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Formidable Foes

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2006 · 2-6 players · 90min · weight 2.11 · 474 ratings

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ID
25677
Name
Formidable Foes
Year
2006
Rank
24061
Min players
2
Max players
6
Playing time
90
Min playtime
90
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
2.1071
Num weights
56
Bayes avg
5.50557
Average
5.54979
Users rated
474
Num owned
831
Wanting
20
Wishing
71
Num comments
201
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:42:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Dice Rolling
Categories (3)
ExplorationFantasyFighting
Description (1911 chars)

From the publisher's website: Once again, our unfortunate friends find themselves foreigners trapped within the frightful Fortress Furor of the fanged Prince Fieso who would, with felicity, see them flounder and faint. These fine fighters could feasibly face their finish in this forbidding fortification, whose fearsome floors even now flow frighteningly from beneath their feet as the famished Furunkulus forages the fringes, fixing to feast on the foreigners’ flesh. Forthwith, must our fighters fashion their flight from this foulest of fates! But what’s this? By the light of their fallow and flickering flares, our friends find the depths fraught with the most furious of fiends and the fiercest of freaks! With fleet feet, the fearless foreigners follow these ferocious fellows through the fortress, with its multifarious footpaths and their frustrating forks, forging fervently forward toward freedom and fame. Our fighters must not falter from whatever feud or fracas would foil their function: to finally furnish the forlorn Faerie Fabula her freedom from feckless Fieso’s fists! Theme Formidable Foes is a light-hearted dungeon crawl. The players all take the role of heroes competing with each other to amass the greatest hoard of treasure. They do this by exploring the dungeon and fighting monsters. Goal The goal is to collect as much gold as possible. The winner is the richest player. Gameplay On each turn, a player either moves twice; moves once and fights a monster; or collects 'power tokens' which allow a player to improve their dice rolls in subsequent turns. In the early part of the game, the monsters are fairly weak and easily defeated. Defeating a monster increases a character's 'wisdom' which allows them to fight and defeat ever-harder monsters. Fighting monsters involves rolling a dice and then adding power tokens to improve the roll if required.

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