Knossus - hunt that minotaur through the dungeon! (ready for playtest)

first draft of cards is *almost* ready for a print run.... just waiting for a few more illustrations

the prototype magnetic board works great - generated a maze for tonight's playtest and transporting the pieces in place on the board!

Rules and PnP have been updated to reflect the latest changes - here:
PnP Link

Changes:
Board has been overhauled to add 3 more entrances. This should reduce the effective size of the board, reducing frustration on death and speeding the game up

Number of cards per hand has been reduced to 4 to better balance the moves between player and monster when players are higher numbers and players are eliminated

Additional item added - the Aegis of Hera - this allows you to summon items regardless of where they are, or who owns them

Now 7 male and 7 female heroes (for PnP these should be sleeved back to back to allow a choice of either gender. Note only 7 heroes/communal lives in total

I've rewritten the rulebook to streamline a bit and make it easier to read (and to help me teach!)

all comments appreciated (they are enabled in the doc):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jmPE6AFS_D1Lc8m9cJRmGH0gBXQqIj5luze_...

did a couple of runs through of Knossus last night with a 3 player group and it ran well. Latest iterations of the board and additional rules make the game much faster and action packed. Game is now averaging around 30 mins which is spot on.

At the moment the start of the game is solid - immediate action and threat from the minotaur means its fast off the mark.

Middle of the game feels tight now with the race for the relics and putting them into play - some deaths around this point as you get caught out/can't avoid the beast bearing down on you!

End of game is ok but I think can be improved - previously it has lagged a bit here and I want to keep the pace up. So - I've added the Soul cards which essentially allow much more flexibility the more heroes die. This will be tested next....

If this works well, I'm going to tidy up the main board and then create a better PnP version. (incidentally I am using a very cheap printer in the UK - doxdirect.com so if anyone does want to PnP and wants the A3 files for the board, just let me know and I can add them to the Google folder. Print costs about £3-4)

haven't posted in a while so overdue an update!

currently prepping for UKGE and aiming to have a first print prototype there to get some solid playtesting done.

board has been redone a couple of times tweaking for play (took it right down and now edged it slightly larger to balance some of the game play). Cards have all been improved (again) - going to print shortly

quick update - we got our first proper prototypes through this week

now ready to meet publishers and start blind testing

don't bother with them - its changed a lot since then and I foolishly entered it into a competition on BGG which meant I wasn't allowed to change them. (its had a *lot* of playtesting since then!)

As soon as they've announced the results, I'll make a new version and post here.