"Don't Let It Die" is a cooperative survival game based on early humanity's struggles to cement their place at the top of the food chain. You will gather resources & food, fight deadly predators, and learn the mysteries of fire. Your task is a difficult one, but no matter what happens, remember: Don’t let it die…
Game Design by Dustin Hendrickson - Editing by Kyle McCarley
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Your tribe consists of 4 characters, all taking turns to search for resources, fight off dangerous animals, unlock new discoveries, and working together to keep the fire alive!
"Don't Let It Die" was designed from the ground up to offer a re-playable, interactive, strategic cooperative experience for 1-4 players. The key to victory lies in your group's ability to adapt to the ever-present and always changing threats of prehistoric life. Should you focus on hunting and foraging to feed your starving tribe? Or should you be more concerned with supplying the dwindling fire with more wood? Perhaps constructing a weapon or tool might ease the stress of gathering resources...
These choices and more await you in what will surely be the ultimate test of survival.
With 17 characters that all have unique skills and specialties, you'll have over 2,380 combinations of mix-and-match strategies to plan out. Try experimenting with different characters to find your group's favorite play style!
Brave the wilds to collect resources such as berries, plant fiber, rocks, meat, wood, hide and bone! Cooperate with each other by planning the best use of the scarce resources you find.
Some characters have skills that will assist you to obtain resources more easily. Equip them with items and unlock new discoveries to uncover their true potential!
The core box comes with 4 different Fire Knowledge Trees to play against. To win the game your tribe must investigate the fire to learn its secrets before it burns out. Each discovery will help you to survive another day, and unlocking the ultimate discovery, "Fire Starter," means victory!
Fire Knowledge Points, or FKP, are earned by spending stamina to roll the Fire Die, which awards anywhere from 0-3 FKP tokens per roll. You may then spend your FKP on Discoveries which help the entire group.
You will need to craft various tools, weapons, and buildings to be able to survive long enough to learn the fire's secrets. Tools will assist you in obtaining resources, while weapons will help you to survive encounters with Danger! cards, providing meat from killing the attacking predators and preventing some if not all damage taken from skirmishes. There are also extremely beneficial buildings you can craft to aid the whole tribe, but choose wisely: you may only build one per game!
33 Double Sided Item Cards
2 Double Sided Fire Knowledge Tree Mats
(1 Easy,2 Normal,1 Hard)
1 Day Tracker Mat
1 6 Sided Fire Die
1 Fire Pit Card
1 First Player Card
1 Current Day Marker
1 Player Helper Reference Mat
1 14-Page Rulebook
56 Resource Tokens
40 FKP / Unlocked Tokens
37 Resource Cards
27 Night Event Cards
4 Character Mats
17 Character Cards
4 HP Markers
4 Stamina Markers
8 Max HP & Stamina Markers
8 Skill Used Markers
As an extra easter egg I included the Thunk token and a Map of the Valley on the backside of the Player Helper mat.
While this offers no immediate game play value, I'm excited to see what kind of amazing custom rules and mechanics you come up with for it!
Here's some rules I came up with using them to get you started on ideas.
• At the start of each characters turn, place a token on the Camp area to represent them.
• Instead of spending Stamina to draw from the resource decks as usual, spend 1 Stamina to move the token one area to the right or left.
• You may spend 1 Stamina to draw a resource card listed on the top of your current area (Hunting and Harvesting actions still require proper Items equipped).
• After fighting a Danger! card, move the token back to camp.
• The Investigate Fire, Crafting, Cooking and Trading actions can only be performed while in the Camp area.
