Dead Man's Cabal On KS From Pandasaurus Games

Pandasaurus Games has a new project on Kickstarter, Dead Man's Cabal, by designer Daniel Newman. In Dead Man's Cabal, 2-4 players take on the role of lonely necromancers who want to throw a gala bash, but have no friends willing to come. So when life gives you lemons, make your own friends for your party. Players use a "variable phase" mechanism reminiscent of Puerto Rico to pick actions. Players start a turn by collecting colored skulls from the Ossuary, with each color representing an action space on the board. Players can spend a skull to do 1 private action, then the skulls left on the Ossuary determine a public action which all players can perform. Gold skulls allow players to collect new ritual cards from the Athenaeum. Red skulls allow access to the Sepulchre to collect more skulls. White skulls earn players rune tokens from the Scriptorum, amplifying points on rituals. The final location, the Sanctum, has a complex set of spaces connected by paths, and players can place skulls on the spaces trying to create an uninterrupted line of specific colors dictated by the ritual cards they are trying to complete. Bone "currency" assists actions all along the way, with mechanisms in place to gain more with weaker actions, or spend more for more and stronger actions. The Kickstarter Campaign for Dead Man's Cabal continues through February 15, and the game is expected to deliver in June of 2019.