For example, Grail cards are used to complete the Grail quest, a set of 1-2-3-4-5 in Fight is needed to complete the wars, and two pair of Fight are needed to complete the Tournament.
The success in all quests is determined by the playing of cards, mostly in various sets, and perhaps by the player's willingness to sacrifice their life to further advance a quest for the good for all loyal knights. Once Lancelot's Armor has been retrieved or lost, the knights have the opportunity to defeat the Dragon. The quests for the Grail, Excalibur, and Lancelot's armor can only be completed once, whereas the wars and the Black Knight tournament repeat. At the start of the game, they are: Camelot the War against the Picts the War against the Saxons the tournament against the Black Knight the quest for Excalibur the quest for Lancelot's Armor and the Grail Quest.
The board of Shadows over Camelot depicts a number of locations, each with an associated quest. Moreover, each player also has a "special power", which can be performed once per turn in addition to his or her heroic action(s).
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For example, a player may move to a quest, choose to lose one health point, and begin to advance the quest toward victory, a series of actions that would otherwise require two turns.
Finally, each player may choose to lose one health point to perform a second, different heroic action. In addition, while at Camelot, the player has the option of fighting a siege engine or drawing two white cards in addition to the normal heroic actions. After the progression of evil, each player takes a heroic action, which includes moving to or returning from a quest location, advancing a quest toward victory, playing a "special white" card, discarding three identical cards to gain one life point, or accusing one knight of being a traitor. They either decrease their health, add a siege engine to those attacking Camelot, or draw a black card, which will usually make one of the quests harder to complete. The existence of the traitor turns a fairly simple game system into a hotbed of paranoia and accusation.Įach turn a player must first suffer the "progression of evil". However, there is a chance that one knight is secretly a traitor, plotting the downfall of the others loyal to Camelot. Shadows over Camelot is a cooperative board game, a genre in which players work together in order to try to defeat a game system which itself is moving the game toward defeat for all the players. An alternate character, Sir Bedivere, was distributed in games trade magazines and at conventions as a promotional item, and is also available as part of Merlin's Company. The Knights of the Round Table in the game are King Arthur, Sir Galahad, Sir Gawain, Sir Kay, Sir Percival, Sir Palamedes, Sir Tristan of Lyonesse. 168 cards (84 white, 76 black and 8 Loyal/Traitor).16 black/white Swords of the Round Table.30 Miniatures (7 Knights, 3 Relics, 12 Siege Engines, 4 Saxons and 4 Picts).7 standard dice (one for each Knight) and 1 special 8-sided die for the Siege Engines.3 additional double-sided Quests (The Holy Grail, Excalibur, and Lancelot/The Dragon).This game was featured in an episode of Geek & Sundry's Tabletop on Octoand Table Flip on March 29, 2014.
The endgame with a revealed traitor is, by contrast, a competitive game of asymmetric teams. The game is cooperative in that a shared victory or loss is possible in the absence of a traitor, and a traitor does not benefit by revealing himself too early. Players take on the roles of Knights of the Round Table (with the possibility that one player takes the role of traitor) and play the game by fulfilling quests. In 2008, an expansion for Shadows over Camelot was released titled Merlin's Company. The game was also published in French as Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde and in German as Schatten über Camelot. The game was unveiled by the publishers Days of Wonder at the 2005 American International Toy Fair and was more widely released in May and June 2005. Shadows over Camelot is an Arthurian-themed board game designed by Serge Laget and Bruno Cathala, illustrated by Julien Delval and Cyrille Daujean.
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