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Ancient Terrible Things

Ancient Terrible Things

2014·Simon McGregor

2 - 4 players
60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

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In Ancient Terrible Things, a pulp horror adventure game for 2-4 players, you play the role of an intrepid adventurer, exploring a dark jungle river. Each turn you must travel to a Fateful Location, face an Ominous Encounter, and attempt to unlock its Ancient Secrets. If you succeed (using a combination of dice, tokens and cards), you add the Secrets to your score; if you fail, you unleash a Terrible Thing, which counts against your score at the end of the game. The object of the game is to be the player with the most Ancient Secrets when the game ends at the Unspeakable Event. Game play involves rolling dice to achieve combinations: runs, pairs, three or more of a kind, and single die showing a particular number or higher. Dice combos are used to overcome Encounter cards that are worth points at the end of the game, and/or to acquire the four resource tokens in the game: Focus, Courage, Treasure and Feat. Focus tokens are used to re-roll individual dice. Courage tokens are spent to overcome an Encounter, before rolling your dice. Treasure tokens are spent to purchase Swag cards from the Trading Post, which give you a permanent game effect. Feat tokens are spent to play Feat cards from your hand, which activate one-shot effects.

Ancient Terrible Things

Which Ancient Terrible Things video should I watch?

Ancient Terrible Things has 2 videos from 2 creators: 1 playthrough and 1 unboxing. They date from 2023 to February 2025.

If you like it, try The Dead Eye, Ancient Terrible Things: Reawakened, Konja and Snowblind: Race for the Pole, also by Simon McGregor.

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Ancient Terrible Things PlaythroughPlaythrough1:08:17

Ancient Terrible Things Playthrough

What's In the box? Ep42 Ancient Terrible Things 1st Edition with expansion (Re-) UnboxingUnboxing7:34

What's In the box? Ep42 Ancient Terrible Things 1st Edition with expansion (Re-) Unboxing

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About Ancient Terrible Things

From BoardGameGeek:

In Ancient Terrible Things, a pulp horror adventure game for 2-4 players, you play the role of an intrepid adventurer, exploring a dark jungle river. Each turn you must travel to a Fateful Location, face an Ominous Encounter, and attempt to unlock its Ancient Secrets. If you succeed (using a combination of dice, tokens and cards), you add the Secrets to your score; if you fail, you unleash a Terrible Thing, which counts against your score at the end of the game. The object of the game is to be the player with the most Ancient Secrets when the game ends at the Unspeakable Event. Game play involves rolling dice to achieve combinations: runs, pairs, three or more of a kind, and single die showing a particular number or higher. Dice combos are used to overcome Encounter cards that are worth points at the end of the game, and/or to acquire the four resource tokens in the game: Focus, Courage, Treasure and Feat. Focus tokens are used to re-roll individual dice. Courage tokens are spent to overcome an Encounter, before rolling your dice. Treasure tokens are spent to purchase Swag cards from the Trading Post, which give you a permanent game effect. Feat tokens are spent to play Feat cards from your hand, which activate one-shot effects.

Designer

Simon McGregor

Artist

Rob van Zyl

Publisher

Pleasant Company Games

Categories

DiceHorrorMythology

Mechanics

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