The Relic Retriever

Endrbyt is a relic retriever who scours the land for dangerous or valuable treasures and stores them away in the Imperial Reliquary to protect the people of the world.

Himself a golem—a relic of an ancient war, Endrbyt has a special affinity to the baubles he finds. In battle, he can fully customize his capabilities, building himself from scratch for the battle ahead. Devastation will be available at the end of this month! Pre-order now and get bonus promo fighters!

A lot of the Machines got to name themselves. HD Leaders are always fun to see. When I set out to design a horror-themed world, I knew that I wanted to be selective in what kind of tropes we embraced, avoided, and circumvented. People have a great deal of in-built emotion surrounding their favorite monsters, and we knew that we could use these to immediately flavor the characters and create instantaneous attraction or repulsion to certain kinds of enemies. At the same time, we also wanted to explore the monster traditions of the world and make Seventh Cross a game about this world of secret societies and ancient plots.

Lovecraftian horror, while interesting, has been done to death. I decided that, given the talents we had on our side and the expectations of our fans from past Level 99 Games productions that we would be working on more of an anime-styled horror experience, and that we wanted to focus on horror traditions from around the world, as well as from modern popular culture.

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So, how did we decide which monsters we wanted to represent in the game, and how did we choose how to style them? As with the World of Indines, we decided that we wanted to take a slightly different look at classical mythologies and tropes. With Indines, this meant changing all the races around a bit and giving them new powers and proficiencies. In Seventh Cross this meant grouping the horror traditions of the world together to create various themes. We called these themes Otherworlds.

This allowed us to start building broader categories of monsters, as well as to explain why similar monsters might be working together or appear in the same castle. It also allowed us to explain some of the differences between our monsters and those of classical mythology. Once we had our Otherworlds and monsters figured out, we started building castles and distributing the monsters among them, as well as designing interesting encounters to feature those monsters. Another justification in selecting our monsters was style.

There were a lot of famous classics that we wanted to hit, while specifically avoiding or subverting the strict interpretations in media. In other cases, we let staff members or artists make the decision on which monsters to include. I wanted to make sure it was a group effort and that everyone got to work on a monster that they were really excited about.

Our artist, wickedAlucard, opted to include Ame Onna, a monster inspired by some of his favorite Japanese mythology. One of our lead developers, Kier, envisioned the Hunter Killer as a mechanical killing machine driven by supernatural forces. This was another great opportunity granted to us by the Otherworlds and their stylistic themes.

Read more updates on Seventh Cross here! A Campaign is a series of games that are meant to be played by the same group of players from start to finish, and which form a complete narrative arc from start to end. While you can easily add and drop players between games in Seventh Cross, the intent of the campaign is to be played with one group of players from start to finish or until you lose. Many games have long campaigns spanning many individual sessions of play. The base box of Mice and Mystics has about 10 adventures, but you could break these adventures up into multiple sessions, so it really looks more like 20 games if you pace yourself.

In both of these games, the adventures and their storylines all link together and there is player progression either literary or mechanical between them, so we would call each one a single Campaign. In Seventh Cross, there are 7 castles. Each of those castles includes about 7 combat stages minutes , and about exploration stages minutes.

So if you play one combat stage and a handful of exploration stages in a sitting which is the anticipated play style , then you have about 49 sessions-worth of unique content in the game.

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Each of those 7 castles is a complete campaign unto itself. You could play each one with a separate group, and neither would be linked to the other. Between each adventure, characters reset and killed enemies and allies return to life. For that reason we would call each of these adventures a separate campaign.

During a single campaign, characters will grow and choices will affect the ending that you receive. Character death is permanent within a campaign and, unlike many such board games, the danger of losing the campaign and getting a bad ending is very real. This is the main reason that Campaigns in Seventh Cross are a bit shorter than in other board games. Your team at the start of a campaign will consist of eight hunters and a handful of Associates. As you explore and fight, your hunters will grow more afflicted by the curse that hangs over the castle, and each fight gets harder and harder.

Only hunters who fight become cursed, so if things become too difficult, you can switch your party members to take off some of the pressure. To ask other readers questions about The Relic Retriever , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Nov 11, Ambra rated it liked it.

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