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T.I.M.E Stories' 'decksploration' model largely succeeds thanks to some nifty mechanics that allow cards to operate as locations, items, maps, and NPCs. My main concern was whether a stack of cards could really deliver a narrative group experience worth working through. The system also adds a countdown timer in which actions and movement burn 'time units,' forcing members of the group to split up tasks and lending urgency to the whole endeavor. Personally, I find this lack of limits a bit tiring, so T.I.M.E Stories' emphasis on ditching the dungeon master, telling a more directedВ story with a huge stack of lavishly illustrated cards, and constraining choices and movement into more regulated forms had me intrigued.

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If a dark elf in your party wants to deal with an orc attack by curling up into a ball and barking like a dog, she can do that-and the dungeon master has to decide how to handle things. Traditional role-playing systems like Dungeons & Dragons require a dungeon master to run the scenario, they tell stories that exist only in the mind, and they offer ludicrous amounts of (apparent) choice. In each, you serve as a temporal agent sent to inhabit a local host's body in order to stop a rift in the space-time continuum and thus Save The World (tm).

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T.I.M.E Stories is not, properly speaking, a 'game' at all but a full game system that includes the first episode, called 'Asylum.' (The team behind the game have produced a designer kitВ so fans can create their own scenarios.) Other announced modules will tell stories far apart in time and space: a magical fantasy world, ancient Egypt, even 1992 America. Think of it as role-playing, video game style (with lots of visual art and a constrained palette of actions), but done with cardboard and cards.

T.I.M.E Stories wants to be different-heck, it purposely leaves off a period after the final E in T.I.M.E despite the word being an acronym. The final card artwork and map are obscured. And despite the inherent limitations of its systems and a few flaws in the narrative, it gave our gaming group one of the year's most unique experiences at the table. Given that it's a $50В game ( $38 at Amazon) you will likely play just once, T.I.M.E Stories can only justify its existence by delivering a compelling experience. But T.I.M.E Stories was also a blast to play. The included story scenario in the T.I.M.E Stories base set features-not to give too much away-twisted medical experiments, a nude woman, monsters, mental patients, anxiety attacks, sinister nurses, beatings, and even some lightВ cocaine use. 'Kids,' I told my two older children as my board gaming group arrived, 'better head up to bed.'

Where a temporal rift was in danger of being opened. I knew T.I.M.E Stories would differ from standard board game fare when I sat down to my first play and saw that one of my character choices was a young girl. Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage right here-and let us know what you think.