…

Maximum Apocalypse: Wasted Wilds is required to play!

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“Los Angeles is in the depths of what can only be described as the Rapture. The streets are filled with demons, imps and angels running amok and plunging the city into utter chaos. Our only chance is to work with a few guardian angels and prevent the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse from showing up.

With 30 Rapture monster cards, 15 promotional monsters, and a 23 card solo Allies deck, the Allies of the Rapture expansion collects all the solo and promotional content for the Maximum Apocalypse series into one box. The Rapture Apocalypse focuses on teh 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse, if these 4 bosses are ever all in play at the same time, the game is instantly lost. Please note that all of this content is included in the Legendary Edition of Maximum Apocalypse”

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Mage Knight: Ultimate Edition contains the base game; The Lost Legion, Shades of Tezla, and Krang Character expansions; comprehensive integrated rules text; five new cards; and miniatures with alternate paint jobs.

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Following in the path of the other criticallyacclaimed D&D board games, Tomb of Annihilation features multiple scenarios, challenging quests and game play designed for a single player or a cooperative group of 25 players. The Tomb of Annihilation Adventure System Board Game features new trap and spell decks for even more exciting game play content!
Tomb of Annihilation can also be combined with the other D&D Adventure System Cooperative Play Board Games, including the terrifying Temple of Elemental Evil, The Legend of Drizzt, Castle Ravenloft, and Wrath of Ashardalon, to create an even more exciting experience.

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Maximum Apocalypse: Gothic Horrors 2nd Edition is a revised standalone game that collects several smaller Maximum Apocalypse expansions — Gothic Horrors, Kaiju Rising, Jurassic Perils, and Allies of the Rapture — in one box that contains six apocalyptic scenarios: Cthulhu, Kaiju, Dinosaurs, Vampires, Yokai, and the Rapture.

Face off against life draining vampires, ghouls, and werewolves in a classic monster set or try to stop a bunch of cultists from summoning Cthulhu or other unspeakable Lovecraftian horrors. Each apocalypse brings with it new gameplay mechanisms such as the Insanity deck of phobias or the new night/day event deck.

This game includes five survivor characters: Priest, Army Ranger, Scientist, Adventurer, and Ronin. Each character comes with their own unique survivor deck of abilities and equipment cards.

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Wasted Wilds can be played as a stand-alone 1-4 player campaign, or combined with the contents of any other Maximum Apocalypse game or expansion to support up to 6 players. Survivors from Maximum Apocalypse, Kaiju Rising, Gothic Horrors and Jurassic Perils are all fully playable in this game. Plus any of the new survivors from Wasted Wilds can be played in the other Maximum Apocalypse games as well!

If you’re unfamiliar with Maximum Apocalypse, it is a cooperative roguelike game filled with adventure, exploration, survival and strategic choices. It was built from the ground up to be very modular and infinitely replayable. Maximum Apocalypse has inspired a Role Playing Game and spawned numerous expansions featuring everything from Bugs, C’thulhu and Kaiju. There is a vast wasteland out there to explore and Wasted Wilds has been designed as the perfect starting point! The Frozen Wilds campaign walks players through a mission by mission tutorial that will ease new players into the experience.

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The game map is randomly generated and different every time that you play. On each turn, a player can use up to four actions to explore the map, play cards, equip weapons, scavenge for resources, draw cards or battle off monsters.

Picking a unique survivor class within the group, players must plan their strategy and work together while leaning on their survivor’s strengths in order to defeat monsters and avoid starvation. For example, the Fireman is deadly up close with his ax and can easily chop down monsters; meanwhile the stealthy Hunter is great at scouting the map and avoiding traps — but roaming monsters are gathering quickly and time is running out. If you are overwhelmed by monsters or die of starvation, the players lose. If they can find enough gas and get it back to their van to escape, they all win and live to play another scenario.

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– Relive the movie and work with your friends to close the portal, or betray them for the side of evil.
– Watch as your favorite Evil Dead 2 characters come to life with high quality, unpainted miniatures for both the heroes and their enemies.
– Explore the Cabin Game Board taken straight from the movie.
– Full Color cards that split into Character, Corruption, Event and Boss decks.
– Use items to gain an upper hand in the face of evil.

The Deluxe Edition combines the base game, the Evil Dead 2: The Board Game – Extras Pack, some quality of life graphical improvements, and new rules for solo and co-op game modes.

The cooperative version of the game lets you play either by yourself or with others in true cooperative fashion without the possibility of a traitor.

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