The Rumors expansion introduces bonus side quests that can allow a party to argue about where to go and what missions to prioritize. The big box expansion comes with another 9 stories that seem slightly longer and more challenging then the base game.

It may happily embrace basic, dice-heavy combat and card-drawing wilderness travel, but Folklore: the Affliction, mark my words, is still a lot of fun.I actually liked you using veboten since the game you’re writing about is set in something like 15th century Europe AND the PC game (Darklands) you mentioned was set in a fictional fantasy Germany wasn’t it? Normally it’s simply a quick skirmish in which the players decide which characters will attack and which will defend and a rather abstracted battle takes place. Throw in a vaguely eastern European fantasy setting with gothic touches, vampires and werewolves, and I’m sold.

You can of course get around this by having players play multiple PCs, but I know there are a lot of gamers out there who despise that sort of solution. These don't usually make a huge difference, but they an give you (and your enemies) small bonuses that gives you something extra to think about. The story journal will also point the players toward different locations across the world map and the current party leader gets to choose where the group travels to next.The track is at left, with a mix of standees and tokens to represent where combatants are on the track, and tactics cards (the blue and red arrows) being available. The chapters entail the heroes traversing the land of Kremel (the fictional European setting) and the players may chose to travel by road or less explored routes.

Folklore will require a good amount of table space as well simply because there are so many cards, maps, player areas for their character booklets and cards, and more which need to be close by. The character sheets also display a variety of skills which can include archaeology, awareness, ecology, faith, nerve, occult, speech, and trickery.Especially if you play the core rules, you have limited options to rest, making these skirmishes particularly deadly.