Earthborne Rangers is a customizable, co-operative card game
set in the wilderness of the far future. You take on the role of a
Ranger, a protector of the mountain valley you call home: a vast
wilderness transformed by monumental feats of science and technology
devised to save the Earth from destruction long ago.
You begin by
building a deck that reflects your Ranger's interests, personal
history, and personality. Then, as you explore the open world and your
story takes shape, you augment your deck with improved equipment,
refined skills, and the memories of your journey.
The story of Earthborne Rangers is
presented as a branching narrative campaign consisting of a main
storyline and a multitude of side stories. In it, you can choose to
follow the critical path or to strike off on your own to discover the
Valley's many engaging characters, mysterious ruins, and beings both
familiar and strange.
Each game session represents one day in the
Valley, and you'll pick up in the same location on the map where you
rested the night before. Your goal is to either complete one of your
available missions or to explore the open world. The session ends when
you're either forced to rest (through either fatigue or injury), or you
choose to rest for the night.
An individual game session is
played in rounds, and those rounds consist of turns. On your turn, you
perform one action: either play a card from your hand, or choose an
action from a card on the table. Each action allows you to interact
thematically and narratively with the world, and each time you take an
action, the world comes to life around you. Predators stalk their prey,
rain pours from the sky, rocks tumble down the mountain to block your
path, and much more.