Thu, Oct 10
|The Boardroom
Learn Spirit Island with Jared
Time & Location
Oct 10, 2024, 6:00 PM
The Boardroom, 3 Mill St, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
About the event
Come learn Spirit Island with Jared. Spirit Island is a cooperative, settler-destruction strategy game for 1 to 4 players designed by R. Eric Reuss and set in an alternate-history world. Players are different spirits of the land, each with its own unique elemental powers. The Invaders expand across the island map in a semi-predictable fashion. The game escalates as it progresses: spirits spread their presence to new parts of the island and seek out new and more potent powers, while the Invaders step up their colonization efforts. Each turn represents 1-3 years of alternate-history. At game start, winning requires destroying every last settlement and city on the board - but as you frighten the Invaders more and more, victory becomes easier: they'll run away even if some number of settlements or cities remain. Defeat comes if any spirit is destroyed, if the island is overrun by blight, or if the…