Will You Brave These Vast Lands and Prevail as Sovereign?
The Ultimate 4x Fantasy Board Game Experience
1-6 Players 45 minutes per player Ages 10+
Solo Mode | Head-to-Head | Partial Co-op | Full Co-Op| Competitive Teams | FFA
Choose Your Royal Sovereign
“You are a young noble. Exiled from your ancestral kingdom, you find yourself in an untamed land, which the locals have sardonically named, “Ascendancy”. Allegedly a once great realm during centuries past, you find it with no clear ruler. In fact, your new home appears to be loosely controlled by savage warlords, lowborn tricksters, and terrifying abominations. Circumscribed to this wild new frontier, it’s up to you to create a new family. Seize power. And establish a new dynasty that will endure for the next 1000 years.”
Choose from 1 of 6 asymmetrical color factions. Each Royal House comes with unique strengths & weaknesses.
Inherit Traits, Vices & Virtues
Your personality quirks are assigned randomly at birth, and passed onto your heirs. But, you may redeem yourself through completing quests, and you’ll have the chance to turn your Vices into Virtues.
Survive Your Extended Family
The strength & size of your Royal Family represents your rise to power, and ensuing legacy.
Will your family be generous and kind, or cruel and unusual?
CHOOSE YOUR HOUSE OF ASCENDANCY
Explore The World of Ascendancy
Journey a classic hex based World Map.
Draw 2, Place 1 Location. No two games will ever be the same.
Area Control Over Your Dominion
18 unique Locations to control. Each offers a unique Skill Check when you visit it.
CONQUER a Location, and you may Ascend a Loyalist as its ruling LORD/LADY
Develop Your Estate
Each Building you complete has 3 possible Tiers of power. Diversify into many different types, or go deep into 1 or 2.
Additionally, each Building you unlock become a new shared Action space.
Opponents can use those too! After paying your fee…
Interesting Decisions Every Phase of the Turn
Worker placement is at the heart of Ascendancy.
Each game turn has 4 Phases. Each Phase has 2 available core Actions, for a simple yet interesting A/B decision point.
Progression Obsession
Every new Action card you unlock is a gateway to additional powers.
HARNESS THE POWER OF JOINING
Side View JRPG Style Combat
Fight it out versus diabolically game controlled Creatures, or 100% optional VS other players.
Place up to 3 Champions at a time, to counter up to 3 enemy units.
Battles resolve quickly, with light dice chucking excitement.
Reap rewards for strategic placement, tactical decision making, and knowing when to push your luck, and when to manage risk.
Ascend Your Champions
Rock Paper Scissors Combat Triangle
Ready to get tactical?
There are 3 basic TYPES of Champions & Creatures. Each TYPE plays an important role in achieving victory:
Finesse TYPES have the fastest INITIATIVE, and can HUNT Magic Types in the back row. At the start of any BATTLE, first mover advantage is huge!
Might TYPES have 1 point of Armour, which lets them survive 1 ATTACK which would normally kill them or an allied unit. Might TYPES are essential for defense!
Magic TYPES ignore Armor when they ATTACK. Magic TYPES are essential for getting past fortified defenders, and more powerful enemies.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
Epic Scenarios with Boss Battles
Unforgettable moments that will have you thinking & talking about them for a long time
Choose Your Own Adventure Style Narrative Campaigns
The decisions you make during your Campaign will effect your storyline.
Cooperative games present group decision points, as well as independent choices, as found when playing in competitive mode.
Eurogame Inspired Economics
Trade whatever you want, whenever you want. The price of each resource is fully dynamic throughout each campaign, to simulate real world supply and demand.
Green FOOD in short supply? Time to get Farming, and make a handsome profit!
Gear Up
Every ITEM in Ascendancy is dual function. Use them as a 1 time combat consumable, OR to modify a key SKILL Check roll
Core Gameplay Mechanics
Kingdom Building
Worker Placement
Combat Strategy
Go Wide
Go Tall
Fast Growth
Slow Tech Engine Building
Push Your Luck
Risk Management
Unique Selling Propositions
4x7x Epic Fantasy Strategy Experience6 Different Asynchronous Starting Families of Royal Lineage
3 Epic Campaign Scenarios, with Multiple Branching Generations, Marriage Decisions, Legacy Family Traits, and Heirloom Inheritance
“Choose Your Own Adventure” Style Narrative Structure, where Decisions Matter. Will You Rule by Fear, Love, or Respect? Strike the Right Balance to Ensure Loyalty, and Ultimate Victory.
Worker Placement, Based on Social Class Hierarchy. Reward Your Loyalists, Exile Your Traitors, or Promote Your Outlaws to Kings.
Rock Paper Scissors Combat System, Combining Deep Strategy, and Dice Chucking Excitement
18 Unlockable Champion Class Evolutions, 6 Schools of Elemental Magic, and Creature Summoning
3 Correlated Gameplay Loops, with 6 Ways-to-Win Strategies. Play How YOU Want, Including
Go Wide or Go Tall, Kingdom Building Tile Placement
Grow Fast or Out Tech, Engine Building
Push Your Luck or Minimize Risk, Encounter Resolution
- Hundreds of convention floor & in-person playtests compelted. Great balance!
Meet the Designer
Hi, I’m Matthew. Thanks for checking out my tabletop magnum opus..
The concept itself, was rather simple. What if I took all the video game and fantasy elements I loved most, and put them all together in 1 epic game?
I’d want the color themes and escalating complexity of Magic the Gathering.
It would need the epic scope, and political intrigue of Game of Thrones.
I’d want the interesting decisions, and area control of Civilization.
How about the side view combat of Final Fantasy? Evolving towns, like in Heroes of Might & Magic? Or the multi-generation marriage decisions of Phantasy Star III?
After 4 years of development (and several “throw it out and re-do everything” revisions), this dream game is finally going to become a reality.
Coming To Kickstarter! - Q1 of 2023
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