Leviathan Wilds

Description

--- **Leviathan Wilds** is a cooperative climbing adventure where players restore frenzied leviathans by removing binding crystals amid risks of falling and beastly attacks. (20 words) Key mechanics include: - *Unique character decks* Each player's multi-use cards enable distinct climbing, jumping, and gliding movements on a square grid. - *Grip management* Deck size tracks grip; depletion causes falling until reaching a rest space to reset the deck. - *Leviathan events* Beast draws cards at turn starts for attacks, movements, grip loss, intensified by accumulating rage. - *Action spending* Play a card for action points plus hand abilities to navigate and reduce crystal strengths to zero. - *Hazard effects* Spaces drain health/grip or add blight (HP reduction); rest spaces recover grip. - *Campaign structure* Spiral-bound storybook board with 20 scenarios (~45 min each) and scalable difficulties. Leviathan Wilds is a 1-4 player cooperative board game set in a world ravaged by maddened leviathans, where humanity seeks restoration by extracting binding crystals from their colossal bodies. The spiral-bound storybook serves as the board, depicting leviathans across spreads and supporting a connected campaign of twenty 45-minute scenarios with escalating difficulties for replayability. Players control unique characters, each with a personalized deck of multi-use cards that dictate movement styles—climbing, jumping, gliding—on an overlaid square grid. At turn starts, players play a card to determine action points, supplemented by their hand to traverse toward crystals of varying strengths, reducing them to zero for victory. Deck exhaustion signifies grip loss, triggering falls down the leviathan until a rest space resets it, while such spaces also stabilize without falling. Perilous spaces inflict health/grip damage or blight (lowering max HP), and the leviathan's deck activates at each player's turn start with effects like targeted attacks, repositioning, or grip loosening, growing fiercer via progressive rage accumulation. Success demands synchronized teamwork to heal the beasts amid dynamic threats. ---