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In the Valley of the Serpent Kings Adventure Set, players take on the role of a group of Spanish Conquistadors, exploring the dark halls and stone ramparts of a Spanish Fort that has fallen into Darkness, overrun by demons and creatures.
As a Team of Conquistador Heroes, you can play as the fearless El Capitan, leading his men with boundless ambition, the classic Explorer, guiding the expedition through the jungle swamps, the armored Soldier, a front line fighter armed with a heavy crossbow to skewer all but the toughest of Enemies, or the agile and deadly Duelist, fencing with twin blades and blurring the line between dance and death.
New Enemies include Drowned Dead, lost explorers that rise up from the watery depths to take their revenge on the living, Serpentmen Archers, keeping their distance to fire a deadly volley of Dark Stone arrows at the Heroes, Temple Guard, a new breed of brutish Serpentmen that defend the temples of the Serpent Kings with savage ferosity, and the mighty Croxin Beast, a massive reptilian creature unleashed by the Serpentmen as a beast of war!
This set also features brand new material for the Swamps of Jargono OtherWorld (first introduced in the Swamps of Death Core Set), a murky jungle swamp filled with giant insects, carnivorous plants, and vicious Serpentmen. The Heroes will explore a new region of Jargono - the Valley of the Serpent Kings, with new Map Tiles, Encounters, Artifacts, World abilities, and Enemies to battle, letting you explore the Swamps for the first time, or expanding your existing collection.
Includes everything you need to play a group of Conquistador Heroes and explore the Valley of the Serpent Kings in Jargono, or adventure in the Spanish Forts on Earth: 4 Conquistador Heroes, 6 Drowned Dead miniature, 6 Serpentmen Archer miniatures, 3 large Temple Guard miniatures, 1 Croxin Beast XL miniature, 3 Conquistador Footmen Ally miniatures, and 6 Carnivorous Plant miniatures with bases; plus dice, map tiles, cards, rulebook and reference sheets.
—description from the publisher
- Fast-paced
- Cooperative
- Dungeon crawl
- Mixes horror
- Robust campaign system
- Character progression
- Cooperative dungeon crawl mixed with unspeakable horror, fighting demonic shadows and serpent men.
- Age of Exploration, deep jungles and dark halls of abandoned Spanish forts
- Eight part narrative story
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Character progression — Characters can earn experience and go up in levels, gaining new abilities.
- cooperative play — A cooperative dungeon crawl board game.
- Dungeon Crawl — Core gameplay involves exploring dungeons.
- Narrative Campaign — Includes an eight-part narrative story and a campaign system.
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