Command a team of extraordinary misfits who have just awoken from cryogenic sleep in the heart of a perilous underground base. Each hero, ranging from a brilliant astronaut to a two-headed psychic cow, must navigate the complex, multi-leveled facility gathering weapons and unearthing secrets.
As the players delve deeper into the base, they will confront escalating dangers, solve intricate puzzles and face elite soldiers, menacing robots, cunning aliens and horrific mutants. The ultimate goal is to reach the final level and confront the sinister Man in Black, the mastermind behind their imprisonment.
With intense combat, strategic exploration, and a gripping storyline, Escape from Dulce promises an adrenaline-fueled tabletop adventure where every decision could mean the difference between escape and doom. The fate of the heroes — and their chance at freedom — depends on you.
Each of the eight unique playable characters has their own file folder to keep track of important info, like skills, health, armor, XP and character level.
You’ll also use this to allot potential Strength, Mental, Accuracy and Speed stat upgrades as your character progresses from level one to ten.
The lower portion of the file folder is for your characters’ inventory. Slot in loot cards for your equipped weapon or weapons, armor, and ability. There’s also a backpack slot for carrying extra gear like healing items, grenades or sqeaky toys to distract Mutant Hounds!
There are 109 encounter cards split between four decks and your party will draw one of these every time you enter a new room. The top portion tells you what you find in the room and any modifiers that might apply to the encounter.
Maybe you’ll find some Lizard Men worshipping an old boom box, or a Sasquatch gorging himself on peanut butter. Strange things happen at Duclce Base!
The bottom portion shows you what enemies you find in the room, determined by number of players and whether the Alarm Level is currently in green, yellow or red.
There’s a lot of them! 243 to be precise, broken up into three separate decks. A huge variety of weapons, pieces of armor, different abilities, and strange items are all waiting to be found
Not every character is going to be able to use everything, so pay attention to the icon in the upper right corner of each loot card.
While players can search almost every room for loot, and get guaranteed cards from supply caches, you’re not going to be able to carry everything. Inventory management is a big part of the game, and deciding what to take and what to leave behind is going to be crucial to your party’s success.
Your party will have to fight a variety of enemies to escape Dulce Base — from the moderately easy Lizard Men and Dulce Guards, to the more challenging Grey Aliens, Mutant Hounds and super tanky Robots!
In addition to these “normal” enemies, there are much more difficult versions of each enemy type, known as Commanders, as well as the dreaded Man in Black!
You’ll have to defeat at least one of these Commanders at the end of every game level to progress, but if you’re unlucky they can also show up in normal encounters.
Players and enemies roll the red, chunky stat check dice to see if they land an attack.
The smaller dice are then rolled to detemine damage. Each color represents a weapon class; White for melee weapons like swords, green for ballistic weapons like pistols and rifles, blue for alien weapons like laser pistols, grey for experimental weapons like the Acid Blaster and pink for psi attacks.
You’ll roll the color and number of dice shown on the loot card.
While you’ll fight a lot of enemies in Dulce Base, you might actually make some new friends if you play your cards correctly!
That’s right, there are four potential allies you might come across on you adventure – Blurry the Sasquatch, Mikey the Goatboy, Maury the Mothman and Kaltar the Atlantean!
Find them via Encounter Cards or collect things they crave, like jars of Peanut Butter or VHS tapes of Richard Gere movies.
The Adventure Starts Here
A wonderfully weird table top board game with a co-op sci-fi dungeon crawler theme and loads of strangeness and humor.
Choose from one of 8 hilariously bizarre characters, who have been imprisoned on the bottom level of Dulce Base and have just awoken after a Cryo-Pod malfunction. The players must blast their way through a base full of self strategizing human and non-human enemies, as they attempt to traverse the seven nefarious levels of Dulce and escape to freedom.
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