Ancient Terrible Things

In Ancient Terrible Things a pulp horror adventure game for 2-4 players you play the role of an intrepid adventurer exploring a dark jungle river. Each turn you must travel to a Fateful Location face an Ominous Encounter and attempt to unlock its Ancient Secrets. If you succeed (using a combination of dice tokens and cards) you add the Secrets to your score; if you fail you unleash a Terrible Thing which counts against your score at the end of the game. The object of the game is to be the player with the most Ancient Secrets when the game ends at the Unspeakable Event.
Game play involves rolling dice to achieve combinations: runs pairs three or more of a kind and single die showing a particular number or higher. Dice combos are used to overcome Encounter cards that are worth points at the end of the game and/or to acquire the four resource tokens in the game: Focus Courage Treasure and Feat.

Focus tokens are used to re-roll individual dice.
Courage tokens are spent to overcome an Encounter before rolling your dice.
Treasure tokens are spent to purchase Swag cards from the Trading Post which give you a permanent game effect.
Feat tokens are spent to play Feat cards from your hand which activate one-shot effects.


AlgemeenAantal spelers: 2-4
Speelduur: 60 min.
Leeftijd: 14+
Taal: Engels
Soort spelType/Thema: Dice Horror Mythology
Mechanisme: Dice Rolling Hand Management Push Your Luck Re-rolling and Locking Set Collection Worker PlacementMakersOntwerper: Simon McGregor