Beast

Welcome to the Northern Expanse, a place where nature is still unexplored, mystical, and dangerous. When the humans first arrived, they thought they found an unspoiled paradise, filled with bountiful forests, lakes swimming with fish, and cold freshwater flowing from the mountains. But as their settlements expanded and the surrounding forests grew thinner, nature itself pushed back. Great creatures known as s emerged, and with their fangs, claws, and mystical powers, they proved an incredible threat to the humans. To protect the settlements, humans enlisted specialised hunters, tasked with tracking and killing the s before too many of their kin perished.

MECHANICS:

The uses a deck of direction cards to move over forests, swamps, and caverns, using guile and deceit to hide its track from the hunters. However, whenever a hunter moves over a location where the has previously been, a trail appears. Only when a hunter searches a location or the itself attacks an unsuspecting target, is the 's actual position revealed. More so, each hunter has but one chance of searching each round, making it a tense and difficult decision. Hunters seldom have full information on whether the trail they’re pursuing contains the ’s actual location, or if the trail has already gone cold.

Each action you perform in this game is done by playing a card from your hand (up to a maximum of two cards per turn). This means that if a player wants to search, attack, or move, they need to have a card in their hand that lets them do that. Before each round, both hunters and the participate in a draft for the most important cards. All action cards can be used by both and hunters alike.

To win this game, you either need to cooperate every step of the way if you play as a hunter, or skillfully outmaneuver your opponents if you play as. On their own, hunters are never stronger than the. Only when hunters communicate, strategise and combine their actions can they bring down the before it’s too late.