Ancient Terrible Things Board Game (1st Edition) With Expansion and Skull Dice

The Ancient Terrible Things Board Game (1st Edition) by Pleasent Company Games is a horror-themed board game designed for ages 14 and up. The game features an expansion pack with additional content and a set of Skull Dice to enhance gameplay. With a focus on creating a thrilling and immersive experience, players can delve into the ancient and terrible world of this game, facing challenges and making strategic decisions to survive the horrors that await them.

In Ancient Terrible Things, a pulp horror adventure game for 2-4 players, you play the role of an intrepid adventurer, exploring a dark jungle river. Each turn you must travel to a Fateful Location, face an Ominous Encounter, and attempt to unlock its Ancient Secrets. If you succeed (using a combination of dice, tokens and cards), you add the Secrets to your score; if you fail, you unleash a Terrible Thing, which counts against your score at the end of the game. The object of the game is to be the player with the most Ancient Secrets when the game ends at the Unspeakable Event.

Game play involves rolling dice to achieve combinations: runs, pairs, three or more of a kind, and single die showing a particular number or higher. Dice combos are used to overcome Encounter cards that are worth points at the end of the game, and/or to acquire the four resource tokens in the game: Focus, Courage, Treasure and Feat.

Focus tokens are used to re-roll individual dice.
Courage tokens are spent to overcome an Encounter, before rolling your dice.
Treasure tokens are spent to purchase Swag cards from the Trading Post, which give you a permanent game effect.
Feat tokens are spent to play Feat cards from your hand, which activate one-shot effects.

Ancient Terrible Things: The Lost Charter is a travel expansion pack for the pulp horror dice game Ancient Terrible Things. The expansion includes 54 new cards, including new Encounter card types, Achievements, Feat and Swag, Character Obsessions, travel-ready Location cards, 3 Revelation dice, and a full colour rulebook with details of travel set-up, new card effects and rules for solo play and 5-player game. The expansion comes in a compact travel-friendly box with a raised dice-roller platform and a 5th playable character with character token.

Also, comes with Skull Pip Dice