Starship Crewpers Game
Co-operative • Worker Placement • Bag-Building
1-4 (+) players • ages 12+ • 60-120 minutes
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Starship Crewpers is a gaming endeavor that has been in the works (in uncountable variations at this point) for over 15 years.
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The core idea has always remained to create a cooperative game that evokes crewing a large starship, not just pulling the strings of a few central characters You will manage your own vessel chalk-full of people all of whom contribute to its operation and the progression of an emergent story by completing vital missions.
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The game gives each player a bag of custom meeples that represent the bulk of your ship's crew and a unique ship board that will need to be maintained and upgraded.
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A conveyor-belt-style set of missions are available for all players to contribute to. By completing missions, you will receive new crew meeples, gain renown (with which you can upgrade your ship and recruit notable character cards) and reduce the threat levels on the galactic crisis board.
BASIC GAMEPLAY
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Each shift (round) can be played simultaneously by all players.
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Draw 3 meeples and place them onboard your ship or on mission cards.
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Allocate the EFFORT pegs each meeple generates to the ship or mission.
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If you draw a pink BLUNDER meeple, it gets assigned to the left-most open blunder spot on your ship board, triggering the underlying effect if it is a white-striped meeple.
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Continue drawing 3 meeples until you chose to stop, cannot draw 3 or have filled all 5 Blunder slots.
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When missions are completed, all participants divide up the rewards according to the amount they contributed and a new mission is drawn.
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If you fail too many missions the threat level on the crisis tracks will eventually top out and you will lose the game. Accumulated RENOWN can be used to acquire unique character cards and upgrading the rooms on your ship board.
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By stockpiling EFFORT pegs on your ship, you will be able to use special abilities to get around various limitations in the rules. You will also sed ship side pegs for repairing your ship and getting injured crew out of med bay.
