Includes Stretch Goals: Age of Legends & Last Knight Campaigns, and a Surprise Box. Limited time offer.
Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon is an unforgettable, solo or cooperative adventure experience for 1-4 players. Blending Arthurian legends and Celtic mythology with a unique vision, it allows you to impact the game world in deep and meaningful ways. A deep, branching storyline allows you to tackle problems in different ways, ensuring no two games play alike. Difficult decisions or harrowing choices wait behind every corner and seemingly minor tasks may reverberate with major long-term consequences.
In a land slowly sinking into the Wyrdness and torn apart by conflict; surviving each day is a challenge on its own. Starvation, sickness, violent weather, and random incidents all conspire to end your journey. Guardian Menhirs, that ensured safe travel throughout the realm, are slowly going dark turning simple logistics into an involving puzzle. To overcome these challenges, your character develops along several conflicting lines, such as Brutality / Empathy or Practicality / Spirituality. These traits unlock a rich choice of mutually exclusive skills and lead to different deck-building strategies, making character advancement meaningful and deep.
The character you develop is going to be tested during dozens of combat and non-combat encounters. Sometimes you will need to brute force your way, but often diplomacy might be a better option. Regardless whether you fight with your strength or your wits, our unique dice-less encounter system makes resolving each conflict fun and exciting, while keeping you immersed in the game.
In Avalon, there’s a legend waiting behind every stone and every tree. All locations have their own rich stories and secrets to discover. Places and characters are often much more than they seem. As you slowly put all the pieces of the larger puzzle together, the land will always have a surprise waiting for you just around the corner. Many secrets can be discovered only after several games. Created by one of the best polish fantasy authors, Krzysztof Piskorski, the story of Tainted Grail: the Fall of Avalon aims to push the boundaries of non-linear narrative, building upon the rich experience Awaken Realms has infusing ambitious stories with excellent board game mechanics and striking visuals.
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Tainted Grail Stretch Goals include two additional full-sized campaigns, each offering a vast world to explore and countless hours of mysteries and secrets to uncover.
In the Last Knight, players foray into frozen, apocalyptic Avalon, four hundred years after the core box campaign's events. There, they see the aftermath of all decisions made during the Fall of Avalon and bring the history of human conquest to a conclusion, while tackling unique new encounters, a new exposure mechanic, and dangerous locations with the help of their unlikely ally.
The Age of Legends takes place six hundred years before the core box campaign. In throws the characters into a thrilling story, alongside legends such as King Arthur, Lancelot, Merlin, and Nimue, allowing players to discover the origins of many myths and places they came to know in the other campaigns. While traveling beautiful, wild Avalon, characters will also get to command entire armies and build structures, thanks to the new military power mechanic.
Together with the basic Fall of Avalon campaign, these two new stories create an intricately connected trilogy that spans a full millennium, and is told across hundreds of exciting locations and journal pages, offering a board game experience unlike any other.