The Dawn of by Beth Erikson Marketing Manager Pegasus Spiele North America
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he sun rises slowly to dawn on a new day full of opportunities for early humanity. The bushes are full of fruits to be gathered, animals roam in the forest, and new lands are waiting to be discovered. It’s time to explore! Travel back in time to the Stone Age in Fire & Stone, a brand-new game from Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, the award-winning designer of Carcassonne. This approachable exploration game is another great family-friendly title to add to game night. A land of opportunity awaits the tribe willing to venture out and explore! As hunters and gatherers, you’ll gradually move outward from the African cradle of humanity, discovering new lands and establishing settlements. As you explore, you’ll learn new skills and be faced with unexpected events, but careful and strategic planning will help your tribe expand and push forward to a new era for humanity. The game begins with the discovery tiles being placed face down on the board across the map. With random selection each time, every game will develop differently as you explore. Starting from Africa, tribes can venture out, working their way through Africa and Europe, into Asia and India and eventually into the Americas. As you send your scout forward, the facedown
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discovery tiles will be flipped up, revealing forests filled with animals to hunt, vegetation to gather, fire to tame, or perfect locations for building huts. Discovering a location suitable for a hut is vital to win. Each hut you own at the end of the game will score a victory point. Once a location has a hut it becomes a settlement, meaning anyone can build additional huts there, but it will cost them! The more huts, the higher the cost to build there. Besides the randomization of discovery tiles in each game, there will also be a mysterious cave location. With 24 different cave options, each game will present a new experience since only one is put out. A cave card could allow players to exchange food at a market, create fire with a thunderbolt from a storm, or become a source of inspiration to allow players to buy inventions. Each player will have their own tribe mat. As you discover tiles with fruit, nuts, and other resources, you can collect these tiles and place them on your tribe mat, filling up the spaces on your gathering stores track. Once you cover the card icon at the top spot on your mat you can gain 1 invention card or 1 victory point card. Inventions give a permanent effect that affects your ability for obtaining more food in different ways, increasing movement, building huts easier, and storing food. While victory points are important for the end game, inventions are essential to compete with other tribes. Carefully manage your resources and take advantage of the discoveries you make to lead your tribe to victory in Fire & Stone!
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