Designer: James Hron
Artist: Emily Fairchild
Create and draw your mine to dig deep, earn treasure and glory, and defeat the monsters of the mountain!
Dwarf Mine is a game about drawing and designing a mine, uncovering treasure, and surviving the dangers of the mountain.
In Dwarf Mine, you will draw your mine on graph paper, roll dice to determine what gold, gems, or other treasure you’ve discovered, and (hopefully) defeat monsters in combat, keeping your mine alive and thriving!
By the end of the game, you’ll have created rich and unique history for your mine – no two games are the same!
Expansions
Artifacts and Curses Expansion
Barrier Mountains Map
Magestone Mountain Map
Underdark Map
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What’s in the Game
- Draw your mine your way – in Dwarf Mine, you have the freedom to draw your mine exactly the way you want. The game allows you to explore different strategies of building a mine – perhaps digging wide, avoiding more dangerous monsters but not gathering as much treasure – or perhaps digging deep, braving the dangers of the mountain but collecting more treasure!
- Treasure and Combat Lists – four different treasure and combat lists to roll on, depending on the current depth of your mine.
- 16 Rooms – Sixteen different rooms to choose from to add to your mine, allowing you to customize your mine and build rooms to benefit your dwarves how to want!
- 4 Expansions – Four different expansions are included in the base game, including rules for creating a bespoke mountain to mine in, more bosses to fight, a bloodlines expansion that give your dwarf leader special abilities, and more rooms, bringing the base gameplay total up to 16 rooms.
- Dwarf Name Generator – A fun dwarf name generator included in the bloodlines expansion.
- Room Name Generator – A fun generator that helps name the rooms of your mine in thematic ways.
- Achievements List – An achievements list, giving you the opportunity to earn achievements based on what you accomplish as you build your mine across multiple plays!
How to Play
You can watch a play session on Youtube, outlining how to play Dwarf Mine.
Media, Awards and Reviews
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