Dark Tower 1-4 Players 1 hour avg Milton Bradley

Dark Tower is an electronic boardgame of swords, sorcery, adventure, intrigue, and competition. The basic board layout requires you to travel through four kingdoms. In the three kingdoms outside your own, you will find, in order, a brass key, a silver key, and a gold key. Before you can progress to a new realm, you must find the key to that realm first.

If you try to exit a realm prematurely, the tower display will warn you that you have not yet found the key and revoke your turn.

During your travels about the board, you will interact for the most part with the Dark Tower electronic unit, shown here in the center of the board.

You can travel to open space regions, buildings, your citadel, or to the Dark Tower.

There are 4 types of buildings you can visit:

• The Bazaar
  At the Bazaar, you will have the opportunity to spend your hard-earned gold to purchase beasts to carry your gold, mercenaries to aid in your quest, a scout to guide you, a healer to protect your men, or food to keep your men healthy. When you purchase items at the bazaar, you may try and haggle the price down. You have about a 50% chance each time you haggle to reduce the price of the item you are bidding for.
  
  If you fail to haggle, the merchant becomes upset and closes the bazaar.
  
• The Sanctuary
  At the Sanctuary, you will be blessed with a safe place to rest. If you are low on food, gold or men, they will be more than happy to replenish your supplies free of charge.
  
  
• Ruins and The Tomb
  At the ruins and at the tomb, you will find treasure, brigands, or possibly nothing. These are the most likely places to find the keys. But beware, most often the treasure in these places will be guarded by brigands. When you encounter brigands, your warriors will immediately engage in combat.

If you survive the battle, you may have the opportunity to get one of the three keys, and/or other treasures including gold, a sword, a pegasus, or a powerful spell granted by a wizard!

You can use the gold to purchase things at the Bazaar. Use the sword to slay the mighty dragon. The pegasus allows you one free travel in a frontier or across a frontier border. Use the spell to curse one of your opponents into giving you half of all of his goodies!

You can find all of these goodies in the open spaces also, but when you travel through an open space, you also risk running into a random encounter. There are 3 types of random encounters (shown with what counters them):

LOST	PLAGUE	DRAGON
Scout	Healer	Sword

• Lost: Lose one turn. If you have the scout, you gain an extra turn.
• Plague: Lose 2 warriors. If you have the healer, you gain 2 warriors.
• Dragon: Lose 1/4 your gold and warriors. If you have the sword, you will get everything the dragon had!