Known Spirits adopt different Aspects to battle the Invaders, and new Spirits join the fray. Some transform the island, making it hazardous and deadly to all humanity, while others work with the Dahan to fight back in other ways. Hard choices confront the Spirits, and even Stone’s Unyielding Defiance must weigh trade-offs.

Jagged Earth is an expansion for the base game of Spirit Island. No other expansions are required to use it, though it is best balanced when combined with the Branch & Claw expansion.

GAME COMPONENTS

3 New Scenarios
10 New Spirits – including 41 Unique Power Cards
2 New Adversaries – including 4 Adversary Reminder Tiles
2 New Island Boards
30 New Event Cards
6 New Fear Cards
7 New Blight Cards
24 New Major Power Cards – including 1 Sea Monster replacement card
33 New Minor Power Cards
6 Aspect Cards – Optional aspects (innate powers) for the 4 core game spirits
25 Badland Tokens – A new way to fight invaders!
More plastic, wooden, and cardboard tokens play up to 6 players)
18 Dahan
24 Blight
25 Explorers
16 Towns
10 Cities
35 Beast Tokens
30 Disease Tokens
22 Wilds Tokens
22 Strife Tokens
16 Fear Markers
24 Energy Markers
18 1-Energy Markers
6 3-Energy Markers
26 Spirit Presence – 13 each in 2 colors
6 Single-Turn Effect Markers (Defend) – 3 of each in 2 colors
18 Single-Turn Effect Markers (Isolate) – 3 of each in 6 colors
64 Element Markers – 8 of each element
6 Player Aid Cards
8 Reminder Cards
New play options: combining adversaries, playing with an Archipelago (split island), and more.

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In the beginning, you will be dependent on supplies from Earth and will have to travel often between the Mars Space Station and the planet’s surface. As the colony expands over time, you will shift your activities to construct mines, power generators, water extractors, greenhouses, oxygen factories, and shelters. Your goal is to develop a self-sustaining colony independent of any terrestrial organization. This will require understanding the importance of water, air, power, and food — the necessities for survival.

Do you dare take part in humankind’s biggest challenge?

On Mars is played over several rounds, each consisting of two phases – the Colonization Phase ​and the Shuttle Phase​.

During the Colonization Phase, each player takes a turn during which they take actions. The available actions depend on the side of the board they are on. If you are in orbit, you can take blueprints, buy and develop technologies, and take supplies from the Warehouse. If you are on the surface of the planet, you can construct buildings with your bots, upgrade these buildings using blueprints, take scientists and new contracts, welcome new ships, and explore the planet’s surface with your rover. In the Shuttle Phase, players may travel between the colony and the Space Station in orbit.

All buildings on Mars have a dependency on each other and some are required for the colony to grow. Building shelters for Colonists to live in requires oxygen; generating oxygen requires plants; growing plants requires water; extracting water from ice requires power; generating power requires mining minerals; and mining minerals requires Colonists. Upgrading the colony’s ability to provide each of these resources is vital. As the colony grows, more shelters are needed so that the Colonists can survive the inhospitable conditions on Mars.

During the game, players are also trying to complete missions. Once a total of three missions have been completed, the game ends. To win the game, players must contribute to the development of the first colony on Mars. This is represented during the game by players gaining Opportunity Points (OP). The player with the most OP at the end of the game is declared the winner.

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This expansion includes: Kobold, and Totem Minis!

In a distant land, a landslide reveals long-forgotten underground tunnels containing an invaluable treasure: deposits of Gold, Darkiron, and Draconite! Rumor has it that at the heart of these lost mines lies an even more precious secret: The Eternal Forge, a dwarven masterpiece capable of crafting legendary artifacts. Glory-seeking explorers and wealth-hungry plunderers are already flocking to the mine’s entrance to get their hands on this bounty… but the task won’t be easy, as Kobolds have taken up residence in these tunnels, sparking a frantic race among rival adventurer teams.

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Each thrilling location has unique characteristics and offers new play options, including new Lords, Buildings, Intrigue, and Quest cards.

Owners of Lords of Waterdeep can use one or both of these new subterranean locations to add depth to their game experience. There’s also a new faction, the Gray Hands, so now a sixth player can join in the fun!

The Undermountain Module

Undermountain is a vast and multileveled dungeon beneath Mount Waterdeep that once served the crazed wizard Halaster as a site for magical experiments. Now it is a labyrinthine maze with few refuges for weary adventurers.

The rumored wealth of Undermountain entices adventurers to brave the mysteries and monsters beneath the City of Splendors. The risks and the rewards are greater for undertaking Quests that require more Gold and Adventurers.

The Skullport Module

Skullport—also known as the Port of Shadow—is nestled in the heart of Undermountain, deep below the streets of Waterdeep. It is a haven for nefarious crimes, underhanded deals, and back-alley murders. Those who visit Skullport do so at their own peril, for around every corner are new ways to make people disappear.

The Skullport module includes a new resource: Corruption. Unlike Adventurers and Gold, having Corruption in your tavern penalizes you at the end of the game.

Each Corruption token in your Tavern at the end of the game is worth negative Victory Points. The exact negative value depends on how much Corruption has been collected throughout the game; the more corrupt you and your fellow Lords are, the more Corruption hurts your score.

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In Lords of Waterdeep, a strategy board game for 2-5 players, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder – or help – the other lords by playing Intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans.

During the course of play, you may gain points or resources through completing quests, constructing buildings, playing intrigue cards or having other players utilize the buildings you have constructed. At the end of 8 rounds of play, the player who has accrued the most points wins the game.

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In Data Era, players receive a new resource type – data discs. Data discs provide additional actions along with new buildings called data centers, and a new city type, information cities. These new data centers and information cities provide players with new ways of scoring.

Delicious Games has also included new, upgraded components in this expansion! The new components can be used with the base game and the New Discoveries expansion.

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Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy is a revised and upgraded version of the Eclipse base game that debuted in 2011 that features:

• New graphic design, while maintaining the acclaimed symbology of the first edition
• A full line of Ship Pack 1 miniatures
• New miniatures for ancients, GCDS, orbitals, and more
• Custom plastic inlays
• Custom combat dice
• Fine-tuned gameplay

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Featuring a hex-based landscape that your Worms will move around, collecting crates, dodging mines, and getting into position with the right weapon at the right time to unleash total tabletop hilarity on your foes. Keep your team alive, whittle down the opposition, and win the day!

We have classic weapons, supplies, a destructible landscape, oil barrels, wind, and should the game go on long enough…one of several sudden death cards will be waiting at the bottom of the deck…

And of course, we have our Worms! These are some of the most downright fun miniatures we’ve ever had the privilege to work on, and they’re full of charm and humor.

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In the game, each player starts with a simple foyer. One player takes on the role of the Master Builder, and that player sets prices for a set of rooms that can be purchased by the other players, with him getting to pick from the leftovers after the other players have paid him for their rooms. When a room is added to a castle, the player who built it gains castle points based on the size and type of room constructed, as well as bonus points based on the location of the room. When a room is completed, with all entranceways leading to other rooms in the castle, the player receives one of seven special rewards.

After each purchasing round, a new player becomes the Master Builder who sets prices for a new set of rooms. After several rounds, the game ends, then additional points are awarded for achieving bonus goals, having the most popular rooms, and being the most responsive to the King’s demands, which change each game. Whoever ends up with the most castle points wins.

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