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Ancient secrets, sandblasted ruins, and unprecedented horrors await in Under the Pyramids! This side board expansion opens up six new locations throught Egypt, including bustling Cairo, ancient Tel El-Amarna, and the shining, snaking, Nile River.
Casper Jansen
Be preparred for a game oozing with theme! What I really like is the accessability of the side board. Comparred with the Arctic side board, the pyramid side board is very easy to go to and from. The ancient ones are pretty cool as well. Nephren-Ka makes a lot of atmosphere and Abhoth is very different with the cultist encounter cards. Furthermore the investigators of this expansions are to die for! Some of the best yet! Note one thing, though: This expansion does NOT include the focus tokens. "Instead" you get impairment tokens, a sort of negative improvement tokens that downgrade your skills giving you fever dice to roll. You usually get these from failing tests. These can really be a pain in the neck, though they make thematic sense. I will recommend this over Mountains of Madness as the side board is a lot easier to travel to and from. It makes it more fun. Great expansion! So far I will recommend the big box expansions in the following order: The Dreamlands Under the Pyramids Mountains of Madness
autothrall
Some tight new Old Ones to fight, and a structure pretty similar to Mountains of Madness, the previous larger box expansion. A side board if you're playing 'Under the Pyramids' itself, new Encounter decks for that, and then a pile of cards, monster tokens, and other things to just mix in with the rest and really flesh out the game that much more. There is also an Adventure deck for Under the Pyramids. Only new mechanic here really is 'Impairment' tokens, which are the opposite of 'Improvement' tokens and brought on by various Curses, etc. 8 new Investigators bring the total to 32. Damn.
Colour wolf
The game takes long enough to set up / tear down without adding additional boards. I like to play with the extra cards of course and one of the Ancient Ones is great to play with. Occasionally worth playing with the extra board for a bit of variety.