HERO MASTER: AN EPIC GAME OF EPIC FAILS
Designer: Jamie Noble-Frier | Publisher: The Noble Artist
With art and game design by Jamie Noble-Frier, Hero Master: An Epic Game of Epic Fails is a one man labour of love. Through witty illustrations and crafty take-that card play, Hero Master tells the tale of an unfortunate team of misfit adventurers working together through a series of perilous encounters to finally confront Crackletooth, the legendary dragon. But this is no cooperative game. Each hapless hero also intends on escaping the dungeon with the most gold and a greater chance of joining a ‘real’ party, and will do so at any cost.
All of this plays out through the use of cards, a pair of D20s and a lighthearted sense of humour. At the start of the game players will be dealt a random race and class card before receiving the related attack decks and combining them. Each class also starts out with a pair of weapons and a set of armour which are placed on their lovely neoprene player boards. After determining the first location and laying out the enemies and other components, the party leader will choose an enemy for the part to encounter.