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2025
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Description
Geomandering is a solo, dueling or multiplayer dice-drafting game of magical mischief and territorial manipulation. As rival wizards, players reshape the political landscape of Terralithia by conjuring rivers, founding cities, and burning areas asunder for maximum influence. Each turn, players draft dice to expand their control on the shared map or power up spells and abilities on their personal Tome Tableau. With strategic use of elemental reagents, forbidden powers, and the occasional lava fissure, only one geomancer will dominate the redrawn realm—by any means magical or morally dubious.
—description from the publisher
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DaniCha Rules Teach at 0:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Competitive nature
- Strategic depth in region creation and influence placement
- Engaging spell casting system
- Thematic resource collection
- Different maps offer varied strategic opportunities
Cons
- Tower construction must be completed to count influence, or the game is lost
- The game can be tight, especially on certain maps
- Running out of space for peasant influence leads to discontent
Thematic elements
- Gaining influence in regions of a map.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area influence — Players place markers to show influence in different regions and towns on the map.
- Dice Drafting — Players draft dice from a common pool to perform actions.
- Resource Management — Gems are collected and spent to cast spells.
- roll-and-write — The core gameplay involves rolling dice and writing or marking influence on a map.
- Set Collection — Players collect resources like spore berry caps, ripple droughts, and ignous pawn beetles to cast spells.
- Spell Casting — Players can cast spells like 'incinerate' to destroy population areas or 'carve river' to create new regions.
- tower construction — Players draw shapes into a tower area, which has specific requirements and can lead to penalties if not completed.
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- This will show you kind of how the game plays.
- basically, this is a roll in, right? And you're trying to gain as much influence as you can in as many regions as you can uh in this map.
- So, it's going to be a a pretty competitive game with your um your your peasants. So, whoever has the most influence I in the game will win.
- Sixes will be wild in almost all cases I believe.
- So, I think I could spend a Thunderbird feather to do another river.
- It's a tight game, especially on this map.
- Thank you so much to the designer for um sending me the PNP files to preview this game for you guys.
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TheGameBoyGeek - Hi Quality Hi Energy Board Game Reviews Rules Teach at 0:15 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- The base game is available for free download.
- The game offers a lot of different maps and modes of play.
- The complexity of spell levels provides strategic depth.
- Carving rivers is a crucial and interesting part of the game.
Cons
- Drawing a river incorrectly or illegally results in losing the game.
Thematic elements
- reshaping the political landscape
- magical world
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area influence — Players gain influence in different areas of the map to score points.
- Dice Drafting — Players draft dice from a common pool to take actions.
- Map Subdividing — Spells like creating rivers or charring areas can subdivide the map into smaller regions.
- Route Building — Rivers are carved across the map starting from mountains and extending to the edge.
- Set Collection — Collecting specific dice combinations allows players to level up their spells.
- tile laying — Players draw shapes representing parts of their tower onto their player board.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Geomandering is a dice drafting game of magical mischief and territorial manipulation.
- This is a crowdfunding preview, so anything you see here is subject to change.
- The base game... is available for a free download if you go to the campaign page in the link below, and you can download and play that for free.
- Drawing a river or carving a river is one of the most important parts of the game. It's also the most dangerous too because this is a shared map and typically you're drawing this with pens. So if you create a river and you did it incorrectly or you did it illegally, you lose the game.
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