#enchanted ivy

[theindoorsman]

Mountain Goats Legacy and Enchanted Ivy Live Play

The Dice Tower plays two new games coming out from Allplay, Mountain Goats Legacy and Enchanted Ivy. Check out the Kickstarter Campaign now!

I’m not gonna lie but I was not excited at all about the Enchanted Ivy portion of this Kickstarter until I watched this (3-player!) solo play through. Now, I’m more excited for it than I am for the headlining game!

And, I see a potential for future iterations of the game. It wouldn’t be too difficult to warp this into Enchanted Ivy Duel. Increase the card count and make it a race to attract the inhabitants ( scoring options).

Increase the card count further and you could make a multiplayer version. Maybe snake-draft the cards and player-count-minus-1 the inhabitants….

💭

I am excited for Mountain Goats Legacy, too. Mountain Goats is a staple evening closing game for me and it’s intriguing to me to think of a gateway legacy game.

(Allplay Kickstarters always work out this way for me. I had zero interest in A Message from the Stars but backed the whole kickstarter anyway because of the package “deal,” And that’s the one from that batch I’ ve played the most, for example.)

[wallflowerglitter]

She’s totally a human-dryad hybrid isn’t she?

[sarahbethdurst]

RACE THE SANDS Book Necklace Countdown: Book 4

I'm counting down to the publication of my 20th book, RACE THE SANDS, out 4/21, by sharing pics of each #booknecklace my husband gave me to celebrate each of my prior books...

Book 4 (YA): ENCHANTED IVY is about getting into college. And talking gargoyles and were-tigers... It's set at Princeton University so my #booknecklace is a Princeton tiger.

There's a legend at Princeton that if you walk out the front gate before commencement, you won't graduate. That's what inspired ENCHANTED IVY, except I said if you walk out the gate, you cross into an alternate magical Princeton.

[avalonarchive]

*continues reading YA fantasy book set in an Ivy League school*

Super Secret Alumni Association President: So you learned the secret of your dad’s death, Protagonist.

Protagonist: Yeah. Stone Dragon From a Parallel World killed him instead of me.

SSAAP: Well ... that was kind of a mistake. You were supposed to die.

Protagonist: Wait ... what?

SSAAP: Yeah, we kinda need you dead so I can prove to the SSAA that relations between our world and parallel!Ivy League!Earth will never work. That’s why I’ve organized all these attacks against you during your Scavenger Hunt.

Protagonist: Oh, dick move there. But you can’t kill me, because you won’t be able to save your son from the Queen of the Plants.

SSAAP: Sucks to be him, then. Vampiric Fairy From a Parallel World, go kill Protagonist.

Protagonist: Awwwwwww crap.

[avalonarchive]

*continues reading YA fantasy book set in an Ivy League school*

Protagonist: Hail, Queen of the Plants! Who just happens to be my grandma.

Queen of the Plants: Hello, Protagonist. What brings you to parallel!Ivy League world?

Protagonist: I’m looking for the cure to my mum’s amnesia.

QP: Well, she needs to return here, and she’ll get her memories back.

Protagonist: Awesome.

QP: Oh, and your Love Interests are long-lost brothers.

Male Love Interests: Wait ... what?

[avalonarchive]

*continues reading YA fantasy book set at an Ivy League school*

Super Secret Alumni Association: Congratulations, Protagonist! You solved the scavenger hunt and discovered you were the MacGuffin all along! Welcome to our Ivy League school!

Protagonist: Thanks! But what’s up with the magical parallel universe Ivy League school?

SSAA: Oh, we used to have this trans-dimensional exchange program. No big deal. Now come check out this machine that sucks magic out of magical creatures!

Protagonist: Wait ... this magic looks suspiciously like the anti-psychotic medicine my mum and I take.

SSAA: Yeah, about that -- your mum’s a plant from parallel!Ivy League world, and you’re half plant. So you kinda need magic to live. And we kinda need the magic to fight the monsters from that parallel world. So ... yeah.

Protagonist: I’m gonna need to think about this...

[avalonarchive]

*continues reading YA fantasy book set in an Ivy League college*

Protagonist: Argh I have to do this Scavenger Hunt / Elaborate LARP so I can get into this Ivy League School. Now where’s the MacGuffin I need to find?

Talking Statue From a Parallel World: Protagonist, you are the MacGuffin.

[And then Protagonist was a zombie?]

[avalonarchive]

*starts reading fantasy book set in an Ivy League school*

Super Secret Alumni Association: Hey, prospective student! We can guarantee your admission to our Ivy League university!

Protagonist: Yay!

SSAA: You just have to complete this scavenger hunt.

Protagonist: Um ... what if I fail?

SSAA: Then you’ll just have to go through undergrad admissions like everyone else. And you don’t get to join the SSAA.

Protagonist: Well, that ain’t so bad--

SSAA: THE PLOT COMPELS YOU TO DO THE SCAVENGER HUNT.

Protagonist: OK I’ll do the scavenger hunt!

SSAA: Good...