The tabletop roleplaying game for people who love board games
A Thousand Faces of Adventure
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A Thousand Faces of Adventure Is a Narrative Board Game......about gathering at a table with your friends and creating an improvisational story, where one of you plays the GM, who has narrative authority over the world and events, and the rest of you play characters being challenged by and exploring this world, even creating parts of it! The players' goal is to build their characters from scrappy adventurers into heroes with the courage to trigger world-saving change, while the GM earns points by walking the story through each step of The Hero's Journey. |
A Role-Playing Game That's a Board Game
A Board Game That's a Role-Playing Game
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- A Thousand Faces of Adventure takes the deck-building and set-collection mechanisms of modern board games like Gloomhaven and marries them with the innovation blossoming in indie role-playing games like Fate and Dungeon World.
- Are you a fan of RPGs and your friends are all board gamers? Looking for the right RPG to introduce them to the world of play-to-find-out-what-happens? A Thousand Faces of Adventure was designed for you.
- When new players sit down to play, there's no hundred-page tome they're expected to navigate, just familiar-looking board game components. The GM can walk the players through a well-tested ten-step process that creates the characters and their world in 45 minutes.
- Furthermore, all the math is baked-in. The probability curves are carefully designed and distributed into a 20-card deck, so players only need to flip a card and see the result on the face.
What does it play like?
A Thousand Faces of Adventure is a game about a party of fate-tempting adventurers becoming champions of their own Hero's Journey, in the dangerous kingdoms of a swords-and-magic fantasy realm. There are castle infiltrations, earthshaking discoveries, monster battles, sinful indulgences, secret loyalties, promises, paybacks, and deaths.
Unlike other swords & sorcery role-playing games, it...
...challenges players to master its system not by reading hundreds of pages, but by exploring its board game dynamics
...softens the learning curve by splitting the rules across 3 sessions
...uses blanks as a design element to let players know where they have full control
...encourages improvisation by specifically instructing the GM to ask questions of players
...reduces player components down to just a deck of cards and some tokens
What's Role-playing?
- Like a board game, a role-playing game is played by sitting around a table with your friends. But, as a role-playing game, A Thousand Faces of Adventure is a little different.
- It's asymmetrical. One friend plays the "GM" role and is playing with different rules from the others
- The action takes place in a shared, imagined world. It's like collaborative group storytelling
- Like a "legacy" board game, the state of the game changes by playing it. Players change their characters from one session to the next, and the entire fantasy world changes too
- The story and challenges are improvised! A Thousand Faces of Adventure lays out a series of milestones and prompts, but you need to play to find out the details of what happens