Trogdor!! The Board Game

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The photo from @StrongBadActual

The unfinished box art

This article is about the board game. For other uses, see Trogdor (disambiguation).

Trogdor!! or Trogdor: The Board Game is an upcoming board game adaptation of TROGDOR!, made by The Brothers Chaps and James Ernest. It will be put on Kickstarter in July 2018, and will be available six to nine months later. The game is for two to six players, and is said to be made by Boardelectrix. The box art is by Chris Schweizer. The game pieces are sculpted by Rick Van Velsor, the person who sculpted the collectible figurines.

History

On September 29, 2017, Strong Bad posted a cottage being 3D-printed on his Instagram account, the first indication of the board game. He later posted a CG model of Trogdor being rendered. After that, he posted small pictures of the game board. A "Slantwise" card was revealed on January 24, 2018, in The Deleteheads Download Vol. 1.

The game was confirmed on March 19, 2018, by both the Index Page and the @StrongBadActual Twitter account, with a photo of the board. More cards were revealed on @StrongBadActual the same day in a reply. It was playable every day from 12 PM to 2 PM in Kickstarter Couchland (room 103) of PAX East. During The Brothers Chaps' panel at PAX East, they revealed much more information about it. An advertisement video was posted on @StrongBadActual on June 12, 2018, announcing the release date of July. A dedicated webpage was made for it on June 29, 2018. There will also be a playtest at Gen Con.

Instructions

It is a cooperative game in which each player controls Trogdor, assuming the role of a Keeper of Trogdor. Each Keeper has unique powers and items, both decided by cards. The goal is to burninate all of the game tiles, thatched-roof cottages, and peasants. The board game is a 5-by-5 grid of green square tiles with rounded edges. The game tiles resemble locations in Peasantry, such as rocks, tree stumps, tunnels, mountains, yellow trees, berry bushes, orange trees, flowers, fenced-off areas, Kerrek's footprints, and a lake. The tiles can be burninated by flipping them over, and the burninated side is black and fiery. The cottages can be burninated by flipping the roof, which has a flame underneath. The peasants can be burninated by putting a flaming helmet on them, and they leave a flaming path when they're moved.

There are three cottages on the board, and one peasant on each cottage tile. Before a cottage is burninated, the surrounding tiles must be burninated. If an unburninated peasant walks into a burninated cottage or another burninated peasant, the unburninated peasant is burninated. The player has a choice to eat or burninate peasants (although a peasant can't be eaten until its tile has been burninated). If a peasant is burninated, it leaves a flaming trail around the board before disappearing. If a peasant is eaten, it will be added to the "The Bowels of Trogdor", which represents Trogdor's health. It starts with four peasants, but can hold up to seven. If Trogdor is hurt, a peasant will be removed (causing his health to decrease). If the Bowels of Trogdor decreases to zero, the game is over, and the players have one last chance to try to destroy everything. Trogdor can be harmed by the two knights, and the archers Mendelev and Dongolev. After three "Trog-Hammer" cards are drawn from the Action card pile, a third knight comes out and makes the game more difficult. The Trog-Hammer knight is placed in the center of the board. If a knight is already occupying that space, a movement card is drawn and the first knight is moved immediately.

Each player starts with one Action card. Each turn, the player draws another Action card, and chooses between using their banked card or their new card. If the banked card is chosen, the new card becomes the banked card. Each Action card has a number of "action points" and a special ability (for example, moving diagonally). Action points can be used to move, burninate the tile Trogdor occupies, or use the Action card ability. Trogdor can only move one tile at a time, and can't move diagonally (without a specific Action card). If Trogdor is on a mountain tile, he can use an Action point to hide in the mountains (with the Trogdor game piece lying down). If Trogdor is on a tunnel tile, he can use an Action point to warp to the other cave.

After each turn, the player draws a movement card. Each movement card has directions for unburninated peasants (usually one or two moves, such as "north" or "north, west"), and directions for burninated peasants, knights, and archers (three or four moves, such as "north, east, north" or "west, south, south, west"). If a peasant, knight, or archer reaches the end of the board, they wrap around to the other side. When the archers' movement is finished, they shoot arrows along and opposite the direction of their last movement (so if their last movement was "west", they'd shoot arrows west and east), hurting Trogdor if he is in their path, but not harming peasants or knights. Trogdor is not harmed if he is on the same tile as the archers when they shoot. Peasants can regenerate at unburninated cottages (taken from the Bowels of Trogdor) if the number of peasants on the movement card is higher than the number of peasants on the board. If a movement card has a green arrow and says "move and repair", peasants and knights can repair any burninated cottage tiles they land on. If a movement card has a red arrow, burninated cottages aren't repaired.

Cards

Action Cards

Image	Name	Description	AP
	Consummate V's	Trogdor has diagonal movement for this turn!	4
Unknown	Extra Actions	Description unknown. The player gets seven actions.	7
Four shaded tiles adjacent to Trogdor being flipped	Flip 'em Up Dan!	After all Trogdor's actions, you may flip all 4 adjacent tiles, regardless of their burnination status.	5
Four shaded tiles diagonal to Trogdor being flipped	Flip 'em Up Fran!	After all Trogdor's actions, you may flip all 4 diagonal tiles, regardless of their burnination status.	5
Trogdor, drawn with dotted lines, behind a knight	Invisibility!	Trogdor can't be hurt by Knights during his actions. Does not apply to Knights' movement.	4
Unknown	Jhonka Help	Description unknown. Jhonka squishes any peasant on the board, regardless of their location.	6
Trogdor in front of the board, surrounded by majesty lines	Majesty!	1 AP: Burninate any tile on the board.	5
Trogdor burninating a path of tiles (east, east, north, east, east)	Path o' Burnination	Skip the whole turn! Draw one movement card to give Trogdor a burnination path. He burns only tiles.	0
Unknown	Sidewise	Description unknown. Trogdor can burninate an adjacent tile.	6
	Slantwise!	At any point during actions, burninate a diagonal tile. Not an action	Unknown
Trogdor surrounded by flowers	Smell the Daisies	If Trogdor ends this turn on a flower tile, the next player gets 3 extra action points.	4
Trogdor floating over the board, with a cloud on each side of him	Wingaling	Before Trogdor's actions, you may jump to any space on the board.	3
Trogdor on the left side of the board, with an arrow wrapping around to the right side	Wraparound	Trogdor has wraparound movement for this turn!	5

Keeper Cards

Item Cards

"Turn Steps" Card

Turn Steps

1. DRAW a card from the
   Trogdeck
2. Take your ACTIONS
3. DRAW a card from the
   Movement Deck
4. SPAWN a Peasant?
5. MOVE Peasants
6. MOVE Knights
7. MOVE Archer & Shoot
8. SAVOR the HAVOC

Gallery

A prototype cottage being printed	Trogdor's prototype 3D model	A heavily-filtered photo	Trogdor's shadow	The "Slantwise" card	The "Consummate V's" card	Uncolored prototype Trogdor game pieces	A sculpt of the new Trogdor game piece
The Trogdor game piece	The uncolored peasant game piece	The uncolored burninated peasant game piece	The uncolored archers game piece	The uncolored burninated cottage game piece	The uncolored knight game piece	The uncolored "Trog-Hammer" knight game piece	All game pieces with the Store figurines

Appearances

• Debut: Instagram
• The Deleteheads Download Vol. 1
• @StrongBadActual

External Links

• forum thread re: "Trogdor!!"