Lost Worlds
BGG Geek Rating
5.7
based on 456 ratings
BGG Average Rating
6.6
community average
BGG Ranking
#6724
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Players
2-2
Weight
1.69/5.00
Playtime
10 min
Age
10+
⚙️ Game Mechanics
How this game works - core systems and player actions
🎨 Artists
Alfred Leonardi
Andrea Sfiligoi
Arne Starr
C. Bradford Gorby
Chris White (I)
Dan Frazier
Doug Fortin
Doug Shuler
Ed Arrowsmith
Elisabetta Giulivi
Erin McKee
George Vrbanic
Gilead
H. Spencer Kipe
James L. Walker
Jason Sato
Jim Clouse
Kathy Capach
Kelly Bennett
Ken St. Andre
Lee Moyer
Mike Kimble
Mike Vitale
Nancy Loomis
Perry Lake
Rachael Mayo
Sean Fletcher
Steven S. Crompton
Tim Calhoun
🏢 Publishers
📖 About This Game
GAME SYSTEM
This entry is to allow for discussion/rating of the game system as a whole. It is not for a specific product or release. Versions will appear on the individual item pages.
Lost Worlds is the most popular entry in Alfred Leonardi's line of book games, which also includes Ace of Aces. Each player has a character card and a booklet (and sometimes special Tactics, Luck, or Spell cards) for one of about fifty (and growing) medieval-fantasy characters. Characters can range from barbarian warriors to animated skeletons to elven archers to unicorns — even two different dragons. Booklets are traded and, as each player selects a move, a reference grid in the books determine the results (wounds, off-balance maneuvers, and so on). Combat continues until one fighter or the other expires.
An interesting feature of the Lost Worlds system is that, under some versions of the rules, characters may improve their abilities as they gain experience. In theory, you are supposed to keep track of your progress with each character, and if one is utterly killed, it will have to start over without its improved skills.
Part of the Lost Worlds series of books.