Board game · 2008

Ghost Stories

Players: 1 to 4
Duration: 60 min
Age: 12 and up
Complexity: Family

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01 Dé Malédiction 00:00 02 Hutte de la Sorcière 01:07 03 Hôtel Taoïste 01:39 04 Maison de Thé 02:16 05 Herboriste 02:35 06 Pavillon du Vent Céleste 03:00 07 Le Cercle de Prière 03:17 08 Veilleur de Nuit 03:49 09 Temple Bouddhiste 04:00 10 Cimetière 05:03 11 Pourvoir Taoïste : Jaune - Poche Infini 05:23 12 Jaune - Mantra d'affaiblissement 05:40 13 Rouge - Danse des Vents Jumeaux 06:07 14 Rouge - Danse des Cimes 06:25 15 Bleu - Second Souffle 06:40 16 Bleu - Vent Céleste 07:05 17 Vert - Force de la Montagne 07:28 18 Vert - Favori des Dieux 07:51 19 Fantômes Noirs 08:19 20 Capacités Spéciales d'arrivée Fantôme 08:31 21 Capacités Spéciales Centrale 10:51 22 Capacité Victoire 11:12
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01 Jeu à moins de 4 joueurs 00:00 02 Plateau Neutre 00:45 03 Jeton de Pouvoir Neutre 01:50 04 Récupérer Jeton Neutre 02:22 05 Plateau Possédé 02:42 06 Jeu en Solo 02:59 07 Niveaux de Difficultés 03:54

In brief

Ghost Stories is a cooperative game in which the players protect the village from incarnations of the lord of hell – Wu-Feng – and his legions of ghosts before they haunt a town and recover the ashes that will allow him to return to life. Each Player represents a Taoist monk working together with the others to fight off waves of ghosts.

The players, using teamwork, will have to exorcise the ghosts that appear during the course of the game. At the beginning of his turn, a player brings a ghost into play and places it on a free spot, and more than one can come in at the same time. The ghosts all have abilities of their own – some affecting the Taoists and their powers, some causing the active player to roll the curse die for a random effect, and others haunting the villager tiles and blocking that tile's special action. On his turn, a Taoist can move on a tile in order to exorcise adjacent ghosts or to benefit from the villager living on the tile, providing it is not haunted. Each tile of the village allows the players to benefit from a different bonus. With the cemetery, for example, Taoists can bring a dead Taoist back to life, while the herbalist allows to recover spent Tao tokens, etc. It will also be possible to get traps or move ghosts or unhaunt other village tiles.

To exorcise a ghost, the Taoist rolls three Tao dice with different colors: red, blue, green, yellow, black, and white. If the result of the roll matches the color(s) of the ghost or incarnation of Wu-Feng, the exorcism succeeds. The white result is a wild color that can be used as any color. For example, to exorcise a green ghost with 3 resistance, you need to roll three green, three white, or a combination of both. If your die rolls fall short, you can also use Tao tokens that match the color in addition to your roll. You may choose to use these after your roll. Taoists gain these tokens by using certain village tiles or by exorcising certain ghosts. One of the Taoists has a power that allows him to receive such a token once per turn.

To win, the players must defeat the incarnation of Wu-Feng, a boss who arrives at the end of the game. There are also harder difficulty levels that add more incarnations of Wu-Feng, in which to win, you must defeat all of them.

There are many more ways to lose, however. The players lose if three of the village's tiles are haunted, if the draw pile is emptied while the incarnation of Wu-Feng is still in play, or if all the priests are dead.

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