Fortune and Glory: the Pharaoh's Scepter - board game

2-4 player, Pyramid themed adventure game.  approx 60 minutes.

Players assemble their teams and explore the pyramid as they compete to raise a mummy from the dead to gain access to his scepter and escape with it!  Explorers will search, fight, steal, get cursed, trip booby traps, fall into eternal abyss’, and combine relics as they try to escape the deadly mummy with the priceless artifact they’re all after, his scepter!

Main Mechanic:
Players roll 2 dice and divide the amount amongst their 3 explorers as they try to reach any of the 4 tombs.  Players each have special abilities that allow them to do different things in the game.  At certain points in the game, players need at least 4 explorers to work together in order for the game to continue.  Players may also choose to help other teams, and make trades.  They can also fight and bluff during trades and create enemies.



Game Bits:
Explorer Cards
Artifact cards
5 player pieces, in 4 colors (and ID cards)
mummy piece
4 completed artifact pieces pyramid game board with foldable wings

Here's a quick taste of some of the things that happen in the game as you are playing it.

Each player chooses 3 team member types to form his team.  They then roll the dice and make their way up the sides of the folded game board, into the top of the pyramid.  On their way up, if they land on one of the special spaces, they will win some extra equipment to help them in the game.

Once all players are inside the walls unfold to reveal pathways to 4 tombs in each of the boards corners.  On each of the players turns they will move which ever team member they wish as they attempt to orchestrate the best plan to get to the tombs, and avoid booby traps and encounters with other players.  Some characters have super speed so they move twice the dice roll, some hit extra hard if you get into a fight when sharing the same square on the board, and the dog team member is invulnerable to traps since he can sniff them out, to name a few.  

The players are in search of pieces of canopic jars.  there are 4 jars, each broken into 3 parts and scattered around the pyramid (they are found on "Artifact cards" along with mummy guts! ) But exploring a tomb lets you pick up 5 artifact cards, however it also releases one of 4 curses in the game,  that certain players must resolve in order to continue without losing too many life points.

As the game continues players will be collecting canopic jar parts and will eventually either trade them, or team up (like Monopoly) to get matching sets.  They players then need to stand on all 4 of the special spots on the board, and it will release the mummy.  At this time the mummy ID card comes out and his skills and health are adjusted by the players who get into fights with him.  Now's the time in the game where everyone strategizes again... do i try to fight the mummy, and take him out, get his scepter and make a run for it? If i do, i get full health, but then I'll be a target to everyone...  do i see if someone else will try, THEN take it from him, and then escape?  Should I form an alliance with another player so that we can both try to win? what if he double crosses me? 

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After playing this game a bunch it was a ton of fun each time, the play time went a little long, but people didn't mind, we really just ran out of time before we had to go back to work ;)  people really liked using the skills and equipment cards they found, and thought all the co-op moments in the game were set up well. (like needing 4 players to do something in order for the curse to be resolved, when one team only ever has a max of 3 players).