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By Hook or by Crook, or The Gilded Cage

By Hook or by Crook, or The Gilded Cage by Aleks Samoylov

a tabletop game about trying to escape from superficially pleasant but sinister villages

"We all live in our own Prisones," Brendan Nelson plays an inmate who is trapped by the "gilded cage." The game requires two or more players and some tokens with a six-sided dice roll, but can also be played digitally. EXPLANATION OF THE GILED CAGE:The Gilldede Cage trope involves being imprisoned in a pleasant yet dangerous place due to unclear motivations of an entity/organization that has trapped you there for unknown reasons and your goal is either escape or discovering the truth behind it all, making use out-of-character narrations as story elements.

Price:

$4.99

Rating:

5.00 (from 5 reviews)

Published:

https://thealeks.itch.io/gildedcage - @Aleks_S

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