“The king is dead! Long live the king! In Medievallons, players try to establish guilds to gain power. With three guilds you win this fast-paced game, where players have sabotage one another.
Amsterdam Board Game Design season 2
Are you familiar with Amsterdam Board Game Design? Amsterdam Board Game Design (or shorter: ABGD) is a group of international game designers and authors who come together in Amsterdam (or other cities) to work on games, or to test each other’s creations and provide constructive feedback. If you put all those brilliant game authors together and organize so much playfully, a brilliant game concept will eventually emerge. Or multiple. Maybe spread over several seasons? Maybe even 2 seasons!
During season 1, Bable, TimeZoo, and Grachtenpand was released.
On Kickstarter, you will soon find three new games designed by three different game authors who are part of ABGD: L’Oaf, Goblin Laundromat, and Medievallons.
Gameplay
Medievallons is simple to explain and set up. At the beginning of the game, each player receives a number of cards and then each player chooses an action to perform during their turn. Players can perform the following actions:
- Play a card: by discarding a card from your hand, you can use the special powers of the discarded card. Each card has unique powers that players use to influence the game. For example, powers to draw or steal cards.
- Play a guild: you can form a guild by playing three of the same type of cards from your hand in a row. These cards are now open on the table and therefore possibly in danger from other players, because as soon as there are fewer than three cards, the guild falls apart. You can have multiple guilds, even of the same card type.
- Activate a guild: by activating a guild, you can use the power of the card without having to discard a card.
- Expand a guild: this allows you to add cards to your guild. By choosing this action, you can also activate the power of the guild.
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As soon as you have three guilds, you win the game. Medievallons is simple, but due to the different powers of the cards, it contains enough interaction and variation, making the formation of three guilds not so simple… Deceptively entertaining.”
