Catacombs (Third Edition): The Ice Box

About this expansion

Catacombs (Third Edition): The Ice Box is a collection of 2018 Kickstarter stretch goals for the playmat version of Catacombs, supporting 2–5 players with an approximate play time of 90 minutes.

This collection expands the game with alternate rules for the six base-game heroes, six additional heroes, five more monsters, four additional Catacomb Lords, more room cards, three more antients, extra items, and new spells. It offers more options for shaping each game of Catacombs.

• Stone traps: The overseer can place them on top of obstacles and flick them at the heroes.
• Recklessness: A hero affected by an attack that induces recklessness becomes capable of friendly fire.
• Random movement: Heroes can draw tokens from a bag and perform the drawn move on a subsequent turn.
• Death cards: Attacks with the death card icon make a hero draw a card, with effects ranging from gaining two health to instant death.
• Mounts: These can teleport to runes and let a riding hero perform a melee or projectile act while mounted.

The new Death antient/Catacomb Lord introduces a deck of death cards and another layer of uncertainty. Their effects can help a hero or end that hero’s game immediately, making attacks bearing the death card icon especially significant.

Mounts bring their own distinct rules. Heroes cannot be knocked off, but any damage dealt to a mount passes to its rider. Mounts may also be controlled without a rider and cannot be ridden by monsters.

With additional characters, encounters, equipment, spells, and dramatic new mechanics, Catacombs (Third Edition): The Ice Box broadens the playmat version with more variety and more ways for each flick-driven adventure to unfold.