Yargh! An Odd Dice ODyssey

Created by Brett Moody and Matt O’Connor

Summary:

Yargh! is a dice-swapping sea-crawler where you make your own luck!

Welcome to the Seas of Fate, Pirate. Here, dice control your destiny. Your dice will take you from one island to the next, where you will find treasure, Monsters, and Glory. But beware - a Terror of the Sea awaits you at the end of your voyage, ready to banish your Crew to Davy Jones’s locker! If you can defeat the Terror, you’ll be the richest to ever sail the Seven Seas!

Our game’s “hook” is our Chaos Dice, which are dice with unique sets of faces.

During the 1 hour game, 2-4 Pirates will collect these dice and combine them with Action Cards to fight monsters and collect powerful artifacts on the Sea of Fate.

But on the high seas, tensions can get high! If Pirates disagree about who gets what loot, what island to visit, what monster to battle, or anything else, they Duel by rolling one of their dice! When the shared Tide Coin is High, the highest number wins! When it’s Low, the lowest number wins!

As the tides turn, so do the fates of the Pirates! When the shared Fate die is rolled, it changes the value of all dice that have rolled a “Flower” face!

This voyage crescendos into a bombastic cooperative battle against the Terror of the Sea, a extremely difficult boss monster, followed by a competitive scoring phase full of double-crosses and turning tides.

Role:

My design partner Matt O’Connor and I co-created this project.

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