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From publisher blurb:
Not all dungeons feature the traditional setup of a monster-filled subterranean network of rooms and passages. Woodland groves, haunted houses, druid groves and more can all serve as an exciting backdrop to the PCs’ adventures. Such locations present their own set of unique design challenges, though, for the time-crunched GM plotting the next adventure.
This instalment of Alternate Dungeons presents loads of great details, hints and tips for a GM designing an adventure set in a druid’s grove or fey-infested forest. Designed to save a GM’s time while adding flavoursome details to bring the locale alive in the player’s minds, Alternate Dungeons: Mystic Ruins is an essential tool in any GM’s arsenal. Alternate Dungeons: Mystic Ruins presents:
Mystic Ruins: An Alternate Dungeon
Mystic Ruins: Dressing
Mystic Ruins: Denizens
Mystic Ruins: Traps & Hazards
Mystic Ruins: Adventure Hooks
- adds depth to the Squire for Hire system without bloating the core
- great for players who want a bit more puzzle-oriented play
- since it’s an expansion, some players may miss its context without the base game
- not as robust as full, dedicated dungeon crawlers
- gear management and dungeon exploration with a spatial/puzzle twist
- expansion to Squire for Hire and standalone possibility in the same line
- compact, modular dungeon exploration with a shared toolkit
- Squire for Hire
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- spatial/gear management — The expansion adds new spatial/card-based decisions affecting how you reveal and guard loot.
- standalone compatibility — While designed as an expansion, Mystic Ruins can be played as a standalone experience with its own setup.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This game is pretty cool.
- It's not very indepth.
- You're not going to spend hours on these games. You're going to spend a few minutes playing these games.
- I imagine that these kinds of very simple games ... are really good to unwind.
- This game is amazing. I've had so much fun playing this and I recently did buy one of the expansion packs.
- I wasn't aware that this game used AI art.
- AI art is something I didn't know about here, but I did verify it on the BGG page.