Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread

Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread is an open world, campaign-based, co-operative, fantasy-based, "green legacy" role-playing board game. The game of Arydia is built on four design pillars: Exploration, Progression, Combat, and Role-playing.

• Exploration — Arydia is an open world to  explore as you wish. Make your way across the world map, discovering new  locations, interacting with memorable characters, fighting vicious  monsters, and scavenging long-lost treasures. The world pulls you in  through detailed descriptions and vivid artwork for each place you  visit. Every location is unique, not randomized, and is built piece by  piece as you explore.

• Progression — Arydia is played as a  campaign over the course of a number of game sessions; you start each  session right where you left off! As you play, the game keeps track of  your actions and decisions. Your characters will grow in power,  collecting new items, weapons, and skills. NPCs and locations will  change, depending on how you interact with them. All of this progression  is done using a simple, but powerful, index system, which allows for  quick and easy set-up and tear down.

• Combat — Many of the locations you'll visit in  Arydia are hostile, so you'll need your weapons, skills, and  co-operation to overcome the challenges you encounter! Arydia  features a tactical, co-operative combat system. Enemies are controlled  by game cards and dice, while you and your companions work together to  defeat them.

• Role-playing — Take on the roles of a wide  cast of characters as you encounter them throughout your journeys. Step  into the shoes of a disgruntled shop owner, sniffling brat, or a  poorly-dressed bandit leader. The incentive-based role-play system  encourages you to engage in dramatic storytelling, without being  intrusive.

As for being a "green legacy" game, publisher Far Off Games notes that Arydia features all the hallmarks of a legacy game — packages to open, hidden  information, progression, discovery, exploration, all the while wrapping  it in high-quality components — but allows you to reset the game when  you have completed it so that you can start again or pass it on to  someone else.