Make extravagant claims for how you will conquer the dungeon, then try to make good.
Designer: Donald X. Vaccarino
Artist: Luis Francisco, Carlos Romanos
Publisher: Indie Boards & Cards
Gauntlet of Fools is an adventure game of skill and fortune for 2-6 that plays in under 30 minutes. Choose your hero from hundreds of possible combinations. You'll make ridiculous boasts to get the best hero – but every boast comes at a cost. How awesome is your knight with a flaming sword after you boast that he'll fight blindfolded with a hangover?
You'll find out in the gauntlet: fifty encounters that will kill you. That's right. You will die, fool! But even a fool wants his gold, and the monsters have it. Roll a handful of dice, slay a monster, get its treasure. Die with the most gold to win the game.
The contents of Gauntlet of Fools is:
20 class cards
20 weapon cards
50 encounter cards
30 dice
30 boasts tokens (5 of each)
20 wound tokens
50 gold tokens
..1-value: 24 tokens
..5 value: 12 tokens
..10-value: 12 tokens
..25-value: 2 tokens
41 ability tokens
28 penalty tokens
30 bonus tokens
Playmat
Rulebook
Play example appendix