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What's new at Black Lion 16th April

By Lucy
Created 16 Apr 2008 - 2:01pm

Aquaretto £31
Each player is the owner of a water zoo. They try to lure as many people as possible into their water zoo and earn points for each visitor. To create a zoo that people want to visit, a player must collect animals. When a player’s water zoo is successful, he may want to expand it. The player with most points wins. Players 2-5, Ages 10+

Stone Age £25
The times were hard indeed. Our ancestors worked with their legs and backs straining against wooden ploughs in the stony earth. Of course, progress did not stop with the wooden plough. People always searched for better tools and more productive plants to make their work more effective. In Stone Age, the players live in this time, just as our ancestors did. They collect wood, break stone and wash their gold from the river. They trade freely, expand their village and so achieve new levels of civilization. Players 2-4, Ages 10+

Hanging Gardens £25
The hanging gardens were one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as all history courses teach. But did they actually exist? Nothing remains of their reported splendour, which was built for the eyes of Amyitis. Without an exact reference to follow, the 2-4 players will re-establish the hanging gardens according to their own tastes. In the end, the queen will be pleased and rewards the victory palm to the player whose work on the gardens most impresses her highness. Players 2-4, Ages 8+

Manual of Exalted Power: The Abyssals
(Exalted RPG Supplement, Softcover, £17)

Gifted by the Deathlords with the corrupted Essences of Solar Exalts, the Abyssal Exalted are perhaps the greatest extant threat to Creation and its Exalted defenders. Frozen at the brink of death and offered immense power in exchange for servitude to the Neverborn, these so called knights of death ride forth with one shared mission, to drag the world and all that lives into the Void at their masters’ behest. Will the Abyssals succeed at their abhorrent task, or will the faint echo of their lost lot as heroes drive them to redeem themselves and, just maybe, rejoin the ranks of the Sun’s Chosen?
Abyssals includes:
• Details of the Deathlords, their goals and their terrible powers
• Everything players and Storytellers need to generate Abyssal Exalted characters, including their Charms
• Rules for necrotech, an occult science dedicated to building wonders from the corpses of the dead


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