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24 Sep Aventuria Card Preview – Suffocation

Today we're going to focus on a simple one-shot card that helps us explain in more detail a number of the mechanics and design principles of Aventuria. This card, Suffocation, is from the hero deck of Mirhiban Al'Orhima, the Tulamydian Mage.

21 Sep Aventuria Videos

We have now finished posting a plethora of videos on the Kickstarter campaign, and we are excited to share those with you.

20 Sep Aventuria Card Preview – Time Scale Cards

Posted at 09:54h in Aventuria Adventure Card Game, News - Ulisses Spiele by Ulisses Spiele

If you read our first card preview, the Bandit Thief, you may have noticed some cryptic text towards the bottom and wondered, "What is this hourglass thing doing here?" That hourglass is a Time Counter, and it's part of the mechanic that makes Adventure Mode combat challenging but also flexible. To explain more, we're going to talk about the Time Scale cards.

19 Sep CROM Mechanics Teaser #4 – Melee!

Posted at 11:45h in Conan: Rise of Monsters, News - Ulisses Spiele by Ulisses Spiele

The main course of any wargame! Melee is what happens once you've done all your maneuvering and now you're in the thick of it. But CROM has a few things that keep melee combat fun and less of a slog.

18 Sep Aventuria Card Preview – Hero Actions

Posted at 08:50h in Aventuria Adventure Card Game, News - Ulisses Spiele by Ulisses Spiele

(This article contains mild spoilers for one of the adventures in the Aventuria base set.) The Adventure Mode in the Aventuria Card Game has two phases. First, there is the story, in which the text of the adventure is read and the heroes face skill challenges that can improve or worsen their overall position on the way to the final conflict. A typical adventure chapter has about 3 to 4 skill challenges during this phase. Then comes the combat, in which the heroes fight against a combination of Leaders and Henchmen. The abilities of the Leader and the specific Henchman drawn provide quite a bit of variety in the combat experience, but there is usually even more going on.

16 Sep Aventuria Card Preview – Bandit Thief

Posted at 08:21h in Aventuria Adventure Card Game, News - Ulisses Spiele by Ulisses Spiele

Aventuria has two modes - a Duel Mode in which heroes face off against each other, and an Adventure Mode in which heroes team up to face challenges and defeat villains in combat. Henchmen make up a large part of the combat in Adventure Mode, so let's take a look at a typical henchman card, the Bandit Thief.

13 Sep CROM Mechanics Teaser #3 – Movement and Charging

Posted at 13:34h in Conan: Rise of Monsters, News - Ulisses Spiele by Ulisses Spiele

In our last teaser we discussed how attacking is handled in Conan: Rise of Monsters, and we happened to mention charging when we did that. So in this one we're going to talk about movement and charging and why the Scion of Set's 12" charge is extremely powerful.

06 Sep CROM Mechanics Teaser #2 – Attacks and Damage

Posted at 13:33h in Conan: Rise of Monsters, News - Ulisses Spiele by Ulisses Spiele

In our second round of teasing the mechanics of Conan: Rise of Monsters, we look at the the way that dice are rolled on an attack. This is the core of combat, so you'll be doing it quite a bit. Luckily, it's very straightforward.

31 Aug CROM Mechanics Teaser #1 – Initiative

Posted at 15:05h in Conan: Rise of Monsters, News - Ulisses Spiele by Ulisses Spiele

All tabletop wargamers know that a game can be won or lost on initiative. If anything, this becomes more true with smaller numbers of units, so initiative is critical to the flow of a skirmish game. Conan: Rise of Monsters is built with an eye towards making initiative more than just a random chance. It's a gameable mechanic that will need to be part of your overall strategy if you want to be effective.

09 Aug Gen Con Roundup

Posted at 09:58h in Aventuria Adventure Card Game, Conan: Rise of Monsters, News - Ulisses Spiele, The Dark Eye, TORG by Ulisses Spiele

The whirlwind of chaos is beginning to subside, and we are working on catching up on all the things we have to do for our many projects (and yes, our first priority is making sure all the backer rewards are shipped). It was fantastic having members of the German and North American teams get together! I can't even describe how much I learned about Aventuria just listening to Nico talk to customers. He's an absolute treasure. It was also wonderful meeting so many people and getting them excited about our various products! The response on everything has been overwhelmingly positive. While we were there, we heard many questions more than once, and there were a few new pieces of information that we decided or discovered along the way, so it makes sense for us to do a wrap-up post covering some of the most important items: