Red Rising (Board Game)

Red Rising is a hand-management, combo-building game based on thefuturistic dystopian novels by Pierce Brown.

Enter the futuristic universe of Red Rising, based on the bookseries–specifically, the first trilogy–by Pierce Brown featuring a dystopiansociety divided into 14 castes. You represent a house attempting to rise topower as you piece together an assortment of followers (your hand of cards).Will you break the chains of the Society or embrace the dominance ofthe Golds?

Red Rising is a hand-management, combo-building game for 1–6 players(45–60 minute playing time). You start with a hand of 5 cards, and on yourturn you will deploy 1 of those cards to a location on the board, activatingthat card’s deploy benefit. You will then gain the top card from anotherlocation (face up) or the deck (face down), gaining that location’s benefitand adding the card to your hand as you enhance your end-game point total. If atany point you’re really happy with your hand, you can instead use your turn toreveal a card from the top of the deck and place it on a location to gain thatlocation’s benefit.

Components:

• 112 character cards (65×100mm; 21 of the Collector’s Edition cardshave gold foil)
• 6 asymmetric House tiles (65×100mm blackcore)
• 1 board (410×284mm)
• 1 wolf-head tray and lid
• 60 helium tokens (red gems)
• 60 influence tokens (plastic cubes; these are metal cubes in theCollector’s E­dition)
• 1 Sovereign token (this is gold-painted metal in theCollector’s E­dition)
• 1 crescent moon first-player token (this is gold-painted metal in theCollector’s E­dition)
• 1 custom Rising die (22mm)
• 6 fleet tokens (plastic ships; these are metal in theCollector’s E­dition)
• 6 card holders (only found in the Collector’s E­dition)
• 1 scorepad (50 pages, double-sided)
• 6 reference cards (65×100mm)
• box (296×296×70mm; the Collector’s Edition box has gold foil, spot UV,and individual numbering)
• insert (cardboard)
• 1 multiplayer rulebook
• 1 Automa rulebook
• 30 Automa cards (25 cards are 57×87mm and 5 cards are 65×100mm)

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