Ghost Stories: Black Secret

Description

--- **TLDR** Ghost Stories: Black Secret adds asymmetric play with one player as Wu-Feng harassing 2-5 player monks via ghost placement, spells, demons, countered by blood mantras powered by lost lives. Key mechanics include: - *Asymmetric roles* One player controls Wu-Feng, directly placing ghosts on monk boards or using them for actions. - *Wu-Feng powers* Ghosts fuel colored spells (unlocking stronger ones) or summon demons to dig in catacombs for three icons, summoning Wu-Feng's shadow to fight monks. - *Blood mantras* Monks activate leveled abilities with Qi tokens from lost lives; level-2 with two tokens grants one monk Qi, level-4 with four dehaunts all village tiles. - *Expanded player count* Supports 2-5 players, intensifying the dilemma against a devious Wu-Feng. Ghost Stories: Black Secret transforms the cooperative Ghost Stories into a tense asymmetric experience for 2-5 players, where one embodies the powerful Wu-Feng directly harassing the defending monks protecting the village. Wu-Feng strategically places incoming ghosts on individual monk boards, or sacrifices them to cast colored spells—progressing to stronger variants—or deploys demon miniatures into the catacombs to excavate dirt for three critical icons, triggering the descent of Wu-Feng's shadow for direct confrontation. To counter this escalated threat, monks access adjustable-difficulty blood mantras: losing a life places a Qi token on a mantra, accumulating two on a level-2 mantra restores Qi to a chosen monk, and four on a level-4 mantra clears haunts from all village tiles, heightening uncertainty and edge-of-your-seat tension. ---