Quarriors!

We just received Quarriors on Thursday. Michael was SO excited for this game because he loves dice games so he read the rules and we played Thursday night. I have to say it was pretty cool!

It is a deck building game (like Dominion or Ascension) but with dice instead of cards. Here's what the game play area looks like:

Each card represents a monster or a spell. You are trying to build up your Quarry by using Quiddity (magic that acts like $) to gain them. Each card has a cost. If you achieve that cost with your Quarry, you add the die to your Quarry. Here's how a turn works:

1. Doesn't pertain to your 1st turn. But every other time you would score your creatures you have in your Ready area. Each creature is worth a certain amount of glory.

2. Draw 6 dice and roll your Active Pool. Place these dice in your Active area. Here is a picture of what the dice look like. They are cool!

3. Ready spells and summon creatures. Each creature has a cost located in the upper left corner of each die. You must pay to ready them. Spells do not cost anything to ready.

4. Attack! This is part of the game and actually makes it quite fun. Unlike other deck building games, there is not much interaction with players so having to attack your friends makes it a little more exciting. As you can see in the picture above, the attack is located in the upper right corner. If I were attacking with a 3, I would kill any creature with a 1 or 2 defense (located in the lower right corner of each die). Each die has different sides. Not all sides contain the creature. Some contain Quiddity. This makes it a little harder to always roll a monster. Each creature card contains a picture of every side of the dice so you can see your odds of rolling a monster each time. Monsters that did not die remain in the ready area. Monsters that did die go into the used side of each players game area.

5. Capture 1 new dice. You can now use your Quiddity you rolled to gain one new creature or spell. This will be moved to the used side of your game area.

6. Move spent dice to used pile. All of your Quiddity, whether used or not, goes into your used pile.

That's how the game works. It is fun and a nice little twist to regular deck building games. I love playing with dice because it makes it harder to get what you want every time. I think that makes games more fun!