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Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate (Minor Damage)

2024-06-28T15:49:06-04:00

Vendor: Greater Than Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designer	R. Eric Reuss
Publisher	Greater Than Games, LLC
Players	1-6
Playtime	90-180 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Spirit Island Spirit Island: Jagged Earth
Additional Info	365137/spirit-island-nature-incarnate http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365137/spirit-island-nature-incarnate/forums/63

Since time untold, Spirits have existed on the Island. There are Spirits whose names are known by the local Dahan people — Spirits of growth and fire, of strength and river. But these are not the only Spirits… Legends whispered on the rarest of days tell stories of Spirits from the deepest, furthest reaches of the land. Powerful forces of nature that have not been witnessed in ages.

When white-sailed ships reach our coastal waters, when would-be colonizers step foot onto the unblighted shores, when they raise blade and plow to claim the land with greed and hunger, nature stirs. When Invaders strike out at the heart of the Island, they draw the attention of Spirits of myth and legend and face power unimaginable.

This time, they learn to fear Nature Incarnate.

Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate introduces eight new Spirits, twenty new aspects, and so much more.

Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate - Foil Panels

2023-11-28T00:19:43-05:00

Vendor: Greater Than Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 5.95

When white-sailed ships reach our coastal waters, when would-be colonizers step foot onto the unblighted shores, when they raise blade and plow to claim the land with greed and hunger, nature stirs. When Invaders strike out at the heart of the Island, they draw the attention of Spirits of myth and legend and face power unimaginable.

This time, they learn to fear Nature Incarnate.

Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate introduces eight new Spirits, twenty new aspects, and so much more.

Contents:

1 set of Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate Foil Spirit Panels

Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate

2023-11-28T00:19:43-05:00

Vendor: Greater Than Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 63.95

Designer	R. Eric Reuss
Publisher	Greater Than Games, LLC
Players	1-6
Playtime	90-180 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Spirit Island Spirit Island: Jagged Earth
Additional Info	365137/spirit-island-nature-incarnate http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365137/spirit-island-nature-incarnate/forums/63

Horizons of Spirit Island

2022-12-27T10:44:31-05:00

Vendor: Greater Than Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	R. Eric Reuss
Publisher	Greater Than Games, LLC
Players	1-3
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	367498/horizons-spirit-island http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367498/horizons-spirit-island/forums/63

Horizons of Spirit Island features the core mechanisms of Spirit Island, but features a new double-sided game board with a streamlined set-up, punchboard components, and five new Spirits designed to be ideal for those playing a Spirit Island game for the first time. These new Spirits are compatible with all existing Spirit Island components, but to play with expansions like Jagged Earth, you would need a copy of Spirit Island itself.

Spirit Island: Feather and Flame

2022-02-04T11:23:11-05:00

Vendor: Greater Than Games, LLC
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	R. Eric Reuss
Publisher	Greater Than Games, LLC
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Spirit Island
Accessory	Spirit Island: Feather and Flame Foil Panels
Additional Info	356510/spirit-island-feather-flame http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/356510/spirit-island-feather-flame/forums/63

With the onset of the dangerous invaders, blighting the lands with their harmful practices and aggression, we spirits have had to grow and change in ways unanticipated. Whether we are water, fire, beneath, or beyond, we answer — these white-sailed ships must turn and go, or be broken on the rocks of our discontent.

Fire and flood, flame and feather; ancient powers waken to free their home from a unique adversary’s influence. Can the island survive such turmoil?

For Science!

2021-11-30T11:43:16-05:00

Vendor: Grey Fox Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designer	R. Eric Reuss
Publisher	Grey Fox Games
Players	1-6
Playing Time	15 mins
Additional Info	280834/science http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/280834/science/forums/63

You were never supposed to be the ones standing between the Earth and viral annihilation. So many other groups were better connected, better funded, better equipped, and had much nicer glossy brochures. But here you are, an eccentric bunch of researchers, lab workers, bureaucrats, virologists, and more ready to put it all on the line…

…FOR SCIENCE!!!

For Science! is a real-time, dexterity and spatial co-op where you first design Cures using cards, then literally Build those Cures using wooden blocks. If a Cure is too hard for you to Build, you can always go back and re-design a new one - but the clock is constantly running, and you only have 15 minutes.

Every successful Cure earns you Master Cure tiles, representing your increasing knowledge of how all these diseases have been constructed. Fit them together to amp up your researchers' special abilities and win the game!

--description from publisher

Spirit Island: Jagged Earth

2020-12-01T00:18:13-05:00

Vendor: Greater Than Games (Fabled Nexus)
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer	R. Eric Reuss
Publisher	Greater Than Games (Fabled Nexus)
Players	1-6
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Spirit Island
Expansion	Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate
Accessories	Folded Space - Spirit Island and Branch & Claw Expansion or Jagged Earth Expansion (v2) Laserox - Spirit Expansion Organizer (Compatible with Spirit Island Expansions) Spirit Island: Premium Token Pack Spirit Island: Jagged Earth Foil Panels
Additional Info	262722/spirit-island-jagged-earth http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/262722/spirit-island-jagged-earth/forums/63

Spirit Island: Jagged Earth includes:

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.

