1347 - The Black Plague Boardgame

New Layout Design for Subject Cards
almost 6 years ago – Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 09:54:14 PM

Hail, dear Doctors

We are proud to announce a new graphic improvement for Subject Cards that will be available for all our feudal backers!

We tryed to improve the colours of the 2 different sides of Subject Cards.
In fact, we needed to make the infected side more "plagued" than the old version, helping players to recognise the two different subject sides and their status active/inactive.

 As all of you can see, now the Healed Side has a more brilliant layout, with clearer colours, and it appears now more healthy compared to its Infected Side!
On the other hand, we have now the Infected Side much more "infected": colours have been toned down and the paper elements have been ruined and aged.

We also remember to our loyal Doctors that the Subjects deck has now a cover card that we unlocked as stretch goal thanks to your help!
The Cover Subject Deck will help the Doctors to separate discarded cards from playable ones, or, for the more meticolous players, in order to have their deck always correctly ordered!

In the end, we remiind you that we need less than 2.000 € to unlock the next stretch goal (dedicated to deluxe and premium backers) about tarot-size sleeves for your cards.
That's why we still need your help to spread the black plague on internet, facebook groups and pages, forums, and wherever you want!

Let us know what you think about!
More news are coming in the next days!

New Rulebook Design
almost 6 years ago – Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 09:40:03 AM

Hail, our loyal Doctors!

Here we are to announce some scribe-news!

After the Rulebook stretch-goal has been unlocked, we started to improve the book design adding 10 pages with game and historical contents, tips, visuals and feudal anecdots!

Remember, every good doctors need a good medical manual where to find the perfect recipe and treatment to heal the infected townsfolk!
That's why, we will soon upload the pdf rulebook and each doctor will be able to study and learn the ancient medicical doctrine to be the best Plague Doctor in town!

Let us know what you think about!
Your suggestions are always useful to improve 1347!

New Layout Design for Event Cards
almost 6 years ago – Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:51:39 PM

Hail dear Doctors!

We are proud to announce a new graphic improvement for Event Cards that it will be available for all our feudal backers!
More fresh colours and the adding of the stars in the Logo will help the Doctors to understand more easly the passage of rounds through playing ages.

Let us know what you think about!
More graphic improvement are coming in next days

New "Magistra Curant" Expansion details
almost 6 years ago – Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 05:11:18 PM

Dear Doctors!
Many of you have been excited at the announcement of the first expansion SG, entitled "Magistra Curant", with the possibility of including it for FREE within each box, from standard to premium version.
Therefore, given the importance of this goal we want to reach with you, we are revealing some little details on the mechanics.

First of all, Magistra Curant starts with a slightly different Schola Medica area, or better enriched with new elements. This expansion does not modify the existing mechanics in any way, but introduces a new one.

During the investment stage, each player may choose to discard an influence token of his/her choice (which couldn't be invested during the current round anymore) to play one of the three Magistra Curant tokens in his/her possession.

It is a matter of choosing which school of thought will be dominant for the whole coming round, between the Decotion, Bloodletting and Amputation treatments.

There are different ways to establish the dominant treatment, but in general the mechanics are based on a rock scissors paper system. Every introduced treatment varies certain rewards of the other playing areas only for the current round, such as the possibility of buying two resources in the market at the price of one, etc. 

The player or players who determine the dominant treatment will also have the opportunity to acquire a Mission card by sacrificing a number of apprentices equal to the number of winners in this dominance (which can no longer be recovered for the rest of the game). The Mission cards propose secret mini-objectives which - if achieved - will provide additional wealth points at the end of the game.

This expansion, therefore, adds an additional psychological challenge that on the one hand allows a more forward-looking strategy (I choose the treatment that improves the rewards in the area in which I intend to win, but it is not said that this happens) and on the other hand it punishes an excessive abuse of players' bettings. In other words, if only one player determines the dominant school, he/she may sacrifice only an apprentice to get a Mission card, whereas if there are for instance 4 winners, each of them should sacrifice 4 apprentices each to get a Mission card each.

Further details will be revealed in the next updates.

Next Stretchgoal!
almost 6 years ago – Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:02:45 AM

Dear Plague Doctors, 
we need a further effort to unlock the next stretchgoal, 70k€ (including Giochistarter platform https://www.giochistarter.it/scheda.php?item=1001054&crowd=1&lingua=1). With these 2 cards, the game will contain 100 cards.

Some new, really attractive stretchgoals, will be revealed soon! Keep supporting the medieval medical arts to heal yourself and your village!