2016Phil Walker-Harding
- Videos
- 71
- Creators
- 60
2 - 8 players20 minLight weight

2023Phil Walker-Harding
Mainly reviews. SpellBook is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 19 reviews, 9 how-to-play guides, 8 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics! In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible. The game ends as soon as a magician's grimoire is complete or a familiar is fully fed, then the player with the most points wins. SpellBook includes a solo mode that closely mirrors the multiplayer experience, offering a high level of challenge and an excellent way to learn the game's rules. -description from the publisher
SpellBook has 43 videos from 37 creators: 19 reviews, 9 how-to-play guides, 8 playthroughs, 4 unboxings and 3 other videos. They date from 2023 to September 2024.
To learn the rules, start with "SpellBook (UPDATED!) - How To Play" by Watch It Played, which runs 17 min. For a quicker teach, "Je vous explique les règles du jeu SPELLBOOK en moins de 4 minutes!" by Je vous explique les règles runs 5 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Spellbook Review - Do You Believe In Magic?" by BoardGameCo. 16 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "SpellBook - GameNight! Se11 Ep39 - How to Play and Playthrough" by BoardGameGeek, one of 8 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Sushi Go Party!, Cities, Bärenpark and Gizmos, also by Phil Walker-Harding.
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2016Phil Walker-Harding
2 - 8 players20 minLight weight
2024Steve Finn, Phil Walker-Harding
2 - 4 players45 minLight weight
2017Phil Walker-Harding
2 - 4 players30 - 45 minLight weight
2018Phil Walker-Harding
2 - 4 players40 - 50 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Become the greatest wizard of the Annual Grand Rite by collecting and managing your Materia to feed your familiar and learn your spells. Act quickly to use your powers early...or wait to unleash them at full strength. Your path to victory is full of choices and combined tactics! In SpellBook, each player, accompanied by a familiar, possesses a grimoire and collects Materia to master spells and feed their familiar. The game provides pre-drawn spell sets for use in the early rounds, but soon players start drawing spells randomly or create their own spell combinations that are common to all players. Each spell combination gives an effect that lasts the rest of the game, and the more ingenious the combination, the more powerful the effect. As the rounds progress, the game becomes a different experience every time, with more than 2,100 spell combinations being possible. The game ends as soon as a magician's grimoire is complete or a familiar is fully fed, then the player with the most points wins. SpellBook includes a solo mode that closely mirrors the multiplayer experience, offering a high level of challenge and an excellent way to learn the game's rules. -description from the publisher
Designer
Phil Walker-Harding
Artist
Cyrille Bertin
Publisher
Space Cowboys
Categories
Mechanics