Plaid Hat Games PHG2200 Stuffed Fables

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These numbers correspond to entries in a storybook that spell out an unfolding tale, with each new location card revealing more challenges to overcome. As with other stories in the series, The Volcanic Island asks you to spend time exploring each location, and combine item cards together to form new ways to advance. Placing a hook and a rope together will give you a grappling hook, for example, and you can then combine this shiny new item with a location number to climb up a hill. The games do require some logical thinking to complete, but whether solo or with friends, you should have no problem overcoming their many puzzles. Most maps have a search icon in the upper right corner of the map along with a target number. To search, spend any number of yellow dice. If your roll result meets or exceeds the target search number, draw an item card. When a stuffy loses all of its stuffing, it becomes collapsed. When a stuffy collapses, tip its figure over on its side and discard all of its status cards, buttons and hearts. Reveal a sleep card. A collapsed stuffy cannot take any actions, have a die stored on it or use item cards. A collapsed stuffy still takes its turn, it just cannot take any actions on that turn if it is still collapsed after the Find Stuffing step of its turn.

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If you think your children would like more of a storybook game—or you want them to get some reading practice, Stuffed Fables will do that. But it just isn’t going to be fun for everyone at the table. There has been something of a trend where many board games try to be as brutal as possible; just ask anyone who has ever played Mansions of Madness. But Stuffed Fables avoids the temptation to ramp up the difficulty. It’s quite easy to succeed in the game, partially because even when things go wrong, it is rarely an automatic game over. When you lose your health (stuffing), your character becomes incapacitated and must be regain their life either with help from another player or by performing a health-gaining action. Roll any number of red dice. If the roll result meets or exceeds the target minion's defense value, that minion is defeated. When a minion is defeated, remove it from play by removing its figure from the map and discarding its card. The stuffy that defeated it receives 1 button. If the target minion was a leader or boss, the stuffy also receives a courageous status card.

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The opening chapter of Stuffed Fables is definitely a warm-up. The game mechanics are simple and have not yet had the extra layers applied. The challenge is light, though I do recommend you sit down with the rule book before playing. My biggest complaint with the game is the vagueness at times within the rules. Sometimes we have not really known what we are meant to do next or how a certain rule works. For example you are not meant to carry equipment over from one chapter to a next but this is never actually explicitly stated. Party items are treated as if they are equipped to all of the stuffies simultaneously. There is no limit to the number of party items that can be in play. Because the choices you make in the game will determine your outcome, almost every game you play will be unique. The number of minions you fight or the group challenges you have to complete are all determined on player count allowing the game to scale easily no matter how many are playing. The survivors must aim carefully to dispatch zeds without alerting the horde – made especially terrifying by the zombie tower used to bring a wave of walkers crashing down onto the table. Playing Stuffed Fables is an excellent way for students to work on their reading and comprehension skills.

I can see Stuffed Fables being an excellent choice for a family that is looking for a new way to connect together. This would be such a fun game to dedicate a few nights a week to and play each story over the course of a month or so. Each game takes a while, so this is not a game you are going to play in one evening and be done. Minions (the game's enemies) will enter play when the Storybook instructs players to generate an encounter. There are 2 types of encounters that the Storybook will instruct players to generate:This is a great game for reluctant readers who perhaps struggle finding novels that interest them. It feels both like a book and a video game. The immersive game play combined with the high levels of reading throughout provide an excellent opportunity to encourage reading in the home. Also mechanically straightforward, the game really relies heavily on the story elements. Each chapter has a long introduction that explains the next story in the young girl’s life and the role the stuffies are playing. The storybook doubles as the game map, so there are no tiles to dig through to get the game up and going. Some spaces on the map also trigger new story elements or random encounters with other toys, adding to the thematic flair.