Petra Silie (thanks for pointing a mistake, Corylea), you have described
The Witcher Promo Card Game - it is smaller and simplier than Adventure Card Game. Here are some photos (sorry for very bad quality, my camera makes blured images) of those:
On the left:
Adventure Card GameOn the right:
Promo Card GameI'll try to translate some basic information from the instruction of the Adventure Card Game.-----
The game is intended for 2-4 players. Supposed time of the game is from 30 to 90 minutes. Elements of the game:
- 106 cards divided by type:
- Attacks (52)
- Monsters (20)
- Events (15)
- Locations (10)
- Characters (5)
- Geralt's cards
- 24 gold coins
- Witcher marker
- Pouch
- Instruction
- 4 cards with basic rules
Objective of the game:The task of the player is gaining gold (which can be used to rent Geralt - well, cards can be used too in the auction, but they have lower value) and the attack cards to defeat monsters. To carry out this task, you will use special skills of five heroes (Triss, Jaskier, Vesemir, Yarpen and Foltest - each one have a different skill)) and exceptional event cards (those can help you in the fight, support you with gold etc.) garnered during a game. The game ends at the end of round, in which one player beat his fourth monster. Then players are summing up their points of fame (after killing a monster, you gain those points - the more powerful monster, the more points you gain), the one with the highest number wins.
Each round consists of six phases:
- Choice of heroes
- Specia skills and actions (here players are using special skills of their character and doing two actions (take a coin or an attack card - that's one action)
- Bidding on the Geralt (Player must win the auction to fight with the help of Geralt with monsters. Players can bid with coins or cards)
- Fighting with monsters (each monster can be defeated only by using certain cobination of attack cards, you must gather those cards before the fight)
- Bidding on the Event card (it is an auction, like the earlier one. Player who wins gets Event card - those are sometimes extremely helpful)
- End of turn (Process is repeated until some player kills his 4th monster
There are many other important rules, but I don't want to copy entire instruction
. This game is pretty complicated, and it plays best with 3 or 4 players. It isn't very random, there is a need for some strategic thinking to win.-----I hope that I explained basics of the game to you. I'm sorry for rough translation, my english isn't very good.
We are very happy to inform you that “The Witcher” card game – already known to the Polish players – will soon be published in English and Spanish. The Spanish version will be available in August, and will be distributed by Gen X Games (http://www.genxgames.es). The card game in English will appear in autumn this year (during Spiel’09 in Essen, Germany). You will be able to buy it through the distribution network of Kuźnia Gier, which is the creator of the game. The list is available here and, as Kuźnia Gier promises, will soon be extended with new entries!
It’s worth mentioning that there are intensive talks being held about translating the game into another languages. More information soon.
