Fairy School —A magical board game

 
English
Do you know why fairies are so good at helping people in trouble? Can you imagine how they learn all theirtricks and spells? Well, they go to school of course! All young fairies must go to school to earn their wings and, let me tell you, Fairy School is no child's play. To graduate fairies must master the elements, befriend mythical   creatures,   and   most   importantly,   learn   the   value   of   collaboraton.   Points   areawarded  forachievementsa n dhelpfulness.  The  fairy  who  graduateswith  the  most  pointswill  be  rewarded  with  thefnest wings.

Characteristics

  • 2 to 5 players or more
  • 75 min approximately
  • Key mechanisms: simultaneous play, positive interaction, resource management, plannification, deck-building.
  • expert players

Fairy school is a little magical.

  • It is a deckbuilding game but with a lot of control and planning on the cards played,
  • It is a competitive game but where players are rewarded for collaborating with their neighbors,
  • It is a game with resources but resources are elements,
  • It is played simutaneously and can thus be adapted to play at many players

Fairy School

The main originality of the game is the importance given to positive interaction between players.

When creating this game, I wanted to create an interaction mechanism where players propose interesting actions to other players instead of trying to block them
This works because each player score points and gets bonuses when his cards are used by other players. This measure of the social usefulness of each player is a significant aspect of the game.

The rest of the mechanism is based on deck-building with a lot of control on the played cards

Each turn players:

  1. Fill their board with cards of their deck (choosing which card goes where)
  2. play 4 cards of their board
  3. activate their cards and some cards of their neighbors
  4. improve their deck by acquiring new cards

More informations

All details are on bgg
All the elements of the game (PnP) download
Pictures of the game (tabletopia and prototype)

Video

Rule explanations (should be updatted soon): https://youtu.be/gagdJwi8rro

To play on Tabletopia

Short game  https://tabletopia.com/playground/fairy-school-6zchj2/play-now
Long game: https://tabletopia.com/playground/fairy-school-u7mymx/play-now


Contact

Ludovic Henrio: ludovic dot henrio at gmail dot com

Authors

Ludovic Henrio (game design and simple illustrations)
Marine Breuilly (Illustrator)