"Ballads & Tales: Journey of the Brave" is an adventure board game for 1-5 players that retains its roots in immersive dungeon-crawling classics and expands on them with exciting, modern elements. You can choose to adventure with a game master or in solo/co-op mode. Become a party of daring heroes with your friends and face off against bloodthirsty minions. Travel through dangerous forests, descend into dark dungeons, explore the ruins of formerly magnificent fortresses. Come to the aid of helpless villagers and become fabled heroes that the bards will write ballads and epic poems about. One player can become the sinister Game master: Your role is to lay cunning traps for the heroes and play your arsenal of perfidious Event Cards that will create ever-changing dangers for the heroes through their many different configurations. Use Weapon Cards to increase the strength of your already fearsome creatures even more. Send out warlords with powerful Boss Cards to pick off the heroes one by one. The lovingly designed components that allow for the visual creation of many different scenes invite you to dive deep into the magical world of 'Ballads & Tales'. There’s so much to discover: Dungeons, ruins, forests and villages Valuable treasures Magical artefacts Rare materials to upgrade armor and weapons Interesting characters Central to the design of "Ballads & Tales" is the fantastic result of our intensive collaboration with the highly talented artist Valbona Atanaskovska, or Bona for short. Having been fans of her works for a long time, we were overjoyed when she agreed to visualize all of the characters in her unique style. Instead of just creating the characters digitally on a PC, Bona painted all characters in Ballads & Tales: Journey of the Brave, as well as its expansions, in oil on canvas in loving detail. This passionate effort is rare these days, and it helped turn each character into a highly crafted work of art. Bona’s talent for expressive and aesthetic faces and the nature of radiant oil paints in particular make her paintings and the characters come to life in unique ways and lend an incomparable and nostalgic flair to "Ballads & Tales: Journey of the Brave". "Description from the designer"