The fourth action is attacking, but keepers must acquire those appropriate tokens through game play. Everyone also starts with four actions tokens: two for defending, one for healing and one for training. Each player has an identical hand of six cards corresponding to the trainer of each dragon. Then the keepers must protect and train their (not so) vulnerable charges. If a beast’s icon is rolled, the die is placed on that dragon’s tile. The six sides each correspond to one of the dragons. He starts with an allotment equal to the number of players and will collect more as the contest progresses. Hooray! Er, I mean, never mind…Ī round begins with the hunter rolling some dice. Alas, if any of the fire-breathing behemoths succumb to his arrows, then everyone loses. When three to five different beasts successfully strike the would-be dragonslayer, he is defeated and the battle won. In the cooperative Dragon game mode players must train enough of the six dragons to retaliate against the hunter. The latter is the meatier strategy tilt, yet still friendly accessible. The former is a very light and quick, push-your-luck romp. The design includes both a competitive and cooperative mode, both tasking player dragon trainers with protecting a stable of dragons from a big, nasty, brutish, evil dragon hunter (it really hurt to type that).

That insane ambition is the objective in Dragon Keepers, a new family strategy game from veteran designer Vital Lacerda (CO 2, Lisboa) and his daughter, Catarina. So what’s this I hear about protecting the vile creatures? You want to tame them and train them? What, like circus monkeys?! How it Plays We are dragonslayers, hunting the beasts, eradicating their foul existence to protect peasant and noble alike. iSlaytheDragon has always been about slaying dragons. A notion that rankles and pushes back against everything you’ve ever known. An event that shakes your understanding of reality. There are moments in life that challenge one’s worldview.

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