{"title":"Devious Weasel Games","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"shadows-of-malice","title":"Shadows of Malice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShadows of Malice\u003c\/strong\u003e is a cooperative game in which 2-8 players work to unseal hidden Wells of Light to prevent the shadow demon Xulthûl from gaining a physical form and overrunning the Realm of Aethos.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wells are located in strongholds scattered throughout the Realm and defended by powerful Guardians. Over the centuries, many of the Wells have fallen Dark, but if the players can find and unseal the remaining Light Wells they prevent Xulthûl from gaining substance and win the game. If Xulthûl’s Shadows, however, manage to defile a single Light Well, the demon will gain a body and enter the Realm. If this happens, the players must defeat Xulthûl in battle to save the Realm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlayers control avatars, heroic champions imbued with unique masteries over Light. Each turn, the players move through the Realm, confronting their fate, battling creatures with deadly abilities, and engaging the services of cities and mystics in order to gather the potions, treasure, and soulshards they will need to defeat the stronghold Guardians and unseal the Wells they protect. The Light or Dark nature of each Well is revealed only when its Guardian is defeated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Xulthûl’s Shadows are thickening in the Shadow Realm and will enter the game at random times in random locations, seeking the one Well that will bring about the entrance of their master.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003ePlayers:\u003c\/u\u003e 2-8\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cu\u003eSuggested Ages:\u003c\/u\u003e 14 and up\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eLanguage(s):\u003c\/u\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/154510\/shadows-malice\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Link to BGG.com\" src=\"https:\/\/meeplescorner.co.uk\/image\/data\/BGG_logo.jpg\" style=\"width: 60px; height: 45px;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Devious Weasel Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52046911406429,"sku":"DWE1000","price":44.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/2442\/6589\/files\/shadowsofmalice.jpg?v=1771319890"},{"product_id":"duhr-the-lesser-houses","title":"Dûhr: The Lesser Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe monolithic city-state of Dûhr is at once a crucible of emerging and forgotten cultures, a cynosure of commerce, and a titan of military might. Its Great and Lesser Houses rise and fall with the whims of its Family Royal, the Sovereign House Kythidûhr. Amidst the festivals of summer, House Kythidûhr announced its intent to elevate one of Dûhr’s Lesser Houses to Great House status. By autumn’s frosts, the Lesser Houses were deeply embroiled in a fierce battle for the coveted title. Not with soldiers, for that would waste blood and gold, but with the most insidious of political weapons: suspicion and scandal. They attacked each other with aspersions and calumny, well devised and craftily exploited, designed to erode the social standing of their rival Houses and thereby remove them from contention.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDûhr: The Lesser Houses\u003c\/strong\u003e accommodates 4 to 6 players. Each player is the master of a Lesser House of Dûhr, vying for Great House status. Players take turns using cards in their hand to trigger events, place suspicions and scandals on each other’s House, or activate their own House’s unique ability to affect cards already placed. The accumulation of suspicion and scandal cards on a House card erodes the populace’s favor for that House by raising suggestions of wrongdoing or embroiling it in scandals that incite public outrage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll Houses begin the game without any suspicions or scandals and favored by the people of Dûhr. When a House accumulates a combined total of 5 suspicion and\/or scandal cards, that House falls into disfavor with the populace. If a disfavored House ever has 3 or more revealed scandal cards, the House becomes vilified. The game ends immediately when the number of favored Houses remaining is 1 or none. Whoever has the highest score at that point wins the game. 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Over the centuries, many of the Wells have fallen Dark, but if the players can find and unseal the remaining Light Wells they prevent Xulthûl from gaining substance and win the game. If Xulthûl’s Shadows, however, manage to defile a single Light Well, the demon will gain a body and enter the Realm. If this happens, the players must defeat Xulthûl in battle to save the Realm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlayers control avatars, heroic champions imbued with unique masteries over Light. Each turn, the players move through the Realm, confronting their fate, battling creatures with deadly abilities, and engaging the services of cities and mystics in order to gather the potions, treasure, and soulshards they will need to defeat the stronghold Guardians and unseal the Wells they protect. The Light or Dark nature of each Well is revealed only when its Guardian is defeated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Xulthûl’s Shadows are thickening in the Shadow Realm and will enter the game at random times in random locations, seeking the one Well that will bring about the entrance of their master.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003ePlayers:\u003c\/u\u003e 2-8\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cu\u003eSuggested Ages:\u003c\/u\u003e 14 and up\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eLanguage(s):\u003c\/u\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/154510\/shadows-malice\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Link to BGG.com\" src=\"https:\/\/meeplescorner.co.uk\/image\/data\/BGG_logo.jpg\" style=\"width: 60px; height: 45px;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Devious Weasel Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52061310320989,"sku":"DWE1001","price":46.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/2442\/6589\/files\/somreprint.png?v=1771259953"},{"product_id":"cosmic-frog-board-game","title":"Cosmic Frog","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe\u003cstrong\u003e Cosmic Frog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e board game is a game of collection, combat, and theft on a planetary scale. Each player controls a two-mile-tall, immortal, invulnerable frog-like creature that exists solely to gather terrain from the\u003cem\u003eShards of Aeth\u003c\/em\u003e , the fragments of a long-ago shattered world. The First Ones seek to use the lands from the Shards to reconstruct the world of Aeth, and your frogs are their terrain harvesters.\u003cbr\u003eAt the start of the game, your frogs descend from the Aether, the cosmic sea between the worlds, onto a terrain-rich Shard of Aeth. Once on the Shard, you harvest land and store it in your massive gullet. When your gullet is sufficiently full, you leap into the Aether and disgorge your gullet contents into your inter-dimensional vault for permanent storage, then return to the Shard to collect more land. Although your frogs' collective mission is to gather as much land as possible for the First Ones, your private goal is to prove yourself to be the greatest of their harvesters by delivering to them the most valuable vault. 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