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Sleeping Gods: Primeval Peril (Box Damage)

2024-09-28T16:14:29-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 36.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	120-240 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	319223/sleeping-gods-primeval-peril http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/319223/sleeping-gods-primeval-peril/forums/63

Sleeping Gods: Primeval Peril is a short standalone campaign for two players, set in the world of Sleeping Gods and using the same rules.

Primeval Peril is set on a dangerous river that winds through lush jungle. It includes new characters and stories so that nothing from the Sleeping Gods base game is spoiled.

It was first offered as a free print-and-play to all backers of the Sleeping Gods Kickstarter.

Sleeping Gods: Primeval Peril (Minor Damage)

2024-09-28T16:14:29-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	120-240 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	319223/sleeping-gods-primeval-peril http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/319223/sleeping-gods-primeval-peril/forums/63

Creature Caravan PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:40:11-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 51.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	385331/creature-caravan http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/385331/creature-caravan/forums/63

ETA Q4 2024

A new threat lurks in the land of Arzium. Ember zombies swarm from volcanic lands to the south, their charcoal bodies the walking hives of evil fire fairies. The closest haven is the city of Eastrey, where a powerful artifact protects the inhabitants. You must travel across the desert and the plains, over mountains and through red canyons, helping wandering creatures of every shape and size to the safety of the city.

In Creature Caravan, players build a card tableau of creatures while traveling through a magnificent and dangerous land. Players take turns simultaneously, placing dice on actions on their cards, moving their caravan on the map, and playing new creature cards. Players also compete to trade goods and rare coins in a shared market, search the mysterious white towers, and fight ember zombies as they travel. The game ends when one player reaches Eastrey. The player with the most points wins.

The game includes 134 cards, each with a unique illustration and combination of actions and abilities. Simultaneous gameplay allows one to four players to play together without increasing the game's length, with the Wanderers expansion allowing for up to six players.

—description from the publisher

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies

2023-12-27T14:52:31-05:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 98.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-600 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	358320/sleeping-gods-distant-skies http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/358320/sleeping-gods-distant-skies/forums/63

San Francisco, 1937: Your cargo plane flies through a portal in the sky, transporting you to a rugged landscape filled with bizarre creatures, scheming gods, and untold dangers. But can you find your way back before the portal closes?

Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies is a standalone sequel set in the world of Sleeping Gods. As in the original game, you and your friends trek through a vast landscape as you read branching storylines and meet vivid characters, but in this game you interact with the atlas on a deeper level — camping, exploring, overcoming obstacles, and searching for lost relics. The new action system allows you even greater agency while you travel and explore.

In addition to the exploration and quest system from the original game, Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies features a fresh spin on combat. Players now build a combat deck from which they draw a varied hand of cards to play, making each combat encounter a fresh and dynamic puzzle.

Although Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies builds on story elements in the first game, you do not need to play Sleeping Gods to enjoy this sequel. The game features new characters and storylines, explaining concepts from the original game as you encounter them.

Return to the world of Sleeping Gods and experience a thrilling tale that hinges on your choices in a truly open-world experience!

—description from the publisher

Sleeping Gods: Primeval Peril

2023-12-27T14:52:31-05:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	120-240 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	319223/sleeping-gods-primeval-peril http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/319223/sleeping-gods-primeval-peril/forums/63

Knight Fall

2022-08-10T14:41:25-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.95

Designer	T. Alex Davis Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	364541/knight-fall http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/364541/knight-fall/forums/63

In Thornmar Abbey, an ancient order of holy knights watches over a sealed portal to the underworld. The knights must protect the elders—ancient sages who sustain the seal. After decades of peace, the seal has weakened and demons are emerging from the rift. The demons seek to battle past the valiant knights and kill enough of the elders to fully break the seal before morning. Imbued with the power of the gods, only these brave knights stand a chance of protecting the elders and stopping an army of monsters from flooding into the world.

Knight Fall is an asymmetrical team game for one to six players. One team controls the knights, who must protect the elders and withstand the demons until dawn. The other team controls the demons, who seek to break the seal to the underworld before morning.

During the game, you choose a unique knight or demon, each with a variety of special powers—such as the Flame Knight’s ability to surround his foes in fire, or the Bone Crusher’s power to summon skeletal minions. The cards you play from your hand to perform actions can each be used in different ways, and a set of unique location tiles allows you to create the monastery with a different layout every game.

