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Ghost Stories

Black Secret Expansion

In the cooperative adventure game Ghost stories players embody Taoist monks protecting a village from the evil aspects of Wu-Feng.

In this Black Secret expansions players face Wu-Feng himself for the first time. In the village catacombs three urns are hidden holding Wu-Fengs ashes. He sends his demons down into the catacombs to find the relics and bring them back to life. One of the players takes up the role of Wu-Feng; this raises the number of players to 2-5; he can call upon ghosts and demons who can throw curses on the Taoist monks. The Taoists have new weapons, too, Blood Mantras and the ability Blood Brothers.

Wu Feng can interfere at the start of a turn on a player’s board, never on a neutral board, and also when the symbol “Add a Ghost” appears. He can place the Ghost in the Village, summon a Demon into the catacombs or throw a Curse. There is now a new phase before the Yin-Phase of a player’s board, each Demon in the catacombs has one action, either movement or searching. When the demons manage to find the three icons, The Shadow of Wu-Feng appears. This shadow is invincible; it can only be defeated when players manage to accomplish the goal of exorcising all incarnations of Wu-Feng in the game. In order to do so they now have several Blood Mantras of different levels at their command.

The introduction of the 5^th player as a direct adversary has been managed wonderfully, the balance of the game remains, density, possibilities and difficulty have grown, cooperation at its best! Specialists can use both White Moon and Black Secret expansions together with the core game.

Players: 2-5

Age: 13+

Time: 90+

Designer: Antoine Bauza

Artist: Pierô

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Repos Production 2011

Web: www.rprod.com

Genre: Cooperative adventure game

Users: For experts

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

5^th player embodies the adversary

New possibilities for both factions

Needs basic game to play

Can be combined with White Moon

Compares to:

All tactical cooperative games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0