Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure

Description

--- "Clank!" is a deck-building board game where players burgle a dragon's lair for artifacts and loot while minimizing noise to evade detection. Key mechanics include: - *Deck-building* Players start with identical decks but acquire unique cards using Skill, adding them to discard for reshuffling into an improved deck. - *Resource management* Cards generate Skill (acquire cards), Swords (fight monsters), or Boots (move on board); play all five hand cards each turn in chosen order. - *Stealth and risk* Careless actions produce Clank noise, drawing dragon attention; stealing artifacts heightens its rage, threatening player demise. - *Exploration* Delve deeper into dungeon for valuable loot and artifacts amid monsters. - *Dual objectives* Retrieve an Artifact token, escape to starting point alive, and score highest points from artifacts/loot to claim Greatest Thief title. Clank! is a competitive deck-building board game in which players embody thieves infiltrating an angry dragon's mountain lair to steal precious artifacts and deeper treasures, enhancing their thievish prowess by expanding personal decks. Each turn begins with five cards played in any order to generate three resources: Skill for purchasing new cards (added face-up to discard pile, reshuffled into deck when depleted), Swords for combating dungeon monsters, and Boots for board navigation. Starting decks are identical but diverge as players acquire varied cards fostering unique strategies. Critical tension arises from noise—CLANK!—generated by missteps, compounded by theft-fueled dragon rage, necessitating swift, quiet escape from depths back to the surface starting point with an Artifact token to survive. Victory demands maximizing points from artifacts and accumulated loot to surpass opponents as the realm's Greatest Thief. ---