I'm going to name three things and I know for a fact you're going to love them all (no cheating by looking at the title of this news item (I'm definitely not scraping the barrel for intro ideas these days, honest)). Okay, here we go. Pirates! Yes, knew you'd love a bit of that. Who doesn’t? Pirates are literally the best people, even though they’d drown you for a couple o’ gold. Alright, next. Dragon! Look at you all light up! Dragons are literally the best animals/lizards/whatevers, even though they’d bite your head off for a handful of gold. Last one… Treasure! Oh yeah, we’d do anything to get treasure, we’d even take on pirates who’d drown us and dragons who’d chomp us. And what do you get when you combine all three? No, you don’t end up drowned and headless with gold-stuffed pockets. You get a mighty fine deck-builder…
Pirates Dragons Treasure (or PDT for short if you're too cool for school) is a fast-paced, light-hearted ship-building card game for 2-6 players. One-shot a dragon in as little as 20-30 minutes, or dive into campaigns and slay dragons all night long. Inspired by swashbuckling pirate legends, high-seas fantasy, and classic adventure tales, Pirates Dragons Treasure is set in a vibrant age of piracy where dragons roam, and fortunes are won and lost at sea. It’s a world of daring captains, heavily armed ships, and reckless gambles, where legendary beasts lust for the treasures that saturate the Cradle of Fortune.
It promises to be quick to learn, easy to play and a great opener at game night (you could easily incorporate this into a pirate themed evening with Sea Of Thieves, if you're a wise board gamer with style and taste). As the game unfolds, you'll navigate uncertainty and shifting strategies. You'll forge paper-thin alliances, cast curses and sabotage your opponents, and watch out for unexpected Omens that trigger table-wide twists.
The game features eleven unique dragons, each with their own strengths, weaknesses and effects. Learn their abilities and you'll be able to adapt your strategy to tip the scales in dragon combat. There's also eight unique captains, with their own deep backstories and personality. Choose your favourite, dependent upon your own playstyle. If you're going to have a hope aginst these damn dragons, you'll need to upgrade your vessel with countless combinations of crews and additional abilities for your ship.
I’m a bit of a sucker for a deck builder, and this one’s really caught me eye (aaarr). If, like me, you’re up for a war of scale against sail, then check Pirates Dragons Treasure out on Kickstarter, where its crowdfunding page invites you to take the plunge…
About the author:
Steve is currently a freelance board game blogger, but often dreams of life as a pirate, or as a ghost herder in the Lake District, or as an evil estate agent who sells haunted houses for his own dark pleasure. Instead of figuring out how to do these jobs in real life like a normal lunatic, he tries to write about them instead, and releases the resultant books upon the unsuspecting world via famous digital bookstores. More books are bound to follow. Find this peculiar entity here: www.instagram.com/positively.board
