Altar Quest is a cooperative game of fantasy adventure inspired by the classic dungeon crawling board games that many of us grew up with. Using the Modular Deck System (MDS), introduced in Street Masters and Brook City, the game features incredibly modular gameplay using several different types of decks. Hero decks, threat decks, villain decks, and quest decks can all be mixed and matched along with altar cards, feature cards, and other game elements to create countless combinations of unique adventures. With an engaging one-off experience and narrative campaign play, Altar Quest offers players endless adventure in a unique fantasy setting with years of support planned for the game.

Whether playing an individual quest or part of a campaign, each quest is made up of a combination of several different decks and other game elements. Heroes must complete the goal set out by the chosen quest deck in order to win the game.
They must overcome several obstacles during the quest determined by the chosen threat deck and villain deck, as well as the deck of lurker cards. If any hero is defeated, the heroes lose the game.


Altar Quest takes place mainly in a realm called Aridika—a land of high fantasy and Gothic horror. As players dive deeper into the game, they’ll learn about the deep lore and many mysteries that hide within the shadows of Aridika and the world of Rhuna. Designers Adam & Brady Sadler have been developing the world of Rhuna since their early days of playing Dungeons & Dragons, and are excited to share it and expand it with Altar Quest.
[h=1]Altars[/h] The world of Rhuna was created by powers called “rhunes”—godlike essences that came together to create all existence. Mortals were never intended to wield the untempered powers of rhunes, so they were crystallized deep within the earth to keep the lands above in balance. Unfortunately, evil finds a way, and deep below Aridika where the lich queen Szera slumbers, the rhunestones have been corrupted and forced to the surface. These altars are worshipped by power-hungry opportunists that use the rhunic energies surrounding them to further their own nefarious plans…
During each quest, the chosen altar card will constantly affect the state of the altar pool. The altar pool is made up of 5 altar dice that are rolled at the start of the quest. Each altar die has 6 unique sides, each one containing a rhune symbol. These rhunes are used by the heroes, as well as the enemies, to trigger special effects. After an effect is triggered by a rhune symbol, the altar die showing that symbol is rolled and the new symbol is added to the altar pool. Players will have to balance using their rhune effects with making sure they aren’t empowering the enemy too much.

[h=1]Incredibly Modular[/h] Featuring the versatile Modular Deck System (MDS) that the Sadlers first introduced with Street Masters, the variability of Altar Quest is one of its key features. Players will have a world to explore by mixing hero decks, villain decks, threat decks, and quest decks with fluctuating feature decks to keep the environments fresh. Players can create their ideal game scenarios by matching up decks of their choice, or leave it to fate and embark on a randomized quest!
[h=1]Truly Solo, Truly Cooperative[/h] Altar Quest features an elegant player scaling solution built into the core design of the game, which means one player can play the game as easily as up to four, with no exceptions or special rules.
[h=1]Three Great Ways to Play[/h] While Altar Quest is designed to be a satisfying one-off adventure, players can also embark on an epic campaign by linking their quests together, earning upgraded cards for their decks, finding new equipment, and facing new challenges with enemy upgrades. Additionally, stories allow players to explore the vibrant setting of Aridika by playing through a story deck using the campaign rules.

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[h=1]Welcome to the Awful Orphanage, or as it is otherwise known, Mrs Prendergasts Home for Wayward Children.[/h] A place where children are to be neither seen, or heard ... from again!

Now, normally one wouldn’t use words like “rotten”, “grave” or “dark” when describing a building. However, nothing is normal about the forboding Orphanage. The sign over its cast iron gates reads Mrs Prendergast's Home for Wayward Children yet nobody has ever seen the children in the grounds.
Founded by Mrs. Elspeth Prendergast in a time where everything looked bleak and dreadful, many folks thought that it would be a perfect place for those wretched homeless street urchins to grow up. How wrong that turned out to be...
Now, the townsfolk see figures walking around the house through the windows and shuffling henchmen guarding the perimeters. Various whispers on the streets of Victorian London say that no-one ever leaves that place. They might suspect that something isn’t right, but no one will dare to say it out loud. Hushed talk about a tall fellow that seems to float through the building and a ghastly green glow emanating from one room.The last man that dared to speak up, has been missing ever since.
Every child who is a resident of the place nicknamed “The Awful Orphanage” will gladly tell you about all the terrors that lurk in that wretched building, if you can find one to talk to you that is.
So, we have asked some brave writers to do just that; to find all the scraps of information that might have leaked from that dreaded house. Maybe someone has seen something! The fact that no one has seen the children will hopefully not mean that their stories will be left untold...
Workhouse Games has teamed up with luminary authors including Gav Thorpe, Graham McNeill, Mark Latham, Sarah Cawkwell, Nick Kyme, Ben Counter and Aaron Dembski-Bowden to create a beautiful anthology of short stories that explore and expand the stories and happenings in The Awful Orphanage and the forthcoming Hollow Earth tabletop skirmish game.

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