Humanity, through its irresponsible behavior, has exhausted the natural resources of Earth, making it almost uninhabitable. In a burst of lucidity, pressed by the irreversible degradation of your planet, the great nations are forced to put aside their differences and share their knowledge in order to create the most vast spacecraft ever constructed. Thus, the BLACK ANGEL project is launched.

The Black Angel, the first intergalactic frigate in history, must transport the genetic heritage of humanity beyond known worlds, over a journey that is likely to last several thousand years. Her crew will be composed of only robots. Because no nation is willing to trust creation of the AI (artificial intelligence) that will control this crew to any other nation, a compromise is found: The Black Angel will be co-managed by several AIs, and the utility of each decision will be evaluated in VP (Validation Process).

At the completion of this long and perilous voyage, when a new inhabitable planet has been reached, the AI that has earned the most VP will be entrusted with reawakening Humanity, and overseeing its new start...

All the reports are in agreement: The Black Angel is approaching Spes, a planet with the highest probability for habitability by the human species. Take advantage of our approach to maintain the good relations you have gradually woven with the benevolent Alien species populating the galaxy, and watch out for the dreaded Ravagers, who would do anything to prevent you from reaching Spes.

1–4 Players
60–120 Min
Age: 12+

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France 1831: In a remote corner of Ardèche, the little village of Peyrebeille sees numerous travelers pass through. A family of greedy rural farmers is determined to make its fortune and has devised a diabolical stratagem to achieve this goal: Invest in an inn so they can rob traveling guests, allowing them to get rich without arousing the suspicions of the police! Whether or not their plan will work out, one thing is certain: Not every guest will leave this inn alive...

n The Bloody Inn, you are one of the competitive innkeepers, bent on amassing the most wealth. Unfortunately, your morals hinder you from robbing your guests... at least while they're alive. Fortunately, your scruples have no qualms with murder. Of course, you can't just have dead bodies piled everywhere: It's bad for business, and besides, what if the police drop by for a visit? It's all so much work! Perhaps you could employ some of the guests as accomplices? Everyone has a price, after all!

The road can be dangerous for weary travelers, but sometimes, the shelter you find is even worse. The year is 1831 in a tiny, remote village in France. Every day, dozens of people pass along the road through Peyrebeille, but for those unlucky enough to stay the night... their journey may be over forever.

The Bloody Inn, a unique and macabre board game for one to four players, asks players to imagine themselves as members of a greedy family who have invested in a roadside inn. Times are tough and the innkeepers been driven to robbery and even murder! While you’re playing the game, you’ll find accomplices, build new annexes to the inn, and look for ways to advance your criminal enterprise. Each tension-filled turn, the innkeepers must carefully devise a plan to pull off the perfect crime, but everyone’s battling over the same set of guests and the bodies must be hidden before the police arrive. At the end of two seasons, the player who has acquired the largest quantity of ill-gotten wealth wins the game.

Murderous Intentions
Each night in The Bloody Inn, you get the chance to execute your nefarious plans. The innkeepers have an unfortunate penchant for murder, so on your turn, you’ll decide whether to build more locations, bribe a guest to join your team, kill one of the guests of the hotel, or scramble to hide a body. Alternatively, you can launder some of the francs you’ve taken from the pockets of dead guests, which helps to increase your final score.

The innkeepers are limited to two actions per round, so each choice you make bears significant weight. Perhaps it’s time to build an annex where more bodies can be hidden, or maybe you just need more accomplices to help you with your scheme. Is tonight the right night to dispose of a former guest? You accomplish all of these tasks by discarding Guest cards from your hand. Many of these guests have skills that you can use to your advantage, so it’s up to you to construct a hand that can complete your awful scheme as efficiently as possible. With careful planning and a little luck, you can make a tidy profit from your terrible crimes.

After a guest is killed in the hotel, the player responsible needs to hide the body to avoid getting caught. Bodies can be placed in the annexes that you build—even though the innkeepers have turned to murder, they still have a certain amount of honor, and they won't steal money from a corpse until they’ve given it a proper burial. Of course, this means you need to bury the bodies if you want to make a profit.

As dawn breaks over the town of Peyrebeille, there is the potential for a sudden police investigation. Any innkeeper who fails to bury corpses will have to scramble to hide the evidence. If a player has unburied corpses, he or she must pay the village gravedigger a hefty sum for each body. You'll lose the money you might have earned from the guest, but at least you’ll avoid prison for another night.

