Thank you again for supporting BloodRunes. It’s now been more than a year since we launched the original BloodRunes crowdfunding campaign and 9 months since we successfully delivered the finished product and my first Kickstarter campaign!

I’m very excited to announce the Curse of the Gods expansion which will make BloodRunes even more exciting to play!  More paths to victory!  More choices!  More BloodRunes!  The Kickstarter Prelaunch page is already up!  Click that Notify Me button on the page here to stay up to date!

I want to tell you all about Curse of the Gods, but first I have a request to make. For the upcoming Curse of the Gods crowdfunding campaign, I want to hear more of YOUR reviews and testimonials for BloodRunes.  Would you mind either replying to this email or commenting on this post and leaving a BloodRunes review?  It might be featured on the new campaign page for the expansion!

Speaking of reviews, if you haven’t yet, it would help so much if you would leave a positive review on Amazon and/or BoardGameGeek.  I’ll be scouring these reviews for use on the upcoming campaign as well.  Thanks again so much!

Now for the good stuff!  Curse of the Gods aims to keep everything people love about BloodRunes and add on all the abilities players have been asking for.  Along with the Spell River and the Rune River, there will now be an Altar of gods.  A deck of 25 unique god abilities showing three at a time will sit across the edge of the mat, unlocking previously unforeseen powers.  But these powers aren’t just available to anyone. Only casters who sacrifice one of their Fortunes can invoke the power of the gods.

These amazing abilities speed the game up a good amount, so to slow it back down to about an hour of gameplay, we’re introducing new spells called Curses that will curse other casters with a Curse in the place of where a Fortune should be, impeding their ability to win the game and allowing you to steal runes from their hand.

Curse of the Gods includes the 25 god cards, 8 curse spells, 16 colored tokens which are curses on one side but can be used as Fortunes on the other, and a couple accessories for certain god cards like a D12 with runes that works with the Eye of Odin card and Zealot tracks that work with Kvasir’s Blood allowing some of your acolytes to take two actions per turn instead of one!

Curse of the Gods is going to have a lot of great new ways to play. If you’d like to test it out and help me playtest the expansion, please let me know in the comments or reply to this email.  Your name would go in the rule book and we could play in person or online on Table Top Simulator.

Thank you again to everyone and sorry for the long email!  I get quite verbose when I’m excited about something. 🙂

Be well and Raid with glory. ⚔️