Top 20 Reason to Pick Up The Upon a Fable Board Game REASON #3: Accommodates Big and Small Groups Many Euro strategy games accommodate up to five players – either 2-5 or 3-5 perhaps being the most common – but very few handle six players. There are good reasons to keep the number of players low in a strategy game; most importantly, keeping player downtime to a minimum is always desired. If a player turn is even just two minutes long (certainly reasonable in many strategy games), then it can take up to 10 minutes before player #6 gets a turn. Downtime is the opposite of fun. Games using the worker placement mechanic often overcome this inherent disadvantage by breaking rounds down into smaller action chunks (sometimes taking just seconds to perform) and having the turn pass around the table several times instead. Even so, most of the most popular worker placement games – including Agricola, Lords of Waterdeep, Stone Age, and Caylus – max out at 4 or 5 players because the nature of their design doesn’t allow for easy scaling. This is one area where Upon a Fable really shines because it can accommodate groups from two to six (and even solo play is possible). If you add on the New Kingdoms expansion pack, Upon a Fable can handle gamer groups all the way up to eight players … which is a truly rare feature for any Euro to offer! Rest assured that this flexibility wasn’t just tacked on for sales and marketing purposes; we specifically designed Upon a Fable from inception to flex up or down by scaling the number of Story spaces to select during the worker placement actions. For example, games with two players only have seven Story spaces to claim with your Fable workers in round one, while eight player games start with 18. We even offer two different starting boards when playing with 3-4 players, depending on whether you want to make resource collection easier or more difficult during the game. While the mechanics of the game remain the same regardless how many players are engaged, Upon a Fable feels like a different game with two vs. eight players. Two players make for a faster game that feels more like a back-and-forth game of Chess. One-on-one is a classic battle of wits where a single combination or mistaken move can have drastic effects on the outcome. Eight player games are much longer (but still 15-20 minutes/player) and entrenched strategic battles where it’s important to keep your head down and not attract the attention of the other players, who may pounce on you if they perceive you as a threat to their win. With an increasing player count, you need to keep track of many more moving pieces in your victory machine. Whether you have huge gaming groups or smaller, more intimate ones, Upon a Fable is an obvious and ideal choice for your gaming table!
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:43:11 +0000
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