Card Preview #17 Elthrakk
Elthrakk is a card in Quest 6: What Lies Beneath featured in Thunderstone Quest: Back to the Dungeon coming to Kickstarter on July 17th at 9am Pacific!
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Card Preview #16 Ghoul Glutton
Ghoul Glutton is a card in Quest 6: What Lies Beneath featured in Thunderstone Quest: Back to the Dungeon coming to Kickstarter on July 17th at 9am Pacific!
Thunderstone Quest – Back to the Dungeon Swarms and Diseased Wounds
Swarms & Diseased Wounds
Thunderstone Quest 6: What Lies Beneath brings more to the game than just being a great story for Barricades Mode (Solo & CoOp play). It is also a full Quest with new goodies in it. Both of the goodies we are discussing today come from a new Monster Group: The Plague Rat Swarm.
(Mechanics not final)
Plague Rats have a keyword new to Thunderstone Quest, though familiar to the Thunderstone franchise: Swarm. Swarm Monsters are impossible to tell from each other, and you can never be sure how many of them there are. Thusly, the art for Swarm Monster groups, just like historic Thunderstone, will be indistinct from one another and, unlike historic Thunderstone, Swarm Monsters will get extra +1d6 rolls to their health, as noted on their cards. Swarm Monster abilities will sometimes relate to their die rolls as well. The impact this has is adding an unknown element to the game, making some of the battles less predictable than they otherwise would be. It also opens up more design space for interesting abilities that vary based on die rolls.
Plague Rats are more than just a swarm of vermin, they also bring with them Disease.
(Mechanics not final)
The Diseased Wound is a new wound card type added to Thunderstone Quest. Diseased Wounds combine with your Festering Wounds from the core game to form the Wound deck. Anytime a Wound card is needed, draw from this combined deck. Diseased Wounds bring a new hurdle for the players to overcome, as well as opening up more design space to expand the Wound deck beyond just Festering Wounds.
Diseased Wounds and Swarm Monsters are two of the new aspects in Thunderstone Quest 6: What Lies Beneath available for all modes of TSQ, but they are not the last ones. We have made sure to include lots of new material in here for both the new Barricades Mode, as well as for all modes of TSQ play, but we will wait to discuss them in future articles.
— Bryan Reese, Development Lead for Thunderstone Quest
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Card Preview #15 Ghoul Champion
Ghoul Champion is a card in Quest 6: What Lies Beneath featured in Thunderstone Quest: Back to the Dungeon coming to Kickstarter on July 17th at 9am Pacific!
The Yellow Meeple and how it Became a Sensation
During the Thunderstone Quest Kickstarter campaign, the Yellow Meeple became a token for demo purposes, since there were no minis available at the time. However, people loved it so much, they began creating more and more images that depicted the meeple running from monsters and completing quests from the game. At AEG, we strongly believe in having fun and enjoying every part of the creation process, so we’re always looking for ways to make what we do fun for us and for our customers. The calls to save the Yellow Meeple on forums made us laugh and made for an enjoyable part of the Thunderstone Quest Kickstarter campaign. We adopted him as our campaign mascot.
The #savetheyellowmeeple fan movement grew so much, the meeple was included in the box alongside the unlocked sculpted minis. And not only that, we created a set of hero cards that represent the yellow knight, to honor the Yellow Meeple and his contribution to the campaign. From the artwork you can see that the little fella seems to have grown up pretty well. Join us and the Yellow Meeple in the continuing adventure that is Thunderstone Quest!
Your friends at AEG
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Card Preview #14 Ghoul Scrounger
Ghoul Scrounger is a card in Quest 6: What Lies Beneath featured in Thunderstone Quest: Back to the Dungeon coming to Kickstarter on July 17th at 9am Pacific!
