Citadel of Blood, subtitled Fantastic Adventure in the Fortress of Evil, is a cooperative fantasy dungeon crawl board game for one to six players published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1980. It began life as a variant built on the mechanics of SPI's earlier dungeon crawl game Deathmaze, originally designed by Greg Costikyan and Redmond A. Simonsen, before Eric Smith reworked and repackaged the system as its own standalone title. Players guide adventurers through a maze of dungeon rooms and corridors represented on a grid map, fighting monsters, collecting treasure and searching for a way out of the fortress, a format that anticipated the tile and card based dungeon crawl board games that became far more common in the hobby decades later.
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Playing Time PublisherSPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.) 3 Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game MechanicScenario / Mission / Campaign Game 3 Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player Count Player Count Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
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1. Board Game Matcher: Citadel of Blood
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Citadel of Blood is a board game for 1-6 players
2. Citadel of Blood (Wikipedia)
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Citadel of Blood, subtitled "Fantastic Adventure in the Fortress of Evil," is a dungeon-crawl board game published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1980.
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is a dungeon-crawl board game published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1980
View the Source3. Citadel of Blood (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 120
- Designer: Eric Lee Smith
- Publisher: Encore
- Publisher: Hobby Japan
- Publisher: SharpSharkGames
- Publisher: SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
- Game Category: Adventure
- Game Category: Exploration
- Game Category: Fantasy
- Game Category: Fighting
- Game Category: Maze
- Game Category: Wargame
- Game Mechanic: Cooperative Game
- Game Mechanic: Dice Rolling
- Game Mechanic: Events
- Game Mechanic: Modular Board
- Game Mechanic: Paper-and-Pencil
- Game Mechanic: Role Playing
- Game Mechanic: Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game
- Game Mechanic: Tile Placement
- Game Mechanic: Variable Player Powers
- Game Mechanic: Variable Set-up
- Minimum Players: 1
- Maximum Players: 6
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