Monster Lands

About this board game

Monster Lands is a competitive dice-placement game for 1–4 players, with sessions lasting about 120 minutes. It combines resource management, worker placement, and combat as clans compete to win the crown of the Lands of the Discord.

Each player leads a small clan of brave warriors. Within the Citadel, the kingdom’s last bastion against the monsters, you place dice to take actions and develop your clan. You can acquire hunting tools, shields, potions, venoms, mercenaries, and other advantages while carefully considering how your choices affect the other players.

Beyond the Citadel lies the Outside, where your dice become battle tools. Travel into the surrounding areas to undertake missions, fight monsters, capture them, and reconquer lands for the Queen. Dice results matter, but careful preparation and resource management can help you manipulate those results and improve your chances.

• Dice placement: Use mercenaries to provide dice for actions in the Citadel.
• Resource management: Build your clan with equipment, consumables, and additional mercenaries.
• Combat and missions: Roll dice to challenge monsters and reclaim the lands outside the Citadel.
• Competition: Balance your plans with the timing and dice choices of your opponents.

Victory points come from glory, reputation, gold, and trophies earned by defeating monsters. Glory is especially important, and can be gained by leaving the Citadel, completing missions, defeating or capturing monsters, and conquering lands.

At the end of Monster Lands, the clan with the most victory points receives the crown. Success depends on planning, timing, and making the most of every roll rather than relying on luck alone.