— original description from the publisher, revised with released contents

Spirit Island

2019-12-03T00:10:56-05:00

Vendor: Greater Than Games (Fabled Nexus)
Type: Board Games
Price: 84.95

Designer	R. Eric Reuss
Publisher	Greater Than Games (Fabled Nexus)
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansions	Spirit Island: Branch & Claw Spirit Island: Jagged Earth Spirit Island: Feather and Flame Spirit Island: Nature Incarnate
Accessories	Insert Here - Spirit Island Organizer E-Raptor - Insert Spirit Island and Branch & Claw Expansion Folded Space - Spirit Island & Branch and Claw Expansion Broken Token - Spirit Island Organizer Spirit Island: Premium Token Pack Folded Space - Spirit Island and Branch & Claw Expansion or Jagged Earth Expansion (v2) Laserox - Spirit Organizer (Compatible with Spirit Island and Branch & Claw Expansion) Laserox - Spirit Expansion Organizer (Compatible with Spirit Island Expansions) Spirit Island: Deluxe Invader Board Spirit Island: Foil Panels
Honors	2019 Spiel der Spiele Hit für Experten Recommended 2019 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Expert Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Solo Board Game Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Cooperative Game Nominee 2017 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee 2017 Cardboard Republic Striker Laurel Nominee
Additional Info	162886/spirit-island http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/162886/spirit-island/forums/63

In the most distant reaches of the world, magic still exists, embodied by spirits of the land, of the sky, and of every natural thing. As the great powers of Europe stretch their colonial empires further and further, they will inevitably lay claim to a place where spirits still hold power - and when they do, the land itself will fight back alongside the islanders who live there.

Spirit Island is a complex and thematic cooperative game about defending your island home from colonizing Invaders. Players are different spirits of the land, each with its own unique elemental powers. Every turn, players simultaneously choose which of their power cards to play, paying energy to do so. Using combinations of power cards that match a spirit's elemental affinities can grant free bonus effects. Faster powers take effect immediately, before the Invaders spread and ravage, but other magics are slower, requiring forethought and planning to use effectively. In the Spirit phase, spirits gain energy, and choose how / whether to Grow: to reclaim used power cards, to seek for new power, or to spread presence into new areas of the island.

The Invaders expand across the island map in a semi-predictable fashion. Each turn they explore into some lands (portions of the island); the next turn, they build in those lands, forming settlements and cities. The turn after that, they ravage there, bringing blight to the land and attacking any native islanders present.

The islanders fight back against the Invaders when attacked, and lend the spirits some other aid, but may not always do so exactly as you'd hoped. Some Powers work through the islanders, helping them (eg) drive out the Invaders or clean the land of blight.

The game escalates as it progresses: spirits spread their presence to new parts of the island and seek out new and more potent powers, while the Invaders step up their colonization efforts. Each turn represents 1-3 years of alternate-history.

At game start, winning requires destroying every last settlement and city on the board - but as you frighten the Invaders more and more, victory becomes easier: they'll run away even if some number of settlements or cities remain. Defeat comes if any spirit is destroyed, if the island is overrun by blight, or if the Invader deck is depleted before achieving victory.

The game includes different adversaries to fight against (eg: a French Plantation Colony, or a Remote British Colony). Each changes play in different ways, and offers a different path of difficulty boosts to keep the game challenging as you gain skill.

Spirit Island: Branch & Claw

2017-02-13T23:40:00-05:00

Vendor: Greater Than Games (Fabled Nexus)
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.95

Designer	R. Eric Reuss
Publisher	Greater Than Games (Fabled Nexus)
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Spirit Island
Accessories	Folded Space - Spirit Island & Branch and Claw Expansion Folded Space - Spirit Island and Branch & Claw Expansion or Jagged Earth Expansion (v2) Laserox - Spirit Organizer (Compatible with Spirit Island and Branch & Claw Expansion) E-Raptor - Insert Spirit Island and Branch & Claw Expansion Spirit Island: Premium Token Pack Spirit Island: Branch and Claw Foil Panels
Additional Info	193065/spirit-island-branch-claw http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/193065/spirit-island-branch-claw/forums/63

The Branch & Claw Expansion for Spirit Island, featuring two new Spirits (Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves and Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds) and a new Adversary (France) as well as adding Events to the Invader Phase of the game!

The Event Deck has events that happen each turn, adding further variation to the game play. In addition, the expansion has Tokens that prevent the invaders from exploring, building, or ravaging or add wild Beasts to the land, a new set of powers (31 Minor and 21 Major) that use the new Tokens and expand the gameplay, 15 new Fear cards, new Blight cards, and new Scenarios.

Fealty

2013-11-13T19:07:00-05:00

Vendor: Asmadi Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	R. Eric Reuss
Publisher	Asmadi Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2011 Golden Geek Best Abstract Board Game Nominee 2012 Golden Geek Best Abstract Board Game Nominee
Additional Info	96704/fealty http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/997685/fealty/reviews

The king has died with no clear successor! The players—potential heirs all—are scrambling to put together their power bases by dispatching trusted agents and allies to garner support across the breadth of the kingdom. Nobody wants open warfare, but some conflict is sure to break out.

Fealty is a game of positioning and territory control. Each turn, all players add one piece to the game board, with increasing constraints on placement as time goes on. Some pieces have an effect when brought into play. At the end of the game, all pieces place influence in order of speed, claiming territory and blocking slower opposing pieces. The player who has maneuvered his or her pieces to place the most influence onto the board wins.