Now that we've spent some time with Brother Hilbert in the Forest of No Return, let's examine some of the things that make our second expansion, Ship of Lost Souls, special as well. The Henchman deck for this expansion includes a zombie pirate crew that is used in all three chapters of the title adventure as well as the short adventure "Rietholtz's Treasure," so you'll get to know them fairly well. This is great for me, because they are some of my favorite minor characters in the entire card game.

In our last card preview, we looked at swarms, one of the new mechanics introduced in the first Aventuria expansion, Forest of No Return. In this preview, we'll examine liturgical chants, the other new mechanic introduced in that expansion. Liturgical chants are a new to type of adventure card that are (so far) unique to Hilbert, Blessed One of Peraine.

The following is a review from earlier this year of the German edition of Aventuria. We have included pictures from that review to make this translation as faithful as possible. You can find the original text here: https://www.nerds-gegen-stephan.de/index.php/archives/303-Das-Schwarze-Auge-Aventuria-Kompetitives-und-kooperatives-Abenteuerkartenspiel.htmL Review by Philipp Lohmann (Translated by Eduard Lerperger, edited by Kevin MacGregor)

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. wildensteindifficultycards_page_1