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The Witcher

Abenteuerspiel

An adventure game that is set in the universe of the The Witcher video game and The Witcher novels by Andrzej Sapkowski. As one of four characters with special abilities – Monster Hunter Geralt von Riva, Canny Troubadour Rittersporn, Dwarf Warrior Yarpen Zigrin or Cunning Sorceress Triss Merigold – you travel across the lands, fight enemies and follow up clues to complete quests and collect victory points.

Each hero has his own deck of cards, has one quest at a time and can only draw from related stacks of cards. As the active player you have two actions – you chose them by placing markers on your hero sheet - and you cannot do an action twice in a turn. Actions are Travel, Investigate, Train, Rest, Alchemy (for Geralt), Preparation (Triss), Sing (Rittersporn) or Lead (Yarpen). Before, in between or after those two actions you can do any number of Free actions – Change clues into proof, Complete a side quest, Complete a support quest or Complete a main quest, Trade, or Bribe friends (Rittersporn only).  Then you have to face a danger of your current location, either a catastrophe that you resolve or a monster that you must fight. Fights are resolved with effects prior to rolling dice and then rolling dice and applying modifications to the results. If someone completes his third main quest, all others have one more turn and then you win with most points.

This is basically a multi-player solitaire game, featuring very different characters and a lot of very negative events that you must cope with; all in all if feels like a somewhat more complex Talisman with a high factor of chance from rolling dice and drawing cards.

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 240+

Designer: Ignacy Trzewiczek

Artist: Przemyslaw Juszczyk and Team, Sabine Machaczek

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2015

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Adventure, fantasy

Users: For experts

Version: de

Rules: cn cz de en es fr it jp pl

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Comments:

Very nice design

Little to no interaction

Successful quests demand lots of planning and lots of luck

Compares to:

Talisman and other adventure games with little to no interaction

Other editions:

Game Harbour (cn), ADC Blackfire (cz),, Fantasy Flight Games (en), Edge Entertainment (es, fr), Giochi Uniti (it), Arclight (jp), CD Project Red (Pl)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0