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Kabula Review — Satire RPG for All Sorts of Fantasies
Unbelievable stupidity and satire awaits in this tabletop adventure board game for 2-6 players where players must compete to steal the Kabula tree of immortality before killing the Herald, a big bad evil monster! Traverse a sandbox island full of dungeons, monsters, and loot as you level up enough to be able to steal the Kabula tree and defeat the Herald. The thing is though, the presentation of Kabula is insanely outlandish. There's flavor text everywhere, and your progression and mechanics have hilarious explanations behind them. Exp is essentially hashtag tokens to progress personality build paths, and resource management is tied to specific body part pieces like legs for movement. However, as a kickstarter prototype, there's also some jank that's not intentional like a rulebook that needs work and some busted items/abilities that aren't exactly balanced. Then again, for a board game as goofy as Kabula, the focus probably isn't on making crazy strategic engines and outplays, but rather a streamlined experience of exploring hexes and doing dumb stuff with very little downtime, and Kabula holds very true to time for board game night!
Check out the kickstarter prelaunch link! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1142500370/kabula
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Table of Contents:
Intro - (0:00)
Overview - (0:29)
How to Play - (1:16)
Pros - (3:52)
Cons - (20:13)
Tentative Score - (33:38)
Ashton's Personal Score - (38:05)
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