The City of Kings (Refreshed) - Board Game

Equipment The equipment system sometimes will be the immediate answer to your problems and sometimes won’t. More specifically, giving you the chance to get items you don’t need now, which you can then plan how to use later, rather than always just giving When you gather or scavenge for resources in The City of Kings you roll dice to determine how much you get. Sometimes you gain attention tokens and when you get your 4th token a creature will spawn. This risk element to collecting resources is important to the game experience. It stops you collecting unlimited resources and forces you to choose between close dangerous resource locations, and distant but safer resource locations. As you level up your resource collecting skills, you start to roll more dice and with that comes both the chance to collect more resources but also gain more attention tokens. The intent of the original design was to make it more efficient to gather more resources as you can get more per action, without changing the risk factor. However, a lot of players choose not to upgrade their resource collecting stats as they don’t want to risk rolling 2, 3, or 4 attention tokens in a single action. For example, if you roll 2 dice on a location with 1 attention token then you could increase it to 3 tokens. But if it already had 2 tokens, you now risk spawning a creature which makes using a “semi-safe” space dangerous. The change In the Refreshed Edition you can now only ever get a maximum of 1 attention token per work action, regardless of how many attention symbols you roll. You will either get 1 or 0 attention tokens, thus making upgrading these stats more powerful and less risky.