Way To Go, Thamar: The Riot Quest Timeline

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That’s a nice Iron Kingdoms you got there. Sure would be a shame if someone…blew it all to hell and back.

The release of our newest game, Riot Quest, is rapidly approaching. You might have heard of us talk about this game, but if you haven’t, let me give you a quick rundown. Riot Quest is a hybrid hobby miniature-board game set in a post-apocalyptic alternate timeline of the Iron Kingdoms. This hex-based arena skirmish game is packed full of mayhem and chaos.

You bring a team of scavengers, represented by miniatures, as well as some gear upgrades to the table. Here you fight against up to three other players in a dynamically changing arena where you can never be too sure which trap, treasure, or tribulation is going to be pop up next.

The Gang’s all here

A shared market of Bounty cards are randomly dealt out each game, with two cards always available at a time. These cards detail what effects they have on the arena, how to score them, and how many points they are worth. When a player scores one, that player grabs the card, and a new Bounty appears. This means that no two games of Riot Quest are ever played out the same.

We’ll be talking a lot more in detail about the specific gameplay of Riot Quest in the near future, but in today’s Insider, I wanted to focus on something different. What the hell happened exactly to make things such a mess in this timeline.

Can’t we all just get along?!

Well it goes a little something like this: humanity in the Iron Kingdoms was never really supposed to have access to magic. Humans aren’t the most careful or responsible creatures. There was no telling what humans would do if they could wield magic—probably something absurd like create giant magical death machines and go to war with each other. Ya know…like they did.

But along come the Orgoth, and they royally screw up everything for everyone. All of humanity in western Immoren is enslaved. It’s a bad time with lots of sad music playing in the background. So, what does one of the gods of humanity do? Comes up with the brilliant idea to make a deal with literal otherworldly soul-claiming horrors to get humanity full access to magic.

Great job, Thamar.

Humanity blows the Orgoth up with their fancy new magic, obvs, and then guess what they do? They start blowing each other up. And who would have guessed it, they built giant magical death machines in the process. This goes on for like…a while, until those otherworldly soul-claiming horrors show back up wanting their half of the bargain. That half being a boatload of human souls.

You probably know these alien monsters by a different name at this point: Infernals. Well, as you know, humanity likes keeping their own souls, so a bunch of them buddy up and fight back valiantly against the Infernal invasion. It’s all very heroic with lots of really epic music playing in the background.

Well, in Riot Quest, they lose.

Yup. Riot Quest represents the timeline in which the Infernals not only got what they wanted but killed a whole mess of people who tried to fight back in the process. Cities got razed, fields were turned to ash, everything just sort of went…boom.

Thanks, Thamar.

What’s left behind are the toughest and cagiest survivors imaginable. Now that nearly everyone’s gone, there’s no one left guarding the vaults, watching the supply depots, protecting the world. So, what do you do when you’ve been left behind in a shattered world?

Gorman the Mad is ready to get paid!

You get rich. Survivors have banded together into scavenger teams, racing across a ruined landscape in search of wealth and power. Some just want gold (though who can say where they’ll actually spend it?), some want scraps of mechanika to cobble together their own gear, and some just want to fight for the fun of it.

You can build your own scavenger team and join in on the mayhem very soon! Riot Quest is pre-releasing at Gen Con 2019, with a full global release shortly after. Keep an eye on the Privateer website and our weekly Twitch streams, where we’re going to showing you a whole lot more in the coming months!

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