This blog section is for optional rules and our “tweak of the week” where we offer optional changes to the rules that give a different flavour to the rules that we think you might enjoy! Try them out and discuss them with our Discord and Facebook communities!
Optional Rules!
- Tweak of the Week: Scenario Card DrawDo you love using the scenario deck and like adding a bit of spice to the game? This is a great idea from Evan Callaway and his group of players, readers will be noticing a theme! It’s an alternative to using a scenario card draft. Before deployment each player draws 5 cards from the scenario
- Tweak of the Week: Capo Actions and Activating TroopsDo you like more unforgiving command and control mechanics? Try this! Capos ordering troops to take an action still uses one of the Capo’s actions, even if the Capo does not take part in the action. So ordering troops to shoot or reload would still cost the Capo actions as well as virtue, even if
- Tweak of the Week: Card ActivationDo you like a little bit more randomness in activation order? Do you like bringing more cards onto the table and don’t mind a little craziness? Maybe some added tools for making things more unpredictable for solo play? Well try this week’s tweak! Instead of just taking alternating turns for actions try this. Why a
- Get that Donkey!You ready for some crazy donkey hijinks? Well one of our players Evan Callaway sent in this scenario using randomly moving donkeys and searching them for hidden treasure!
- Tweak of the Week: Hidden Dice AllocationIntroduce bluffing mechanic to your games with this week’s tweak.
Scenarios!
- Automatic Scenario GeneratorThanks again to Evan Calloway who turned the scenario table in the rulebook into this scenario generator below! https://evanmcallaway.github.io/hobbies/fov_scenario_generator.html
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- The Spada Treasure – Episode 2: Decoding the StatuesTune in this week for episode 2 of the Spada treasure campaign sent in to us by one of our players Evan Callaway. Last episode a professor turned up in a tavern drunkenly spouting about the legendary lost treasure of the Spada cardinals. You managed to get your hands on the professors journal detailing the
- The Spada Treasure – Episode 1: The Drunk ProfessorThe following is a brilliant and funny campaign inspired by the Spada Treasure Series of Virtue campaign hook in the main rulebook made by one of our players Evan Callaway who was kind enough to let us share it. Play it through and find out if there is any treasure left for the poor benighted Edmond Dantès to use for wreaking his rightful revenge.
- Get that Donkey!You ready for some crazy donkey hijinks? Well one of our players Evan Callaway sent in this scenario using randomly moving donkeys and searching them for hidden treasure!