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Call to Adventure: Epic Origins

Game ID: GID0057778
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Description

In this hero-crafting card game, 1-4 players compete to earn the highest Destiny score while cooperating to defeat the Adversary. Like the original Call To Adventure, Epic Origins is a tableau-building game where players draft cards, cast runes, and overcome challenges to score victory points.

For players familiar with Call To Adventure game system, Epic Origins introduces a high fantasy theme inspired by classic dungeon-crawling RPGs. The new Heritage card type provides options like Elf, Halfling, and Dwarf. Class cards allow you to invest Experience to "level up" your character. High fantasy themes and challenges can be found throughout the game's 150+ unique cards.

This game also features overhauled Solo and Co-Op play. Double-sided Adversaries provide an evolving challenge: face a lower-level Adversary at the end of Act II, then the Final Adversary at the end of Act III. In Campaign Mode, players can unlock new cards by defeating each new Adversary. The game incorporates more rewards for cooperative play while still incentivizing individual achievement.

While points decide the winner of the game, Call To Adventure encourages storytelling at the end of the game. Epic Origins also includes a guide for converting your final tableau into a 5th Edition D&D character.

—description from the publisher

Year Published
2022
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positive
Pros
  • Card building creates character stories
  • Beautiful illustrations (150+)
  • Competitive team play with destiny scoring
  • Creates compelling backstories
  • Fantasy RPG feel
  • On Kickstarter until December 2nd
  • Coming to stores summer 2022
  • Ability rooms work like dice
  • Great for D&D character creation
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none
Thematic elements
  • fantasy
  • character creation
  • storytelling
  • RPG elements
  • destiny
Comparison games
  • Dungeons and Dragons
  • Call to Adventure (original)
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  • games don't walk up out of this house it's their favorite they don't they don't go nowhere
  • i tell everybody get the expansion too
  • terra mystica is one of my favorites of my favorite fantasy games
  • i love gloom haven even though i like saying gloom haven but i still i love it
  • the artwork although it's scary it's it's beautiful absolutely beautiful
  • that's the way to play that yeah you can play it at any time
  • freedom for the dwarves freedom
  • that's fantasy and i agree with that's fantasy
  • family i love fantasy games i love fantasy games
  • those are our recommendations on our list yeah what fantasy games we like
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