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Kingsport Festival

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  1. Sleeved - 110 - Standard American - Green (FFS03) https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/164572/item/3600039#item3600039

  2. 7 out of 10

    This game is a good. My cons with the game are a few. Con #1: The components. This game is begging for a component upgrade. The dice are colored for each player but they are just regular wooden dice. The dice would have been much better if they were the Arkham Horror type custom dice. You signify control of an area by placing a disk of your color on the location. These disks should have been little cultist meeples or figures (like in Madness at Midnight or Fate of the Elder God or Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu, Defenders of the Realm). I know it would have raised the cost but I think the game immersion suffers slightly due to these omissions. Also, the resources for Death, Destruction and Evil are Black, Red, and Purple cubes. These should have been skull tokens, purple cthulhu tendril and token that shows flames. The game also had a very large foot print and take up a ton of table space. The greatest con of the game would be the fact that as you gain powers by accessing different locations you will need to memorize the different abilities. The game should have perhaps came with tokens that allow you to flip them to show that you used that power. Where the game shines is the art work of the Elder gods which is very nice and I like how they added some background on each God and investigator in the rule book and the back of the Elder god placard. The game has a ton of replay ability because each game the overall festival rule changes rules and which investigator you encounter is random and there is a random event for certain rounds that also change up the game. There are some really great choices on how you should proceed and I felt like the luck of the dice could be mitigated using cards. Overall this is a really good game. I can't compare it to Kingsburg because I have never played it. I can say that the theme of this is clearly darker than Kingsburg. I only played this game with 2 players (played 5 times) and I imagine it is even more tense with 4 or 5 players since you can block each other out of certain locations.

  3. 7 out of 10

    Nice art but looks a bit messy due to the many parts. If dice rolls don't vary the game doesn't either, outstaying its welcome.

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That flaming column was spouting volcanically. The combustion does not lay warmth, but only the clamminess of death and corruption. – The Festival, H.P. Lovecraft, 1923

In the unimaginable darkness of Kingsport, silent wanderers are called to a profane celebration. Their goal: to invoke unthinkable horrors! A dread terror that is not of this world or any other — but rather from the spaces between the stars — demands your submission. Meanwhile, unwary investigators vainly attempt to halt this appalling chapter in the dark history of Arkham.

As the high priest of one of these shadowy cults, you must dominate the city. You will invoke cosmic creatures and unholy gods to receive their "gifts", but you must take care to preserve your sanity and thwart the investigators who seek to stop you. This time, you are the bad guys. Why settle for the lesser evil?

Kingsport Festival, a game of bizarre cults set in the terrifying world of Howard Philips Lovecraft, lasts 12 rounds, each divided into six phases. All Cultists roll their dice and the one that rolled the lowest sum will play first and so on, then (in turn order) each one may invoke an Elder God by using one or more of his dice, where the sum of their values is exactly equal to the number of the Elder God, or pass. Once all the dice are placed or players have passed, in ascending order, the Elder Gods give their gifts to the Cultists who invoked them: the Cultists may have to lose Sanity points to receive the rewards. After Cultists have taken their dice back, in turn order each one may place his disk on one Building that is connected to another one he has already marked (starting from the House). To do so, he must pay the Domain resources required.

In turns marked with a blue marker on the Calendar, a Raid takes place: first the Event card and then the Investigator card is revealed. Each Cultist calculates his Strength by adding up any modifiers he has due to Spells, Buildings, and other game effects (such as Events, Scenarios, etc.). If his strength is greater, the Cultist receives rewards; if is less, he suffers the penalty.

The game ends after the twelfth round is played. If the Scenario has a Festival card, it is revealed and its effects resolved at this time.
The Cultist who has the most Cult points is the winner.

Ages

12+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players
Play Time

90m
Designer

Andrea Chiarvesio, Gianluca Santopietro
Mechanics

Dice Rolling, Worker Placement
Theme

Dice, Novel-based, Fantasy, Horror
Publisher

Black Monk, Devir, Hobby Japan, KOSMOS, Passport Game Studios, Sir Chester Cobblepot, Stratelibri, Giochi Uniti, Hobby World, IELLO
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