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Too Many Kobolds

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In Too Many Kobolds, players are dragons adopting kobolds to keep them company in their cave. Each turn, players choose a kobold card and place it in their cave, trying to make the kobolds they have adopted happy. Happy kobolds give points to their Dragon! Players draw cards until their cave is full. The Dragon who scores the most points at the end wins the game!

Too Many Kobolds is a card game for 2 to 5 players in which players are dragons adopting kobolds to keep them company in their cave. Each turn, players choose a new kobold card and place it in their cave, trying to make the kobolds happy based on resources (colours) they ask for. Each kobold has a colour and symbol corresponding to a type of resource they provide (crystal – purple, water – blue, moss – green, coins – yellow, etc.) They provide this resource to all their neighbours placed around them.

Players start with their Dragon as the first card in their cave and can adopt kobolds from a deck of cards which is the queue of kobolds who responded to the dragons’ classified ad and came to be adopted. The game ends when all players’ caves are full, and the dragon who scores the most points at the end wins the game!

But be careful! Facetious goblins have disguised themselves as kobolds to try to get adopted by the Dragons! They do not give any point and cannot be made happy. Some kobolds are also easy to make happy, but they might not give a lot of points! You will also discover other special kobolds in the game, like the kobold mom, kobold kids, and dragon fans! There are even special Dragon Powers, but each can be used only once per game!

The game can be played with family or friends without any problem. It offers different levels of gameplay depending on if you are just having fun making your kobolds happy or trying to optimize your kobolds in your cave to get the highest score (count 10min per player) The rules sheets are available in a variety of languages (see Table Contents below). The cards are all international (no text, only art and numbers) save for the dragon powers which have their name written in FR and EN, making this game playable with everyone!

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~ TABLE CONTENTS ~

- 7 Manuals (English and French [On Table]; German, Polish, Italian, Russian and Japanese [In Additional Manuals bag])
- 5 Cave Mats, each with 8 States (Neutral + One for each Dragon)
- 1 Queue Mat (For holding the deck/Queue, and for drawing the Head of the Queue.)
- 1 65-card Queue deck
- 5 Kobold Moms
- 5 "Cave Rearrangement" Dragon Power cards
- 5 "Dragon's Choice" Dragon Power cards
- 5 "Dragon's Roar" Dragon Power cards
- 7 Dragon cards
- 1 Too Many Kobolds Box (Contains Additional Manuals bag, Icon Tokens bag, and Additional Info Card.)
- 12 Icon Tokens (Optional tokens for each in-game icon; potentially useful for keeping track of some details.)
- 5 Counter tools (Placed under each Cave Mat, for counting scores at the end of the game.)
- 1 Tablet linking to a royalty-free music list of TMK-appropriate tunes!
- 1 Additional Info Card (Holds much of the information you're already reading, in case you don't want to have to visit the Workshop page to read it all.)

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~ SPECIAL TABLE INSTRUCTIONS ~

- Please follow the included manuals for standard gameplay instructions.
- Cave Mats were added specifically for this TTS table and to make play a little easier. As the manual states, players will be playing their Dragon and all Kobolds they receive into their Cave. In the original game, this was an imaginary 5x3 area that each player kept track of in front of them. The Cave Mat is a clearer representation of this space.
- When each player selects and places their Dragon card into their Cave, have them right click and change their Cave Mat to the element matching their Dragon. This is just cosmetic, but will give each player a properly-themed Cave for their Dragon and Kobolds.
- Each player gets one Dragon Mom, and one of each of the three Dragon Powers, at the start of the game. These have each been arranged in their own small decks to make card-dealing easier.
- Make sure players keep their Dragon Powers in their hand (drag the cards to the edge of the table below their mats), as these are supposed to be kept hidden from other players so they never know which remaining Powers cards other players have... Unless they were paying close attention, of course.
- Please note that while the Queue deck still needs to be shuffled at the start of the game, all cards are already correctly facing on their default 'shy' side.
- And just for fun: Try flipping the TMK box around. It is fully-modeled just like the physical TMK box, and has a detailed back.

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~ CREDITS ~

- Nyhgault: Creator of the Too Many Kobolds card game. Also the artist behind all card art, box art, manual art, logos, etc. Also wrote the English and French manuals. He's also responsible for taking the promotional photos used on the Workshop page. Lastly, he kindly gave his blessing for the creation of this TTS version of the game...thank you Nyhgault!
- Charem: Scanned all of the physical game assets, table design, additional table assets, design organization of new mats.
- Essler: Assisted in arranging scans, table design and further help. He is also working on a potential scripted version of this table.
- Various: Translations of the manual to German, Polish, Italian, Russian and Japanese.
- Tomisti: "Pythagoras Cave Inside Panorama 1", submitted to Wikimedia Commons. Used for background panorama.
- Novel AI Generation: Cave Mat artwork, Queue Mat artwork, Table Top artwork. Generations were further tweaked and edited afterwards by Charem.
- DOVA-SYNDROME: Website source of music provided on Soundcloud playlist. Individual artist credits are listed in song titles and linked in song descriptions.
- And also a big thanks to various testers!

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If you find a bug or an issue or have a suggestion for improvements, please do leave a comment! I am more than happy to refine and update this table.

~ Charem