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Arcadia Quest

Guilds of heroes against Graf Zahn

As the leader of a guild of three heroes you play a campaign of six out of eleven scenarios to defeat Count Tooth and to free Arcadia. In a scenario a guild confronts Monsters and opposing guilds. You can choose your guild members randomly or draft them; selected heroes stay the complete campaign, you cannot swap them during the campaign. To be victorious in a scenario a guild must complete quests, kill opponents and retrieve treasures, all by using standard dungeon crawl mechanisms.

A turn comprises activation of a hero or a recuperation period for the guild; activation enables a hero to do movement and attack. Monsters in Arcadia never actively hunt heroes, but they defend themselves against heroes, that is, monsters are only activated as a reaction to a hero action. Monsters have Guardian reactions for squares in their near sphere of influence and retaliation reaction against a direct attack or monster attacks following a monster movement. Quests for a hero can demand player versus player – that is, hero against hero of another guild – or player versus environment – that is, against special monsters or meeting special tasks. In this way you develop your hero so that he can acquire powerful items and weapons to resolve a scenario. For a successful campaign you must successfully master three of six scenarios of the Outer Circle, two out of four of the Inner Circle and the final confrontation at the center.

Miniature adventure game are a specialty of Cool Mini or Not, and Arcadia Quest is a fantastic, well-made example for this, a game that is fun for an experienced player as well as for a newbie to the genre.

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 60+

Designer: Thiago Aranga, Guilherme Goulart, Eric M. Lang, Fred Perret

Artist: Andrea Cofrancesco, Nicolas Fructus, Mathieu Harlaut

Price: ca. 65 Euro

Publisher: Cool Mini or not / Asmodee 2014

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Fantasy, adventure, miniatures

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr it pt

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Well-structured rules

Lots of components

Does not need a game master, all can play

Enough variety in the scenarios

Compares to:

Zombicide and other miniature fantasy games

Other editions:

Asterion Press (it), Cool Mini or Not (en), Edge Entertainment (fr, es), Galápagos Jogos (pt)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0