Modiphius | The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim - Adventure Board Game | Board Game | Ages 14+ | 1-4 Players | 60-120 Minutes Playing Time

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Is there a Solo mode? Yes. Players who play solo, can either decide to play with one character, following the specific Solo rules provided or to play with more than one character. How many actions can I take in a Stronghold? Each player can take one main action — resolving a City Card or completing a quest — and then they can visit the market. Visiting the market allows the players to sell and buy, craft, upgrade and/or enchant their equipment.

Gathering experience can open up new skills for player characters - to help them in specific situations - whilst gaining new equipment and spells can grant fresh ways for characters to engage with combat, quests and other aspects of the game. Players are not restricted to certain paths; instead, they are free to develop their characters however they wish. This ensures that the Skyrim board game stays true to the original video game in the best way possible, as character creation and building in Skyrim has undoubtedly always been its strongest aspect. The Skyrim board game features a large collection of components and board depicting the map from the original video game. | Image credit: Modiphius Can I move before or after using a carriage (paying for moving from one Stronghold to another)? No. Players must start and end their movement phase in Strongholds when using a carriage, and may not use any movement points during the Movement phase. In this endlessly replayable game of branching quests and mysteries to uncover, you take on the role of a brave Adventurer, in co-op or solo adventures with hundreds of hours of gameplay. Build your unique character, upgrade your equipment, delve into dungeons and travel across the Holds of Skyrim. Gain experience, find treasures and battle Draugr, Daedra, Dragons and more. Play through six chapters of two hugely replayable campaigns spanning 25 years in the history of Tamriel. Whenever a monster is prompted to move towards a Stronghold, the card or event that prompts that movement also specifies what happens when the monster reaches the Stronghold. For example, the Event “Daedric Invastion” says: “Move one Daedra token toward the nearest Stronghold.You are surviving members of the Blades, a legendary group who long protected the Empire of Tamriel! Abandoned by the empire, you must work together to thwart a plot which threatens the whole of Skyrim Build your unique character, upgrade your equipment, delve into dungeons and travel across the Holds of Skyrim. Gain experience, find treasures and battle Draugr, Daedra, Dragons and more. I hope that somewhere, as Todd Howard ponders the infinite in the final stages of developing Starfield, he is enjoying his copy as well.

The game’s contents do an excellent job faithfully recreating the look of the Skyrim videogame. However, their success is tarnished a little by one thing – inconvenience. I have equipped a Heavy Armor and a dagger. May I sneak? No. Having a heavy Armor equipped prevents a character from using Sneak actions in combat. Similarly, players cannot Sneak using a Spell. If the player had a Spell and a dagger equipped, for example, they would be able to Sneak, but only using the dagger. Speaking of levelling up, the mechanics for character builds also yield disappointment. One of the greatest parts of the Skyrim videogame is its sandbox element. Sure, you always end up playing a sneaky archer, but you could create any manner of characters with diverse talents. When exploring a Dungeon, what’s the difference between escaping after an Encounter and escaping during Combat? If one or more players decide to leave the dungeon in between encounters (i.e. if there’s no face-up card in the dungeon) there’s no penalty for this decision. However, if a player escapes during Combat, they will have to assign a threat token to one of their cards or to the Stronghold chart. I have The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms and a lot of Nord minis. Can we play with more than one character of the same type? The game was created with the idea of each player with a different character type. Although it’s not forbidden to play with more than one character of the same type, the players will have to share the character card of that specific type as reference.I have equipment and skill that give me a total value of Sneak equal to two, does this mean I roll two dice when rolling Sneak skill tests out of Combat? No. The players roll a total of their Sneak value plus three dice. Sneak is considered a Skill test and therefore there is a base of three dice for the roll. However, players who seek a more challenging experience may decide to remove the starting three dice from Sneak rolls, as indicated in the rules. Each decision matters, choose wisely and you may live to tell the tale of how you too used to be an Adventurer! The very clear draw of the Skyrim: Adventure Game, apart from the licence, is in how players can develop their characters throughout their playthrough. There won’t be any Dragonborn on the board - the first campaign takes place 25 years before the original video game, whilst the next happens concurrently with those events but not directly part of them - but players will be able to choose what kind of character they want to cultivate, regardless of which starting species they begin with. Players can certainly lean into the advantages their species have, which are unfortunately a continuation of reductive ideas that many RPG-inspired board games have around race, but they’re not restricted to them. Players are not restricted to certain paths; instead, they are free to develop their characters however they wish. The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - The Adventure Game will offer two expansions and a deluxe miniatures set during its Gamefound campaign. Image: Modiphius Entertainment When it was announced in late 2021, many saw The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - The Adventure Game as little more than a goof. Many wryly remarked that this would be the last time Skyrim would be relaunched in any form, a kind of final physical apotheosis for the classic video game. More than a decade after its release, Skyrim remains playable on virtually every console and computer platform known to humankind. So, why not a board game as well?

