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Nightmare

Thank you all for your testing and feedback during development. Escape the Nightmare funded successfully on Kickstarter (A little under £10k) and will exist as a game in the real world later this year!

Feel free to keep playing the TTS version, I'm quite happy to leave it up for people to share and enjoy :)

This module contains a 3-7 player frantic cooperative trading game. The rules can be found in game (Click on Menu -> Rules) or viewed online ( http://www.3dtotalgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Rules.pdf ). Escape the Nightmare is written primarily as a real world card game and requires some slightly adaptable thinking to be played online, but is still plenty of fun!

A few of warnings:
1) You need a microphone & speakers to play this game.
2) Some of the images used are somewhat grotesque.
3) This is the hardest game I've ever made. Possibly the hardest I've ever played.

You are trapped in a landscape you do not recognise amidst a whirling mismash of screaming, insects and death. A series of nightmarish wardens traps you in place, but you have hope. There in the distance, being eaten alive, is someone you recognise. And here having their bones removed is an old friend. Perhaps you can escape this hellish place - why this dying child is offering sage advice on that very subject right now:
"It's coming."
"Run."

Nightmare is a cooperative game for 3-7 players about escaping a nightmare. Players seek to trade parts of their nightmares to build dreams in which they can turn aspects of these horrors against the wardens and escape. The game is not played in turns, players may continuously trade cards with each other in an attempt to build matching sets and defeat wardens.

To make it more difficult whenever you recieve a card in trade it has some sort of effect. You might be obliged to take an action immediately or restricted in your next trade or the game could be lost there and then if your partner has foolishly traded you the wrong card without checking if you're equipped to recieve it.

To make it more difficult the wardens each have a special power and whichever one is presently opposing you modifies the gameplay for all players in order to make the game more challenging.

To make it more difficult one player will hold the card "It's coming. Run." and count down from ten. If the count reaches zero then everyone loses. This card can never be discarded or lost, but it can be traded, resetting the count to ten each time it is.

Good luck. You'll need it.