Stonespine Architects

About this board game

Stonespine Architects is a card-drafting game for 1–5 players that takes about 60 minutes to play. Compete to construct the most dangerous labyrinth beneath the Stonespine Mountains and earn the title of Master Architect.

As a minotaur apprentice who has studied dungeon-crafting for a decade under Master Hortgully, you must complete your final project: carving a perilous underground maze of your own. Players simultaneously draft and play cards, expanding their dungeons one chamber at a time.

Each dungeon follows a unique blueprint and a variety of scoring challenges. With every card, decide how to develop your underground passages, arrange important elements in your rooms, or search for additional treasure.

• Draft and play cards simultaneously.
• Expand your labyrinth chamber by chamber.
• Map paths through underground passages.
• Place key elements in rooms or pursue extra treasure.
• Customize your dungeon with monsters, traps, treasures, and secret passages.

Between rounds, spend gold to shape your labyrinth and add new dangers or opportunities. Your choices help define the character of your dungeon as construction continues through four years.

At the end of the fourth year, the player with the most perilous dungeon wins. Whether you focus on winding routes, carefully arranged rooms, or valuable treasure, Stonespine Architects challenges you to turn a blueprint into a formidable labyrinth.