WARANGEL QUEST
The New Card Game to celebrate 30 years of Warangel together!
As you can see from the photos, WarangelQuest is a game entirely based on the images I've painted over the years for this fantasy universe. Yes, painted! Each of these drawings is hand-painted, usually in acrylic or mixed media, some in A4 format, some in A3 format, some even larger.
40 years ago (the first drawing of the Valkyrie on the Dragon dates back to 1986), the Artificial Intelligence that now "creates" so many images of the cards you see around, didn't exist...
In this Card Game, I've combined some of the 120 drawings I painted for the 120 Warangel Reference Sheets.
Place as many cards as you like on the table: the more you place, the more difficult the game will be.
To start, I recommend about ten at a time.
For now, let's focus on the seven images you see in the photo on the side.
The player who knows Warangel best, chooses a card and begins describing it to the other players.
This is a completely "spoken" game where you have to observe and describe, relearn how to speak and understand each other, in the way that best suits the other players at the table.
When playing with children, you can simply describe what is clearly visible on the card: "This Eagle is raising a golden cup!"
The first child to cover that card with their hand gets it as a victory point.
But when playing with adults, you can describe that card simply by saying: "Victory!" since the image itself conveys that meaning.
Be creative, conceptual if you want, and empathetic: make sure those around you understand you.
The great thing is that everyone interprets each image in their own way: you'll never have the same descriptions.
For example, a lady at a fair said, "I'll do it with potatoes." And, thinking about her, I took the card with the tentacled man because she was actually thinking of the octopus: the octopus with potatoes! :)
Lots of observation, lots of empathy with those around you: if you're playing with Warangel players, you can ask very technical or thematic questions, like "this race uses transformation," or use "keywords," like simply saying "India!" Whoever recognizes Ganesh, the elephant with three trunks, symbol of wisdom, on the card where Kali is also seen, scores that card...
Whoever guesses correctly asks the next question for the other players.
As the cards are guessed, add new ones: when playing with children, I recommend a few at a time, maximum 10; when playing with adults, increase to about 20 cards at a time. When all the cards are guessed, the person who has drawn the most cards is the winner. :)
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