Capes & Cowls, whose full title is Capes & Cowls: Adventures in Wyrd City and which is often shortened to C&C, is an expandable superhero board game presented as a book in a box. It is based on Capes & Cowls: The Wyrd City Chronicles, a work by Robin Spriggs. Wyrd House Press released it commercially in 2006, but according to the publisher, Jazz Lieberman, the game had been in private circulation for well over a decade before that. Being expandable, the game is designed to grow beyond its first box. It is notable for combining a literary setting with tabletop play, and for having circulated privately for years before its commercial release.
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Playing Time Game Category Game Category Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
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1. Capes & Cowls (Wikipedia)
Lead
expandable "book-in-a-box" superhero board game
Lead [origin-year]
commercial release by Wyrd House Press in 2006
Gameplay
superhero skirmish game for two to four players
View the Source2. Capes & Cowls: The Superhero Board Game (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 60
- Designer: Robin Spriggs
- Publisher: Wyrd House
- Game Category: Adventure
- Game Category: Comic Book / Strip
- Game Category: Fighting
- Game Mechanic: Modular Board
- Game Mechanic: Open Drafting
- Game Mechanic: Role Playing
- Game Mechanic: Variable Player Powers
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 4
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