Red Raven Games Above and Below Card Game

Product Information

Place the 6 star house cards face up on the table in a row. Shuffle the 9 key house cards and draw 4 at random, placing them in a row, face up, below the star house cards. The remaining key house cards are placed in the box and are not used for this game. Place the coin tokens, good tokens, cider tokens, and potion tokens near the side. This is the supply. Place one cider token on the reputation board in the area with a cider symbol. Above and Below is a mashup of town-building and storytelling where you and up to three friends compete to build the best village above and below ground. In the game, you send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the cave, harvesting resources, and constructing houses. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how to best use them. You have your own personal village board, and you slide the villagers on this board to various areas to indicate that they've been given jobs to do. Will you send Hanna along on the expedition to the cave? Or should she instead spend her time teaching important skills to one of the young villagers? That being said, Above and Below is beautifully presented, the artwork has a dichotomy of light and dark, quirky and gloomy; the colour palette is vibrant for above and muted for below. The writing throughout the encounter book is excellent, sometimes funny, and sometimes very dark and the choices players are presented with are usually interesting if somewhat limited. Final Thoughts

Only a handful of people can uncover the truth about the horrors within the buildings’ walls, and that’s you! So, grab your most trusted team of investigators and get to work in revealing the truth about the so-called Mansions of Madness! Above and Below is a mashup of town-building and storytelling where you and up to three friends compete to build the best village above and below ground. In the game, you send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the cave, harvesting resources, and constructing houses. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how to best use them. You have your own personal village board, and you slide the villagers on this board to various areas to indicate that they've been given jobs to do. Will you send Hanna along on the expedition to the cave? Or should she instead spend her time teaching important skills to one of the young villagers? Will you take someone with you on the cave expedition? Or does your villager have skills better suited to another important job? Above and Below makes getting additional cash extremely difficult. You can take the Labor action to take one coin for each villager you exhaust on a turn, but that won’t pay the bills AND it uses up valuable resources used to take the game’s other actions. You could try to sell some of the goods you harvest to another player (this will net a minimum of three coins), but what if none of the other players bite? If playing with four players, place the two starting villagers that do not have a hammer symbol in the grass area with a moon symbol--the "exhausted area". (In the first round of play, each player will only be able to use one villager.

Game Play

After the Hunters have made their moves, Dracula is able to perform his own actions and put his nefarious schemes into action. Moving in secret, Dracula must avoid the Hunters and create an army of vampires to escape his fate. The card draw in Above and Below also left a lot to be desired. While there is an option to spend a coin to wipe a market row to see four new cards, money is so tight that burning even a single coin might leave you short when you want to buy one of the new cards. And you will sometimes find that after spending all of your money on a new outpost, another one hits that is even better, and even cheaper, than the one you just bought. That’s board games, not an Above and Below problem, but it’s still an issue worth calling out. Last Night on Earth is a collaborative horror board game that lets players take on the role of heroes and zombies in an epic fight for survival. Above And Below is a hybrid worker placement/ story-telling game for 2-4 players by Ryan Laukat. Each player is given their own player board, which they will add to with cards they acquire to create their village tableau. The player boards themselves show spaces for your worker tiles (active, exhausted and injured) as well as iconography for the actions you can take with each worker (explore, harvest, build, train and labour). The first player passes the first-player card to the player to his left, who places it face up in front of him. Start The Next Round

Taking turns, the heroes and zombies must try to meet these conditions and mark off their objectives in a battle for survival. But watch out – if a hero and zombie happen to land on the same square, they must battle to the death in combat that is controlled by six-sided dice. To Exert a villager, the player removes the villager from the cave card and places him or her in the injured area on his player board. Each exerted villager gives the player one extra lantern.Above and Belowis a mashup of town-building and storytelling where you and up to three friends compete to build the best village above and below ground. In the game, you send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the cave, harvesting resources, and constructing houses. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how to best use them. You have your own personal village board, and you slide the villagers on this board to various areas to indicate that they’ve been given jobs to do. Will you send Hanna along on the expedition to the cave? Or should she instead spend her time teaching important skills to one of the young villagers?

Hunters must work together to defeat Dracula and save the world from the Vampire threat. But if they fail to stop him, Dracula will be left to create a horde of blood-thirsty vampires and destroy humanity. First, the player slides one of his villagers from the ready area of his player board to the exhausted area of his player board. The villager must have a hammer symbol. Each worker tile has dice and lanterns depicted on it; the numerical value on each die is the number you must roll to acquire the number of lanterns shown below it. The “explore 7” condition is the number of lanterns needed to (in this case) successfully open the chest, when the player would gain rewards. You must declare which of the options you are rolling for as well as which worker and if you fail you either get nothing or if there is a lower lantern condition, gain the rewards for that.Below ground, you ask? Yep, the new village is built over a series of underground tunnels that require exploration. Even a shallow tunnel dive reveals promise—treasure, goods, and other surprises await. On a turn, players have to exhaust one or more of their villagers to take actions, and when seven rounds have been played, scores are tallied to determine which tribe is the greatest of them all. In Above and Below, each player will act as a survivor attempting to build their own village. With only a baby and a fishing pole, the players must attempt to build their village from the ground up, unless they decide to go under. The players discover that a cave system is present under their village, making it possible to go below the ground as well! SETUP COOPERATIVE GAME WITH HIGH VARIABILITY: Game features four campaigns of varying length and difficulty.The dynamics of this game make it an excellent choice for game night with friends and family, especially if they're fans of horror! The question is; can you build a thriving village above and a bountiful series of outposts below? Above and Below – The Game