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Set Pirates Against Dinosaurs This August

Jul 21, 2011

Jolly Roger Games is ready to unleash a new card game which is a mash up of two popular, yet unrelated, protagonists: pirates and dinosaurs!

From Jolly Roger:

Pirates vs. Dinosaurs is a game for 2-5 players by Richard Launius (designer of Arkham Horror) where players control pirate captains and their cutthroat crews, all with partial knowledge of the whereabouts of buried treasure on a forgotten Pacific island. The catch? They don’t know the island is the final home of dinosaurs, survivors of millions of years, and they aren’t happy to let outsiders explore their island. Of course, the pirates also don’t know that the island is sinking or that there are other pirates looking for the same treasure. Who will get away with the most loot and become the pirate remembered by history?

Before the game, players outfit themselves with a variety of crew, weapons, and gear before choosing the section of the island that they will explore, knowing that the jungle takes longer than the beach as they look for their parts of the map. The search can be interrupted as other players play dinosaur (and other) cards to cause mayhem and carnage. Once the treasure is located, players draw treasures from a bag, looking to avoid the pirate ghost and island sinking events, and return safe to their ship–a question of how far they’ll go in pushing their luck.

You can learn more about Pirates vs. Dinosaurs, directly from Jolly Roger’s Jim Dietz, on our previous The Gaming Gang Extra. Pirates vs. Dinosaurs should hit stores next month.

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Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media for fifteen years, Jeff takes on any and all sorts of games but is especially ready to tackle roleplaying games and strategy games. He's been involved with the hobby since he was just a wee grade school lad, over four decades ago.