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Expansion for Lost Ruins of Arnak

Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders

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Published
2021
Reach
Widely known (via base game)
Players
1–4
Play time
30–120 min
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How it plays

Build the highest-scoring expedition by exploring sites, overcoming guardians, collecting cards, and advancing your research. On your turn, play a card or place an archaeologist to travel, gain resources, discover sites, buy cards, defeat guardians, or research, using your leader’s unique abilities. After five rounds, total points from research, guardians, sites, cards, and remaining resources; most points wins.

Main mechanics

  • Deck / bag building
  • Drafting
  • Worker placement
  • Deck / bag building: You shape your own deck or bag of resources as you play.
  • Drafting: You pick from a shared pool and pass the rest along.
  • Worker placement: You claim limited action spots before anyone else does.
Full publisher description

Return to the mysterious island of Arnak in Lost Ruins of Arnak: Expedition Leaders ! Give your expedition an edge by choosing one of six unique leaders, each equipped with different abilities, skills, and starting decks that offer different strategies and styles of play for you to explore. In addition to the leader abilities, which bring a new element of asymmetry to the game, this expansion contains alternative research tracks that offer even more variety and a bigger challenge, new item and artifact cards to create new combos and synergies, along with more guardians assistants to meet and sites to explore.

How this expansion changes the base game

ComplexityNo change
Much lighterNo changeMuch heavier
DepthDeeper
Much shallowerNo changeMuch deeper
SkillMore skill
Much more luckNo changeMuch more skill
InteractionMore
Much lessNo changeMuch more
Table ExpBetter
Much worseNo changeMuch better
Integration / RefinementImproves it
Makes it worseNo changeEssential
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Base vs with this expansion

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