Therein lies the immortal coil
Build Characters. Slay Monsters. Fight for Victory.
An ever-shifting battlescape enacts the wrath of unforgiving lands.
Low Complexity | Competitive | Dungeon Brawling
Crystal Crucible is a fantasy combat card game that uses a tile-based system to provide you with a dynamic battlefield in which you fight against monsters and other player’s characters alike.
Take your first steps of adventure in the far flung future of Earth, a world ruled by cosmically ancient and angry gods. Control a customized character who is cursed to never die, ever-bound to face the horrors of battle again and again, and guide them through the dangers of the Plaguetide Swamp, a radioactive, brackish wilderness ruled by a monstrous snail with tentacles a thousand feet long, endlessly slithering and searching the terrible marshes for prey.
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124 Cards
- 2-4 Players
- 1-2 Hour playtime
- Ages 14+
- Requires a 2x2’ play area
- Simplified TTRPG-inspired gameplay
- 96 character combinations
- 30 unique Spells
- All gameplay instructions on 16 cards
- No other components needed
- Published by Exploding Moon Press
- Created in Richmond, Va
- Printed in Northbrook, Illinois
The Mythril seed writhes: twisted, the pillars of the world shorn, broken, and maligned.
From this corruption pours the combined malice of the ages: time and insanity amok, magick untethered, monsters unleashed. Horrors fall from shattered skies, death claws from tremors below.
The Cataclysm is upon the world.
Entwined within the hollow cycle of rebirth is inescapable death.
You are a Mythrilium, doomed to die a hundred deaths and a hundred more, a living catalyst of magick, cast unceremoniously into a world verdantly polluted by the arcane.
After the decimation of our world wrought by the will of an ancient artificial species from far, far away, Earth seethes, gripped in magick, its many species beholden to the arcane's enticing tangles. Countless ages of magick induced strife and the meddling machinations of jailer gods have rendered the history you and I live forgotten, focusing this new world – Laodicea – to a destiny of inescapable degradation born from reliance upon the seeded source of all magick: mythril.
As magick rips reality apart, it is with a constant fear Mythrilium step through life, knowing that any wayward step may very well lead to deep passages, untold wonders, or certain and painful death.
It is your duty as the player to ensure your character's encounters with unrelenting, inescapable struggle are not in vain. To strike out your fear of the monstrous, enshrine your valor and might, and revel in the spoils of victory.
To achieve any form of peace in such a world is to embrace the madness of unending battle, cresting upon the bleak waves of hope. A hope that someday, some when, there will be a glorious end.
