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Bristol 1350 Board Game of Strategy, Deceit, and Luck for 1-9 Players

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They graciously took the time to playtest some of my first designs, and I got the chance to try their latest prototype. The Alms expansion brings a new element to the game with coins that can confer immunity or instant infection from the plague. In fact, for me, this is what helps the game along, since it’s not even social deduction, it’s mathematical suspicion. Ghost player rules are simple to understand, and involve rolling specific dice on their turns, and moving, if any apple is rolled. One thing my group had a slight problem with was identifying the color of the character card and which pawn it matched up with.

To put it another way, Bristol 1350 is a terrible social deduction game — and a real zinger of a party game. One nice touch that Facade Games brought to Bristol 1350 is multiple ways of extending and changing the game to enhance replayability.On the design side of things, I applaud Facade Games for doing something original with the bookshelf look of their games.

The whole packaging conceit is lovely though, it has me tempted to complete the set-especially if they're as well realised as this one. Domestika on using python to do generative art and then realized the whole thing was in Portugese with subtitles.But before the pandemic, I only had one monthly group that would be interested in social deduction games, and the hosts had their first kid last year.

This, combined with the terrific art and graphic design, makes the game something you can be proud to display. A precarious position, as anyone who’s sat down at a table with someone who games their games can attest. Yeah, you can lose arms and legs, there are spinning floor blades and pit traps, lootable containers on the board. Their aim is to be amongst the first to flee the accursed town, but even then can they truly be sure that all among their number remain untainted?Those in possession of the deluxe edition of the game also received a cloth bag filled with six copper alms- one of which houses a cure, one a plague, and the remainder red herrings to sow suspicion as their recipient doles them out to the other players, splintering alliances and casting aspersions with every gilded handful.

In Battlestar Galactica, Dead of Winter, and Dark Moon, a crisis check might fail through no fault of the players. Here, instead of possibly outing somebody as a traitor, players run the risk of being transformed into baddies. The best strategy (the one I find works) is to find likely plagued and healthy (via math) and manipulate their moves WITH YOUR OWN, or by talking to them. All the information you need to do the same yourself is included at their site, for those folks with a lot more time and ambition than I have!

Likewise, the tension of navigating and escaping Bristol healthy and unharmed is a roller coaster of a journey. In reality, it's a selfish scramble to get yourself out of town as quickly as possible without the plague, by any means necessary. The Chicken remedy comes into play if you reroll dice on your turn, and aren’t happy with the result.

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