Knight Fall also features a campaign mode for one to two players. In this mode, you read stories while exploring the map of a haunted valley, drawing your path as you travel. Wander through crumbling churches, a sinister forest, and a dark mountain to stop the demons before the final battle at Thornmar Abbey. You must do whatever you can to keep your Knights alive; the death of each knight means one fewer hero to combat the invading demons in the final battle!

–description from designer

Sleeping Gods: Tides of Ruin

2021-12-27T09:13:11-05:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 46.95

Designers	Ryan Laukat Ira Fay
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-4
Playing Time	60-1200 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Sleeping Gods
Additional Info	283766/sleeping-gods-tides-ruin http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283766/sleeping-gods-tides-ruin/forums/63

The Wandering Sea is vast, filled with hidden treasures and lost totems. To the far south lies Zokmere, the sanctuary city, where hundreds of splintered houses cling to the jungle hills in a turquoise bay. In the northeast, the gods hide the remains of a sprawling city, and the history of their malice. Ready your crew. New dangers and adventures await.

Sleeping Gods: Tides of Ruin expands the world of Sleeping Gods with a second atlas, accompanying storybook, new adventure cards, enemies, events, and more. Seamlessly combine this expansion with the base game to make the world even larger.

Sleeping Gods: Dungeons

2021-12-27T09:13:10-05:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-4
Playing Time	60-840 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Sleeping Gods
Additional Info	287670/sleeping-gods-dungeons http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/287670/sleeping-gods-dungeons/forums/63

"Sleeping Gods: Dungeons" adds six dungeons to "Sleeping Gods". Each dungeon includes a map and stories. In a dungeon, gameplay will be slightly altered from the regular game.

Each map will be printed on thick card stock (8.5x11 inches). A separate dungeon booklet will contain all of the descriptions, encounters, and puzzles that you'll experience as you explore.

You can access these dungeons at specific locations in the atlas of the Sleeping Gods base game. When you reach a location that contains a dungeon, you can choose to read from the standard storybook, or instead explore the dungeon that is located there. The specified location number is listed in the top left corner of the dungeon map.

Each dungeon holds dangerous traps, vicious monsters, and treasure that you can find. Because dungeons take longer to explore than a standard location, there are a few small changes to game play when you enter one. While in the dungeon, players take turns taking two actions each, which include moving to new rooms, examining your surroundings, and more.

Now or Never

2021-12-27T09:11:45-05:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 74.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-180 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Accessories	Folded Space - Now or Never
Additional Info	314745/now-or-never http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/314745/now-or-never/forums/63

Far to the south of The Last Ruin lies a cliffside village called The Monument. For generations, it protected an ancient shrine until the day a crystal meteorite descended. The meteor's denizens slowly crept out into the world—bizarre monstrosities from nightmare, attacking all in their path. As they spread across the land, there was no intelligent malice nor grand invasion strategy; the creatures acted like a fungus—spreading into new territory sporadically.

After many fruitless attempts to expel the monsters, the people of The Monument fled as their village crumbled, exiled to distant lands, resigned to a nomadic existence.

Forty years later, there are rumors that the bizarre monsters are growing weak. They’re slower, less impervious to attack, some undergoing a gradual petrification until they crumble to dust. Is it the atmosphere? Are they dying of old age? Do they suffer from a strange disease? No one is certain, but as the news spreads, various factions set their eyes on the vacant, ruined village of The Monument. The original villagers, now refugees, are desperate to return and rebuild. But they must do it quickly, before someone else claims their home. This is their chance. It’s now or never.

In Now or Never, you and up to three friends compete to best rebuild your ancestral village and guide the rest of the villagers on their journey home. Although the creatures of the meteorite have lost much of their strength, many of them remain, and you must fight them off to protect traveling villagers. Now or Never is the third game in the Arzium storybook series that includes Above and Below and Near and Far.

Now or Never is a competitive strategy game that allows you to:

•Choose one of four asymmetrical characters to play.

•Rebuild the village so that returning villagers have a place to live. You must carefully choose what and where to build to maintain an advantage, earning the biggest rewards for long-term planning.

•Interact with other players by hiring their specialists to perform special actions.

