New skill cards offer all kinds of options for your familiar. Then place the acquired card in your discard pile if it’s a skill card, or face up in your play area if it’s a story crafting or bonding card. To do this, simply choose a card from the row and reduce the familiar’s power dial by the power cost of the acquired card. On a familiar’s turn, they can perform a train action to spend their earned power to acquire cards from the training row. While playing through the story, and experiencing the adventure and overcoming its challenges, the familiars will be earning power.Įach time a familiar gains a power, you will use your familiar’s dashboard power dial to keep track of that familiar’s power total. This is called the Training Row, and it’s made up of improved skill cards, story crafting cards, and bonding cards. We will talk about training first.Įach time you set up a game of Familiar Tales, you will be displaying a row of cards that can be acquired by the familiars. This is accomplished through training and crafting. To protect the child, the familiars must adapt both individually and as a team. The story of Familiar Tales spans three eras and as you progress the challenges gradually become more difficult. This article will focus on how players can grow their familiar’s capabilities through light deck-building and item crafting. In the last article we discussed the skill cards used to perform actions during the adventure.

You can view previous articles by going here. This is the fourth article in the series. It’s an exciting narrative board game for 1-4 players, ages 8 and up. Hello, and welcome back to a preview series for our upcoming adventure game, Familiar Tales.

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