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Alte Dunkle Dinge

Ein neues Kapitel

This expansion fills a double purpose; you can use it as an expansion for the basic game of Alte Dunkle Dinge, or can use it as a compact travel edition of the basic game. Let’s take a quick look at the travel version first - the expansion provides the six Schicksalshafe Orte of the basic game, plus Flussboot, Handelsposten and Reiseleiste as cards; the box can be used as dice box and all you need to add from the basic game are dice and tokens.

If you use Das verschollene Kapitel - interestingly, the rules use the translated English title and not Ein Neues Kapitel - as expansion, there are new components:

Five Besessenheiten / Obsessions, individually geared to the characters, and you can start the game with the character-typical obsessions. Then there are three new encounter types: For Offenbarung/Revelation, you add a Revelation Die to your dice, which is only used to master the encounter. If you fail to master the Warning encounter, you do not get a Terrible Thing marker, it is only removed from the Travel Track. The encounter cards Ereignis/Event replace the location action of Schicksalshafte Orte.

New terminology is also added: Suggest a trade, you cannot negotiate it in advance; Reserve encounters, this is done via your obsessions; Antiques stack is the discard pile for equipment cards and Stacks are all tokens, sorted by type. This is supplemented by Achievements, equipment, Action cards and a character board and disc for a fifth player.

A compact and well-made expansion, the idea for a travel version is cute and there are also rules for a solo game and you can now play with five players. So, what more could you want?

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 60+

Designer: Simon McGregor

Artist: Rob van Zyl

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Feuerland Spiele 2016

Web: www.feuerland-spiele.de

Genre: Dice, horror

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive expansion

Travel box as a nice option

Includes solo version and components for a 5^th player

Compares to:

Alte Dunkle Dinge

Other editions:

Pleasant Company Games (en)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0