Unboxing Thursdays - Garden Guests & Hostage Negotiator: Career

*Sponsored by our friends @ Van Ryder Games*

Unboxing Thursdays we open, learn, and play games as we add them to our library. 

This Thursday we are playing and learning Garden Guests &  Hostage Negotiator: Career.

Hostage Negotiator: Career: 8.3

Hostage Negotiator: Career is an expansion for the Hostage Negotiator system that requires the Hostage Negotiator base game, Hostage Negotiator: Crime Wave, and multiple Abductor Packs to play.

In this culmination of the Hostage Negotiator series, you will play ten years in the life of a negotiator — that is if you don't retire in shame sooner. In each "year" or campaign round of the game, you will resolve a career card that presents you with some narrative event that relates to or could impact your career based on the choice you make. Then, in most but not all years, you will be called to the scene of the latest hostage situation. Now, the result of each negotiation will impact the overall campaign and you'll be tracking your career stress, your personal stress, your merit level (for promotions), and your rank, among other things.

After the negotiation, you resolve a personal card and are once again faced with a narrative event to resolve and, based on the result of your negotiation in that "year", will be rewarded (or reprimanded) accordingly.

Garden Guests: NEW

In Garden Guests, players compete to form a continuous path across a garden board that features beautiful paper-cut art.

On a turn, each player on a team — a team can be one or multiple players — can draw cards, give cards to a teammate, or use their cards to build a tower or extend their path. Towers are necessary in order to create a path between your base and a tower, or from one tower to another — but if you haven't yet connected a tower to your path, your opponents can take it if they have cards to make a larger tower.

To make a path, a player must play cards that match the colors of each space in the path. Once a path is made, it is permanent, and your opponent may have to wind their own path around yours.

The first team to make a path all the way across the board wins!

Join us Thursday, November 30th at 6:00 pm for this special Unboxing Thursday Event. See you soon!

*This event requires a 1-Day Membership, credit will be applied back for qualifying purchases. Current Members are always free for this event.*