Introduction
Norse Vikings and Spanish Conquistadors are some of history's most ambitious and cunning explorers, setting out with sailing ships on voyages of discovery and conquest into uncharted territory. Each of these sets focuses on a new group of Explorer-themed Hero characters, venturing out on expeditions into lands that have been tainted by Dark Stone, and journeying through fantastic gateways into alien Worlds. Each of these sets is fully compatible with all previous Shadows of Brimstone material, but can also be played on its own as a stand-alone Adventure Set!
Shadows of Brimstone™ is a fully cooperative dungeon crawl adventure with Unspeakable horror themes. Players work together, taking on the roles of thematic heroes to form a Hero Team, exploring the wilderness, and fighting demons and creatures that are entering our world through void portals. The heroes can even step through those portals when they find them, to explore the strange alien worlds on the other side! The game board is randomly generated, as you play, via a deck of Map Cards (one card associated with each board tile). The board tiles are double-sided with Earth-based rooms or passages on one side and alien worlds on the other!
Game Overview
Shadows of Brimstone™ incorporates the best aspects of RPGs, Miniature games, and board games, keeping the focus on fun adventure - fighting creatures, getting Loot, and story-driven encounters. Game play is streamlined to be fast and fun, keeping exploration and combat easy to understand and open to a wider audience. The game is popular with both male and female players because every character in the game has a double-sided Hero Sheet with the Male version on one side and Female version on the other.
Fully Cooperative Dynamic Gameplay
We worked hard to inject a lot of replayability into the game. Each Adventure Set is based around an 8 Mission narrative campaign and allows the Heroes to build and grow their Expedition Camp throughout the campaign. Each time players embark on a mission, the game and story unfold in a randomly-generated way, using decks of cards to dynamically determine how the board is constructed, the enemies that attack, the story-based encounters, and even the Loot that the Heroes collect. As a fully cooperative adventure, all players work together to defeat the game - there is no game master! This also makes the game ideal for solo play.
Shadows of Brimstone has a built in campaign system, allowing characters to keep the Gear and otherworldly Artifacts they find, while earning experience to level up and increase their stats and abilities. Heroes have a detailed skill tree, letting players develop and customize their Heroes over the course of many games. The game difficulty is designed to scale to the number of players, and the enemies grow more dangerous as the players go up in level. Most importantly, characters can easily jump into and out of games, so if one player in a group cannot play one week, the group can play a mission without them or add new players to an existing group. Players can also easily take their established characters to other games, playing with several different groups.
Adventure Sets
Slightly smaller than a Core Set, Adventure Sets feature a group of Team Heroes (such as Vikings or Conquistadors) that are a trained fighting force of warriors and explorers. These sets can be used as an entry point to the game, and include everything needed to play.
While the rich theme of the Norseland or the Spanish Fort is gritty and exciting, Shadows of Brimstone comes to life when players step through a portal to explore an alien world! Each of the two Adventure Sets includes a different other world to explore. Gates of Valhalla features the Library of Targa - underground archives of a frozen alien city once inhabited by a technologically advanced civilization, now empty and kept running by robotic custodians. Players find danger and mystery around every corner as they explore the labrynth of frozen corridors of the ancient archive.
Valley of the Serpent Kings features the Valley of the Serpent Kings region of the Swamps of Jargono, a wet and murky jungle world teeming with life. Heroes trudge their way through swamps and explore ancient temple ruins as they hear the thunder
of drums from the native Serpentman tribes! Shadows of
Brimstone’s setting allows for a lot of thematic variety and
future expansions - the possibilities are limitless.
Two Adventure Sets
The two Adventure Sets are equal but unique, each featuring different Heroes, Enemies, OtherWorlds, Missions, Gear, Encounters, etc. So, gamers can play the game with either Adventure Set on its own, or get the other Adventure Set as a huge expansion to double their content! Also, the game is for 1-4 players with one Adventure Set, but expands to support up to 6 players with both Adventure Sets combined!
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