•Combat dangerous creatures to rescue villagers.

•Explore a fantasy landscape filled with bizarre places, technology, and peoples.

Now or Never includes two modes of play: standard and story. When playing in story mode, you read from a storybook when you explore, making choices and learning more about the characters and the world. Each character has their own set of stories, unique to the locations they explore and diverse in plot, perspective, and motive, allowing you to choose what direction your own story will take.

Journey to The Monument and help rebuild your ancient home!

-description from publisher

Sleeping Gods

2021-12-13T15:02:22-05:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 99.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	1-4
Playing Time	60-1200 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansions	Sleeping Gods: Dungeons Sleeping Gods: Tides of Ruin
Honors	2021 International Gamers Award Solo Nominee 2021 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee 2021 Golden Geek Medium Game of the Year Nominee 2021 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Winner 2021 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee 2021 Golden Geek Best Solo Board Game Nominee 2021 Golden Geek Best Cooperative Game Nominee 2021 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Winner 2021 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee 2021 Cardboard Republic Immersionist Laurel Nominee
Additional Info	255984/sleeping-gods http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/255984/sleeping-gods/forums/63

"Are the stars unfamiliar here?" she asked, and the sky grew suddenly dark, the star's patterns alien and exotic. "This is the Wandering Sea. The gods have brought you here, and you must wake them if you wish to return home."

In Sleeping Gods, you and up to 3 friends become Captain Sofi Odessa and her crew, lost in a strange world in 1929 on your steamship, the Manticore. You must work together to survive, exploring exotic islands, meeting new characters, and seeking out the totems of the gods so that you can return home.

Sleeping Gods is a campaign game. Each session can last as long as you want. When you are ready to take a break, you mark your progress on a journey log sheet, making it easy to return to the same place in the game the next time you play. You can play solo or with friends throughout your campaign. It's easy to swap players in and out at will. Your goal is to find at least fourteen totems hidden throughout the world. Like reading a book, you'll complete this journey one or two hours at a time, discovering new lands, stories, and challenges along the way.

Sleeping Gods is an atlas game. Each page of the atlas represents only a small portion of the world you can explore. When you reach the edge of a page and you want to continue in the same direction, you simply turn to a new page and sail onward.

Sleeping Gods is a storybook game. Each new location holds wild adventure, hidden treasures, and vivid characters. Your choices affect the characters and the plot of the game, and may help or hinder your chances of getting home!

Welcome to a vast world. Your journey starts now.

—description from the publisher

The Ancient World: The Frog God Statue Promo

2020-05-25T16:34:37-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 5.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	169749/ancient-world-frog-god-statue-promo http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/169749/ancient-world-frog-god-statue-promo/forums/63

The Ancient World: The Frog God Statue Promo is placed on The Ancient World board when you set up. It is an extra action space. At the end of the round when all players have passed, players with a citizen on the Frog God Statue may pay one coin to place that citizen on any action space on the board. These citizens ignore all previously-placed citizens on any action space. Citizens are placed in numerical order (highest to lowest).

Deep Vents

2020-04-22T22:24:46-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designers	T. Alex Davis Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	40-60 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	303159/deep-vents http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/303159/deep-vents/forums/63

Along cracks in the ocean floor plumes of black and white superheated water pump relentlessly into the depths. They provide precious heat to the near freezing abyssal waters of the deep as well as a bounty of minerals. Microscopic Archaea and other extremophiles live off the heat and minerals to form the base of a unique food chain that hosts a variety of exotic deep sea creatures.

In Deep Vents players each control their own hydrothermal ecosystem to which they add new life and geological features each turn, competing to survive in the unforgiving depths by being efficient and preying on nearby systems with a host of strange and deadly predators.

Combine tiles with special powers to create a unique ecosystem, with hundreds of possible combinations.

Attack your opponents, defend your system, or build an unstoppable growth machine!

Includes 15 custom resin shell tokens and over 100 translucent, plastic archaea cubes.

—description from the publisher

Roam

2019-05-02T13:27:09-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Accessory	Meeple Realty - Roaming Hut
Additional Info	267319/roam http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/267319/roam/forums/63

Welcome to Arzium, land of ancient civilizations, bizarre creatures, unexplained wonders, and vibrant characters.

