Maeshowe - an Orkney Saga

I actually think it's still too big. The board is useless. You only need the cards and a few tokens. It could have fit in a deckbox.

You may even replace most tokens by cards, like health. So when you get mad, you flip the health card to account for the reduction of your max health.

The only tokens I can't see readily how to implement with cards are the rumbles.

Since they went the token way, I think there should have been a grey heart token to fill the rightmost slot when you get mad.

@Athena I'd be curious to here you elaborate on that.

@Zerbique In the PnP, whenever you pulled a 'remove rubble' combo, you actually removed a token from the board that represented the walls until you eventually removed all the tokens and got out. This element was entirely taken out from the final product thus making it less thematic. I also don't like that they replaced the text on the cards with icons.

@Athena Yeah, the icons are absolutely indecipherable for the most part. Unless you already know what the card is doing, or you must check in the book. And not the icons list meaning which remains too cryptic to be of any use!

Actually I'm afraid I may play it wrong, because a game takes me 5-10 minutes instead of the 15-30 listed on BGG. But I read the rulebook twice, and the card effects all make sense.