Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

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What is Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon is an unforgettable, solo or cooperative adventure experience for 1-4 players. Blending Arthurian legends and Celtic mythology with a unique vision, it allows you to impact the game world in deep and meaningful ways. A deep, branching storyline allows you to tackle problems in different ways, ensuring no two games play alike. Difficult decisions or harrowing choices wait behind every corner and seemingly minor tasks may reverberate with major long-term consequences.

In a land slowly sinking into the Wyrdness and torn apart by conﬂict; surviving each day is a challenge on its own. Starvation, sickness, violent weather, and random incidents all conspire to end your journey. Guardian Menhirs, that ensured safe travel throughout the realm, are slowly going dark turning simple logistics into an involving puzzle. To overcome these challenges, your character develops along several conﬂicting lines, such as Brutality / Empathy or Practicality / Spirituality. These traits unlock a rich choice of mutually exclusive skills and lead to diﬀerent deck-building strategies, making character advancement meaningful and deep.

The character you develop is going to be tested during dozens of combat and non-combat encounters. Sometimes you will need to brute force your way, but often diplomacy might be a better option. Regardless whether you fight with your strength or your wits, our unique dice-less encounter system makes resolving each conﬂict fun and exciting, while keeping you immersed in the game.

In Avalon, there’s a legend waiting behind every stone and every tree. All locations have their own rich stories and secrets to discover. Places and characters are often much more than they seem. As you slowly put all the pieces of the larger puzzle together, the land will always have a surprise waiting for you just around the corner. Many secrets can be discovered only after several games. Created by one of the best Polish fantasy authors, Krzysztof Piskorski, the story of Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon aims to push the boundaries of non-linear narrative, building upon the rich experience.

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Game details

Players: 1–4
Age: +14
Duration: 120 min
Difficulty: Heavy
Type: Board game
Year: 2019
Mechanics: Area Movement · Campaign / Battle Card Driven · Cooperative Game
Categories: Adventure · Exploration · Fantasy
Designer: Krzysztof Piskorski · Marcin Świerkot
Publisher: Maldito Games · Awaken Realms · Albi · Arclight Games

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Meeplay_136058/10

Last 3 chapters were not really fun. Of course every campain is different, I hope there are other better endings.

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Nanferun8.5/10

Great narrative game, played an entire campaign with 4 players and was great. Gameplay could be better, cause there is some grinding for resources, but combat and diplomacy are interesting

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Charlord12259/10

Excelente juego con gran ambientación y un toque de rol

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cschacal8/10

Great playing experience for one to two players. Interesting narrative and the game mechanics are good enough (not great) but they doesn't interfere with the main purpouse of this game that is living an adventrure taking risks, making diffult decisions and having fun while exploring the rich world of Avalon.