Ethnos: Second Edition enhances gameplay in an East Asian-fantasy themed environment, focusing on set collection, card play, and area control. Accommodating 2-6 players, it maintains a quick playtime of about 60 minutes. The game's simplicity is evident in its components, featuring a board, a card deck, and player tokens shaped like pagodas. Players draw cards or play sets of cards to control regions on the board, earning points through control and card sets. Strategy varies during turns, much like in Ticket to Ride, impacting both control and scoring opportunities.
The new Ethnos: Second Edition is excellent and, in my humble opinion, worth discarding the first edition if you still have it.
Ethnos: Second Edition (Ethnos 2e) is an East Asian-fantasy themed game of set collection, card play, and area control with special powers layered on.
Players will be drawing cards or playing them to place control tokens on one of the six regions of the board.
To win, players accumulate points based on control of regions and sets of cards they have played.
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