Explorers of the Lost Isle

In their philanthropic ventures, a Dr. Argo has discovered an old journal from a failed mission describing an ancient Dinosaur entity that, if summoned, can wreak havoc and destroy the world as we know it. The journal also detailed a way to prevent the summoning, but whoever tried before was unsuccessful. Four Dinosaur Bones must be discarded in a nearby volcano to prevent the Dinosaur from ever joining this plane again. The journal says that the angry Dinosaur Spirit still haunts the island where his Bones lie, vowing vengeance against any who excavate the area. The Dinosaur Spirit controls apparitions of Dinosaurs that move across the island and attack the Explorers! As time and excavations pass, The Spirit can become more powerful, injuring the expeditionists, sucking their souls, and god forbid, coming to life. Dr. Argo has assembled your team and sent you to this island to stop The Spirit before it is too late!

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In this board game, three of you will play as heroic Explorers, sent to stop the machinations of the terrible and ancient Dinosaur Spirit which haunts an island lost to time. In order to do so, you must dig up its bones, and throw them into the island’s volcano, all while avoiding the Spirit’s shambling dinosaur minions. The timer is ticking, however, and  you must work together to make sure you find the bones as fast as you can. Take too long, and the Dinosaur Spirit will have the time they need to remake their physical form and destroy the world!

One of you will be playing as this malevolent Dinosaur Spirit, commanding your undead Dinosaurs, reshaping the very fabric of the island itself, and tricking the Explorers into uncovering haunted grounds in order to grow your power. Slow the Explorers down enough, and you might just buy yourself enough time to finish your Ritual and rejoin the mortal world.

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Originally developed for the Duck Sauce Game Jam 2024.

This is a print and play version of the game. Where possible all content is made printable, but in order to play it you will also need to use tokens and markers from other games, or random household objects, in order to track things. Further details are included in the Rules Explanation.

There are two available versions:

•  Version 0.1 is the state of the the game at the time of submission at the jam. It contains numerous mistakes on the reference cards, and the rules are not especially readable. We wouldn't recommend you play this version, but it is here for posterity.
• Version 1.0 has the exact same rules and content as was present at the end of the jam, but the rules document has been cleaned up, and the mistakes on the reference cards have been fixed, to make it more possible to play it without our guidance.

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Designed, Written, Crafted, and Playtested by Jake Lawrence, Zoltan Kiss, Anne Van Hoose, Elliot Cruickshank, and Joe Cochrane