Crossroads is a new series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside.

Dead of Winter is the first game in this series, designed by Isaac Vega and Jon Gilmour. It puts 2-5 players together in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world where most of humanity are either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors with dozens of different characters in the game.

Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game. This means players are working together toward one common victory condition—but for each individual player to achieve victory, they must also complete their personal secret objective. This secret objective could relate to a psychological tick that’s fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or worst of all: vengeance against the colony! Certain games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group’s goal but don’t get walked all over by a loudmouth who’s only looking out for their own interests! Dead of Winter is an experience that can only be accomplished through the medium of tabletop games. It is a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony’s morale up.

Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily- thematic, wildly-varying decisions, that often have them deciding between what is best for the colony and what is best for themselves.

In Petrichor setzen die Spieler Karten ein, die 4 Arten von Wetter symbolisieren, um die Wolken über den Feldern und das aufkommende Wetter zu beeinflussen. Jeder Spieler versucht, sich mit seinem Wasser eine Mehrheit auf den wachsenden Pflanzen zu sichern, bevor die Ernte beginnt. Ein Spieler erhält Punkte, wenn er während der Ernte das meiste Wasser auf einem Plättchen in den Feldern hat und indem er die meisten Stimmen auf zwei gewählten Wettereffekten jeder Runde hat.

Das doppelseitige Spielbrett lässt die Spieler zu Beginn wählen, ob sie eine kurze oder lange Partie wünsche.

Solo-Regeln lassen einen Spieler alleine gegen den Südwind antreten.

Spielinhalt:

• 40 Wetterkarten
• 4 Spielhilfekarten
• 9 Südwindkarten
• 1 sechsseitiger Würfel
• 1 doppelseitiges Spielbrett
• 80 Wassertropfen aus Glas
• 56 Spielmarker aus Holz
• 3 Erntewürfel
• 12 Wolken
• 16 Felderplättchen
• 1 Startspielermarker
• 1 Rundenmarker
• 12 Weizenmarker
• 12 Gewittermarker
• 16 Wachstumsmarker
• 4 +50/+100-Marker
• 1 Regelheft