Ziteria: Kickstarter läuft

Der 3D-Dungeoncrawler von Ziterdes läuft!

Imagine not having a two dimensional printed piece of cardboard lying flat on a table and thin cards representing obstacles, walls and doors. The world for your heroes should not end at the end of a game board edge.

Imagine instead – you are moving in an ancient tournament hall hidden deep underground. On the left and right is insurmountable rock, but you quickly realize there is a labyrinth of magical walls, unexplored rooms and endless corridors filled with altars, statues, artifacts, furniture and sometimes, emptiness. Open and close massive doors, create obstacles for your opponents and search for magical items. No limits – during the game, press forward and expand the gaming space surprisingly quick.

That’s what we want for you – the Gamers! With ZITERIA we conjure you to enter, an entertaining and real 3D Dungeon Crawler for two or more players on your table.

2 or more Players | 14+ Ages | 60+ Minutes

• Easy to play with simple, but entertaining rules
• Have fun with two players, no dungeon master required
•  Expand with additional modules and invite your friends and their miniature armies
• Designed to immerse you into a new and different game from the start of each game
• Enjoy the extremely lightweight (250 g) and robust 3D modules
• Easy to paint and decorate, see our workshops below
• Create your own traps or secret doors as shown in our workshops
•  Combine with other 3D dungeon games

The great magician Ziterion witnessed enough! No matter to which world and in which era he travelled, he came upon envy, false pride and vainglory everywhere. No matter which of the countless peoples he visited – whether simple hunter-gatherers or advanced astronauts – he always encountered the strangely certain conviction that these very people were the cleverest, most significant and strongest of all. On the basis of his observations, Ziterion was sure that this erroneous belief caused strife and often even wars throughout the centuries. Thus, he decided to put together a team made up of all the peoples of the worlds known to him in order to stage a tournament.

Ziterion’s Magic Tournament is a game that requires two or more players to start and theoretically speaking, there are no player limits. Players lead a small elite unit of brave heroes through Ziterion’s tournament arena, which he has created in dark underground caves. This means, whatever is located outside the playing field modules is impenetrable rock. Each player tries to pilfer an artifact from the central room of the arena, while fighting off your opponents, and move it to the starting room of the player on his or her left. As a result, players build stairs to overcome individual levels of the arena, erect walls to block their opponent’s path, find and use magical tools that may benefit them, and engage in battles with opponents, or even temporarily join forces with one of the other players in order to defeat a seemingly all-powerful opponent.

In the end, however, only one team can win Ziterion’s Magical Tournament.

The idea behind ZITERIA is to create a Dungeon Crawler and Tabletop mixture. A Dungeon Master or game leader is unnecessary. Simple and manageable rules should contribute to the gaming experience. No eternal page turning and thick rule books! Optionally, the tournament players are allowed to create individual rules for the game. „…we were always tired of playing on the same board and the same board that could not be changed in layout and size.“ (Thomas Doll)  This gave rise to the idea for ZITERIA! Because imagination does not restrict you to game board edges!

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MEET THE TEAMS! The Standard and Premium Edition come with two teams of 4 miniatures and Ziterion himself.

ZITERION – The great magician. Time and space have no borders for Ziterion.

The Rats of Slyrah

They roam by night and day and show no sign of fear. The “Rats of Slyrah,” in their ancient language, have no words for defeat and prisoners. Their dwellings are dug into hills and mountains and they have a strange kind of beauty.

And you better not call them rats. For they are Slyrah!

• KRAHL SABREFANGS – The Leader of the Slyrah. He gwaned off his own hand to substitute it with a weapon.
• QUILL DUSTBLOOD – The Close-Range Weapon Bearer of the Slyrah. The list of enemies he left in the dust is long.
• THRAQ BITTERTHORN – The Staff Weapon Bearer of the Slyrah. Usually he poisons the tips of his weapons.
• SABRAK NIGHTBRINGER – The Long-Range Weapon Bearer of the Slyrah. You’re lucky if he only shoots out a burning candle and not the light out of your eyes.

The Hammerhill Dwarves

Deep in the mountains, that never sleep, dwells the clan of the Hammerhill Dwarves. For centuries, they dig for mineral wealth and forge treasures while outsiders call them the Hammerhills.

And for miles around, the noise of their work, sounds like distant drums.

• GELIM HAMMERHILL – The Leader of the Hammerhills. Quick with a hammer and an ale mug.
• GUNDOR ISENLORD – The Close-Range Weapon Bearer of the Hammerhills. The fierce cousin of Gelim Hammerhill.
• THORBOLD HAMMERHILL – The Staff Weapon Bearer of the Hammerhills. All dwarves are proud of being a dwarf. Thorbold is proud of being a Hammerhill-Dwarf.
•  XALIN STONEHOLD – The Long-Range Weapon Bearer of the Hammerhills. Friends and foes call him the „Night Eagle“.

How to Play

• First of all, the players build up the dungeon and alternate adding rooms to the central artefact room, then adding furniture, doors and walls.
• Now the players choose their team of one hero, one fighter, one shooter and one stabber. Each of them has his own attacking zone, number of combat dice and number of wounds he or she can suffer.
• Each turn every player determines the movement points for his team with D6+6. Every member of his team can now move this distance and open or close doors during his movement.
• Each turn every player can do exact one action with any team member: build stairs, erect a wall or search.
• When players fight, if in close combat or as ranged attack, they throw their attacking/defending dice which shows wether swords, shields or a joker, and compare them. If the attacker has more swords than the defender has shields, the defender suffers a wound.
• Players can find and use magical utensils to gain benefits in movement, combat or other situations in the dungeon.
• The winner is the player who manages to bring the artefact from the central room to the starting room of the player to his or her left.

Das sind die Pledges:

Die noch heute verfügbaren Early Birds enthalten einen Bonusraum:

Stretch Goals gibt es auch:

Add ons gibt es ebenfalls, darunter auch Miniaturensets anderer Hersteller:

Die Kampagne läuft noch 29 Tage. Wir werden zu Beginn der kommenden Woche ein ausführliches Review zu den Komponenten des Spiels veröffentlichen.

Quelle: ZITERIA – Ziterion’s Magic Tournament