Morels: Foray

About this expansion

Morels: Foray is a 2-4 player mushroom-foraging board game with a playing time of about 45 minutes. With summer arriving early and the soil rich and moist, players explore a changing forest where delicious mushrooms are waiting to be found.

This expanded take on Morels adds new items, characters, weather, events, and mushrooms, creating fresh tactical choices and new ways to interact with the forest and opponents. The forest can change dramatically as players plan their next opportunity while watching what others may be trying to collect.

• Weather: Rainstorm and Forest Fire can decimate existing forests or help new ones appear.
• Items: The Map and Shiitake Log provide powerful effects when timed correctly.
• Characters: The Thief, Farm Girl, Eccentric, Chef, and Morchella introduce new interactions.
• New mushrooms: Lion’s Mane and Panther Cap expand your foraging options.
• Events: Farmers Market and Eureka! can enable especially big plays.

For three and four players, augmented decks, starting baskets and sticks, and peek cards beside the deck reveal what is coming without making those cards immediately available. In three-player games, each player receives an optional bonus action at the end of a turn, as long as it does not acquire a card.

Four-player games add simultaneous selection from the same forest using a Compass. Players reveal and resolve their choices clockwise according to the Priority Player marker, then reset the forest and pass the marker. If a chosen option is no longer available at resolution, players must adapt at a price, rewarding careful reading of opponents and flexible planning.

With its dynamic forest and brisk simultaneous play, Morels: Foray changes both the social and tactical texture of mushroom foraging.