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Portable Adventures: Lair Of The Rat-king box art
2003 Ranked #18,323

Portable Adventures: Lair Of The Rat-king

This humorous fantasy card game has adventurers play characters, encounters, equipment, and events to be first to seven Adventure Points. Mixing it with other sets expands the available chaos, changing the combinations that can drive a scoring run.

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Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

13+

Complexity

1.41/5

Rating

5.85

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Humorous fantasy card game where the object is to be the first to acquire 7 Adventure Points. You have Me Characters, Characters, Encounters, Stuff, Adventures, and Events cards. Can be combined with other Portable Adventures sets to make it even more humorous.

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
60 min
Age
13+
Complexity
1.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Dan Smith

Artists

1
Dan Smith

Publishers

1
Third World Games

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