Review: Guild Master, fantasy board game where players take control of competing adventuring guilds
Channel: Tabletop Bellhop
Date: 19/09/2021

Become the most famous guild in the land by recruiting the right heroes, completing contracts and upgrading your guildhall. In Guild Master, players manage a fantasy adventuring guild competing with other guilds to become the most famous guild in the land. They do this by improving their guildhall, hiring adventurers and completing contracts. Things get interesting when two or more guilds compete, driving up the cost of building, upping the bidding for adventurers, or trying to complete the same contracts at the same time. In some cases, your guilds can agree to work together but watch out for that inevitable betrayal. 

Guild Master was designed by Chris Antony and features artwork by Andrew Bosley, Aleksandar Mihajlovic, and Yamandú Daniel Orce. It plays two to four players in under two hours. It was published in 2020 by Good Games Publishing. Guild Master has an MSRP of $49.99

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Disclosure: Thanks to Good Games Publishing for sending us a review copy of this game to check out. No other compensation was provided.

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Timestamps:

00:00 INTRODUCTION AND SHORT GAME OVERVIEW
01:16 COMPONENT OVERVIEW
02:51 OVERVIEW OF PLAY
18:31 OUR THOUGHTS ON GUILD MASTER
25:36 SHOULD YOU PICK UP GUILD MASTER?
28:23 CLOSING 

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From the publisher:

Scheme. Build. Adventure.

Trouble is on the rise. And for adventuring guilds this spells opportunity.

Start with a small group of adventurers with different skills. Plan and prioritise their every move. Hire new adventurers to build on & expand your strengths. Weigh the risks of taking on increasingly difficult contracts to earn fame and fortune. Hire labourers to upgrade your guild to expand your reach, but get in fast before their price goes up. Simultaneous action planning and sequenced resolution with prisoners’ dilemma conflict resolution helps you co-operate with rivals or contest them to win contracts.

You can’t do it all, so set your priorities and know when to take risks to get ahead.

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