A great sleeping sickness has spread across the land, sending every type of creature to roam for hundreds of miles in a dazed, incoherent march. It's your job to seek them out and wake them from their sleepwalk, recruiting them to help you find even more lost souls!

In Roam, you and up to three friends compete to find lost adventurers. The game includes more than fifty unique, tarot-sized adventurer cards, which feature characters from Near and Far, Above and Below, and Islebound. The opposite side of each card depicts a landscape split into six squares, and two rows of three of these cards are placed in the center of the playing area to make the board.

Each turn, you may activate one of the adventurer cards in your party by flipping the card face down. Activating an adventurer allows you to place search tokens on the board in the shape depicted on your adventurer card. When every square on a landscape card has been searched, the player who did the most claims the card, finding the lost adventurer and adding them to their party. Each adventurer you add to your party gives you points and a new search pattern that you can use.

When searching, you also claim coins, which can be spent to use special actions or purchase artifacts with useful powers. When one player has ten adventurers in their party, the game ends, and the player with the most points wins.

—description from the publisher

The Ancient World (Second Edition)

2019-03-25T16:18:48-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up

In an ancient world forgotten by time, enormous titans terrorize the land. Five tribes have been fleeing from the titans for centuries, but things are about to change. Growing city-states pledge to end the reign of terror, determined to take on the titans and make the world a safer place for all. Each city-state competes to attract the tribes, eager for the strength of the combined peoples, who are now leaving behind old traditions with the hope that the titans can be defeated once and for all.

In The Ancient World, players compete to grow the largest and most influential city-state by managing citizens, treasury, and military and by defeating titans. Players take turns sending citizens to take special actions or using military cards to attack titans. One of the actions a citizen can perform is to build Empire cards, which give more citizens, money, and abilities.

A city-state's influence in the world is measured by sets of tribe banners that it owns. Each Empire card has one or more tribe banners, and tribe banners can also be gained by defeating titans. Players gain victory points (VPs) for sets of tribe banners. After six rounds, the player with the most VPs from sets of tribe banners wins.

The second edition features:

- Numbered, limited edition boxes
- Designer's signature printed in metallic ink
- Revised and new titans
- Larger, revised player boards
- Expanded game play, including a new resource: AMBROSIA
- Titans now attack YOU!
- Updated district and empire cards

Megaland

2018-10-17T14:37:31-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat Malorie Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	251293/megaland http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/251293/megaland/forums/63

Are you ready to run? Push your luck in the video game world of Megaland to fight monsters (and bunnies) and collect coins!

At the start of each round, each player places their character on the level tile, then draws one treasure and places it above their character board. Once everyone does this, draw the topmost level card to see whether players suffer damage from the monster on it. Players can then decide whether to leave the round and bank their treasures, or whether to press on; if they go on, they draw another treasure card, then reveal the next level card. If you take total damage equal to your number of hearts, you fail and are out of the round, losing any treasure that you had.

Once everyone has left the round, whether by being knocked out or by passing and banking their treasures, players can buy building cards, such as bowling alleys, arcades, and soap makers. Buildings cost 1-5 treasures, and you must pay different treasures when buying a building that costs more than 1. Each building gives a one-time or permanent effect. Maybe you'll collect jump tokens that you can use to clear monsters so that you don't take damage; maybe you'll acquire a hospital that gives you coins when neighboring players fail the level; maybe you'll buy more hearts to let you run farther in the future; and maybe you'll collect coins, which can be the most precious item of all since the game ends after the round that someone collects 20 coins. Whoever has the most coins at that time wins!

Megaland contains six starred building types that are used in each game, along with seventeen other building types, with only seven of them being used in any game.

Near and Far: Amber Mines (Kickstarter Edition)

2018-01-13T16:21:00-05:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion for	Near and Far
Additional Info	236667/near-and-far-amber-mines http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/236667/near-and-far-amber-mines/forums/63

Golden Amber fills the deep mines, it's fiery, cold embers glowing in the ancient rocks. Scholars say that the Arzians valued it above gold or silver, and wore it as a sign of wealth. Perhaps the rare substance holds forgotten secrets about the long-dead empire and their lust for power?

Near and Far: Amber Mines is the first expansion to Near and Far. It includes modules that you can add or remove according to your preferences. The modules are detailed below.

