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Jun 23, 2025·Review·31:37·709·Watch on YouTube

How to play the board game Beast and diplomacy

Jenders Gaming

Jenders Gaming

Watch “How to play the board game Beast and diplomacy,” a board game review for Beasts and Diplomacy from Jenders Gaming on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Jenders Gaming on YouTube:

Beasts and Diplomacy is a card drafting and tableau-building board game where 2–4 players step into the boots of noble Knights in the land of Aterra. Your mission? To build the most impressive Exhibition of Beasts that dazzles the land’s influential Diplomats — all while completing secret Quests and keeping your Ore reserves in check. In Beasts and Diplomacy, every card you draft matters. You’ll choose from wild and rare Beasts to add to your tableau, matching symbols to score points and create synergy — but don’t forget about your growing Maintenance costs. You’ll need just the right balance of Beasts, Resources, and Influence to come out on top. Unlike many drafting games where scarcity drives every decision, Beasts and Diplomacy is all about opportunity. When one strategy is blocked by an opponent, a dozen new paths open. Your challenge is to stay flexible, react to your rivals, and adjust your tactics on the fly. Short-term pivots lead to long-term victory. Over three intense days of drafting and building, you’ll outmaneuver other Knights, manage your economy, and sculpt the perfect Exhibition. After the final round, the Diplomats will evaluate your display — along with your secret Quests — and the Knight with the most Influence Points wins Beasts and Diplomacy! Elegant icon-matching, tense interaction, and deep strategic layers make Beasts and Diplomacy a game that rewards clever play and invites repeat visits to the land of Aterra.Beasts and Diplomacy is a card drafting and tableau-building board game where 2–4 players step into the boots of noble Knights in the land of Aterra. Your mission? To build the most impressive Exhibition of Beasts that dazzles the land’s influential Diplomats — all while completing secret Quests and keeping your Ore reserves in check. In Beasts and Diplomacy, every card you draft matters. You’ll choose from wild and rare Beasts to add to your tableau, matching symbols to score points and create synergy — but don’t forget about your growing Maintenance costs. You’ll need just the right balance of Beasts, Resources, and Influence to come out on top. Unlike many drafting games where scarcity drives every decision, Beasts and Diplomacy is all about opportunity. When one strategy is blocked by an opponent, a dozen new paths open. Your challenge is to stay flexible, react to your rivals, and adjust your tactics on the fly. Short-term pivots lead to long-term victory. Over three intense days of drafting and building, you’ll outmaneuver other Knights, manage your economy, and sculpt the perfect Exhibition. After the final round, the Diplomats will evaluate your display — along with your secret Quests — and the Knight with the most Influence Points wins Beasts and Diplomacy! Elegant icon-matching, tense interaction, and deep strategic layers make Beasts and Diplomacy a game that rewards clever play and invites repeat visits to the land of Aterra. Beast and diplomacy https://linktr.ee/BeastsAndDiplomacy Beast and Diplomacy BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/423194/beasts-and-diplomacy

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Beasts and Diplomacy

Beasts and Diplomacy

2026·Mike Kribel

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28
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Some reviews. Beasts and Diplomacy is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 11 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, 6 unboxings, and 5 other videos.

1 - 6 players
45 - 150 min

About Beasts and Diplomacy, from BoardGameGeek:

Beasts and Diplomacy is a card drafting, tableau-building game where players become Knights of the land of Aterra, competing to assemble the best Exhibition of wild and rare Beasts that appeal to the Diplomats of the land. Players must also try to fulfill their secret Quests while ensuring they have enough Ore to maintain their ever-growing Maintenance costs. Like many card drafting games, Beasts and Diplomacy offers interactions like players taking cards before others can get to them, however, unlike other drafting games the design focus isn't on scarcity, but on opportunity. As you play you will have to constantly react to your opponents' actions and formulate new short term plans to achieve your long term goal of having the most balanced Exhibition. When one door closes, several new ones open. It's up to you to find your own path. While the game's actions are fundamentally simple (e.g. icon matching and drafting), Beasts and Diplomacy offers lots of depth and replayability. Your first playthroughs will leave you with a sense that you are just scratching the surface of what is possible, but with experience you'll learn to manage risk, finances, and action sequencing, which will lead to highly tense and competitive playthroughs. After 3 days of drafting cards, undercutting each other and building the perfect exhibition, your exhibitions will be evaluated by your Diplomats and your secret Quests. The Knight with the most Influence Points wins!

Designer

Mike Kribel

Artists

Mike Kribel, Midjourney AI

Publisher

Dragon Dawn Games

Categories

AnimalsCard Game

Mechanics

DraftingPattern Recognition
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