![]() ![]() Any character that is not chosen by a player becomes an NPC. Interestingly, the hated weather die rarely made an appearance in the campaign (no complaints here), yet there were plenty of dangers for the players to tackle from mystical beasts to trying not to go insane. They are challenging, with lots to do and many ways to hurt yourself. This definitely helped to draw us in and set the theme of this mystical land.įor the missions themselves, overall I found them on par or better with what Robinson Crusoe players would expect. There was a separate journal that you referenced during missions that will tell a bit of a story. The campaign was a ton of fun to play and I found it to be very thematic. Portal Games did a great job with taking their newest expansion off in a wild new direction. There are 5 scenarios in this linked campaign. The rules do say that you can play any of the original scenarios in Horror Mode (although we didn’t try it). These cards are pretty powerful items that will have to last you through the whole campaign as you only have access to your ship in the first mission.įor Horror Mode, there are two new scenarios, a Prison Break and one with Mystical Beasts. Interestingly, you start off the campaign without any inventions, instead, you have a deck of equipment cards that you can offload from your ship. SECRETS OF THE LOST TOMB EXPANSIONS SERIESI’ll avoid spoilers, but the quick overview is that it takes you through a series of missions with lots of secrets to uncover. The main star of the expansion is the new Lost City of Z campaign. Finally, stone is a new type of resource that players can harvest from mountain tiles. There are now cultists that get shuffled into the beasts deck who must be defeated with mystical weapons. Other than NPCs and sanity, Mystery Tales only has a few other major rules changes. So as you progress in the game, you may encounter your crazy, former character who’s clearly up to no good! Every character has 3 adventure cards that, once they lose their grip on reality, are shuffled into the matching adventure decks. However, if you do go insane, things get a little cooler. Each character has 3 cards that will get shuffled into the adventure decks if they go insane. Dying used to mean game over, but now, when a character dies, you can channel your inner “Being John Malkovich” and choose one of the NPCs to become your new character. Players also now have a sanity score to manage, which means that in addition to dying, you can go insane. But what’s different is that any of the 9 characters that don’t get chosen become NPCs (Non-Player Characters) to aid you during the game. Mystery Tales comes with 9 new characters for the players to choose from during their adventure. Adding two new scenarios and also a 5 mission campaign mode, the Mystery Tales expansion will test players sanity as they hunt for the fabled Lost City of Z. But today, we are going to be talking about the new Mystery Tales expansion for Robinson Crusoe. SECRETS OF THE LOST TOMB EXPANSIONS FULLIf you haven’t played it before, you can read our full review of the base game to get up to speed. Robinson Crusoe is a great cooperative board game that sees players trapped on a deserted island trying to survive. ![]()
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