Starling Games | Everdell: Spirecrest 2nd Edition Expansion | Board Game | Ages 10+ | 1-4 Players | 40-100 Minutes Playing Time

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However, Spirecrest injects a sense of the unexplored, as players now undertake a journey through the rocky outcroppings to the south of the meadow. Unlike the Bellfaire expansion, Spirecrest is not modular and you either play with or without the full expansion. Pearlbrook expands on the original worker placement mechanism by adding a special worker and several locations unique to that worker. I suppose they could have been included anywhere, but they were in this box, which only served to secure the ranking.

The standard edition comes with the orange foxes and the Collector’s Edition comes with owls, lizards, and moles.

Far beyond the comfortable boundaries of the Everdell Valley, deep into mysterious and uncharted lands, adventure is waiting to be discovered. In practice, this amounts to the rodent taking the map tile that you did not choose during the Chart steps of each area on the Spirecrest board.

There are various kinds of discovery cards — they largely mirror the types of cards in the base game — but the most notable type are the “Big Critters. As noted in the setup section, there is always one more Map Tile than number of players playing so even the last person to Prepare for Season still gets a choice of tiles. I love when a board game or expansion manages to exceed one’s expectations and Spirecrest does this in spades. Some will enjoy this, but I personally didn’t want it to be any more difficult to play cards in Everdell than it already is. The Spirecrest expansion for Everdell introduces weather cards, big critters, and a journey/exploration mechanic.In Deutschland wurde mir, der Produktbeschreibung entsprechend, die Collector's Edition zugestellt (Dez. This massive expansion introduces beautiful new scenery, another oversized specialized meeple—the Rabbit Traveler, several tokens and cards, and, of course, the OVERsized (and wonderfully adorable) Big Critters. I was convinced that Grim was going to drive us to our deaths, but by some miracle we survived the frigid road of the Bellsong Trail, and then the treacherous climb up the tower of Stormvale. The twenty new cards drew players into the new locations and options by earning and rewarding pearl collection.

Spirecrest also includes 4 new sets of workers for players to use as their game faction: badgers, foxes, lizards, and owls. The player moves their Traveler meeple to the next trailhead and reveals the Weather Card for the next season. I’ve had a chance to peruse the contents and layouts and I stand by my decision for one reason: At most, I only need one box expansion at a time. Big Critters are unique workers with interesting and helpful abilities, who also serve as trusty mounts. With the added complexity that comes with Spirecrest, there was bound to be more setup when compared to Bellfaire.He chronicles friendship, belonging, adventure, fear, and peace in a manner and form fit for a child yet challenging enough for adult consideration. This mechanism feels weird because the cards all come from the same deck, so it seems unnecessary to make players pay more for different cards from the same stack. Pearlbrook was the first box expansion to see the light of retail day after the base game and Collector’s Edition. We are a group of passionate individuals who share our love of board games through written and video reviews, articles, and humor, so that others can join us in our journey. You reveal the 3 cards in a row left to right, but if you want the middle card, you’ll have to discard a card or a resource, and if you want the card on the right, you’ll have to discard 2 of any resource/card combination.