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Maus und Mystik

Geschichten aus dem Dunkelwald

Using team spirit, courage and look, mouse adventurers pick their way through the interactive chapters of the story, with varying rules. A mouse can move, make an action and do Free Actions once per round. Movement, attack etc. are decided by dice roll; in many situations, cards of different kinds come into play.

In Downwood Tales the mice must leave their old oak, home of their town, because the tree is dying and the mice need to find a new home in Downwood.

This second expansion for Mice & Mystic is a campaign expansion with intense dynamics and special rules for Searching, Support, Special Set-Up, Rules, Narrative Sections, Optional Side Events and Night. New campaign rules include new negative effects - Fire and Cursed; groups can comprise more than four mice and there are three new heroes, Ditty the Shrew, an amiable and cute female rascal, Mouse Guardian Ansel, a selfless protector of the Needy, Weak or Feeble, and Jakobe, the Clever Gecko who is an intimate initiate to Downwood. In relation to the rules the two non-mouse characters are considered to be Honorary Mice.

Pets, Allies and Residents are also featured in the campaign rules for the game. Especially challenging and thrilling are effects caused by branches and leaves; mice can now climb and drift downwards again on leaves or use them for boats. And then there is rain, or Pesky Bees, Flight, a snake that is difficult to cope with, and, and, and ....

Attractive, with a dense atmosphere, lots of variety and lots to do; the new town and the non-player characters are especially challenging in this well-made, nice continuation of the mice’s adventures.

Players: 1-4

Age: 7+

Time: 90+

Designer: Jerry Hawthorne

Artist: John Ariosa, Chad Hoverter, David Richards, Sabine Machaczek

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2015

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Fantasy, adventure

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Campaign expansion

Can be combined with Heart of Glorm

Needs core game to play

Compares to:

Core game of Maus und Mystik, other fantasy adventure games

Other editions:

Plaid Hat (en), Raven Distribution (it), Filosofia Éditions (fr)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0