Scoundrels of Skullport
Scoundrels of Skullport is a 2013 board game expansion published by Wizards of the Coast. This is the first expansion to the popular game Lords of Waterdeep.
Overview
Scoundrels of Skullport is actually 2 expansions in one. It is undermountain and skullport. You can use either expansion you wish along with the base game to play, or you may use both expansions at the same time. If you use both expansions you also need to use the variant long game rules which give you an extra agent for use in the game from the beginning.
Gameplay
Undermountain adds a new mechanic to the game in the form of placing resources on the game board spaces. This can be things like adventurers (Fighters, Clerics, Wizards or Rogues) or even gold. The spaces are generally more powerful than normal spaces for instance one of the new buildings "The Citadel of the Bloody Hand" gives you 4 fighters when you use it (the owner gets 2 fighters) and then you must place 1 fighter on 2 different spaces on the board. When the next player puts an agent on a space where resources have been placed (a fighter in the above example) the player gets what the space would normally give them for placing there plus any resources that are on that space (a fighter from the above example).
Skullport adds another new mechanic to the game called corruption. There is a game board for corruption called the corruption tracker. There are 25 corruption points in the game, (1 on -1, 3 on -2, 3 on -3 and so on up to -9) spaces and cards will give you or remove corruption from the game or possibly even put corruption back onto the corruption tracker. At the end of the game each corruption you have is worth a number of points equal to the highest numbered empty corruption space. So if there is 1 corruption on -5 and no corruption on -4, all corruption tokens in players taverns are worth -4 points at the end of the game. The advantage to corruption is the spaces that "offer" you corruption, one of the spaces on the undermountain game board "Slavers' Market" gives you 2 fighters, 2 rogues and a corruption token when you place an agent there.
Contents
The expansion contains the following
- 3 new game boards (Skullport, Undermountain and the corruption track),
- 6 agents for a new Grey faction "The Grey Hands",
- 1 more agent for each of the colors from the base game (Black, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow)
- 25 corruption tokens
- 6 new Lords of Waterdeep cards
- 50 new Intrigue cards
- 60 new quest cards
- 24 new building tiles
- 16 adventure caravan tokens (there are 4 for each adventurer type (Fighter, Rogue, Cleric and Wizard); each caravan token counts for 5 adventurers and are used when the colored blocks are running low).
Expansion
Scoundrels of Skullport is actually 2 expansions in one box. Neither expansion can be played without the main Lords of Waterdeep board game.