The remaining guests in the inn who were lucky enough to survive the night then continue along their journey. If you have any guests still in your rooms by the time morning’s light appears, you receive one franc for lodging before these guests continue on their way. Finally, it's time to pay the accomplices you've recruited and added to your hand of cards. You’ll have to pay one franc for each character you have in your hand at the end of the round.

Soon, it’ll be another new evening in Peyrebeille. Guests begin to arrive and the whole terrifying cycle begins again. Once the innkeepers have gone through two seasons, the game ends and the richest player is the winner!

Making a Quick Profit
The Bloody Inn is unique in both mechanics and theme, matched by the gloomy and tongue-in-cheek art style. With quick, engaging rounds, straightforward rules for players of all skill levels, and an assortment of game variants and optional rules, The Bloody Inn offers a fast and fun experience for players with a dark sense of humor. Before you know it, you'll be deep into “the hotel business” with profit on your mind!

Contents:
• 78 Guest cards (70 travelers and 8 peasants)
• 4 Player aid cards
• An Inn gameboard
• 1 First Player card
• 30 10F (10-franc) Check tiles
• 32 Key / Room Service tokens in the four player colors
• 4 white Key tokens
• 4 wooden discs in the four player colors
• 1 rulebook

45 to 60 minuts
1 to 4 players
From 14 years

Author: Nicolas Robert
Artist: Weberson Santiago

With this expansion for The Bloody Inn, the inn now welcomes strange and intriguing guests from a traveling caravan: a bear tamer, a bearded lady, a knife thrower, a fortune teller, and more. You also have new tricks up your sleeves—like the wolf trap, the well, or the snow pile—that you can use to dispose of guests. No one leaves the inn unscathed… in fact, most never leave the inn at all!

The Carnies contains fifty-two new cards, spread across three separate modules that you can use in any combination. Each module has new rules that help refresh the base game. Two modules are new families of travelers, Carnies and Notables, that you can target. The third module, Aunt Ginette’s Tips & Tricks, adds objects that can make you more effective in your morbid business.

• Three separate modules allow for modular expansion to The Bloody Inn
• The fifty-two cards bring even more fun at an affordable price
• New play dynamics and strategies

For several millennia, the tiny planet Solenia has lost its day and night cycle: Its northern hemisphere is forever plunged into darkness and its southern hemisphere is eternally bathed in sunlight.

Your mission is to carry on your ancestors honorable task of traveling the world to deliver essential goods to the inhabitants of both hemispheres. While the Day people want you to deliver stones and water, rare in their hemisphere, the Night people sorely need wood and wheat to survive.

Be efficient and outpace your opponents to collect the most gold stars by the end of the game!

1–4 Players
30–45 Min
Age: 10+

Troyes Dice invites you to discover (or rediscover) the history of the city of Troyes during the Middle Ages when society was organized around three orders: the nobles, civilians, and religion. The responsibility of the first order is to protect the land and ensure justice; the responsibility of middle order is the hard work of providing food and goods essential to the life of the entire city; and for the last, the mission is to ensure the awakening of spiritual and cultural development!

Troyes Dice is a roll-and-write strategy game in which you play a rich Champagne family. It's up to you to seize the best opportunities offered by the dice to leave your mark in the history of the city! Will you get the most fame by fighting events, developing markets, erecting the cathedral, or participating in the construction of prestigious buildings? At the end of the game, the player with the most victory points wins!

1-10 Players
20-30 Min
Age: 12+

The goal of the game and the gameplay are the same as in the base game, except for the changes that are detailed in this rulebook. At the start of the game, the players must agree on which of the following modules they wish to include; you may choose one, several, or even all of them - plenty of options, to maximize the possibilities!

With this expansion, the rules of the base game can be modified in five different ways, and you can mix and match those modifications as you see fit. The ladies of Troyes make an appearance in the form of 3 new Character cards that you can include in your games. A new action allows players to move their guard along the ramparts, in order to access new activities outside the city. Each player's head of the family is represented by a new purple die, which can carry out civil, military, or religious actions, your choice! The other players cannot buy this die.

There are also 27 new Activity cards and 6 Event cards to add even more variety to the game!