The Award-winning Best-selling Deckbuilding Game designed by Mike Elliott
Thunderstone Quest is the third version of AEG’s Deckbuilding game of heroic adventure! It was successfully Kickstarted in May of 2017 and delivered to backers in March of 2018. In July of 2018 it returns to Kickstarter and in the fourth quarter of 2018 the game will be released into traditional retail stores.
In Thunderstone Quest players assemble a party of adventurers and venture into the Dungeon where they’ll confront and defeat monsters to gain treasure and experience. They’ll find mysterious keys that unlock The Guardian and when the Guardian appears they’ll try to inflict as much damage as possible and win the game!
Read the Bandits of Blackrock story.
Read the Thunderstone Quest Rules here (26MB PDF). Read the Thunderstone Quest Questbook here (33MB PDF).
Read the Barricades Rulebook and Quest Book here (38MB PDF) .
The Champion Reward was available to backers of the Kickstarters. The Champion Reward consists of the base game components, 5 Quests (Q1: A Mirror in the Dark, Q2: Total Eclipse of the Sun (Kickstarter Exclusive), Q3: Risen from the Mire, Q4: At the Foundations of the World, and Q5: Ripples in Time, and some additional content exclusive to Kickstarter backers.
The Thunderstone Base Game includes the base game components and 2 Quests. (Q1: A Mirror in the Dark and Q3: Risen from the Mire).
Quest 4 & 5 will be released in 2019.
The To the Barricades Reward was available to backers of the Kickstarters. It includes two Quests (Q6: What Lies Beneath, and Q7: Frostbite). It also includes Barricades Mode which delivers solo & co-op play for Thunderstone Quest plus the components to add a 5th and 6th player, and Prestige Class boards.
Barricades Mode will be available as a stand-alone retail purchase in 2019. Quest 6 and Quest 7 will be available in retail stores in 2020.
Each Quest consists of approximately 245 cards and 6 Dungeon Tiles.
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But Wait, There’s More! Barricades Mode is bringing with it a lot of new goodies and new components to Thunderstone Quest, some of which were discussed in previous blogs. Those aren’t the only new components for Barricades Mode though. Starting at the start, there are new Starter cards. In BarricadesRead More →
Guardian Dice As discussed in a previous blog post, Barricades Mode needed an Engine, something that was going to push the players forward through the game. The form the Engine takes is the Guardian Dice, representing the Guardian’s attacks each turn. Players will each roll Guardian Dice at the beginningRead More →
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Introducing Barricades Mode In days past, when the people of a city needed to defend themselves, they would erect barricades in the streets, giving them a strategic advantage in an urban warfare setting. This is the exact position our Champions find themselves confronting in Barricades Mode, the all-new game playRead More →
Thunderstone fans, we are ready to begin the marketing for the upcoming Kickstarter for Thunderstone Quest and this blog will set the stage. We are very excited to begin this project and with your help it’s going to be amazing and incredibly fun! Our Thunderstone Quest Plan When we completedRead More →
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Attention Backers! We are almost ready to begin using the Pledge Manager for Thunderstone Quest! We have selected BackerKit as our platform provider for Pledge Management. BackerKit has powered thousands of successful campaigns and they have by far the best suite of tools that we reviewed while selecting a platform.Read More →
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All of AEG has gathered in Southern California for our bi-annual company summit. We have rented a beautiful house overlooking the Pacific with enough bedrooms to accommodate our whole crew. Since we work virtually its a special treat to get together in the same physical space. We are all spendingRead More →
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Rodents of Unusual Size (ROUS) In previous Updates we talked about Monsters and about the Dungeon. Today we are going to focus on a feature of the game that brings those two things together – the Wilderness. In Thunderstone Quest, like most deckbuilding games, your starting cards are not goingRead More →
Thunderstone Backers, Wow BIG First Day!!! Thank You! We were sure that Thunderstone Quest would be well received but you never really know until you launch. We were massively impressed with your first-day support and we are way ahead of our optimistic projection for the campaign. Again, thank you. NowRead More →