I have four World Quests already in play and I draw another one, which one do I need to fail? The players may choose which World Quest to fail.The world of Tamriel, where all of The Elder Scrolls video games are set, has a rich history that extends for thousands of years. Skyrim - The Adventure Game similarly has its place in that timeline. I’ve been tooling around this little two-dimensional world for weeks now, poking at the game here and there while passing through the room. The pace of play feels more like a puzzle than a traditional board game, and I’m fine with that. In fact, this may be the first time I’ve really connected with the solo mode in a board game for an extended period of time. If I am dealing a Heavy Damage to an enemy and they have both Heavy and Light Armor, may I choose to assign the damage to the Light armor? No. The damage must be assigned to corresponding Armor. Only if there is no corresponding Armor, the players can choose where to assign the damage. The game’s plot promises a prequel to the events of Skyrim that focuses on the Blades, an organisation of dragon hunters and general protectors of the land of Tamriel. I expected campaign narratives that would significantly build upon the existing world, but Skyrim the Adventure game offers thin, minimalistic writing that expects you to be content with name-drops to lore you’ll already have learned from playing the videogame. If it’s been a while since you’ve played Skyrim and you can’t really remember who the Blades are, the game isn’t going to wait around to explain it to you.

The main way that players interact with the game is through pursuing quest lines that are triggered by players drawing campaign cards at the beginning of the game. This aspect of Skyrim: Adventure Game is actually quite impressive, as quest lines are randomly assigned to players - as if their character has stumbled across this storyline in their own unique way - before smoothly leading from one quest into the next via a kind of choose-your-own-adventure-style system. The Skyrim board game comes with a collection of miniatures representing various different species. A Roaming monster moved onto my space during the event phase, may I still move away from it? No. Unless specified in the scenario rules, when on the same space of a Roaming monster token, the players must spend their Turn action fighting the enemy. A demo of the upcoming board game is currently available to play for free on Tabletop Simulator - a video game that enables players to interact with dice, cards and other tabletop components digitally - which myself and Wheels were recently guided through by Chris Birch, co-founder of Modiphius. It’s almost exactly what you’d expect from a completely faithful tabletop adaptation of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.When taking threat from an event, does the Starting player have to assign it to their own cards? No. Unless specifically stated, Threat can be assigned freely among all players or the Stronghold Chart, with no requirement from the Starting player to assign any of it to their own cards. One of the players I started playing the campaign with cannot attend the next session. Is it possible to “freeze” his character for the session and keep on playing? Unfortunately, no. The game is structured so that the number of players affects some setup requirements, therefore changing the number of players could result in the chapter not being finished. In that situation, we recommend asking the other players to use their character cooperatively. I love the double-layer boards, which hold my hard-won experience, gold, soul gems, and alchemical items all in one place. I love the little miniatures, including a charming Khajiit. The only thing missing, in my opinion, is a little home somewhere in the mountains that I can fill up with cups and bowls and butterfly wings. But the gameplay itself is brisk, relatively simple, and a whole lot of fun. In this endlessly replayable game of branching quests and mysteries to uncover, you take on the role of a brave Adventurer, in co-op or solo adventures with hundreds of hours of gameplay. What happens if I enchant my heavy armor with a Muffle enchantment? The Muffle enchantment doesn’t give the ability to Sneak with Heavy Armor. If you draw a Muffle Enchantment when Enchanting a Heavy Armor, it’s recommended to spend an additional Soul Gem to draw a new Enchantment card.