Amber Mines
This module includes a new Mine tile which you place over the top of the Mine on the town board. It also includes a deck of 43 Amber Mine cards that players can explore.

Magic
This module includes a new Mystic’s Hut tile (that is combined with the new Mine), a Magic Track tile, and a deck of 30 Spell cards with powerful abilities.

New General Store
This module includes a new General Store tile which you place over the top of the General Store on the town board. It has slightly altered actions and gives players another way to place camps.

New Threat Cards
This module includes 13 new threat cards. These cards replace the original deck of threat cards in Near and Far.

—description from the publisher

Near and Far: Amber Mines

2018-01-13T16:21:00-05:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion for	Near and Far
Accessory	Folded Space - Near and Far & Amber Mines
Additional Info	236667/near-and-far-amber-mines http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/236667/near-and-far-amber-mines/forums/63

Empires of the Void II

2017-11-11T07:28:04-05:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	90-180 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	218509/empires-void-ii http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/218509/empires-void-ii/forums/63

By the time Captain Markan realized Earth was losing the war against the Znu, it was too late. Earth's shield fell and the Znu scorched the surface to an irradiated wasteland. In desperation and for the survival of the species, she sent Earth's massive worldship on a decade-long journey to uncharted space. Their destination was the fringes of the galaxy, where there was a chance to gain a foothold and grow in strength again, and perhaps find new allies for the fight against the Znu and Decima empires. Learning of this plan, the great empires sent their own worldships, following Earth to the edge, determined to stake their own claim and win the war for the fringe.

In Empires of the Void II, each player has been given command of a mission by an alien empire to establish a foothold at the fringe of the galaxy. The game begins when their massive Worldships reach the fringe, where they must explore, wage war, use diplomacy, and construct buildings to gain victory. The fringe is sparsely populated, and many of the sentient species here are struggling to survive, leaving huge regions of planets open for exploration and colonization. Many species are eager to ally themselves with a powerful empire to gain security and stability in a chaotic and difficult time.

Klondike Rush

2017-05-31T16:12:50-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	223602/klondike-rush http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223602/klondike-rush/forums/63

Klondike Rush is a bidding/stock game set in a gold rush setting where players build mines along different routes. Players will also get a chance to score a big reward if they hunt down a wild monster that's been scaring the miners.

Islebound: Metropolis Expansion

2016-10-01T00:57:00-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Islebound
Additional Info	200629/islebound-metropolis-expansion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200629/islebound-metropolis-expansion/forums/63

An expansion pack of 40 new building cards, and 2 new Reputation cards.

Metropolis cards have an orange sunset background. When you play with this expansion, you set up an extra row of cards above the normal building cards. Only three cards are available to purchase, and they require you to have one, two, or three books (depending on where they are in the row). You also must have one normal building for every Metropolis building you own. Because they're a little harder to get, each Metropolis card is worth +1 renown.

Near and Far (Kickstarter Edition)

2016-08-16T15:39:00-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 72.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansions	Near and Far: Amber Mines
Accessories	Character Meeples for Near and Far Deluxe Token Bundle compatible with Near and Far™ (set of 43)
Additional Info	195421/near-and-far http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/195421/near-and-far/forums/63

Four wanderers search for the Last Ruin, a city that legends say contains an artifact that will grant the greatest desires of the heart. A lost love, redemption, acceptance, a family rejoined-- these are the fires that fuel the wanderers' journeys, but can they overcome their own greed and inner demons on the way?

In Near and Far, you and up to three friends explore many different maps in a search for the Last Ruin, recruiting adventurers, hunting for treasure, and competing to be the most storied traveler. You must collect food and equipment at town for long journeys to mysterious locales, making sure not to forget enough weapons to fight off bandits, living statues, and rusty robots! Sometimes in your travels you'll run into something unique and one of your friends will read what happens to you from a book of stories, giving you a choice of how to react, creating a new and memorable tale each time you play.

Near and Far is a sequel to Above and Below and includes a book of encounters. This time players read over ten game sessions to reach the end of the story. Each chapter is played on a completely new map with unique art and adventures.

Answer the call of the ruins and begin your journey.

