Wanderers
Wanderers was a personal project started in Autumn 2022 to create a board game that allows the player to play the game how they want. The game consists of board pieces, character cards, creature cards, item cards, player stands, and various types of coins.
Concept
“Welcome to the land of Eorobus, A world of vast biomes and unusual creatures. Though unfamiliar to this land you all somehow ended up here, drawn here.”
Traverse the new territory on your own or with friends. Collect items and travel tokens along the way to help your adventure. Learn the lore and meet new weird beings or kill them. Based on rounds, the rules of who wins is up to you, work together or screw over your teammates as you all explore this strange new world.
Board
The board expands as you play through the game. There are five different biomes to explore: the caves, the beach, the forests, the mountains, and the desert. Each tile has a different look, and some contain a random encounter action and/or a creature encounter action. These can be activated by a player point that will cause you to draw a creature card or item card/token card.
Playing Cards
The cards can dictate how you play the game, they are crucial to the expansion and experience. There are various types of cards, but they can be divided into two main categories. There are creature cards, which can be drawn during a creature encounter. You can choose to either befriend or kill. Befriending a creature means finding out what a creature wants, and if you have the item, giving it to them. Usually in return they will give you a travel token. If you choose to kill them however, the creature has a certain attack and a health bar. Depending on the perk of your character, there is a type weakness and type the creature is strong against so you need to have strategy in order to kill them. After defeating them, you can draw a item card and receive a various “prize”
The other type of card which was previously mentioned is the item cards. these cards were designed to have various different items. In the top right corner has the types of items; items that can give you currency, health items, and travel token cards.
Additional Pieces and Cards
Apart from the playing cards, Character cards are the playable characters of the game. Taking on a similar design to the creature cards, these characters have an additional backstory that gives them special perks. For instance, Chris is quiet and anxious, due to this she is very hesitant to explore new areas, so she only has two action points instead of three. These action points are crucial to initiating an encounter, an attack, giving an item, turning in a card for a reward, adding a new board tile, and even moving to another tile itself. However, because she has an affinity to magic, her attacks have an additional type attack and she is strong to enemies with a magic perk.
Character cards also correspond with a character stand which shows your players location on the board.
Additionally, there are also travel tokens. Travel tokens allow you to unlock more to the map. When played you might have a tile that has been revealed, but without the corresponding token you cannot travel to that biome. For example, a token could have a lantern depicted on it, this token can unlock any cave pieces that have been revealed to the player that possesses it. Tokens can be obtained by giving an item to a creature, or through luck by drawing an item card.
ideation