Board game Trickerion: Legends of Illusion (English Version)

Enchanting worker placement about illusion and magic.

Trickerion is a competitive Euro-style strategy game set in a fictional world inspired by the urban life and culture of the late 19th century, spiced with a pinch of the supernatural. Players take on the roles of rival stage illusionists, each with their own strengths and characteristics. They strive for wealth and fame in a competition hosted by a legendary magician, seeking a successor worthy of the powerful Trickerion Stone, which allegedly grants supernatural powers to its owner. Using worker placement and simultaneous action selection mechanisms, the illusionists and their teams of helpers - the Engineer, the Assistant, the Manager, and a handful of Apprentices - acquire blueprints and components for increasingly complex magic tricks, expand their team, and arrange performances by visiting the Downtown, Dark Alley, Market Row, and Theatre locations on the main game board, which depicts a late 19th-century cityscape. The tricks are stored and prepared in the magician's personal Workshop game board, while the performances themselves take place in the Theatre in the form of a mini-game with a lot of player interaction. The performances earn their owners Fame Points and Coins, based on the tricks they consist of. Fame Points have multiple uses, but they also serve as a winning condition - after Turn 7, when the last Performance card is revealed, the game ends and the illusionist with the most Fame Points wins. The game offers 48 different tricks from the Optical, Spiritual, Mechanical, and Escape categories, over 90 character abilities, and 40 Special Assignment cards that influence actions at various game locations. The base game can be expanded with two optional rule modules to add further strategic depth to the game. The "Dark Alley" expansion in the base game adds a new location to the game. It also includes 48 new Special Assignment cards, a new tier of tricks, and 27 Prophecy Tokens that can alternately change certain game rules, adding extra variety to the game.

Game Summary:
Trickerion is a demanding, atmospherically dense strategy game for expert players. The game offers so many choices for an action that there is always more to do than you can accomplish. This makes the decisions about which action is necessary in a given game situation all the more tricky and exciting.Do I send my assistants to procure building materials or directly to the workshop to build and prepare magic tricks? Which assistants do I use for this, and which magic schools do they still need to complete? These are questions players constantly ask themselves. Skilled resource planning and scarcity management are necessary to master the game to some extent and get one over on the rival illusionist. In addition, there is already an extensive expansion set for the game, which includes new game variants and numerous improved game materials. It also optimizes the game for two players.