Near and Far

2016-08-16T15:39:00-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 81.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion	Near and Far: Amber Mines
Accessories	Character Meeples for Near and Far Folded Space - Near and Far & Amber Mines Deluxe Token Bundle compatible with Near and Far™ (set of 43)
Honors	2018 SXSW Tabletop Game of the Year 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 Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee 2017 Cardboard Republic Immersionist Laurel Nominee
Additional Info	195421/near-and-far http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/195421/near-and-far/forums/63

Islebound

2016-07-29T23:02:00-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Honors	2016 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee
Expansion	Islebound: Metropolis Expansion
Additional Info	185589/islebound https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/185589/islebound/forums/63

Set sail in a mystical archipelago filled with bustling towns, sea monsters, pirates, and gold! Compete to build the best sea-faring nation with up to three friends by collecting treasure, hiring crew, and conquering or befriending island towns.

In Islebound, you take command of a ship and crew. You sail to island towns, collecting resources, hiring crew, and commissioning buildings for your capital city. Each building has a unique ability, and your combination of buildings can greatly enhance your strength as a trader, builder, or invader. You also recruit pirates and sea monsters to conquer towns, which, once conquered, allow you to complete the town action for free, and charge a fee to opponents if they want to use it. Alternatively, you can complete events that give influence, which can be used to befriend towns.

There are many routes to success. Will you be a ruthless conqueror, careful diplomat, or shrewd merchant in your race to the top?

The player with the most wealth and most-impressive capital city will win the game!

Above and Below

2015-10-16T07:10:00-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 50.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Honors	2015 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee 2015 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee 2015 Golden Geek Best Innovative Board Game Nominee 2015 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee 2015 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee 2016 SXSW Tabletop Game of the Year Nominee
Accessory	Folded Space - Above and Below & Token Set
Additional Info	172818/above-and-below https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1579314/above-and-below/reviews

Your last village was ransacked by barbarians. You barely had time to pick up the baby and your favorite fishing pole before they started the burning and pillaging. You wandered over a cruel desert, braved frozen peaks, and even paddled a log across a rough sea, kicking at the sharks whenever they got too close, the baby strapped tightly to your back.

Then you found it! The perfect place to make your new home. But as soon as you had the first hut built, you discovered a vast network of caverns underground, brimming with shiny treasures, rare resources, and untold adventure. How could you limit your new village to the surface? You immediately start organizing expeditions and building houses underground as well as on the surface.

With any luck, you'll build a village even stronger than your last-- strong enough, even, to turn away the barbarians the next time they come knocking.

Above and Below is a mashup of town-building and storytelling where you and up to three friends compete to build the best village above and below ground. In the game, you send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the cave, harvesting resources, and constructing houses. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how to best use them. You have your own personal village board, and you slide the villagers on this board to various areas to indicate that they've been given jobs to do. Will you send Hanna along on the expedition to the cave? Or should she instead spend her time teaching important skills to one of the young villagers?

A great cavern lies below the surface, ready for you to explore-- this is where the storytelling comes in. When you send a group of villagers to explore the depths, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. You'll be given a choice of how to react, and a lot will depend on which villagers you brought on the expedition, and who you're willing to sacrifice to succeed. The book of paragraphs is packed with encounters of amazing adventure, randomly chosen each time you visit the cavern.

At the end of the game, the player with the most well-developed village wins!

Artifacts, Inc.

2015-08-21T23:19:00-04:00

Vendor: Red Raven Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Ryan Laukat
Publisher	Red Raven Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	168609/artifacts-inc https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1562077/artifacts-inc/reviews

New York, 1929: A frenzy of interest in antiquity is sweeping the nation! With museums hungry for mysterious and exotic artifacts — and you hungry for adventure — you start up your own archeology company. Untold wonders await within dangerous jungles, harsh deserts, and wind-swept mountains. Will you gain a reputation as the most intrepid and famous adventurer of all time?

In Artifacts, Inc., 2-4 players compete to grow the most famous archeology company. Players roll dice, which represent their troop of adventurers, and place them on cards in order to find artifacts, sell them to museums, and purchase new cards representing their company assets. Players can choose to focus on making lots of money by selling artifacts, having museum majorities, creating the best combination of expeditions and buildings, or searching below the waves for lost cities and hidden treasures. The first player to reach 20 reputation triggers the end of the game, and the player with the most total reputation wins!

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