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Beyond the Rift is live (Play your cards Beyond the Rift)

Update: Beyond the Rift: A Perdition's Mouth Card Game has launched on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 15 days. You may pledge for a copy of the game, or combine it with other previously released games by Dragon Dawn Productions.


Our preview post below was published on July 15.

 

Beyond the Rift: A Perdition's Mouth Card Game is a 1-4 player cooperative hand management game set in the universe of the Perdition's Mouth board game. You are playing as a group of heroes called upon to deal with the Orcs that have been harassing a village. It will launch on Kickstarter on July 19.

Image source: Meeple Eksyen blog

The game consists of a series of campaigns, each comprised of 3-5 scenarios. Each hero comes with their own special abilities, a deck of action cards, and a hero board on which you will be tracking their action points. At the start of each round, you will move the Threat token one space forward on its own track. You also set up the enemies you will have to face in your current scenario, with each of them showing different stats on their cards. Some scenarios include a deck of terrain cards that you have to go through in order to win. To engage an enemy, a hero has to spend the amount of points shown on the enemy card, and draw the enemy in front of them.


On a hero's turn, you will draw 7 cards (number of cards will differ depending on how many heroes you are playing with) from the hero deck. The cards have a range value at the top, a symbol that signifies whether they are for attack, defense or magic, and some of them feature a top and a bottom ability either of which you may choose to activate. To play a card, you pay the action points it requires and execute its action.


When enemies attack or defend, they draw a card from the Response deck that modifies their base stats, and, depending on the enemy type, they may wound you or make you draw a fatigue card that clogs your deck.

Image source: Meeple Eskyen blog

When a hero takes damage, you add a wound card to their deck, and if your hand ever only consists of wound cards, you lose the game. When an enemy takes damage, you draw a wound card and stack it underneath the enemy card thus modifying its stats. At the end of a hero's turn, you reset their action points and redraw 7 cards to start a new turn. If you happen to have cards left in your hand from the previous turn, you still draw 7 new ones and can choose which ones to keep.


If you choose to play double-handed, you can have the heroes assist each other by boosting their attacks or defenses, as long as they are within range. Over the course of the campaign, heroes can level up and acquire better cards in their deck, although they are bound to gain wound and fatigue cards too. As the Threat level advances, enemies and terrain cards multiply, making the game harder. You win if you manage to complete the scenario objectives.


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Zerbique
Zerbique
19 ביולי 2021

Yes, very tempting, very very tempting...


I guess since they will send through regular mail there won't be VAT? Anyway, from Germany to France, it should be okay!


And I must say, the price point feels good for once. There seems to be a decent amount of contents, and 49$, shipping included, feels a fair price, something I could pay in retail.


I'm in for now. With Hildegard and the Rat Queens it's going to be complicated, but yes, it seems quite worth it (it would beat Rat Queens easily if not for the IP).

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The Hank
The Hank
19 ביולי 2021

Couldn't resist: A Lonesome Gamer it will be...

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The Hank
The Hank
19 ביולי 2021

It will launch 20:21 UTC, so in about one-and-half our from writing this...

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Cadet Stimpy
Cadet Stimpy
19 ביולי 2021
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There it is! Off to a good start. Only goin' for 15 days. Why do KS Campaigns vary in length?

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JW
JW
19 ביולי 2021

I think I will back this game. Perdition's Mouth is a cool and different dungeon crawler, that was on Kickstarter around the time of the first edition of Gloomhaven. Yeah, and a little bit less successful. 😄


I'm curious what they did with the cardplay and will watch a video.

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Cadet Stimpy
Cadet Stimpy
24 ביולי 2021
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Hank, I hadn't heard of picanha, but it sounds yummy! Thanks for that info.

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Cadet Stimpy
Cadet Stimpy
16 ביולי 2021

Interestingly, I too, am 'accepting' the art a bit more, as I realize the fun gamin' potential. Shit, some talented person on BGG or ST might create a custom version that's stunning to look at, that's PnP.


Just for curiosity/fun, how do you say 'shit' in:

(The next 3 in alphabetical order)

Dutch?

French?

Greek?

and last but least, Canadian? 😄


P.S. We can only guess of the Baltimore version. Probably naughty. 😀

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Zerbique
Zerbique
17 ביולי 2021
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Wow, that's a thorough article on the matter for sure!


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