Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin

About this expansion

Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin is a dungeon-delving expansion for 3–6 players, with games lasting about 90 minutes. Released in 2008, it adds new challenges, rewards, and opportunities for cooperative play mixed with ruthless backstabbing.

The expansion introduces an Event Deck that makes familiar Encounters unpredictable. Events can alter how creatures fight, restrict a player’s hand, create side wagers, or introduce other new pressures, ensuring that repeated encounters can unfold in fresh ways.

To help players face this harsher environment, Relics & Ruin adds powerful Relics. Unlike the base game’s Items, many Relics provide abilities that last throughout the game. However, they must be earned through specific achievements, creating difficult decisions between pursuing a creature’s defeat and claiming a valuable reward.

• A new Event Deck that changes familiar Encounters
• Powerful Relics with game-long abilities
• 15 new, deadly creatures
• Encounters inspired in part by the Create an Encounter Contest

Relics can reward different styles of play. Vampiric Bracers can let their owner gain life from powerful attacks, while the Talisman of Renown grants an additional Prestige Point whenever its owner gains Prestige. The expansion also includes creatures and situations that can encourage player-versus-player conflict or even turn companions against one another.

Among the contest contributions are Mercury, Venom Slinger, Wereboar, and the grand-prize winner, Gluttony. With its shifting Events, dangerous creatures, and tempting Relics, Cutthroat Caverns: Relics & Ruin adds new tension to every expedition into the dungeon.