Play Something New – Botany

We will be teaching and playing a different Featured Game every Friday night beginning at 6:00 pm! We will have open copies available, and experts on hand to teach you how to play! The featured game for August 9th is Botany from Dux Somnium!

We will be raffling off one open copy of the game at the end of the night to event players! Additionally, the Featured Game will be 20% off during the event for everyone who participated in the learn to play!

About Botany –

Adventure, intrigue, and flowers! Botany is a strategy board game where you take on the role of a Victorian Era flower hunter as you explore the world to gather fortune and fame and be named the Royal Botanist. In Botany, each player takes on the role of a character whose abilities will shape the way they play the game. Will you focus on exploring the globe in search of the most valuable specimens? Will you make quick and efficient trips to gather reputation quickly and build your estate?

Each player begins the game with a set of randomized goals that they then use to plot their path to victory. When players set out from their estate, they have access only to the coins they can carry with them. They can use these coins to traverse the globe and gain crew members and items to improve their odds of surviving the unknown, enhance their abilities, and increase the efficiency with which they traverse the map. However, there is danger in spending too freely, and players must ensure they have enough wealth on hand to return to England with their specimens intact.

Turns in Botany are streamlined in order to minimize downtime and keep players engaged. Players will move around the map, build their character, and experience the story of their rise to fame, all with an eye for efficiency. Points are gained by improving the quality of your garden, retrieving live specimens from around the globe, and adding preserved flowers to your botanical press. The specimens that players hunt, the goals they focus on to achieve victory, and the events they experience create a unique feel across each game.

–From BGG

This is a beginner and family-friendly event, no prior knowledge of the game is required to participate, and players under 13 are welcome with guardian supervision!