Plaid Hat Games Mice and Mystics Board Game, Red

Product Information

Laying the board out and seeing all the figures really does give the idea that Honey, I Shrunk The Kids has met Robin Hood. Unlike other dungeon crawlers, you can’t simply crawl to another tile if the battle is starting to go against you, as the the rules require a complete clean up before you can move on. Players roleplay the cunning field mice who must race through a castle now twenty times larger than before. The game has been praised for its original theme, with player's characters using buttons and needles instead of shields and swords, and fighting rat warriors and cats instead of goblins and dragons.

Mice and Mystics is a fantasy-themed dungeon crawling cooperative board game designed by Jerry Hawthorne and published by Plaid Hat Games in 2012. Unless you’re very careful, expect to see some wear pretty quickly unless you sleeve all of the cards. Mystic Blast - 2 - You may use this ability instead of performing a normal battle action with this mouse. In Mice and Mystics players take on the roles of those still loyal to the king – but to escape the clutches of Vanestra, they have been turned into mice! Each game presents a new chapter in the story driven campaign that has the players battling rats, cockroaches and spiders.While on the Meeps marker, that minion rolls 1 less die when defending against an attack from any mouse. For those of you out there wondering if Mice and Mystics could be a replacement for Gloomhaven, it is this reviewer’s opinion that no, no it could not. The most immediate con that I had for Mice and Mystics was that I felt like I was constantly running into rule ambiguities. Mice and Mystics tries to be inventive in its approach to standard dungeon crawling fare and, in terms of presentation, it's a charming success.

The encounter that the mice will face is based on which page space the hourglass marker is on when the encounter is triggered. One player got understandably frustrated as halfway through the game she had only drawn items she couldn’t use. I think that the campaign nature of the game is well done, but I found the actual gameplay grew stale for me too quickly, so I will probably move away from the game without bothering to complete the campaign. Included are over 30 custom miniatures (mice, rats, roaches, centipedes and spiders), 8 beautifully illustrated room tiles (double sided), a number of decks of cards and a set of custom dice. In fact, maybe the design was a little bit too safe, and if some risks were taken with combat mechanic, the game could be more exciting.There are various things that "advance the timer," like having mice captured and having the minions collect too much cheese. This isn’t a “miniatures game,” but the Mice and Mystics miniatures are top quality and rival those found in more traditional miniatures games. This is because my boyfriend has a lot of nostalgia for stories like Watership Down , and this is one of the few games that he gets excited to play with me. The face of the clock is used to show wedges of a round cheese that once the sections are completed, will trigger an additional spawn of unwanted creatures. If there is a scamp in the party, remove 2 cheese from this mouse's stash unless this mouse is the scamp.

There is a reason some games stick around for a while and it is easy to see why people love and have fond memories of this one.After a small break to let life get in the way, he dusted off his love of cardboard and now not only plays, but talks to people about it on the second best boardgame podcast, We're not Wizards. Open rules create the feeling that the player is not playing the game correctly, and this leads to an overall feeling of dissatisfaction. Needle Rapier (Sharp/Melee, +1 Melee, When rolling defense, this mouse may spend 1 to add 1 def die. It’s always great when family games are easy to learn and teach, and that is definitely the case with Mice and Mystics.

Plus, turns are very quick for the most part so players can focus more on the story playing out in front of them rather than getting stuck in fiddly gameplay. Everything is done very professionally with this company and always lets you know every step of the process. Just FYI: the new aspects to Zoo Vadis (unique powers and peacocks) were added in (bolted on) by the good doctor himself. Slow - Choose a minion card, all figures of that card cannot move or attack until this mouse's next turn.This time you might have a different encounter card with rats instead of cockroaches, or maybe you’ll luck out this time and every tile you enter has one treasure after another.