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The Great Khan Game (AD&D/Forgotten Realms Game Folio) [BOX SET]

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The great Khan game is not the game for anyone who wants to play for an hour a week with his kids.

It's an addictive, well made board game, that can give you hours of fun and suspense each time you play it.

The game is a strategy game based on the fantasy world of forgotten realms and it's goal is very close to the well known game "Risk". To take over the world, country by country.

What makes the game better than risk, is that the game is much more sophisticated. While in Risk you just collect armies and fight, in The Great Khan Game you can build countries, run them, collect taxes, make revolutions in other countries, use magic and trade.

The Great Khan Game is a great game indeed and it is a wonderful game for social meetings among friends.

When was the last you and your friends argued about taking over the world? Now you can do it!

TGKG is one of the little known gems TSR published as a short-run folio game. Mostly a card game, the map is there to represent physically the lands your card sets combine to form kingdoms. The game has options for diplomatic or military coups, or just straight pacifistic deck building (but who wants that, right?). Some interesting magic and mercenary rules for the advanced player makes the game richer, once you've mastered the basic game. And mastering the basic game really only takes a round or two.

Easy to learn, but challenging enough for adults, because this game is mainly about cooperating and competing with other players. The magic and armies are an added bonus.

If you can find a copy of this game at a decent price, snatch it up. The only caveat is that you'll want to make a color copy of the map, or have it laminated, since this was published in the form of a game module. That means the map is made of paper, and with this being an out-of-print game, you might want to protect it.