"It is the very near future, and America is under siege by creatures of evil, creatures that feast on human suffering. Their minions spawned humanity's darkest myths - its stories of blood drinkers, flesh eaters, shape changers, and soul stealers. Legends speak of them as vampires, zombies, ogres, ghosts, and ghouls, but the reality is far worse than had been imagined. Now they haunt a ravaged nation, stalking its lonely city streets, prowling its ruined countrysides, striving always to drive humanity to madness and despair.
But sometimes the hunters become the hunted. Sometimes the prey stands up and fights back. Even in these dark times, there are individuals who uncover the plots behind the nation's slide into ruin and work against them.
In Minion Hunter, you become one of those individuals. While the dark minions pursue their evil plots, you train your mental, physical, and psychic abilities for battle, collecting equipment and contacts along the way. Then, when a dark encounter alerts you to the nation's peril, you work with your fellow hunters to root out and destroy the dark minions' plots. The best among you will become the most famous minion hunter. But you have to act quickly, or the minions will complete their plots and the country will fall completely under their shadow."
Includes:
? an 8-page rulebook, complete with game encounter tables.
? a full-color, mounted game board with a map of Dark America and tracks for character careers and minion plots.
? 72 Plot Cards.
? 40 Equipment Cards.
? 10 pawns with full-color stickers.
? a tablet of character sheets.
? 100 paper money bills.
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In my spare time, I design hobby games (LesterSmith.com), manage a small publishing house (PopcornPress.com), and serve as president of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP.org).
I also ride a 1999 Honda Shadow Aero VT1100 and have a 6.5 pound Chihuahua named Dobie.
Sometimes I write Javascript or PHP code.
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This review is from: Minion Hunter (Dark Conspiracy Boardgame) [BOX SET] (Hardcover)
My gaming group tackled Minion Hunter this evening, looking for a lighter, lower prep time game. I should point out that we normally play Role Playing Games (RPGs), and are not particularly into boardgames.Minion Hunter is a bit different than other boardgames, however. In addition to its cool subject matter, the game encouarges player cooperation, rather than competition. The players are a loose team, trying to thwart the advance of the Dark Races. The game is related to an enjoyable RPG: Dark Conspiracy. So we jumped in, playing haltingly while digesting the rules. And there's a fair amount of them to learn. Once we got going, the game pace picked up. But I think the damage had been done there. The game ended prematurely, my players not entitrely pleased. Minion Hunter has the complexity of a basic RPG (and more when considering the optional rules available in the Minion Nation supplement), but without the payback of gaming out a character and a story in an RPG. Also, the game felt like it was going to go on for hours, for the enemy advances slowly. Really, when I think about it, I should have figured out the rules ahead of time. Hashing it all out in play was a mistake. I would have known about the optional rules -- for example -- that strengthen the opposition, making for a brisker game. I personally enjoyed Minion Hunter for its fascinating detail and excellence of production, but trying to get my players back to the table would be futile now.
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