The time has come for the selection of a new Chancellor at Argent University of Magic, and you are among the likely candidates for the job. Gather your apprentices, ready your spellbook, and build your influence, while secretly discovering and competing over the votes of a limited Consortium of influential board members. Only the one who is able to fulfill the most criteria will claim the title of most influential mage in the World of Indines!
Argent: The Consortium is a cutthroat worker-placement/engine-building game of manipulation and secrecy in which the criteria for victory are secret and the capabilities of your opponents are constantly changing. You'll need to outwit the other candidates, use your spells at the right moment, and choose the correct apprentices to manage your plan.
Argent: The Consortium is a European-style game that minimizes luck and focuses on player interaction and strong core mechanisms that allow new strategies to emerge each time you play.
The designer keeps an updated Official Errata/Typo/FAQ thread on BGG.
- Beautiful mess of a game with tons of content and variety
- Every game feels completely unique
- Fun to teach due to new spells constantly breaking the game
- Secret end-game judge criteria allow for hidden strategy
- Players can peek at scoring criteria throughout the game
- Creates new strategic opportunities to deduce opponent goals
- Memory-intensive with many different scoring goals
- Hectic and chaotic gameplay
- Can be a bit mean
- anime magic school
- Harry Potter-like setting
- academic competition
- spell research
- influence building
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- Kim is a little new to gaming... I've been in the business for maybe a couple decades... he's ancient he was around before the first board game was ever created
- The reason for that is if you check forums a lot of people will talk about how they don't like the semi-cooperative nature of the game
- I wish he was wrong but okay in my justification if you're playing a board game it's a physical tactile thing
- I have a lot of friends where English is not their first language... with this kind of game being abstract there are no there's no cards to read there's no complicated rule
- Argent is one of the most beautiful mess of the games imaginable
- If you've never seen this game before it is the cutest thing ever ever
- It's been my favorite game forever... I wouldn't bust this down if my family came over
- Every time I feel like playing a board game it feels like there's a part of me that's just like okay I should play Arc Nova again
- I really like when theme matches the mechanics