Ludonaute | Living Forest | Board Game | Ages 10+ | 2-4 Players | 40 Minutes Playing Time

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Or, you could add up the value of your water symbols. You can use this sum to extinguish Fire chits from inside the Circle of Spirits. Fire chits come in values 2/3/4. Let’s say for example there is a three 2s, two 3s, and one 4 Fire chit on the Circle of Spirits, and you have a sum of six water. You could choose to extinguish the 2 and the 4 (=6), the 2 and the 3 (=5), both 3s (=6), or all three 2s (=6). If you have a choice, you’ll take the highest quantity Fire chits (three 2s, rather than 2 and 4). Why? Because one of the victory conditions is to be the first to get 12 Fire chits! Build An Engine Out Of Trees As mentioned previously Living Forest: Kodama increases the required wining conditions to 13. BUT when all the Kodama of a particular type have been removed the winning condition of that particular spirit is increased to 15. This means if someone appears to be racing towards victory you can attract these Kodama to make the finishing post stretch off into the distance. Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame. Plant one and only one Protective Tree: Add up the amount of leaves and take one, and only one, Protective Tree for a total cost equal to or lower than your number of leaves. By placing a Protective Tree on specific corners you gain a specific extra Action. You can stop drawing cards whenever you want. However, if you reveal a card showing a third solitary symbol , then you must stop drawing cards. This card closes your Help Line.

In Living Forest, players play as one of the four Spirits of Nature, trying to become the Grand Protector of the Forest. The Four Spirits of Nature – Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn – have been called to rescue the Sacred Tree of the Forest facing the devastating flames of Onibi… Five new level 2 and five new level 3 Guardian cards have also been added. The level 2 guardians allow you to perform the same basic action twice, while the level 3 allow you to perform a basic action shown on the card in addition to your normal two actions. The cost of these guardians isn’t cheap – level 2 range from 6-10 and the level 3 from 11-15 – but the extra actions could be the difference between just falling short or sneaking over the magic 13 (or 15.) And… due to all this speculation about how to best win the game, I’ve been thinking about the game pretty constantly this week, and that doesn’t happen often. As a result, this is easily one of the more intriguing games for me this year, and one I still want to explore further. I will probably play this in person with my regular groups more, but it’s also available online at BGA if you want to try it there. In some ways, this game might play easier online as you’ll have the computer to count up your totals in the different areas as well as make sure that you’re not missing any bonuses from your trees or tree board (as we often miscounted things on our own in the FTF games). Kodama symbols can net you a (2Water/2Sun/2Tree) or (1Wind/1Flower) tile. Each of these tiles can only count as one of the listed element bonuses.By completing specific rows or columns you gain extra permanent bonuses on top of the permanent bonuses provided by the Protective Trees. You can take it into account for your second Action and in following Game turns. Protect the sacred tree, collect flowers, plant trees and extinguish fires – chose the best tactic for you, all with the help of the Guardian Animals.

The fact that I’m still thinking about how to best play the game and I’m looking for pieces to help the standees work better tells me that I’m planning to keep the game. And, in many ways, that is perhaps a great indication of what I think about it. Jonathan (5+ plays) : I really like this game, enough so that after a few plays on BGA, I went and bought a copy. I said ‘love it’ in this review because the game takes ~5-7 rounds and each round, each player takes two out of the five possible actions, but some of them chain, so you can move around the rondel which lets you get a tree, which lets you get some fire tokens. Although it is one action, that sequence lets you take three actions with one. It has enough choice each turn without out staying its welcome and has led to memorable moments and surprises, such as thinking you are winning and then realize your victory next turn will be a turn too late. You do need to pay attention to what the other players are doing, as there might be certain actions you want to avoid taking because they will set up an opponent. I did not feel there was too much take-that, which I dislike, but for those who don’t like it, I am confident a variant will be found. As an aside, I like the colors green and blue., so I found the game beautiful as well. Extinguish the fire – Use your water drop points to extinguish fire tiles that are on the circular spirit board. Turn them facedown next to your forest board You can keep drawing Guardian cards, but if you reveal 3 Guardians with “ solitary” symbols printed on them in a row, you must stop. A “gregarious” or “neutral” symbol will cancel out a solitary symbol. You can use any Lotus tiles you have acquired to discard a card just revealed with a solitary symbol card to enable you to keep drawing if you like.

You are a Nature Spirit and you have been appointed to save the forest and its Sacred Tree from the flames of Onibi.

You can keep drawing Guardian cards, but if you reveal 3 Guardians with ” solitary” symbols printed on them in a row, you must stop. A “gregarious” or “neutral” symbol will cancel out a solitary symbol. You can use any Lotus tiles you have acquired to discard a card just revealed with a solitary symbol card to enable you to keep drawing if you like. Draw Guardian Animals. If you draw 3 solitary symbols (top-left of the Guardian Animals cards) you cannot draw anymore (unless you've drawn gregarious symbols). You only get to use 1 standard Action (there are ways in the next phase to get bonus Actions). If you stop at a point where you have less then 3 solitary symbols, you get to use 2 standard different Actions. Solitary symbols can be canceled by gregarious symbols . So 3 solitary symbols - 1 gregarious symbol = 2 solitary symbols = 2 different standard Actions. The last way to win is by collecting 12 sacred flowers to awaken Sanki the great Guardian of the Forest. You collect these on animal cards and trees.